Archive for May, 2006
Monday, May 15th, 2006
Following the success of their free iTunes song promotion, Pepsi (along with Motorola) is now giving away free ringtones. One in every 3 bottles of Pepsi will be a winner. In addition, every ringtone winner will be entered to win a new cellphone from Motorola.
Here's how the Pepsi Cool Tones ...
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
YouTube, the ever growing, increasingly popular, social video sharing and tagging service has gone mobile. Well, you can't exactly view videos on your phone (yet), but you YouTube allows users to post videos via cell phone.
The new mobile offering works this way: YouTube members can create a mobile profile on ...
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Caught in the wake of the American immgrant worker debacle, is Cingular who had a ringtone parody of a US Immigration officer threatening to deport illegal aliens.
What’s interesting is that the ringtone was originally provided by Barrio Mobile, an original mobile content production company run by Cellfish (nee Lagardere ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Warning, this phone number will self-destruct in 7 days.
Been reticent about giving your cell phone number away to strangers or people you aren't sure of? SafeTalk is an innovative, yet simple, new service where users can "rent" a phone number for 7 days which you can share with anyone you ...
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
I came across this review of several popular Bluetooth headsets. I personally use a Motorola, as does the reviewer, it's nice that he chose to review product from Plantronics and Jabra.
In summary, these are all high-end handsets that are at or near the top of their game. Each is designed ...
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Pantech has released a new phone which allows for "finger writing" recognition.
No one is quite sure what this means or how well it works, but from my take it seems that it is not different than the type of input you get on a pda.
According to the press release:
Consumers ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
How cool. Out of the box, Nokia's new N-series phones allow users to post directly to Flickr.
Nokia's latest N-series Multimedia Computers mobile phones come with the ability to upload your images directly to Flickr with just one click. No need to download any software; simply select your image, and click ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Booty Bumpin still! NeYo to 10th spot... Shakira Hips shakin in Canada like Eminem. UK still Crazy for Gnarls Barkley.
Billboard (Issue date 05/13/06)
Ms. New Booty, Bubba Sparxxx Featuring Ying Yang Twins & Mr. ColliPark
Super Mario Brothers Theme, Koji Kondo
Grillz, Nelly Featuring ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
M:Metrics today released rankings of the top 5 mobile games. It's no surprise that Tetris was number 1 again.
Top 5 Game Titles Share of Downloads (Quarter Ended March 2006)
Title Publisher Share
1 Tetris EA Mobile 5.0%
2 Bejeweled EA Mobile 4.0%
3 Platinum Solitaire Gameloft ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
If you've ever wanted to talk on your mobile phone while at the same time, download music or games; you probably realized that this was impossible. Fractus, from Barcelona, has developed a new 3D antenna which uses a technique called BandXpand to improve performance and bandwidth response of mobile phones.
Simply ...
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