Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I must admit. I saw that on a t-shirt.
Barack Obama has launched an SMS service to support his presidential campaign. He’s made it easy to join: People just send “Go” to OBAMA (62262)...ah, the benefit of a five-letter name.
The service will keep voters apprised of campaign events such as local ...
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Boy, oh boy, is it ever easy to become a Guinness World Record holder! Nowadays you don't even have to break a previous record to get in the book -- just do something totally stupid, something a reasonable mind would never conceive, and you're good as gold, viz:
A company called ...
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
At the DigitalLife show the press area had new Toshiba laptops with AMD 64-bit processors and Windows Vista. Here is a screencap (click to enlarge):
At the Microsoft Vista press party that week they commissioned some cookies bearing the Windows Vista logo. Here is what Vista looks like on cookies:
(The cookie ...
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
At next week's DigitalLife shindig in NYC, Namco Networks will hold daily Galaga and Pac-Man tournaments in which players will compete using Motorola MOTOSLVR phones. Daily top scorers for each game play one another in championships using coin-op Galaga and Pac-Man machines. Prizes include Pac-Man toys, Galaga tees, and Motorola ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Missed this one...
Last weekend the 7th Annual Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship took place in Savonlinna, Findland and didn't get any ESPN coverage?!?!
Thankfully Mocoblog is here to report on it.
With a toss of 89 meters, the newest champion has been crowned.
Wow, that's far! And probably without motivation. (I suspect ...
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Last Sunday I left my phone up in Wayne, NJ where I celebrated Easter with some close friends. Bummer. I was halfway home before I realized it. No big deal; TJ would be coming down this weekend and I could get my calls forwarded to my Sprint Ambassasdor phone.
No problems. ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
In case you weren't there...
The CTIA is offering anyone who missed this year's Wireless I.T. and Entertainment event a second chance to catch the keynote addresses, with the announcement of a webcast highlights show.
Link (via MobileIndustry.biz)
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Other than appearances by some cellcos (T-Mobile, Verizon were the ones I noticed), handset providers such as Nokia, there was no greater mobile presence made available at this "gaming conference" than Namco Mobile. Namco, who recently annouced the formation of a mobile unit, was showcasing BREW games on Verizon phones ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
Much like Live8, The Olympia Niger Relief Concert seeks to raise money and distribute tickets via an SMS lottery.
Users who text the word AFRICA to 57143, along with their name and valid email address, will donate 2 Euros to the Niger relief cause and be entered to win ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
Flycell, a mobile content provider based in NYC, launched a blog today. Let's hope that this blog isn't filled with self-aggrandizing propoganda written by their marketing department.
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