Category: Mobile Phones and Smartphones
The Poop Heard Round the World
Have you heard about “Dog Poop Girl”? No, she’s not some new style superhero, although I do believe that her partner, Dog Poop Man, has made an appearance on “Whose Line Is It Anyways?” (couldn’t you just watch Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie for hours?) No, Dog Poop Girl is…
For Sale Online: Your Cell Phone Records
As if people don’t have enough to worry about what with social security number and credit card information being compromised and brokered right and left, it turns out that there is a thriving business in selling cell phone records. Your cell phone records. And it turns out that it’s dead…
Cell Phones Boon, Bane During Aftermath of London Blasts
In a twist of irony, perhaps dichotomy (or perhaps both), the widespread usage of cell phones has turned out to be both a boon and a bane in the hours immediately following the terrorist attacks and explosions in London earlier today. As might be expected in this wireless age, cell…
Sprint Going to Work for a Mickey Mouse Outfit – Disney Brings New Meaning to the Cell Phone “Family Plan”
Sprint and Disney have announced today that Sprint will provide the underlying service for Disney’s newest offering: Disney Mobile. Disney Mobile is a cellular communication service designed to meet the “unique communications needs of families.” What, they’ve figured out a way to actually get the kids to listen when the…
Friends Don’t Let Friends Dial Drunk (or Text SMS, Either)
Ok, forget drinking and carrying nude pictures of yourself on your cell phone. There is something even more stupid that you can do while drinking, with a cell phone. Drunk dialing, or drunk texting (text messaging) on your cell phone.
Napster and Sony Ericsson Partner to Bring Downloadable Music to Your Cell Phone
Flexible Digital Music Platform Designed For All Mobile Carriers, Handsets from Multiple Manufacturers and PC Interoperability LOS ANGELES, CA, and STOCKHOLM, Sweden – (June 15, 2005) – Napster, the biggest brand in digital music, and Ericsson, the world’s leading telecommunications supplier, announced today a global partnership to offer the first…
Pay for Your Parking Meter with Your Cell Phone, Thanks to PayMint!
How many times have you parked at a parking meter, only to find yourself on your hands and knees under the front seat of the car, frantically searching for enough change to fill the meter? Or worse, discovering that you had no change at all? Well, if you live in…
Don’t Drink and Carry Nude Pictures of Yourself on your Cell Phone
Ah, a fresh entry in our “how to get yourself into trouble with your cell phone” archives, along with videoing yourself having sex and having it turn up in porn shops, and the guy denying a crime involving an AK47 just as his cell phone displayed a photo of him… holding the AK47, and, of course, the ubiquitous upskirting and downblousing,
Put Carmen, Anna, Yasmine, Michael, or Eminem’s Mugshot on Your Phone – Literally!
A new service is offering celebrity mugshots to download as wallpaper for your cellphone. Who wouldn’t want to take a call to Carmen Electra, Yasmine Bleeth, or Anna Nicole Smith’s smiling face? Well, ok, maybe they aren’t exactly smiling as, yes, these are real mugshots. As the purveyor, Celebrity Mugshots…
Cell Phone Use and Brain Tumors: Is there a connection? (News Release)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 /PRNewswire/ — Is there a link between cell phones and brain tumors? Over the past 15 years, there has been growing concern about this possibility. Part of this concern stems from the fact that there are over one billion cell phone subscribers worldwide, and the number…
Find That Remote Waterfall – With Your Cell Phone (News Release)
GPS Goes Cellular for Off-Road Adventures SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ — You know about Global Positioning System (GPS) in vehicles. You have a cell phone. Now your cell phone can use GPS to guide you through the great outdoors. It’s called Trimble(R) Outdoors, the first outdoor recreation solution that…
New Chicago Law Makes Illegal Holding a Cell Phone While Driving
A brand new law in Chicago makes it illegal to hold and use a cell phone while driving. The new law permits drivers to use headsets and other hands-free devices, but bans driving while holding a cell phone in your hand. Good for them! While the law generally requires the…
Channel Surf Wherever You Are with MobiTV Cellevision for Cellphones, OMN for the Internet
Never miss a show again! You can take it with you! Internet tv, and even cellphone television, are now a reality! Introducing OMN (Open Media Network) for the Internet, MobiTV for your cellphone! Wow! Cellevision! Aunty has actually tried MobiTV, and she has to tell you, it’s pretty darned neat….
Our Readers Comment on Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers
Our article about Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers: “The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much” has generated a lot of reader feedback, and continues to do so. Here are some of the things you’ve had to say: It would seem to me that Mr. Seidenberg is…
Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II for Free!
Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it’s better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II Danger Hiptop! Of course our readers will remember the T-Mobile…
