Rumors are flowing like water lately, and the latest one to grab everyone’s attention is a report that Facebook is supposedly working quietly on launching its own cell phone. In fact, the rumor goes that the project is so top secret that even the vast majority of employees don’t know it’s going on. TechCrunch is reporting that a source familiar with the project has told them that two...
One of the greatest fears people have for their cell phones as they have become such a vital part of our lives is the idea of them getting damaged. One of the worst possible scenarios is when it gets wet, but luckily all is not lost when that does happen, but you do need to act quickly. If you find yourself in the undesirable situation of your cell phone getting wet in some way, not...
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announced on Monday that it was teaming up with T-Mobile to launch its own branded post-paid cellular service called Walmart Family Mobile. Starting last year Walmart has been the exclusive vendor for Verizon Mobile’s Straight Talk post-paid service, and it is also working on a deal with Sprint Nextel to distribute a service named Common Cents, so...
It would seem that Americans aren’t quite as in love with remnants of 20th century technology as much as they even were last year according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Entitled “The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone” , the study surveyed 2,967 people — 1,893 by landline phone, 1,074 by cellphone — and the numbers shouldn’t be all that surprising...
>Some days you hear a story that sounds great … until you dig into it a bit deeper and then you realize it is so incredibly doomed for disaster that you want to run and find the person behind them and smack some sense into them. The idea is a simple one on the surface. Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, wants to launch an all-digital, national newspaper. It would be delivered...
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has become an epicenter for the business world over the past several years. Immense building projects, a playground for the rich & famous and, oh yeah, a place where you will no longer be able to use some critical features on your BlackBerry. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that it will begin blocking sending emails, accessing the...
Back in May we showed you how iOS was losing some ground in the mobile operating system fight based on a report from Millennial Media. That data covered the month of April. The data for May (PDF link) showing that iOS had lost another 14 percent, and the majority of that loss going to RIM’s BlackBerry OS and Google’s Android OS. Apple fell to 48 percent of the market, and things were...
Not that anyone should really be surprised by this, but it appears that Verizon is also toying with the idea of moving to tiered data plans in the wake of AT&T doing so. It’s becoming obvious that in the mobile arena, data caps are going to become the standard format for data plans. The mobile carriers simply don’t want want to do unlimited any longer, and so the feeling is that...
You would think the idea of watching TV anywhere, any time would be a huge hit with Americans as we are known as TV junkies, but have you ever noticed how few people actually do it? For people with long commutes, maybe it’s a different beast, but I just haven’t gotten the whole “watch TV anywhere!” concept as being that great. Unless you have earphones with you, which I don’t carry...
The third season of HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Wire had an important storyline about how the drug lords of Baltimore were using pre-paid cell phones, which they referred to as “burners”, to conduct their business. They would buy two at a time from convenience stores because they could purchase them with cash and provide no IDs. When the minutes were used up, they dumped...