Posted in Cell Phones, Technology on June 21, 2008 | No Comments »
You thought email spam was bad. Wait until you get your first text spam. Short messages asking you to buy stuff at a certain sketchy website. Why would anyone send you that?
Some of you know this, but for the others - your text number also works as a email address. For example if your number [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Technology on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You may assume that your cell phone could be tapped. Phone tapping is an old spy theme. However, what you may not realize is how easy it is to do. I ran across an article that describes how easy it is for anyone who can physically touch your phone to listen in on your calls, [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Fitness and Health, Technology on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
At least according to a new study linking cell phones to brain tumors.
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone [...]
Posted in Business, Cell Phones, Technology on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Rumors, and more substantial and creditable rumors are floating around that the iphone 2 is set to be unveiled this summer.
Mac apparently ordered a batch of new phones from a manufacturing plant in Asia.
The normal iphone is sold out at AT&T and apple stores around the county.
Now, an AT&T chairman hints that all their smarphones [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Fitness and Health, Humor, Society, Technology, Trends on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
The title of this article from the LA Times - “The Risk for iPhone users, they know too much”.
I could have told you that. The whole reason I got my iPhone is so I could be connected to the internet everywhere. When I need to know something (bank balance, what that email said, where the [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Computers, Fitness and Health, Internet, Society, Technology, Trends on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
A study in the American Journal of Psychiatry has come to the conclusion that sending excessive texts and emails may be a sign of mental illness.
The article, by Dr Jerald Block, said there were four symptoms: suffering from feelings of withdrawal when a computer cannot be accessed; an increased need for better equipment; need for [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Technology on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I found a cool new site call Pinger.
It is a web service that allows you to send voice messages to one or a group of people without calling each individually and waiting for the beep. Think of it like text messaging with voice.
I think this is a neat idea. Whats the use? Why not just [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Computers, Internet, Politics and Government, Society, Technology on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act is the legislation that allows the government to spy on communications between domestic parties and those abroad. The idea is that sleeper cells in the US already might be in contact with foreign terror organizations. We want to be able to spy on them.
That bill is about to expire. Congress [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Law, Technology on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m in criminal law this semester, but we haven’t gone far enough for me to tell you how valid this is. Techdirt has an article by a criminal law professor out of Houston that says police can search your phone (he names the ever popular iphone of course) if you are arrested. Meaning if you [...]
Posted in Cell Phones, Technology on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Google signs up 30 partners for mobile phone push: Financial News - Yahoo Finance
Google has announced their Gphone platform, “Android”. No, it isn’t a “phone” like the iphone. Actually, it is more like the anti-iphone. Where the iphone controls what software you can use on it, what programs to sync with, heck even which provider [...]
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