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The Original Ringtone
07.06.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsPrompted by our visit to yesteryear with the Notificator, I started browsing last night through some of the other images on Modern Mechanix.
How about the very first ringtone dating back to the 1950’s?And the first video phone from 1956, which became about as popular as person-to-person video calls are today.
In case you thought that Vertu [...]
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Breaking Up Is Easy To Do — When You Text
11.14.06 | Permalink | Comments Offkfed gets the boot on his sidekick 2 limited edition (Celebrity Gear Watch)
Hey K-Fed.. what’s up dawg? Well, apparently Mr. Spears was caught as off guard as the rest of us with the news that Brit wanted a divorce.. He was filming some reality show when he started texting with Britney on his Sidekick 2 [...] -
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Worst Mobile URL Ever?
10.27.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI’ve been messing around with Net News Wire and its ability to sync up to NewsGator Online, thinking that might be a nice way to read RSS feeds on my mobile device (something I don’t really do anyway, but still). So I get everything synced with a minimum of fuss, eventually located the page where [...]
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Even Wireless Networks Rely On Cables
From The Register - Vodafone outage caused by robbery:
Cable stealing thieves were responsible for a network outage that left some Vodafone UK customers without service for most of yesterday.
A spokeswoman was unable to explain what the cables were for, but confirmed that the theft in north Wales caused the network downtime for most of Sunday.
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The Onion’s Take on Mobile Billing
08.23.06 | Permalink | Comments OffThanks to an anonymous MobHappy reader for sending this wicked piece of satire from The Onion. Ouch.
Verizon Introduces New Charge-You-At-Whim Plan
NEW YORK—Verizon Communications, Inc. announced a new service package for its wireless and residential customers that would charge them widely varying, but always high, fees every month depending how the communications giant feels at the [...] -
Content Providers, Fun, Marketing, Mobile Phone Evolution
Tocmags - UGC Java Mags
05.31.06 | Permalink | 11 CommentsUser generated content is the new new thing at the moment - both online and in mobile - and unless you’ve been living under a stone, you can’t fail to have noticed the buzz.
I’ve been looking at Tocmag recently, which allows you to create your own Java magazine for friends, family and colleagues to download [...] -
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Mobile Phones: Empowering Stupid Criminals, Part VIII
Here’s another one in our series of occasional posts about the mobile-challenged criminal fraternity.
A Milwaukee man robbed a woman a gun point with two accomplices. They stole her handbag, which Americans call a purse, I believe, which contained her mobile phone. So Mr Bright Spark goes to a phone shop to try to get the [...] -
Fun, Mobile Society
Portable Cellbooth
Regine at We Make Money Not Art has a nice piece on The Cell Atlantic CellBooth by designer Jenny L Chowdhury.
As you can see, the idea is that you take your traveling privacy bubble with you as a backpack and quickly erect it when you want to make that call.I can’t quite see it catching [...]
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