Monday, May 4, 2009
The Envirobank accepts both cans and bottles, scanning the bar code to identify the product and also checking the material to make sure it's recyclable. Accepted containers are crushed and kept, while the kind-hearted recycler gets a coupon or credit of some sort for their efforts. Envirobank says their machines cut CO2 emissions, reduces waste disposal and collection costs, even provides advertising and fund raising opportunities.*~*~*
BlackBerries nearly dominated iPhones in US smartphone sales for the start of 2009, the NPD Group said today in a new study. The market researchers note that the top-selling phone line from the quarter ended in March was the BlackBerry Curve 8300 series, which edged out the iPhone 3G at second place. Of the top 5 phones, 3 were BlackBerries and included the touchscreen Storm in third place and the non-flip Pearl in fourth. The lone Android phone in the US, T-Mobile's G1, occupied the fifth spot.
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ITDatabase is launching Monday and tackling a very specific opportunity--get all tech news indexed in one place, and make it much easier for tech industry pros to analyze/aggregate trends about what's being said across all tech news. The company is starting with tech PR pros as the initial target customers, but believes the product offers a lot of research value to product managers and sales roles as well.
"There are thousands of tech authors covering tens of thousands of vendors and themes," said Travis Van, founder of ITDatabase. "Multiply them all together and you get a huge unstructured data mess, which largely accounts for why tech PR folks are often hitting the wrong journalists with the wrong content."
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Everyone was impressed with the new administration adding a blog to the White House website, but they've outdone themselves yet again with an official Twitter account and now a stellar-looking MySpace page - both launching within the last few days.
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Spore created by industry legend Will Wright announced Monday that 100 million creatures have been created, far outrunning the number of species on Earth.
The game publisher, Electronic Arts, started counting last June. That's when it first released its Spore Creature Creator, several months ahead of the full Spore game itself.
There's more Spore on the way. Electronic Arts' Maxis studio is releasing the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion pack for PC and Mac players, Spore Hero for the Wii, and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS.
Labels: blackberry, cell phone, electronic arts, envirobank, iPhone, itdatabase, president barack obama, spore, whitehouse, will wright
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Motorola in Mexico earlier this week announced the upcoming release of the MOTOROKR W6 handset, which hopes to combine music with a set of fitness-tracking apps. I think it sounds very cool, honestly. I am sure you can get apps like that for other gadgets, but to have it all come in one piece that's set and ready sounds like a great idea.Users can enter their name, age, sex, weight and height into a fitness app that will then create a training plan based on that information. There is also a timer that keeps track of the duration of workout and the theoretical number of calories burned. The handset can export this information into a Microsoft Excel document for tracking progress over time.
Internal memory can be expanded with a card of up to 2GB.
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Oh Lordy.
AT&T is offering a new service that allows parents to track loved ones using their phones.
AT&T's service called FamilyMaps allows people to track the location of any cell phone on AT&T's network from a mobile phone or PC. The person being tracked receives a text message informing him or her that he or she is being watched. The service periodically informs the tracked individual that he or she is being watched.
I can hear the tweeny boppers sighing now.
The service uses satellite GPS technology and cell tower triangulation to pin-point the location of the phone. The service is not supported on prepaid or AT&T Go Phones. And the service costs $9.99 for two phones and $14.99 for up to five phones.
Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and Alltel have each been offering "tracking" services for more than a year. Sprint Nextel has even lowered the price of its service from about $10 a month to $5 a month.
What's different about these social-networking location services from the service AT&T is offering is that these other services often require those being "tracked" to also run the application on their phones.
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Microsoft's Office team has officially announced a Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, which adds some speed, reliability, and printing improvements across the board. The major new new thing? Native support for OpenDocument files (ODF), the major format of OpenOffice.org, without a plug-in, and printing to PDF. SP2 should arrive on April 28.
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Delegations from across the Western Hemisphere will descend upon the twin island Caribbean nation of Trinidad & Tobago this week for the fifth Summit of the Americas. A hemispheric agenda on energy figures prominently among the issues they will be addressing.
A key component to such an approach would be the reduction and eventual elimination of the United States' 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on ethanol imports, as well as revision of current agricultural subsidies in the United States.
Enhanced regional collaboration on alternative fuels is a logical next step to the efforts begun by Brazil and the U.S. two years ago. However, overcoming U.S. domestic politics that have allowed debate on ethanol to be influenced by the corn lobby remains a robust hurdle for follow-through on such an initiative.
For more developments on the Summit click here >>
Labels: ATT, cell phone, Microsoft, motorola
Friday, February 20, 2009
For those who are looking for the latest and greatest construction toy, like Lego or K'nex, then you have found what you are looking for with the Topodo.Topodo is designed by people at the MIT Media lab, and allows the user to create projects that can walk and do other actions of motion. That may sound like Lego's Mindstorms NXT, but in this case, the Topodo user does not need a computer, or even batteries.
That's right, no batteries are required to make these toys move, as the Topodo comes with a special set of kinetic memory motors. They work by having the user moving the limbs or body parts, and these special parts will reproduce the action, enabling creations to walk across the floor without power.
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Applied Nanodetectors Ltd. (AND) from the UK is currently parading a prototype cell phone at the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference that is able to detect various diseases simply by analyzing the user's breath. The phone itself is made by Nokia, featuring AND's chip inside that features integrated sensors which are able to detect minute traces of different gases including CO2, NOx and ammonia (NH3). Once detected, the chip will get to work by analyzing the composition of the user's breath while tabulating the density of each gas. The results will be compared against characteristics of various diseases in order to detect whether one is possibly suffering from a certain type of disease or not. Sounds cool, but the phone is still a long way off from being commercially available.
So tell your boss that your phone told you to stay home sick. See how that one works for ya.
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A report in The Wall Street Journal is indicating that cable giants Time Warner Cable and Comcast are in talks with some of the companies that operate pay-cable channels, for a plan to make some of the networks' content available online to subscribers. It'd probably be on a streaming, ad-supported basis, and probably available for free to existing subscribers.
Labels: cell phone, Gadgets, online tv, toys
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Nokia signed a loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to the tune of $623.9 million. Why the sudden need for cash?
According to Reuters, the five-year loan will be used in part to "finance software research and development (R&D) projects Nokia is undertaking during 2009-2011 to make Symbian-based smartphones more competitive."
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Didn't Gateway go bankrupt?
Gateway has a full line of notebooks that come in all sizes. The company is also closely related to Acer, which has the most popular netbook on the market with its Aspire One. Last year Gateway launched a pair of new notebook lines called the MC and MD series. The difference was a scant 0.6-inches in screen size with the MC line using a 16-inch LCD and the MD using a 15.4-inch screen.
The MC and MD machines had the same chassis design and Gateway has launched a new notebook line called the TC series that uses the same chassis design with a smaller 14-inch screen. The notebook is low priced at $649.99.
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Hewlett-Packard workers fired up their PCs this morning only to find a long memo from Mark Hurd explaining why he was hitting them with wide-ranging pay cuts in an effort to prevent further job losses at the computer vendor.
The move followed HP's first quarter earnings report yesterday in which it coughed to a double digit dip in printer, server, and PC sales.
HP CEO Hurd told employees yesterday that no more jobs would be axed for the foreseeable future, but instead applied salary reductions across the board.
He said that he would take a 20 per cent base pay cut, presumably as a show of solidarity with his workforce.
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The Obama administration has apparently opted to forbid Google and other search engines from indexing any content on the newly launched Recovery.gov.
Is this even more evidence that the administration's much-publicized commitment to transparency is simply hype?
Recovery.gov, which went live Tuesday, is set to act as a central clearinghouse for information related to the newly signed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The legislation is designed to stimulate the flagging U.S. economy.
The site's robots.txt file has just a few lines of text:
# Deny all search bots, web spiders
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Shameful.
Labels: cell phone, Gateway, google, Hewlett Packard, nokia, president barack obama
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Nintendo DSi is scheduled to hit stores on April 5th. The system will launch for $169.99, will include all the goodies you've been reading about. The DSi has two cameras -- an outward-aiming camera for taking pictures of others, as well as an internal one for taking pictures of the person holding the system.An SD card slot allows for additional picture storage beyond the internal memory and for digital music files (iTunes' standard AAC format) that can be played back on the system. An audio player lets you tinker with speed and pitch of songs and of recorded sounds (using the built-in microphone). Songs can be broken down into vocals and instrumentation for use in karaoke games.
Downloadable games will be available through a DSi Ware shop, similar to the current Wii Ware game store.
DSi will not include a slot for inserting Game Boy Advance games.
When the DSi launched in Japan last November, it came in both a "matte black" and "matte white" color scheme. But we're hearing it will be available in blue as well.
SOURCE
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Samsung wasn't the only company showing a solar-powered cell phone at the GSMA World Congress. On Wednesday, Chinese manufacturer ZTE launched a green model of its own.
Created with Digicel and Intivation, the Coral-200-Solar is designed for emerging markets where electricity may not be readily available. And, of course, it's Earth-friendly.
It should be available in June.
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Pentagon boffinry chiefs have announced that they would like some self-aware computer systems capable of "meta-reasoning" and "introspection". The plan is to place these machine intelligences in command of heavily armed, well-nigh invulnerable robotic tanks.
This latest plan for humanity's subjugation comes, of course, from DARPA - the agency believed to harbour the largest known group of lifelike people-simulant robots piloted from within by tiny, malevolent space lizard infiltrators in the entire US federal government.
The plan is called Self-Explanation Learning Framework (SELF). It is being handled by Dr Mike Cox of DARPA's renowned Information Processing Technology Office.
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Amid user revolt Facebook backed away from a newly implemented terms of service that many considered a privacy violation. Last night Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company would reverted back to its previous version of its terms of service that "everybody can understand."
(I think I'm slightly insulted by that remark.)
Zuckerberg explained in a blog post: "Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised."
Labels: cell phone, dsi, Facebook, nintendo, robots, zte
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Uh oh. Up to 40 to lose jobs as Google scraps radio ads.
Google's radio advertising business has become the newest project that didn't pass muster in Google's new financially rigorous era, and up to 40 employees will lose jobs as a result, the company said Thursday. However, the company isn't completely withdrawing from the market, saying it's begun exploring ads for streaming audio instead.
"While we've devoted substantial resources to developing these products and learned a lot along the way, we haven't had the impact we hoped for. So we have decided to exit the broadcast radio business and focus our efforts in online streaming audio," said Susan Wojcicki, Google's vice president of product management, in a blog post Thursday. "We will phase out the existing Google Audio Ads and AdSense for Audio products and plan to sell the Google Radio Automation business, the software that automates broadcast radio programming."
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Disney World's specialty is fantasy, but a new attraction that opened this weekend deals in real-life dreams.
The American Idol Experience, a near-exact replica of the theater the American Idol TV show uses, will give singers a chance to audition, perform and maybe even get a spot to try out for the real Idol.
If the singing is as polished as the set, it should be another Mickey triumph.
If the singing is bad, no Disney magic will be able to fix it.
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Fraunhofer has developed a dash that displays your location and the surrounding area in 3D, in real time. The system uses cameras to keep track of the location of your eyes, so the depth imaging effect can be achieved without using those funny glasses. In addition to the GPS, the dashboard only displays the information that is most relevant to the driver at any time -- fuel gauge, tire pressure, route information or the title of the song can be displayed, depending on user preferences. It's only a prototype at this point.
I am sure it would make me car sick.
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The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is all about energy efficiency, but that doesn't mean boring. The new Energy Efficient Series sound system from Bose is 30 percent smaller, 40 percent lighter and uses 50 percent less energy than conventional Bose sound systems, company reps say.
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Japanese cell phone maker KDDI has teamed up with Hitachi to one-up your iPhone as the iPhone can't manage 3D content. The Hitachi WOOO H001 will show you 3D versions of your phone's still images and video.
But that's not all, the phone also will give you a 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microSD slot, and a 1Seg TV tuner. No word on price, but the handset should hit the Asian market by spring.
Sounds like an infomercial, doesn't it? Lol.
Google's radio advertising business has become the newest project that didn't pass muster in Google's new financially rigorous era, and up to 40 employees will lose jobs as a result, the company said Thursday. However, the company isn't completely withdrawing from the market, saying it's begun exploring ads for streaming audio instead.
"While we've devoted substantial resources to developing these products and learned a lot along the way, we haven't had the impact we hoped for. So we have decided to exit the broadcast radio business and focus our efforts in online streaming audio," said Susan Wojcicki, Google's vice president of product management, in a blog post Thursday. "We will phase out the existing Google Audio Ads and AdSense for Audio products and plan to sell the Google Radio Automation business, the software that automates broadcast radio programming."
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Disney World's specialty is fantasy, but a new attraction that opened this weekend deals in real-life dreams.
The American Idol Experience, a near-exact replica of the theater the American Idol TV show uses, will give singers a chance to audition, perform and maybe even get a spot to try out for the real Idol.
If the singing is as polished as the set, it should be another Mickey triumph.
If the singing is bad, no Disney magic will be able to fix it.
*~*~*
Fraunhofer has developed a dash that displays your location and the surrounding area in 3D, in real time. The system uses cameras to keep track of the location of your eyes, so the depth imaging effect can be achieved without using those funny glasses. In addition to the GPS, the dashboard only displays the information that is most relevant to the driver at any time -- fuel gauge, tire pressure, route information or the title of the song can be displayed, depending on user preferences. It's only a prototype at this point.I am sure it would make me car sick.
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The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is all about energy efficiency, but that doesn't mean boring. The new Energy Efficient Series sound system from Bose is 30 percent smaller, 40 percent lighter and uses 50 percent less energy than conventional Bose sound systems, company reps say.
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Japanese cell phone maker KDDI has teamed up with Hitachi to one-up your iPhone as the iPhone can't manage 3D content. The Hitachi WOOO H001 will show you 3D versions of your phone's still images and video.
But that's not all, the phone also will give you a 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microSD slot, and a 1Seg TV tuner. No word on price, but the handset should hit the Asian market by spring.
Sounds like an infomercial, doesn't it? Lol.
Labels: 3D, american idol, cell phone, chevy, disney, Fraunhofer, google
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nokia today launched the 5630 XpressMusic. The new mid-range phone in the company's media-focused lineup centers around a rare voice recognition system that will play artists, songs and other music content just through speaking its name.The 5630's music emphasis comes through dedicated side controls, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSDHC slot that comes with a 4GB card as well as room for up to 16GB. Nokia expects the UK and certain other countries to get a Comes With Music version that offers a year's worth of unlimited yet permanent music downloads for a higher price.
A 3.2-megapixel camera with flash, Wi-Fi and software N-Gage game support are also supplied with the handset.
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In other new tech gadgets, Sony Ericsson has launched a pair of handsets that both have features often left out of non-Japanese cellphones. The Cyber-shot S001 has the 8-megapixel camera still rare for the company but centers on an extremely sharp, 854x480 OLED display with enough color saturation to help previewing photos or watching 1Seg digital TV. The camera itself also has features closer to dedicated cameras with shooting up to the equivalent of ISO 1,600, image stabilization and detection of both faces and smiles.
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Joining Google's Android, Calendar, Docs, Mail, Maps, Reader and a few dozen other products today is a new application, PowerMeter. It's not launched yet, but when it is, it will help you keep track of your home power usage by tapping into information sent from your devices to your electrical meter, and from there on to the "smart grid".
What Google is showing of PowerMeter looks a bit like a line graph, with the X-axis representing time and the Y-axis showing both the amount of power used and which device used it. The theory is that if people can see how they're wasting electricity, they'll change their behavior. As its motto for PowerMeter, Google is using a Lord Kelvin quote: "If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it."
Labels: cell phone, doodle 4 google, nokia, powermeter, sony
Thursday, April 10, 2008
SnapMyLife.com, a mobile social media site where people can instantly share photos taken with a camera phone, was launched today by Mobicious, Inc. The site is made for viewing directly on cell phones and allows anybody with a camera phone to snap and share photos instantly with friends. It allows the option for instant alerts when there's new friend activity just like any other social network. It is kind of like Flickr and Twitter combined and there is a web interface, but the whole point of this application is for you to use it while on the go and not while sitting at your desktop in the office.
Except if you decide to do this you end up having to pay for text and/or data messages with your cell phone provider and I know it's not cheap. I recently completely shut off that feature on my phone because I am trying to save money and $10 adds up quickly when times are tough.
I do like the concept and I bet there are a million teenagers out there taking pictures with their phones and sending them to each other as I sit here and type this so more power to 'em.
Labels: cell phone, photos, snapmylife, social network
Saturday, April 5, 2008
New cell phones are a dime a dozen. They all take pictures, play music, record video, and well ya know, allow you to talk to someone as is their original purpose.However, this one also can store cigarettes. Just in case you wanted everything you own to smell like your habit and further publically display that you are foolish enough to light a cancer stick and take years of your life...
Anyway here is a cell phone/cigarette box for you stupid geeks...
Labels: cell phone
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tiny Pictures is a privately held company based in San Francisco. And for something devoted to being tiny, they are certainly making BIG money.Press release for ya:
Tiny Pictures operates the mobile photo and video sharing service Radar, which lets members comment on each others camera-phone snapshots. Radar serves up 15 million mobile photos a month worldwide. Last November, the company introduced advertising in the form of public photo streams that movie studios and other companies try to get people to pay attention to. Blacked Eyed Peas singer will.i.am recently joined the company's advisory board.
As an advisor to the company, will.i.am will collaborate closely with Tiny
Pictures to promote his many creative projects through the Radar Gallery,
which offers subscription-based content in-line with Radar users' personal
content streams.
Mobile startup Tiny Pictures secured a $7.2 million series B financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
In other news:
Gadget of the day is Space Station
"An extended desk organizer for laptop users with internal coiling pins conceals all the cords that usually sprawl over the desk. Hovering just 5mm above the desk, cords are free to enter or exit the hub at any point – on the side to connect a scanner, the front for an iPod, the back for a laptop or camera. An internal 4-port USB hub will keep all peripherals connected. One USB plug exits the station right where needed to connect a laptop. Just tip the front of the SpaceStation up to access the hub and cords."
Labels: camera, cell phone, mobile, tiny pictures
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
This will be shocking to you, but sometimes I forget my camera. I know, I know, it's unheard of, but I do. So I'll snap pictures with my phone or even grab 15 second video snippets if it's video worthy.
Some of my friends can't get media on their phones though, so it's hard to share the goods sometimes. In comes, Cellfish.com where you can upload your own or find videos, pictures and upload or Download Ringtones to share with friends. Your "stash" sits in a digital locker. Once it's in your digital locker, you can automatically share it with your friends.
So this picture was uploaded into my locker and now I can easily embed it.
But even cooler than that, it gets sent to my cell phone so now I can show people the photo on my phone OR send it via the net. You log into your digital locker via your phone and you can grab things out of there. It's really all so easy. I'm impressed and I'm kind of shocked this hasn't been done before. It is kind of like it's own little social network, because you can make friends with other people and share things with them either on your page online or through your phone.
Cellfish Media offers a cutting-edge international portfolio with a catalogue of over 80,000 pieces of mobile content. And they have agreements with over 200 major media, brands owners and operators.
Some of my friends can't get media on their phones though, so it's hard to share the goods sometimes. In comes, Cellfish.com where you can upload your own or find videos, pictures and upload or Download Ringtones to share with friends. Your "stash" sits in a digital locker. Once it's in your digital locker, you can automatically share it with your friends.
So this picture was uploaded into my locker and now I can easily embed it.
But even cooler than that, it gets sent to my cell phone so now I can show people the photo on my phone OR send it via the net. You log into your digital locker via your phone and you can grab things out of there. It's really all so easy. I'm impressed and I'm kind of shocked this hasn't been done before. It is kind of like it's own little social network, because you can make friends with other people and share things with them either on your page online or through your phone.
Cellfish Media offers a cutting-edge international portfolio with a catalogue of over 80,000 pieces of mobile content. And they have agreements with over 200 major media, brands owners and operators.
Labels: cell phone
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Hehe.Got wind?
That's the motto for the Orange wind charger prototype. "The wind generator produces enough power to trickle charge an independent rechargeable battery."
They say that it is a convenient solution for people who spends a lot of time outdoors camping or hiking or whatever it may be...and still must have their cell phone attached to them. =o/
Windmills for energy is nothing new, but thinking outside of the box and figuring out ways to store energy for even small products like a cell phone is pretty darn cool.
Labels: cell phone, energy
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
This is my theory on cell phone trinkets.
People who buy cell phone accessories and jewels are closet nerds. My cell phone is currently a hideous mess, broken and in need of replacement. When this happens I have already vowed to get a nice one and take care of it.
I am a nerd.
I would love to have Emily the Strange cell phone accessories. Perhaps a little case, perhaps some sort of sticker or blinky gadget.
Let me just tell you. If and when you purchase an accessory for your phone, you instantly become a nerd. You have stepped out of the need for technology, eg. cell phone, and decided to artsy it up a bit. Your love has grown for this gadget. You are a gadget lover. =o) Therefore a nerd. See the logic?
And this is why my dears...we have AccessoryGeek.com. Oh yes, it's true.
For you to buy a snazzy cellular case or perhaps a Martini Glass cell phone charm? Whatever floats your boat or tickles your fancy. They have scratch removes, "bling bling" stickers and even holograms. It's actually pretty cool to look through all the stuff, I never realized how attached people get to their cell phones. But I do see a lot of teenage girls taking pictures of themselves. Hmmm. I think AccessoryGeek is onto something.
This post has been sponsored.
People who buy cell phone accessories and jewels are closet nerds. My cell phone is currently a hideous mess, broken and in need of replacement. When this happens I have already vowed to get a nice one and take care of it.
I am a nerd.
I would love to have Emily the Strange cell phone accessories. Perhaps a little case, perhaps some sort of sticker or blinky gadget.
Let me just tell you. If and when you purchase an accessory for your phone, you instantly become a nerd. You have stepped out of the need for technology, eg. cell phone, and decided to artsy it up a bit. Your love has grown for this gadget. You are a gadget lover. =o) Therefore a nerd. See the logic?
And this is why my dears...we have AccessoryGeek.com. Oh yes, it's true.
For you to buy a snazzy cellular case or perhaps a Martini Glass cell phone charm? Whatever floats your boat or tickles your fancy. They have scratch removes, "bling bling" stickers and even holograms. It's actually pretty cool to look through all the stuff, I never realized how attached people get to their cell phones. But I do see a lot of teenage girls taking pictures of themselves. Hmmm. I think AccessoryGeek is onto something.
This post has been sponsored.
Labels: cell phone
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Pingo.com is just a smart move, no luck about it. Phone cards may seem out of date but I have a different perspective. Writing music reviews there are times when I'm phoning from Delaware into Canada, Washington state, and even Germany and Ireland. I don't have a spectacular long distance calling plan on my cell phone so it gets pricey. And I don't want an international long distance calling plan because quite frankly it is not necessary if I only plan on using it a couple times a year, right? Right.
With Pingo.com you will receive up to 4 hours of free International calls just for signing up. It doesn't just end after four hours either, Pingo Mobile saves you up to 90% on your International cell phone calls forever, yes, forever.
For you creative video students out there, this is a great chance to create a commercial for a product and not only score an A in class, but also win some money. Pingo.com is working with Qoof.com to pay $5 to the first 250 Pingo usermercial videos posted! If you are not an up and coming video student but still want to profit on becoming a customer of Pingo, their refer-a-friend calling card affiliate program pays $15 for each new customer you refer.
Beyond what Pingo can do you for individually, it is important to note what they offer groups and businesses. With Pingo Business you can even create sub accounts for business associates and family members, then manage those accounts from a single master account. If you would like to know more about how it works then definitely check out their website.
Labels: awesome deals, cell phone
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Oh gracious.Levi is Set to Launch Cell Phone by Next Week...
It will be a designer cell phone and going to be officially launched in none other than the fashion capital of the world, Paris.
The thing I don't get is we all know Levi has the ORIGINAL JEANS, right? They are the classic brand of jeans, so why in the world would they go and so NOT be original by making their own "designer" cell phone?
They call it innovative. Maybe it is, but I never have been a big cell phone girl. Though I do love me some jeans.
Their press release says "The functional essence of the Levi's brand's design philosophy is perfectly captured by the phone's compact design and sturdy riveted steel casing."
I guess we shall see and who knows maybe it will be fantabulous.
Labels: cell phone
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
I'm one of those people who can't afford to be cell phone crazy. I always buy the ones that end up being free after mail-in rebates. When it comes times to get another phone I always look through the list and find the cheapest. But if I could choose without worrying about the money that would be a whole different story. Because I am a geeky girl, a nerd. Yes, I am tech savvy and I love reading about all the fun new gadgets.
Wirefly.com has a list of the top 10 cell phones from the spring of 2007. It turns out that the top three models which include: The Motorola RAZR, the BlackBerry Pearl and the LG Chocolate, happen to be phones you can buy in bright, vibrant colors. I totally get this, I love bold colors. My favorite color is blue, basic blue. When I was a kid, my favorite color was orange and it wasn't long ago that I painted my bedroom "sparkler" yellow.
My favorite phone made the list, if I had extra money to spend I would be purchasing a blue crystal LG Chocolate. That doesn't seem to be "the" popular color, but reds and pinks are just not for me. If they didn't have blue, I'd have to go Mint Green. I think that is the color my son would pick as well.
So I have to say I totally agree with the scoop on color trends that Wirefly wrote about. Especially when you consider the demographic most phones are reaching; young people who want to make a name for themselves. Wirefly called it...and the trend is BOLD!
Which one do you like?
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Wirefly.com has a list of the top 10 cell phones from the spring of 2007. It turns out that the top three models which include: The Motorola RAZR, the BlackBerry Pearl and the LG Chocolate, happen to be phones you can buy in bright, vibrant colors. I totally get this, I love bold colors. My favorite color is blue, basic blue. When I was a kid, my favorite color was orange and it wasn't long ago that I painted my bedroom "sparkler" yellow.
My favorite phone made the list, if I had extra money to spend I would be purchasing a blue crystal LG Chocolate. That doesn't seem to be "the" popular color, but reds and pinks are just not for me. If they didn't have blue, I'd have to go Mint Green. I think that is the color my son would pick as well.
So I have to say I totally agree with the scoop on color trends that Wirefly wrote about. Especially when you consider the demographic most phones are reaching; young people who want to make a name for themselves. Wirefly called it...and the trend is BOLD!
Which one do you like?
Digg this story!
Disclosure:
This is a sponsored post.
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