Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
As part of mobile marketing and emerging media teams at Barkley, I test a lot of different phones and mobile devices.
As part of that, it is nice to be able to forward all of the content to the test device, including voice calls and text messages. The devices already ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Apparently, today is World Internet Day.
Who knew? I almost missed it.
So get out there and enjoy the internets, because I know I would be lost without them.
Take a few minutes and reflect on how your life has changed in the last 15 years.
Email? Instant messaging? Google? Wikipedia? Facebook?
Our world will ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
I remember the good ol' days in the mid 90's of very little Spam content. Now it is up to 95% of all email.
Commtouch published its Email Threats Trend Report 2007. The report is based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly. The report examines the ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Foxy Brown pleads innocent to BlackBerry attack
Maybe Foxy Brown watched the Sprint commercial about theft deterrent and using a phone as a weapon a few too many times.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOBRwQBJ7Ic]
Technorati Tags: BlackBerry, Foxy Brown, assault
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
In the programming world, there is the standard "Hello World" tutorial included as part of learning any new language. Consider this my Hello World, so to speak, for learning iMovie. I am happy to say that using iMovie was pretty straightforward, and good enough for any basic editing ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
I was recycling some boxes in my office over the weekend and stumbled upon some text on the inside part of the box of one of my Seagate hard drives (Barracuda 750GB SATA-300, to be specific).
Sure, the pictures are a bit fuzzy, but I have resorted to using my camera ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
One of the sites that I have been tracking for a while and recently added to my RSS feeds is The Consumerist.
If you are in PR and haven't heard of this site, it would be worthwhile to monitor it on behalf of your clients. There's no worse way than ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
via Engadget, a recent poll in England revealed that one in five kids from seven to sixteen years old reported that not having a mobile phone was a sign that other children were poor -- the highest response among all the indicators.
related: According to a statistical handbook called "Japan Mobile ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Jim Rapoza, Chief Technology Analyst, eWEEK, recently put together a list of some common web development mistakes.
Below is a little background info on Jim via his author bio:
For nearly fifteen years, Jim Rapoza has evaluated products and technologies in almost every technology category for eWEEK. Mr Rapoza’s current technology focus ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
There has been a fair amount of press recently about California's ban on mobile phone use while driving. My only question is, why limit it to teenagers?
Here is a rundown of a few articles:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-11-dwt_N.htm
http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-California-Bill-Teen-Drivers.aspx
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20681742/
Lowell High School junior Minna Shmidt, 16, hands her cell phone to her father before ...
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