Archive for February, 2008

Thursday Links

Engadget wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Downtown. Photo by meghannmarco. Republicans in Albany Say, ‘It’s Not Over’ [NY Times] DOE Gives Some ‘A’ Students Cellphones [NY Times] Council OKs Green Cart Law [NY Times] Bay Ridge Hospital May Shut ER [NY Daily News] [...]

Apple sued over iPhone caller ID

Brownstoner: Brooklyn Real Estate and Renovation wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptApple sued over iPhone caller ID Posted Feb 28th 2008 7:31AM by Nilay Patel Filed under: CellphonesPhew, we were starting to worry we’d get through the week without someone suing Apple. This time it’s a patent lawsuit by a Massachusetts [...]

Bamboo Cell is Degradable Concept, Pandas’ Phone of Choice [Cellphones]

Engadget wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBamboo Cell is Degradable Concept, Pandas’ Phone of Choice Dutch designer Gert-Jan van Breugel has come up with the idea of a degradable cellphone. Remove the antenna, battery and print board, chuck the bio-plastic and bamboo body of the phone on the compost heap, [...]

Texas University to Give iPhones to Freshmen

Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Abilene Christian University (ACU) will equip each and every one of its new students with an iPhone or an iPod Touch. The official line is that the students can “receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions [...]

Panasonic intro’s the TV-focused P905iTV phone

Gadgetell | Tech News, Reviews, and Interesting Things wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptPanasonic intro’s the TV-focused P905iTV phone by Robert Nelson on Feb 28, 2008 at 08:21 AM Panasonic has announced the latest TV centric mobile phone, the Viera P905iTV. As of now it [...]

The word “NuviPhone” gets Garmin in hot water

Wired Blogs: Gadget Lab wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Section: Communications, Cellphones, Gadgets / Other, GPS/Navigation Go figure, the Nuviphone is a popular name. Reminiscent of the iPhone name dispute between Apple and Cisco, Nuvio an internet telephone provider is suing Garmin over trademark infringement. [...]

Ringtones: How Viewers Got Stung - CBS News

Web Worker Daily wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Ringtones: How Viewers Got StungCBS News, NY - Feb 22, 2008I communicated with many unhappy customers while working on tonight's story on ringtone fraud. Of course only a few people's stories can actually fit into a …
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Review: Samsung FlipShot 3-megapixel camera phone - infoSync World

9Down.com - Software News & Download wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Review: Samsung FlipShot 3-megapixel camera phoneinfoSync World, Norway - Feb 18, 2008By Matthew Ruiz, Tuesday 19 February 2008 The FlipShot appears to be half-phone, half-digital camera. Did this swiveling flip stand up to our …
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