Cody Taylor

Japan’s hotline for people considering killing themselves is stretched to its limit, with the economic crisis feared to be worsening the country’s suicide problem, its director says. A national suicide hotline run by the Telephone Lifeline association is struggling to meet demand, with 7,000 volunteers handling some 700,000 calls a year.

Consumers are being warned to be on the look out for fake iPhone Nanos, despite the real thing not even being released.

Many people aren’t wearing wristwatches anymore because their cell tell time — so who needs a watch? But a brand-new generation of cell phone wristwatches is threatens to make the cell phone the unnecessary gadget. Look what has been unveiled in the past week!

animusCollards writes “Slate ponders a post-Steve Jobs Apple, including possible successors, and the future is… boring. ‘..it’s certainly true that Jobs’ style is central to the company’s brand and the fierce connection it forges with its customers. His product announcements prompt hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free press coverage and whip up greater and more loyal fans, generating ever-greater interest in the company. … At some point, all that will end. Jobs will eventually leave the company. There are no obvious plans for succession; in addition to Schiller, observers finger Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, and Scott Forstall, who helped develop Mac OS X and the iPhone’s software, as contenders for the job. But Tuesday’s keynote illustrated how difficult it will be for any of those guys to replace Jobs.'”

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txmadman writes “Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn’t clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card ‘wallets’ and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards?”

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