Jan
17
2009
Now there’s a Barack Obama-branded cellphone (in Kenya)
Hah! A Kenyan cellphone company has released a Barack Obama-branded cellphone. It’s decked out in red and blue, with fun phrases like “Yes We Can”
Jan
17
2009
Samsung Settles Cellphone Patent Case – Wall Street Journal
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Samsung Settles Cellphone Patent Case
Wall Street Journal – 10 hours ago By Sara Silver Samsung Electronics, the world’s second-largest phone maker by sales, will pay 0 million to InterDigital as part of a deal to settle a long-running wireless patent-infringement dispute before the US International Trade Commission. Wi-LAN Licenses Wireless Tech Patents to Samsung Electronics Teleclick.ca Samsung will pay 0 million to settle wireless-patent case SmartBrief FierceWireless – Telecompaper all 6 news articles |
Jan
17
2009
Blogger Wins Weblog Award, Tells Rest of Internet to Suck It
My phone rang. I answered it. (I’m weird like that.) It was early, much earlier than I usually stumble out of bed so I was understandably upset.
Jan
16
2009
Samsung Settles Cellphone Patent Case – Wall Street Journal
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Samsung Settles Cellphone Patent Case
Wall Street Journal – 4 hours ago By Sara Silver Samsung Electronics, the world’s second-largest phone maker by sales, will pay 0 million to InterDigital as part of a deal to settle a long-running wireless patent-infringement dispute before the US International Trade Commission. Wi-LAN Licenses Wireless Tech Patents to Samsung Electronics Teleclick.ca Samsung will pay 0 million to settle wireless-patent case SmartBrief FierceWireless – Telecompaper all 6 news articles |
Jan
16
2009
Watch Obama’s Historic Inauguration On Your iPhone
Ustream is launching an iPhone app that lets users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. The timing on the application is near perfect with the Obama inauguration coming up on January 20.
Jan
16
2009
Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a company has demonstrated a new form of wireless communication that uses light instead of radio waves. “Its inventor, St. Cloud resident John Pederson, says visible-light embedded wireless data communication is the next step in the evolution of wireless communications, one that will expand the possibilities in phone and computer use. The connection provides Web access with almost no wiring, better security and with speeds more than eight times faster than cable.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Jan
16
2009
US Airways Crash Rescue Picture Citizen Jouralism
Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone.
Jan
16
2009
What Apple could learn from Palm’s webOS
Engadget digs through the iPhone’s current shortcomings and what Apple should beg, borrow and steal from the Pre and webOS.
Jan
16
2009
Agora Android Phone Delayed By Glitches
An anonymous reader points out this report at News.com.au which says that “THE first Australian ‘Google phone’ set to go on sale within weeks has been delayed indefinitely, with the manufacturer Kogan forced to refund early buyers. In a statement released this afternoon, the company said the delay was ‘due to future interoperability issues.’The Agora reached a very late stage of development, manufacturing had commenced and we were within days of shipping the product to customers,” company founder Ruslan Kogan said in a statement.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Jan
16
2009
Debian on Android installer released
I have created and installer and bootloader (download below) for getting Debian running on your Android (G1 at the moment) device, the whole install process will take you about 10 mins, and leaves you with access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let’s you continue using your phone as it was intended to be
