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USPS to ban overseas shipments of mobile phones and tablets starting May 16th
The US Postal Service has announced a ban on international shipments of devices that contain lithium-ion batteries, such as phones, tablets, cameras, and most other electronic equipment. USPS claims that lithium-ion batteries can catch fire or spontaneously combust if not fully charged or stored/packed incorrectly. Two separate fatal cargo plane crashes since 2006 have been blamed on lithium-ion battery packages, according to FastCompany. The ban goes into effect May 16th. According to CNET, those hit hardest by the ban are U.S. soldiers traveling abroad. Friends and family in the US … Read more
Anthony Domanico
Eli Manning makes fun of texting on SNL
Remember how a judge recently ruled that your tweets could be subpoenaed and possibly exposed in court? This skit from Saturday Night Live highlights this new reality and reminds us how our tweets (and elderly butt internet searches) can make us look like an idiot, even when they are taken in context. Take a few minutes from your work or school day to watch the SNL skit below. [Via Hulu and Gizmodo]
Kelly Hodgkins
Texting and driving test throws teens into a tizzy
A Belgian advocacy group took a group of teens, put them behind the wheel and told them to text and drive. Rather than an enthusiastic pump of the fist, the teens became flustered and confused when forced to do both tasks at the same time. Their reactions, captured in the video below, are priceless. Hopefully, the take home message about how dangerous it is to text and drive will last them (and us) a lifetime. [Via Mashable]
Kelly Hodgkins
10% of sexts are sent to the wrong person
Are you the sexting type whose gotten yourself in trouble for sending a sext to the wrong person? Well, don’t feel bad, as 1 in 10 mobile phone users send sexts to the wrong person, this according to the latest poll conducted by U.K.-based mobile news site Recombu. The site polled 2,000 adults, the study revealed that almost half (47%) of England sends inappropriate sexts to the person their shacking up with. Moreover, about 11 percent have mistakenly sent sexts to the wrong person, such as family members or friends. Ouch. … Read more
Charles West
Cheaper Gas and Frictionless Payment at the Gas Pump with Cumberland Farms’ New App
One company you wouldn’t expect to find on the cutting edge of technology is Cumberland Farms. Known for its inexpensive milk, the regional gas and convenience store is also ready to launch a mobile payment system. The Framingham, Mass-based chain has partnered with PayPal to produce a mobile app called SmartPay which lets you pay at the pump using your phone. To get customers to use the app, the duo is offering a discount of five cents per gallon off the price of gas. The Boston Globe details the process of … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Harry Potter ebooks now available for mobile devices
Harry Potter fans have waited for the book series to launch as ebooks ever since J.K. Rowling unveiled the Pottermore website last year. It’s been a long wait, but today it’s finally over. Pottermore has flicked the switch and is now selling both a digital version and an audio version of the popular fantasy book series. The books are available in both EPUB and Amazon Kindle formats and are available individually for $8 to $10. There’s also a box set of all seven books that you can grab for $58. … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Clearer, a clone of popular iOS app Clear, lands on Windows Phone
Clear took the App Store by storm when it landed on the iPhone earlier this year. It logged over 350,000 downloads in a few days and netted the UK developers a cool £169,000 ($268,000 USD). Now that Clear has been out for a while, other developers have had a chance to study the user interface and clone parts of its design into apps for other platforms. One such clone recently landed in the Windows Marketplace. Known as Clearer, the app shares a similar look and feature set as the Clear app … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Walking and texting causes woman to fall off a pier
Texting while walking can be efficient, but sometimes doing two things at once can be problematic. Just ask Bonnie Miller of Benton Harbor, Michigan. According to a news report from ABC57 News, Mrs. Miller took an unfortunate plunge off a pier while she was texting and walking. The incident happened during an evening walk with her husband and son. As the trio passed onto the pier, she remembered she set an appointment for the wrong the time. She pulled out her phone and began to fix the error. She didn’t even … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Bedroom, bathroom, or elsewhere: where do you play mobile games?
Whether you’re a fun-loving teenager who just bought an iPod touch or a productive business professional with an iPad, don’t deny that you probably have at least one game on your iOS device. Even though iOS is a mobile platform, according to a survey from MocoSpace, most of us prefer to play these games at home. MocoSpace, a mobile gaming community, surveyed over 15,000 people in the United States and discovered that 96 percent of respondents play mobile games at home and on a daily basis. The most popular room … Read more
George Tinari
Nokia’s haptic tattoo and other weird mobile patents
The tech world is talking about a Nokia patent application that describes a haptic tattoo. According to the patent, the body art would vibrate or otherwise react to an incoming call or message. The technology hinges on a unique material that’s “capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin.” It’s an idea that’s probably wont make its way from an idea on paper to an actual product, but it got us thinking. What other weird mobile patents can be uncovered in the archives of … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
More US citizens own smartphones than dumbphones
Pew asked 2,253 adults about their mobile phone in a survey conducted last month, and the results suggest that smartphones have finally overtaken dumb phones in the US. The survey shows that 45 percent of cell owners say their phone is a smartphone, and 49 percent of cell owners say that their phone operates on a smartphone platform. These numbers are up from 33 percent and 39 percent in 2011, respectively. Not surprisingly, the biggest group of smartphone adopters are college graduates, 18-35 year-olds and people with an annual household income of $75,000 or … Read more