It’s Thursday and that means I’m watching Cranky Geeks, a video podcast with one of my favorite technology pundits, John C. Dvorak. Joining him, on practically every show, is Sebastian Rupley, Editor in Chief of the GigaOM Network. He says in episode 197, and I quote: “We got one [the Google Phone] at GigaOM yesterday.…
Pew Research: Out of 800 teens interviewed, only 4% admitted to sexting [LIARS]
Pew Research conducted a survey of 800 teenagers between the ages of 12 to 17 with a parent of guardian in the room about sexting, and of those only 4% admitted to sending nude pictures of themselves, while 15% said they’ve received naked images of other teens. The older a teenager gets, the more likely…
GetJar furious that Nokia claims they’re the second largest App Store, Nokia confesses their mea culpa
GetJar, an App Store filled with mainly J2ME and Flash Lite applications, is furious that Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President of Services at Nokia claimed that Nokia’s App Store, with nearly a million downloads a day, is second only to Apple’s App Store. GetJar does 1.7 million downloads a day, and they don’t host wallpapers…
Exclusive: Interview w/ Frank Miller, CTO of BendBroadband [First HSPA+ network in the USA]
Yesterday I covered the story of BendBroadband, a local cable operator in the USA serving customers in Central Oregon, and how they decided to launch an HSPA+ network to reach rural customers. They’re worth mentioning because they’re the first company to build and launch a commercial HSPA+ network in the United States. Not T-Mobile, not…
Ultrabrief: nVidia CFO: We will be making a major Tegra announcement in 3 weeks
David White, the current Chief Financial Officer for nVidia, gave a talk at Barclays Capital 2009 Global Technology Conference. You can listen to the whole thing here, but the gist of it is that during CES nVidia will announce a new Tegra product. Netbooks, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) and tablets such as this 15 inch…
Mission Impossible: Creating the perfect smartphone: Episode 03: It’s time for applications to die
If I asked a wide range of people what they they think the best user interface is, most would respond Microsoft’s Windows 7, some will say Mac OS X 10.6, the people who spend their entire day glued to their laptop will say either Firefox, Chrome or Safari, but what if I told you that…
Brief: Video: Swype For Android
Swype, the new rapid touch screen input method developed by the guy who invented T9, recently recieved some funding from Nokia and Samsung. Swype only works on one device right now, the Windows Mobile powered Samsung Omnia II on Verizon, but Greg Kumparak from Mobile Crunch managed to get his hands on a beta copy…
San Francisco may be the first city in America to require mobile phone radiation levels to be displayed
Mobiles: Do they cause cancer, or are they harmless? Every few weeks a study comes out that says mobile phones will kill you and your sperm count, and then a few days later a paper gets published that says everything is groovy. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing that you, the people, should be…
Local cable operator in Oregon uses HSPA+ to connect last mile customers
BendBroadband, an operator you never heard of, is a family owned ISP that has been operating out of Central Oregon since 1955. They’re in the business of providing service to as many people as possible, but digging up the roads to lay cable is too costly. They scratched their heads and decided that wireless is…
Android Application: Evernote: Stop forgetting things, you’re not your 93 year old grandma
Evernote, the online service with over 1 million users as of June 2009 that aims to remember everything by being your digital scrapbook, has now launched an application for the Android platform after being in beta for a little over 2 months. With Evernote you can take a picture, upload a PDF file, audio file,…