I bet you Jesus always got five bars, even on AT&T. Deep in London’s financial quarter, St. Lawrence Jewry is modernizing its old “Plow Monday” ceremony (which would involve blessing farming equipment for the new week of work) in order to bless parishioners’ laptops and smartphones for their own, albeit less arduous, labour. Someone warned…
SarcMark Brings Sarcastic Punctuation to BlackBerry
Here’s one you linguistic geeks out there will enjoy. SarcMark is selling software that will allow you to use their patent-pending sarcasm punctuation mark on BlackBerry. You can check out a list of supported devices here, which seems like the mark would only work in SMS texting and only if both parties have the software,…
Prince Charles and Camilla Pack a Storm 9500 Thanks to Ontario Premier McGuinty
What do you get for Prince Charles and his wife Camilla when they make a visit to your area? You get them a pair of matching BlackBerrys of course! Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty presented the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall with two BlackBerry Storm 9500’s during a recent trip to the area. The…
Google single handedly started the push to get the USA market to where the EU and Asia have been for ages
I feel bad for you people in America. All your networks suck, well except maybe for Verizon, your voice, SMS and data rates are ridiculously expensive, and you have to wait an inordinate amount time to get devices that are already shipping in Europe or Asia because your operators want complete and total control over…
Video: Kitchenware plus mobile broadband modem = speed
Filed under “so incredibly impractical it isn’t even funny, but a fantastic way to kill 1 minute of your helplessly boring and meaningless day” we have a Finnish guy, Teemu Milto, increasing the speed of his 3G dongle by putting it in a pot. The explanation for the phenomenon is simple, more cellular waves are…
LG eXpo – no projector yet, but ‘comedy’ video shows off its features!
Well you can’t get the projector add-on for the LG eXpo yet, but you CAN see the promo video they’ve produced to try and sell the device. Now I’ve got my own opinion on pico-projectors (I actually think a good quality one would be a very worthwhile accessory), but the fact the eXpo has a…
HTC Sponsors Wallpaper* Design Awards
Wallpaper* (an international design, fashion and lifestyle bible), has announced HTC as its new headline sponsor of the Wallpaper* Design Awards. The six-figure partnership will span global activity in the magazine, on wallpaper.com and at the Awards event. The link, in case you were wondering, is very much along the idea of HTC Sense –…
Let’s play spot the N97…
Okay so I don’t watch that much TV, but I within that small amount I do see, there’s probably an unhealthy ratio of RnB videos. Say what you want about my preferred genre music (I’m not fussed!), but they has been a trend in recent years for mobile devices to be shown in them quite…
Announcing my new mobile payment startup: Circle, because Square is for squares
When looking at how people use money in today’s world, we thought to ourselves, how can we make it better? Circle was started because one day, on the mean streets of New York City, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Stefan Constantinescu could not sell a teenager a dime bag of marijuana because the poor bastard…
DROID Does Cotton-Poly Blend Long Sleeve T-Shirts Too
Rumor has it (via engadget) that certain Verizon Motorola DROID customers are receiving the above T-Shirts in the mail today. How cool is that? Moto DROID users, be sure to let us know if and when you receive a T-Shirt… I want to know if this is the real deal, or just a one-off ‘hoax’.…