British Skier David Fitzherbert was doing some skiing off-trail in the Matterhorn and Monterosa peaks in Switzerland when something terrible happened. The snow gave way beneath him, and he plummeted some 70 feet into a crevasse. “The snow gave way beneath me and I fell down a very deep crevasse. After 70 feet it narrowed…
My fave Michael Jackson Choons playing on my iPhone…
Whilst writing some posts this evening/early morning, I have been listening to music – like most of the IntoMobile team when they are writing I think! Of course, with recent events, Michael Jackson is at the front of many peoples’ minds, and I’m no exception – the man brought some amazing music that crossed boundaries,…
Steal a phone in Somalia, get your right hand and left foot chopped off
Stealing someone’s mobile phone makes you a dick. Stealing someone’s mobile phone in Somalia is an easy way to lose a few pounds, easy because you’ll be living the rest of your life without your right hand and left foot. At an al-Shabab camp, just north of Mogadishu, four men (pictured right) who have been…
NetLingo: Courseware
Another NetLingo word of the day that fits a gap in tech-vocabulary perfectly: courseware Another name for instructional software, courseware can come in the form of a CD-ROM, a Web site, a floppy, an instructional video, or a program tutorial. Courseware is often used to train people on computer business applications, and is the term given to ancillary…
WWDC’s Wall of iPhone Apps Pulsates with Purchaces
In an effort to show devs just how many fat wads of cash they can make working on the iPhone platform, Apple set up this impressive display at WWDC which shows a colour-organized grid of iPhone apps that blip whenever someone downloads them. Those ones that ping over and over again would be your beer,…
On the Lighter Side: ‘Obama’s BlackBerry’ by Kasper Hauser
We all know President Obama is a BlackBerry user, in fact, most might consider him an ‘addict’ (First Lady Michelle Obama is a BlackBerry user as well!). This surely was the fuel for the fire that led comedy troupe Kasper Hauser to create and publish ‘Obama’s BlackBerry’. The book is all fiction (it’s all made…
NetLingo: Merchantainment
My fave tech-word-of-the-day site, NetLingo, has come up with another really applicable term for the Mobile world: merchantainment If you think this sounds like a Mickey Mouse term, youre right. In the Internet commerce world, its the meshing of entertainment content with product information. Ralph Laurens Polo.com has employed it extensively, but the term…
Syrians Boycott Mobile Phones in Protest
I’m thinking the Syrians have something here… Perhaps Canadians should band together and put the screws to our major carriers as well!? 🙂 Subscribers in Syria have worked together to boycott mobile phone use on the two carriers in the region, Syriatel and MTN Syria. Subscribers are fed up with the high costs of running…
New iPhone App: UDID
Are you an iPhone Dev guy? Or you just like having an obscene level of detail about your device? Well then the UDID finder App is for you! The UDID of your device is kinda like the serial number, but is the key for locking content to your device only – that might be useful,…
Net-Lingo: screen-saver face!
My fave tech-language site, NetLingo, brings us another classic: screen-saver face Slang for the look a person gets on their face when they are bored to the point of shutting down their brain. Ha ha ha! How many of us have been there at some point in our lives? Quite a few I’d…