As we all know from a lot of reported news, Apple has had mucho success with games on the iPhone – and it looks like they might be extending that to Apple TV in the near(ish) future…. CNET is reporting that a set of patents filed at the USPTO shows a wireless controller for…
NetLingo: alpha geek!
NetLingo comes with another tech-term classic: the alpha geek! alpha geek The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “Ask Larry, he’s the alpha geek around here.” Ha ha ha! Yep every office that is involved in IT and Telecoms (and many that aren’t) have one of these people. Typically (but…
Intel Working on Shapeshifting Handsets
Alright, who’s up for some far-fetched science that will probably never see the light of day? Intel researcher Jason Campbell here describes how they’re working on dynamically changing the form of our phones to suit our needs. Need a web browsing tablet? Stretch that sucker out into a low-density, high-area machine. Making a call? Have…
Netlingo: bit-spit!
As you all know, I do like my tech-jargon, and the main source of that for me is the great site Netlingo! Today we have another instant classic: bit-spit Any form of digital correspondence (text, bit-mapped images, fax transmissions) or the act of sending same. “Did you bit-spit that file to Jane yet?” Now I’ve…
Windows 98 running on Nokia N95!
Seeing Windows 3.1 running on an already-aged Nokia N95 reminded us just how far we’ve come in the past decade, or so. Then there was that iPhone running Mac OS 7 (System 7). Mobile phones these days, smartphones especially, are jam-packed with more computing power than we would have thought possible before the turn of…
Verizon Customer Service Fails at Math
Not one, but two customer service reps at Verizon can’t tell the difference between a cent and a dollar… Oi… Anyone here have some good ol’ support horror stories with carriers? [via FailBlog]
Gates to Kids: No iPhone for You
This isn’t much of a surprise, but Bill Gates doesn’t let the kiddies use an iPod on iPhone in the house, according to an interview with wife Melinda Gates. Heck, if you were Bill Gates, would you? That would be some seriously bad press if anyone found out – you can just see the headline:…
All that and a bag of potato chips… and a cellphone!
No, there are no potato chip vendors (that we know of, anyway) that are offering free cellphones with purchase of a bag of ‘tater chips. But, what would you do if you happened to find an ancient Nokia mobile phone inside your favorite bag of chips? Wisconsiner Emma Schweiger recently faced that exact same predicament…
Man catches fish that ate his cellphone!
Man loses cellphone in water. Big fish eats his cellphone (we know, just keep reading). Fisherman catches said thieving fish. Man gets cellphone back! We don’t know how the fish even managed to get its slimy mouth around a Nokia cellphone (we’re no fish experts), or why a fish would even find a mobile phone…
AT&T data card + Slingbox = $28,000 bill
To be hyper-connected in today’s world means you’re never more than a couple mouse-clicks away from surfing the web, tapping out a Tweet, or watching live TV as it streams from your Slingbox at home. But, in that same hyper-connected world, you really have to watch your data usage – or, more specifically, how you’re…