Posts Tagged ‘web’

Jump down off that scud missile and holster your brew Droid owners, the stats are in for smartphone gender preferences. The numbers reported above are based on a AdMob survey of 963 total respondents consisting of 318 Android, 244 iPhone, 356 iPod touch and 45 webOS users in english speaking countries. According to the data collected between 5 February to the 16 February, men ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones If you're going to send a ridiculous amount of text messages , you had better make sure of two things: first, get an unlimited plan, and second, make sure you're sending them from your own cell phone . Failing to do either will certainly get you in a heap of trouble. Case in point, according to an Associated Press report ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web , Social Networking The religions of the world have had no choice but to enthusiastically embrace technology. The Dalai Lama is now on Twitter , the same social network that hosted the Passion story for a NYC church, Jews can Tweet prayers to the Western Wall , and there is even a Web service that will do your ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPhone , Mobile Software , Web Meebo has been a favorite amongst cloud computing purists for some time. It's a Web-based, multi-protocol instant messaging client that works across more networks than one person could possibly remember. Mobile IM addicts have been eagerly anticipating the service's official iPhone app, which will finally offer an alternative to high-priced options from Beejive ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPhone , Mobile Software , Reviews , Web Siri is a new voice search and "virtual assistant" application for the iPhone that takes "natural language" requests and turns them into actionable results. For example, ask Siri "where can I get the best sushi," and it will, using the iPhone's GPS, search Yelp to find recommended sushi restaurants near you. ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web Ever wonder what it'd be like to look like someone else; to exist as another person and mingle among their friends invisibly? A number of AT&T mobile users have had that experience lately -- at least virtually, with the network inexplicably redirecting users into other peoples' Facebook accounts . Curiously AT&T's network was swapping cookies around, so that ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Computers , Web Political blog The Hill may have called the recent announcement by Peter Orszag, the White House budget director, that the government is saddled with "outdated technology" a "startling admission," but it sounds to us like old news. As of January 2008, the Bureau of Indian Affairs still lacked Internet access, and during the transition from campaign ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Computers , TV , Web , CES-2010 Yesterday, at Intel's CES keynote, Paul Otellini unveiled the AppUp Center, similar to the iTunes App Store but geared toward netbooks and MIDs (Mobile Internet Device). While our friends at Engadget were busy wondering " why you would need an app store for a Windows netbook ," and while The Register was ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Holiday Gift Guide The humble cell phone goes by many names; worldwide, the most common being simply "mobile." For many on this side of the pond, though, that word first brings to mind the image of a rotating object hanging from the ceiling of a nursery. Thus, the Mobile Mobile was born . The art installation is composed of ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones Cell phones cause cancer , don't cause cancer , might cause cancer, who knows? Well, Maine State Legislator Andrea Boland at least claims to know. She plans to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would require phones to carry warnings saying that they can cause brain cancer. Apparently unconcerned with things like scientific consensus, Boland wants Maine ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones If petty criminals suffer from one glaring flaw, it's usually an overinflated ego . That was certainly the case with 24-year-old Peter Gamblin, who now faces prison time in England for allegedly stealing Jonathan Franke's phone, wallet, necklace, and watch. Joe Dale, a friend of Franke's, was on the line when the robbery started and overheard someone demanding money before ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web , Social Networking Nothing warms our hearts more than a geeky marriage proposal here at Switched, but we get a bit bored of Twitter, Facebook, and even tweaked video game declarations of love . So kudos to Raleigh-Durham resident Alex Marsh , who took his girlfriend, Susan Wilkison, out to dinner at Raleigh Times Bar to propose, via ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPhone , Web , Social Networking Aside from war, sex is almost always the driving force behind technological advancements. The adoption of VHS, the popularization of webcams, the ability to stream video, and the proliferation of the Internet, in general, have all been propelled by people's need to get their rocks off. So Rachel Kramer Bussel, of the Daily ... Full story

Of the many trends in consumer electronics, today's announcement by Lenovo highlights two of the biggest: 1) PC makers are desperate to get in on that handheld smartphone action, and 2) China is the place to do it with its 700 million mobile subscribers. That's why Lenovo is putting up $200 million in cash and stock to reacquire its former mobile business sold to ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web In our quest to discover just how nerdy we are, we continue to head to New York's Times Square to ask the crowd to define the terms we use at Switched every day. Most flunked on Flickr but many could talk about Twitter , so we kept the faith that, just because we knew what a "tweet" was ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web Wikileaks normally deals in sensitive information from whistle-blowers inside governments and companies. But its latest project, a collection of pager and text messages sent on the morning of September 11, 2001 , crosses from simple news dissemination and political activism to a work of art. Starting the morning of November 25, at 3 a.m., Wikileaks began "broadcasting" over ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Computers , Web Seeing as, here at Switched, we make our livings online, we're at the Internet's beck and call to an even larger degree than your average Web junkie. That being the case, whenever we travel some place or another, our first question is, "Do you have wireless?" All too often, the answer is in the negative. So ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web , Social Networking Schools have been surprisingly quick to embrace new online tools to enhance education and encourage participation both in and out of the classroom. Professor Dave Parry , from the University of Texas at Dallas, has taken his class to Twitter , The University of Missouri has required all Journalism majors to own an iPhone or ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web , Social Networking We've heard plenty of stories about people losing jobs due to inappropriate posts on Facebook , but this is the first time we've heard it suggested that a person was disciplined for Facebook addiction. Sources have suggested to the Staten Island Advance that Criminal Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino, Jr. was transferred from his post ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web You know that pit in your stomach you get when you're out at night, you reach in your pocket for the obligatory, mindless, precautionary cell phone check, and (gasp!) the battery's dead? Or how your hands get all clammy and your mouth turns to the Mojave desert whenever you're trying to check your e-mail, but, for whatever reason, ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web Haven't we all, at some point in our lives, mused to ourselves, "Gee, how great would it be if all of my friends and family could know exactly where I am, at this very instant"? Well now, with a little help from your Bluetooth, they can. Issac Daniel , the brand that brought GPS shoes to the hooves ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPhone , Web , Social Networking The Internet has put an unsettling amount information at our fingertips. Now that the Web is finally usable on our phones, thanks to devices like the iPhone and Palm Pre, we can draw on this vast well of information (that many people would likely prefer remain private) anywhere we are. One particularly creepy ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web The war over Net neutrality may finally be coming to an end. After years of back and forth between ISPs, consumer advocacy groups, Web-based companies like Google, and government officials, formal rules concerning broadband data pipelines are finally being proposed by Federal Communication Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski. The proposed policy would prevent service providers of any kind ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , iPod , iPhone , Mobile Software , Downloads , Web Many online services have tried to drag online one of the last hold-outs of desktop software: the music manager. But the hurdle upon which Last.FM , Imeem , Slacker , and Pandora all stumble is their inability to offer users access to whatever music they want, on-demand, especially in ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web If you don't acknowledge that the speed at which information travels has drastically increased over the last two centuries, you're either painfully oblivious or dead. But have you ever wondered to what degree, exactly, we've become spoiled by instantaneous access to information from around the globe? Well, your answer might lie in a chart that Beebo has pulled ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Computers , Web Anyone who has even walked passed a 'Marketing 101' class would know the term 'early adopter.' Whether wealthy or just hungry for the new, those in this segment of the market pushed ahead for new technology while other consumers were happy with what they had, until they were forced to change. Yet, that game itself is ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web Young technophiles may believe that catchy abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons are new developments, arising because of the character limitations of certain modern means of communication like text messaging and tweeting. But the satirical newspaper 'Puck' actually published the first documented emoticons in 1881 , and Abraham Lincoln may have even used one when writing a speech. A joint ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones In recent years, 'sexting' has entered our lexicon, frightening the parents of teens with cell phones and other mobile devices. Now, lawmakers and judges are cracking down on the act , and, as a result, a Vermont teen is headed to prison. According to the Associated Press , 18-year-old Isaac Owusu will serve 90 days of a two-year sentence in ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web Aspiring authors, take note. In response to the popularity of Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader , a journalism professor from Chicago's Columbia College decided that books on the Net might help out the little guy, too. "Thankfully, the death of print meant discovering something much more valuable: mobile publishing," Professor Dan Sinker wrote on his site, CellStories.net ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones , Web , Social Networking Plenty of apps and Web sites have tried to add an element of locality to Twitter . But most of the solutions have been been pretty clumsy, requiring a user to either insert a link to longitude-latitude coordinates on Google Maps , or performing a search based on a user-provided ZIP code. Just announced features ... Full story