In its ongoing effort to manage the world’s (universe’s?) information, Google has expanded its Scholar service to include case law and legal publications. Preliminary reports are universally positive. The federal case law archive goes back 80 years and the state case law archive goes back 50 years. The “Advanced Search” feature is both powerful and [Read More...]
In online debates between Pandora Internet Radio and Slacker Personal Radio, I had always (and ignorantly) sided with Pandora. Now, I believe I was sorely mistaken. Slacker has better features and a larger library of music than Pandora. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so anti-Slacker when Verizon pushed Slacker to all of its Blackberry customers. [Read More...]
This afternoon MacRumors posted credible information that the next generation iPhone is being field tested. The current iPhone 3GS identifies itself as an “iPhone2,1.” According to an app developer, the new, unreleased iPhone identifies itself as a “iPhone3,1.” The iPhone 3GS was field tested approximately eight months prior to launch, which leads some to predict a [Read More...]
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Salomondrin has his hands on the upcoming Blackberry Stratus 9100 and his video has survived YouTube’s policies so far. His initial impressions and review are all positive. It is a terrific looking phone. Head over to Salomondrin.Net to see the phone in action.
FourSquare is a location-based networking program which enables people to log their locations with their mobile phones. A user receives points for hitting various locations and for hanging out in the same location repeatedly. The person who frequents the same location the most is awarded “Mayor” of that location. Mayors of some locations receive special [Read More...]
Priced just under $2.9 million, the iPhone 3GS Supreme by Stuart Hughes in London is the most expensive mobile phone in the world. It functions just as a normal 3GS would but is jeweled accessory that took 10 months to produce.
I just saw this advertised in the Wall Street Journal today. Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is advertising a mobile phone with its banding named the “MERIDIIST.” The phone is a world phone but does not have smart phone capabilities. Nonetheless, it is a piece of beauty with a 316L stainless steel case and sapphire crystal [Read More...]
RIM’s official eBay app is now available in Blackberry App World. Not surprisingly, it is free. Despite all my rants about RIM, the eBay app is getting very good reviews and it is a must have if you are an eBayer. You can read about it on RIM’s website. The New York Times is now [Read More...]
If you enter the Blackberry discussion boards, one of the most frequently discussed topics is “leaked” operating systems. A leaked OS is a variant designed by RIM that has not been released to the public nor approved by your carrier. This post explains how an operating system leaks and whether you should consider installing a [Read More...]
The first revision to its endorsement rules in almost 30 years, the FTC now regulates emerging digital advertising channels, including the blogosphere. I reviewed the 81 page FTC notice of adoption of revised Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (the “Guides”). Without making your eyes glaze over or oversimplifying the Guides, [Read More...]
About an hour ago, RIM released Blackberry Media Sync 3.0 which now supports 2-way pictures syncs. The download is available directly from RIM here (10 mb). Early reviews were positive from both Boy Genius Report and Crackberry. Personally, I am sticking with WinAmp for syncing music and mIQ for syncing pictures (over-the-air, which Blackberry Media [Read More...]
Where’s My Blackberry has begun a limited public beta period. The app helps you recover a lost Blackberry through some unique methods, described below.
Today BB4 Software released its initial product, MiniPaint for the Blackberry, for public beta testing. It a small image editor that allows you to overlay hats, mustaches, glasses and other clipart on images stored on your Blackberry. You can also add text bubbles and text. A mini review of MiniPaint follows.
With holiday shopping beginning, consumers are considering the latest mobile phones. Will it be the Droid or the Eris? The Pre or the Pixi? Other consumers, however, are looking ahead to the next generation of mobile phones. Will it be the HTC Passion or the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 (which notably, will have a retail [Read More...]
Upon pondering the possibility of a Google Chrome OS World, I believe the weakest link to the widespread adoption of Chrome OS is Google Docs, the web-based word processor. I hadn’t used it until recently and I was actually quite impressed. Nonetheless, it is a poor replacement for Microsoft Word for people who do heavy-duty [Read More...]
