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It’s a snow day here in Atlanta, one of the more uncommon types of days we have in the Southern States. It’s extremely beautiful, the iced boughs of trees, the stark white blanket that covers everything, strangers waving hello. And walking through it I’ve got the Skating theme from the Charlie Brown Christmas special in my head.
STD Testing? There’s an app for that.
by Cristen Conger | November 10, 2010
Smartphone apps are getting really personal these days. As in, down there personal. First came the PMS Buddy to help dudes track their girlfriends’ periods, and just this week, Betty Crocker released a menstrual calendar app that will send guys coupons for brownies to temper girlfriends’ PMS symptoms (because everyone knows that chocolate is better than Klonopin for tranquilizing hormone-crazed women). But the eSTI2 project from the University of the London may very well take the cake.
Microsoft Refocuses on Smartphones with Windows Phone 7
by Jonathan Strickland | October 11, 2010
Earlier today, Microsoft held a press conference in which Steve Ballmer announced the new Windows Phone 7 platform for smartphones (I missed the announcement but CNET’s Caroline McCarthy has a great writeup). The new OS marks a new direction — previously, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS had been the company’s contribution to cell phone technology. But Windows Mobile hasn’t stacked up well against other smartphone operating systems: StatCounter doesn’t even break out Windows Mobile in its charts on mobile operating system market share.
Yesterday, Michael Arrington reported on TechCrunch that Facebook is quietly working on smartphone software, possibly with the intent to create a Facebook-branded phone. Facebook executives denied the report, but CNET confirmed the story — hardware manufacturers admit that Facebook has approached them about creating a phone that would integrate Facebook’s features into practically every aspect of the device. The handsets would run on the Android operating system.
Smart phones usually have some level of voice activation. But the level now available in Android appears to be completely novel, as demonstrated in this video…
Something like 10 years ago, HowStuffWorks wrote its first iteration of the article How WIMAX works. It spells out the promise of WiMAX this way…
The other day, I was astonished to learn that Microsoft had decided to drop its two brand-new smartphones, the Kin One and Kin Two. Oh, I suppose it wasn’t brand new. I mean, the two phones were almost two months old. That’s ancient for some technology. Nonetheless, after taking the time, effort and expense to acquire Danger…
Overall, the Apple iPhone 4 release has been… odd. I guess if you are a fan of the “any PR is good PR” school of thought, it has been brilliant. But ask Tiger Woods or Lindsay Lohan how well that school of thought works out in reality, and you would probably get mixed reviews. The kind of debacle seen with the iPhone 4 is also very rare for Apple.
Therefore, given the rarity of Apple PR disasters, let’s recap this one and save it for posterity. In theory, we will never see anything like this again.
First there was “the leak”…
The following video introduces a term – “conflict minerals” – that you may have never heard of before. It is an important term because, behind the scenes, conflict minerals are leading to death and destruction for millions of people….
With Apple getting ready to announce its next iPhone, it makes sense to look at the competition. It is possible that the HTC EVO 4G is the best smartphone available today – reviews have been outstanding. See for example these reviews…
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