Analog Cellular Signals To Die Monday (mostly)
This Monday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will let mobile operators shut down their analog networks. The two biggest U.S. cellular operators, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, will be taking advantage of this by shutting down their analog networks (this Monday). Most, if not all, smaller carriers will be following suit. The end of analog […]
Warrantless domestic spying
Angers me too much to type about it…. here is some of what Wired has to say, “The Protect America Act, a temporary but expansive warrantless spying bill passed by Congress last summer, will likely expire Saturday at midnight, a casualty of a battle between President Bush and House Democrats over amnesty for phone companies that aided his secret, warrantless […]
Sweetest iPhone and iTouch application to date
Too bad this isn’t a reality… yet. This would be the coolest application to hit the iPhone (or iTouch) yet. Being able to order and pay for your drinks without getting in line or talking to a human. Super! I just hope it it makes it to market some day soon.
Spying on Americans
Looks like the US plans to start pointing our spy satellites at Americans. Not that this is anything new… but for some reason our government is openly rubbing it in our faces. Seems the trend these days is to throw any privacy and civil liberty concerns in the trash.
Woman suing Best Buy for $54 Million for loosing her laptop
Raelyn Campbell is angry at Best Buy and the Geek Squad for losing her laptop… pulls large number ($54 Million) from butt. Long story short, Best Buy lost Raelyns laptop then treated her like crap. They did not come to an agreeable settlement so she decided to sue them for an insane amount of money. […]
iPhone screens getting tiny bubbles
If your iPhone screen is displaying tiny bubbles take it back. Apple is aware of the manufacturing defect and will replace the phone, no questions asked. We have yet to see the bubble issue…. anyone having this issue?
Rumor is… Microsoft paid $500 million for Danger
Om Malik… says that Microsoft paid $500 million for Danger, Inc. Nobody really knows…..
Mozilla Firefox 3… Beta version 3 available for tinkering
Testers and tinkerers download away, Firefox 3, Beta 3 is ready for testing. An important issue addressed is that there are fewer memory leaks. An importat issues that will keep me from downloading, just yet, is the lack of extension support. Give it time though… this is just a Beta. Here are some screenshots for […]
RIMs Blackberry service takes a poop… again
Blackberry users may have noticed a lack of emails today as the RIM network took a dump… nothing new.
Yahoo! Gives Microsoft a big NO!
Yahoo officially turned down Microsofts $44.6 billion offer as inadequate Monday. Jerry Yang and crew believe they can get a higher offer from another suiter, stating this offer “substantially undervalues” Yahoo. Google?