textually.org: The High Price of Text Messaging in Zimbabwe (2)
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Cell phone operators in Zimbabwe have increased their prices by 1,000% as the country's inflation spins out of control. Sending an SMS within the country costs between $5 and $7, sending the same SMS outside of the country costs between $12 and $20. [via Les Afriques. Image from the The Huffington Post]
Flickr's Burning Man Map Uses Open Street Map (11)
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Flickr is best known for its photo-sharing, but increasingly its most innovative work is coming from its geo-developers (Radar post). Yesterday they announced the addition of a street-level map of Black Rock City so that we can view geotagged Burning Man photos. Flickr got the mapping data via Open Street Map's collaboration with Burning Man. Flickr uses Yahoo! Maps for most of their mapping (and fine maps they are). The underlying data for them is ...
Adobe Unveils Photoshop.com Mobile Beta (3)
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If there are two things that Adobe knows like the back of its collective hand, they are photos and mobile software. We don’t know anyone young or old who doesn’t automatically say “Photoshop” when someone mentions photo editing. As for mobile software, Flash Lite currently resides on over 500 million handsets and that figure will only grow. So when Abode told us that today it would be unveiling the first beta version of its photo-centric ...
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billpoly said:
I can't say I'm excited about this, but it sure is interesting. The total syncing package is what piqued my interest.
Boxee: Brilliant UI, shame about the business plan (14)
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Boxee presented at Gnomedex this afternoon (video above) and there was hardly a person in the room who wasn’t completely wowed. For those not familiar with the product, Boxee is a media sharing platform targeted at the television, and will be available across multiple platforms (Mac/ Linux/ Windows). The focus of the product is the user interface, both visually and ease of use, and without doubt they’ve mastered both. I’m looking forward to getting into ...
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Nico said:
ok, das will ich haben, aber auf einer schicken kleinen settopbox mit einer rieeeeesigen festplatte und itunes-integration
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SharonG said:
Ouch!
WRT and Series 40 Code Camps (1)
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Join the Forum Nokia Code Camp and start creating mobile applications to get recognized by millions! Forum Nokia Code Camps are specially organized for developers and now we have it in India!. During the camp, you'll benefit from how-to tutorials, intensive discussion with our Code Camp leaders, plus hands-on experience with coding mobile applications yourself. Do you or your company already have a Mobile application ? You also have the chance to meet our Business ...
Do You Have A Symbian Smartphone Nokia n95 Or The Like? (8)
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If you have a Nokia n95 or similar and are interested in testing something really cool we're cooking with Seesmic (but which is not quite ready yet we need feedback), please respond to this video of Sukhjit and we will contact you!Re: Do you have a Symbian Smart Phone?
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Robert Scoble said:
Seesmic is working on streaming video from cell phones. More competition for Kyte.tv, Qik, Flixwagon, and others.
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nikan said:
Testing it :)
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DOCBook Howto said:
Are they going to compete with Qik???
Why sponsoring bloggers is a waste of money [Mythbusting] (4)
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Even Scoble couldn't save Seagate. Almost a year after the hard-drive maker renewed a sponsorship deal with the prolific blogger, its stock is down 35 percent. Archrival Western Digital, meanwhile, is up 40 percent. So much for the profession of "influencer marketing," a field which has exploded since the 2000 publication of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and the subsequent work The Influentials. These books, translated into action by marketers, have prompted companies from AT&T ...
Why T-Mobile 3G in Houston= FAIL (1)
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I test a lot of different phones so I have accounts with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. I use the T-Mobile account so seldom that this morning I couldn't find the SIM card. There's no telling how long it's been missing or perhaps it's stuck in a phone here somewhere. I headed to the local T-Mobile store to get a replacement SIM and had this conversation with the store manager:JK: I heard that T-Mobile 3G rolled ...
Google Offers A Geolocation API For Gears (But It Only Works On Windows Mobile) (33)
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After hinting that it would do so last June, Google’s mobile team has released a Geolocation API for Google Gears. This works both on mobile phones and laptops running Gears, but developers will find it most useful for mobile applications. Unfortunately, they will be limited in that regard because Google Gears Mobile still only works on Windows Mobile phones, even though an Android phone is about to launch. (Maybe now that a new Android SDK ...
Acer Drops Price of Aspire One to Impulse Buy Territory [Aspire One] (7)
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Acer's Aspire One was already one of the most affordable 8.9" mini-notebooks on the market, but now they've gone and dropped the price further while adding a 6-cell battery version to the mix. The Windows XP version (120GB hard drive and 1GB RAM has been reduced $50 from $400 to $350. Their Linux system (8GB SSD and 512MB RAM) dropped $50 as well from $380 to $330. Oh, and those of you wanting the 6-cell ...
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kyle said:
I wonder if all these netbooks are built off the same boards? If they are with few differences I don't see why you'd spend more for one. Unless you want the name on it. Some though have an express card slot.
Nokia Chat a future security risk? (1)
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Thetrader, posting on his In My Own World blog, has told his readers of his latest discovery for his E90…Nokia Beta Labs, and specifically Nokia Chat. He has seen its ‘potential for the future’, thinking it will catch on quickly once people get wind of it. He has seen a possible flaw though, in that he thinks the GPS position sending could be mistreated and sent to people who you don’t want to see it. ...
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Jonathan said:
it's BS ... all in the user's control and you share with your friends.
See that little creature? It’s a iPhone holographic illusion (6)
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iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo. I’ve showed this video to a couple of friends in Berlin (where I’m staying for a few days), and they all freaked out. Maybe because I left the “illusion” part out of it, I don’t know. But one thing is for sure, it’s a really cool effect. David OReilly is responsible for this hologram. He used “the Cat” from his award-winning but unfinished cartoon PSS and ...
Facebook v. MySpace In The U.S. Market: The Music Factor (35)
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Facebook is now the largest social network in the world. But they continue to trail MySpace by a massive 36 million users in the U.S., and at current growth rates it will take them 18 years to overtake them. Most of Facebook’s growth is international, where they’ve executed on a brilliant strategy for quickly rolling out localized versions of sites by getting their users to do the translation work for them (MySpace, by contrast, expands ...
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Jake said:
Interesting viewpoint, but it seems to ignore Facebook Pages, which offers an embedded flash player/playlist just like (see: better than) Myspace. iLike is entirely different.
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Pat said:
Well Mikey actually gets it
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David said:
MySpace hasn't been relevant since 2004.
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Danielle said:
Would it make sense for Facebook to acquire iLike?
MasterCard fires up mobile payment trial in Canada (3)
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Filed under: Misc Hey, here's an idea: let's trial phone-based NFC payment systems. Then, let's trial them again. Then let's trial them a few more times -- but let's not actually launch them on a wide scale so that they're usable, and let's certainly make sure they're not marketed heavily enough to garner widespread consumer interest. That seems to be the attitude financial institutions, manufacturers, and carriers are taking in North America, where countless tiny ...
Songbird Beta: Like iTunes, But it Goes to 11 (20)
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It looks like iTunes, but with less ads and tie-ins to the iTunes store. It plays like iTunes, but it enjoys support from Last.fm and other plug-ins. It manages your iPod like iTunes, but it supports more music file formats. It even has its own version of CoverFlow. It even runs on Linux. Sure, it's like iTunes, but this one goes to 11.
An Easy Way To Retrieve The Entire MobileMe User Email List (51)
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Creating email spam lists is a multi-billion dollar business. Most webmail providers long ago closed a number of the more obvious methods spammers used to put together their lists in an automated way. One example - you don’t get bounced email messages from webmail services for emails to address that don’t exist. That way spammers can’t verify if an email address is good unless they get a response (clicking the opt out link is one ...
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Stewtopia said:
oh boy. Thanks Steve. You've just made boxbe's upcoming release even more useful.
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Mike B said:
MobileMe is the new punching bag. Mike Arrington has on the gloves and takes his second swing in as many days.
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Erik S said:
apple is getting in over their heads with online services. Does anyone remember the earlies iTunes DRM attack? Just intercept the data before the iTunes client has a chance to apply the DRM.
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Alex said:
Whoops.
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Tony Ruscoe said:
There are ways to do this with Gmail and Google Apps too. It's not quite as straight forward but it's not impossible...
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Sean said:
It amazes me how dumb Apple is in the world of Internet services.
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Nick said:
This is not good.
Embargoes are not broken, and long may they reign (8)
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Among the usual debate on public relations in a 2.0 world, the subject of media embargoes inevitably rises to the surface. People jumping on the good ship embargoes are broken this week include Louis Gray and Svetlana Gladkova. Before I start though, a quick explanation for the many of you reading this who have no idea what I’m talking about, because it’s a pretty insular media term that isn’t really used regularly in the outside ...
