In a valiant effort to shine shit, AOL’s CEO declared today a “milestone in the turnaround of AOL as [ad revenue] [grew a little] for the first time [in years]” and that he is “proud” and “focused on accelerating momentum through continued execution strategy to become the premier digital content company.” Translation? AOL’s earnings dropped [...]

Microsoft, longtime champion of the patent trolling and extortion racket as a means to contribute to the world, attempted a bullshit money grab against Barnes and Noble on some Android patent bullshit with their Nook device. Seems Microsoft’s genius angle is not to directly target Google for whatever reason but going after companies getting involved [...]

Get in some iPhone user’s face and say, “Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with me, you flash your iPhone out on the lanes instead of this Windows Phone I’m giving to you to evaluate, I’ll take the iPhone away from you, stick it up your ass and [...]

So Google dropped Android 2.3.4 on stock Nexus S owners. Those not fitting that description have been SOL until the fairly near future as I just scored and flashed me a CM 7.1.0 / Android 2.3.4 “kang” nightly floating hereabouts (I didn’t even know what kang was – means super duper unofficial, so a super [...]

Whenever I use Panglozz’s sales estimates y’all get agitated, rejecting its veracity (because they’re not flattering enough to your mobility ego maybe), then we go back and forth on it with you eventually saying Well let’s just wait for the numbers from Microsoft (yeah okay, youdothat). Well if it’s of any worth Verizon recently announced [...]

In response to a streak of especially baseless anti-Windows Phone rants my man sm0k3y, a fervent, outspoken WP enthusiast,  offered to lend me a Surround and I said yes please, goes in the mail today. I told him I’d take the thing for a ride with an open mind. This is not an effort to [...]

Example? Samsung’s Galaxy S II. Dual-core 1.2GHz, formidable GPU (either 8 core GeForce ULP or ARM Mali-400 MP GT-i9100), gig o’ ram, 4.27” Super AMOLED Plus, 2mp front, 8mp rear,1080p recording, MHL/HDMI at 1080, HSPA+/HSUPA, Gingerbread and packs 1650mAh in the tank. Sounds like this monster is thick and heavy as a mother, right? Negative [...]

On 4/24/2011 3:43 PM, Doug Simmons wrote: Murani, you butt snorkeler, your Focus’s specs are on par with my Nexus but you’ve got the WP magic. So what exactly can it do that mine can’t? Chris Leiter: Netflix? Sent from my iPad 2 Doug Simmons: Okay fair enough, Netflix, and by the way Chris, nice [...]

On 4/22/2011 9:07 PM, Jimski wrote: Interesting that the 3,000 registered users of this app represent 77 different countries/regions. Pretty amazing based on the small sample size that probably works out to 0.1% of total WP7 users. Doug Simmons: First of all Gramps without looking at anything 3m sounds a bit steep to me, even [...]

Off to a bad start today. Spilled coffee everywhere, drenched my new keyboard. But it gets worse: On today’s quarantine report of my primary email account, the one I intend to use for the rest of my life, a friggin’ ecard. Great. Opened it up through Google’s Postini so as not to trip any remote [...]