Marti M

GIS C++!>$ And if you can translate that, you've been around as long as CompuServe. IT is now just a hobby, and shares my time with cross-stitch and knitting. High-tech, low-tech, and everything in between. I keep these guys in line and roll my eyes at Simmons. Come on, ladies, celebrate your love of technology! "Tech should be black. Colors are for cases."

Sammy gets tactile with TecTiles™

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Samsung has introduced TecTiles™, programable NFC (near field communication) tags that, which touched by a (Android) device with NFC hardware built in to it, and Samsung’s free app installed, will trigger an “event.”  The Tiles themselves sell for $14.99 for 5, and can be found on Samsung’s site, and (supposedly) inside carrier retail stores.  You … Read more

Microsoft develops for … android?

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Well, sure, why not?  That’s what tech people do, right: play in the sandbox before publishing to a more polished product? MS’ Israeli Information Platform and Experiences (IPE) team is MS’ mobile signal collection and location services specialty team.  They have developed on{X} (pronounced “on-ex”) for Android phones.  on{X} is a reminder program that you … Read more

iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak out

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My disclaimer: I’m not an Apple products user, but since we’re lacking in iPhone writers I felt I needed to pass this on. If you’re an Apple enthusiast JOIN US! Lifehacker.com reports that GreenPoison has released Absinthe 2.0, its jailbreak app for iPhones and iPads running iOS 5.1.1. Head over to their website to invalidate … Read more

Get glƏƏk! FREE!

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If version 1.8, rolling out today, is in your region, and for whatever reason (financial, your country’s Marketplace restrictions) you can’t throw the developer the purchase price, you can unlock the full functionality of glƏƏk! for free with a special hashtag (numbers of unlocks may be limited). The developer, Liquid Daffodil, is celebrating 500,000 downloads … Read more

Mobile sales figures (as percentage) according to Kantar Worldpanel

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Kantar Worldpanel (a market research firm) has put out mobile operating system sales as a percentage of the whole for the 12 weeks ending March 15, 2012.  In the US, we see Android keeping its top position, but barely, falling from 54.2 to 47.6.  iOS jumped from 30.1. to 42.9.  Win7 almost doubled its share … Read more

WP7 app awards

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wp7applist.com (“We currently serve an average of 20.000 page views daily, to more than 5.000 unique users per day.”) is a website that seeks to “provide the most convenient ways to browse and search the Zune Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 apps, and notify users of changes such as app updates, new releases, and price … Read more

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble kiss and make up

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Microsoft (MS) and Barnes & Noble (B&N) have been involved in a patent dispute for the last year.  MS went after B&N (and others) , saying publicly unspecified patents of theirs were being infringed upon by the Android operating system.  Everyone seems to have paid up, with B&N being the last holdout.  Well, it seems … Read more

Crunchyroll is now available for Windows Phone 7

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Crunchyroll.com is a streaming video service that licenses and airs Japanese anime (that’s cartoons to you Westerners. Just not ONLY for kids, ‘kay?) and Japanese drama shows.  It has a membership structure – non-members (with commercials), anime members, drama members, and all-access members.  Non-members have to wait 1 week for new shows to become available; … Read more