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."

Lumia 900n Needlecraft Phone 10ct Now Available for Pre-Order

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Not to be outdone by Jim Szymanski’s finely-grained craftsmanship, I present to you the Lumia 900n Needlecraft Phone.  It’s currently available in 10ct plastic canvas with bright cotton-candy floss colors (completely customizable in 558 colors!)  it’s even lighter than the Wooden Phone, and you can match it with all of your outfits, purses, and shoes! … Read more

Flud reader available for Windows Phones

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Well, sort of.  According to their Facebook page, they’re asking users to “help us test it”, so you *can* search in the Marketplace for it.  (It doesn’t show up in the auto-find list as you type, but as soon as you hit Enter, it shows up.)  That, unfortunately, answers the reason why there is no … Read more

Yeah, yeah, we’re getting Angry Birds in Space.

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…just … later. So first Rovio says, “No Birds for Windows Phones!”  Then they said, “Oh NVM us – it’s coming.”    Now Nokia is saying “Oh yes it is.” Maybe it will be a Nokia exclusive?  (Which always seems to mean exclusive-for-a-while-just-wait-and-others-will-get-it-later.  I’m patient.) And why does that blue bird in the picture look like … Read more

Getting throttled on an unlimited plan? Sue ‘em.

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You’ve just gained a legal leg to stand on. Judge Russell Nadel awarded Matt Spaccarelli an $850 judgement against AT&T because his iPhone’s data was being throttled even though he was on an unlimited data plan.  Class-action suits are verboten under your contract with AT&T, so you’ll have to take them to small claims court … Read more

Foxconn isn’t that bad after all?

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Oh dear.  It seems that the “This American Life” episode of “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”  wasn’t “journalism” after all – it was “theater” according to the “journalist” Mike Daisey (who calls himself a performance artist). From small fabrications (the number of factories he visited) to larger ones (falsifying what his interpreters relayed … Read more

Sony goes mobile. No, really. Vrooooom.

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Sony and RealVNC announced today that they are teaming up to integrate RealVNC’s remote access technology/software into Sony’s Xperia line.  What does that mean in layman’s terms?  It means that you’ll be able to access your Xperia’s applications (oh, say navigation, traffic, music, internet radio) from your similarly-equipped car’s dashboard.  (Naturally, pursuant to legal regulations … Read more

Mommy Land: Mobile Devices for the preschool set.

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So a few folks had asked me for a female point of view on mobile tech, and I finally obliged with a few, largely opinion, pieces.  Now here’s a point of view from Mommy Land, read on.

After my son was born, it didn’t take long for my mother to start making “battery-operated baby” jokes.  Certainly compared to my own childhood, she’s absolutely right.  My son, at 3, received his first console game – the Vtech Vsmile.  There was some initial frustration at first, but by his 4th birthday not only was he manipulating the joystick with ease, but he was also a master mouse-user thanks to Noggin (now NickJr.) online games.  Now, at 5, he’s quite good at the NickJr games and has even started straying into some of my casual games (which he plays, but doesn’t quite have the reflexes or reading abilities for.  But he really, really, tries).

I’m not quite ready to sink money into a Nintendo or Gameboy, and I certainly am not going to get him an iPod or iPod  Touch for several reasons, but believe me, there are plenty of times when I would love to give him something to occupy himself with.   And Gizmodo has been posting teasers from a Toy Fair.  There are two that really caught my eye.

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