Seriously the rumors about this Nokia-Microsoft/WP7 thing are ridiculous. There are no facts and it’s just a question of sheer speculation and ‘what do you think?’ questions with the opinions of a few analysts from 5 person firms thrown in to add to a story line. Remember when Microsoft was going to acquire Adobe? That … Read more
In an effort to look dumber than how Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric looked in this harmless, cute video in which back in 1994 they exposed their lack of Internet acumen on the air, NBC fired the employee who put the clip on Youtube according to Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post and has been … Read more
Couple Gmail updates for you: Now you can create a group, for example Mistresses, and after adding all your ladies into that group, should you wish to address all of them, for example to say “Wife’s gone for the weekend, slumber party at my place, dress accordingly,” just address the email to Mistresses and have … Read more
I’d usually not post on this since it’s not straight mobility (but obviously tied into how you use your phone) but our internal staff emails seem to have enough praise for this that I think it’s a worthy share: Starting today, you can add up to five aliases per year to your Hotmail account, up … Read more
Pretty funny. Real Life Angry Birds – watch more funny videos I’d pay $.99 for this version
In case you want to roll out your own mapping service and think you could save some time and money by copying Google and other mapping services, be careful because in addition to making at least one honest mistake Google lays down what are known as trap streets, streets that don’t exist and in places … Read more
From Yusuf Mehdi, a suit, veteran in marketing and advertising on behalf of the Bing Team in response to Google’s engineer’s allegations of being cheated by Microsoft: “We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop.” Okay good, nice and explicit, succinct, so we can go ahead and stop the tape. … Read more
This weekend, working with Twitter, Google has set up a voicemail transcription, translation and Twitter relaying service to field calls from Egyptians wishing to get a message onto Twitter, handled automatically and tagged with #egypt, people otherwise mostly stranded without means of sending information about this historic protest to the outside world. They’re calling it … Read more
You remember your junior high Latin teacher whom you’d talk trash about but deep down you admired and tried to emulate, even dressing like her in private, and because her office door was unlocked you were able to steal the answers to upcoming tests until one day she got suspicious, planted a test answer sheet … Read more
Because the Egyptians rallied up this Berlin Wall-like massive and protracted protest using Twitter and Facebook relaying information not just between each other but with the rest of the world, the government instructed all ISPs power down their routers (3500 of them) shutting everything except POTS and voice cellular phone service down. That hasn’t been … Read more
Did you just mow a Dark Side of the Moon outline on your lawn and you’re itching to know when one of Google’s satellites will do another flyby to update Google Earth and Maps so you can tell all your friends to look? Or maybe you have a neighbor who’s also in to aerial photography … Read more
