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phones
Google Voice Is Cool, But Do You Need It?
You've read about the features, you saw the invites going out, but you might be wondering what, exactly, Google Voice could do for you. Here's our guide for the curious and uninvited on whether your phones need some Google juice. [Lifehacker]
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By Kevin PurdyComment by jackster: Yes you need Google Voice. Why give out your 'Real' phone number, when you can give out a phone number... 8 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Love in the Age of SMS
Things were simpler when the only medium for asking someone out was the telephone. Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have complicated romance, if not ruined it, the Washington Post reports. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by serpentinefire: I don't know if this is related, but facebook (along with deeply embedded emotional and abandonment issues) makes it really... 12 Responses | Other threads
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marketing
Playboy's Seductive, Convoluted Cell Phone Thing
What would you do for some free cell phone porn? Stand on one foot? Lick the pavement? Ha, Playboy is willing to work with you on this! Now, what would you do if it wasn't exactly porn, but a reality show webisode thing? You'd participate in a convoluted cell phone-based marketing scheme, wouldn't you. There's babes involved! More »
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Comment by Hydroceph: Really? This is the best Playboy can do? In this internet age, does anyone old enough and solvent enough to... 4 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Google CEO pulled over for driving with a cell phone
No man is above the law — not even multibillionaire Google CEO Eric Schmidt. At least that's what we hear from a well-placed tipster, who says Schmidt recently confessed to having been pulled over by the cops last month in Los Angeles for talking on his cell phone while driving. (California law recently changed to require the use of a headset.) Oh, but it gets worse for Schmidt. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MissVolare: Don't dial & drive: like the CHP needs more crap laws, besides "driving while minority," to enforce. I've started asking... 6 Responses | Other threads
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radio
BBC Host Says: Death To The Rude
Ah England, home to both world-class soccer hooliganism and a world-class reputation for stuffiness. What we're implying is that any outwardly polite Brit is, at any given moment, seething with murderous rage. Well! It seems that a BBC radio interview this morning took a turn for the wacky when the interviewee's cell phone went off, live on air! Which caused the host, John Humphrys, to threaten to take the man out back and shoot him dead. Funny Brits! Click to listen to the tape. Gunshot not included.
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Comment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: England's soccer hooliganism has really fallen off in recent years, Hamilton. They're not the world hooligan power they once were. Today's... 3 Responses | Other threads
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health
Is your face itchy? Put down your cell phone
Doctors — or dermatologists, are those doctors too? — in London have made a connection between people with unexplained face and ear rashes and cell-phone usage. They're calling it "mobile phone dermatitis," an allergic reaction caused by prolonged exposure to the phones' nickel-metal surfaces. Suggested remedy? Buy a Bluetooth headset, or just stop talking so much. [Yahoo/Reuters]
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Comment by MariettaLolzordyius: Its called "Nickel Itch". People who work in plating shops who work with nickel plating baths get it all the... more » | Other threads
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marketing
Your Cell Phone Can Now Snitch On You To Faceless Corporations
Although companies can measure how many TV commercials, radio commercials, and internet ads you're exposed to, it's just not enough. What about snatches of radio ads overheard through the windows of passing cars—do they affect your shampoo-buying habits? When you were at the gym and walked briskly past a television showing a "Synecdoche, New York" preview—did you write any Philip Seymour Hoffman fan fiction in the following six months? These details are important. Luckily one firm has figured out how to make your cell phone snitch on you to the marketing Matrix: More »
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Comment by Unfun: Will it hear me crying myself to sleep every night? Will it care? 6 Responses | Other threads
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badvertising
Infuriating Ad Just Makes You Hate Cell Phone Yakkers More
When you see some random guy walking down a crowded street talking on his cell phone, lost in his own world, you probably think to yourself: there is a man I would like to smash right in the face. If a cell phone company were to find some way to successfully incorporate that feeling into its marketing plan, it would be genius. Instead, US Cellular goes and makes what is, by critical consensus, the most asinine cell phone ad of the year. That's because its premise is that that same man walking along yakking obliviously into his cell would actually make the entire world around him happy. Which just makes you want to smash him even more: More » -
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hoaxes
Cellphone Popcorn Videos Were Viral Ads For Bluetooth Headset
The videos of cell phones popping popcorn, obviously fake (because Science!), were viral ads by the makers of a Bluetooth headset. Pretty evil, since they preyed on unfounded fears of technology instead of, say, the California law that went into action today banning cell use while driving.
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By Nick DouglasComment by KillBuzzington: @Bell County: Isn't it exciting? more » | Other threads
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hoax
Who's Trying To Convince Everyone That Cell Phones Pop Popcorn?
A new handful of YouTube videos supposedly show cell phones popping popcorn. The method: Surround kernels with a few cell phones and call the phones. When they ring, the kernels pop. The videos have gotten a couple million combined views, and they've seemingly convinced many commenters to fear phones, despite the several obvious signs that they're fake. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by GroovyBrent: Wired has the answer (possibly) and it turns out to be pretty clever! [blog.wired.com] more » | Other threads
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trendwatch
Cell Phones Are Turning Our Youth Into Whores!
WARNING: The Associated Press would like to call your attention to the fact that your teenage son, daughter, friend, or relative is, right this very moment, in all likelihood, engaging in an explicit sex act that they are planning to distribute to the world via cell phone. It's true! In a fact-based story titled "Teen Dating '08: Nude Pix On Cell Phones," the news service urges you to "Forget about passing notes in study hall." Why? Because "some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves." Nooooooo! Don't you kids know that dirty cops will be looking at those picture in no time? More » -
herogram
Quiet Down Or Face The Wrath Of John Clifford
Here is a prime candidate for immediate cloning: John Clifford, a 6'4, quick-tempered former police officer and a lawyer whose greatest pleasure in life seems to be riding the Long Island Rail Road and aggressively screaming at jerks who are talking too loud on their cell phones. Clifford was just found not guilty of charges stemming from his latest enforcement action, when he cussed out an obnoxious cell phone user he described as "a 19-year-old nitwit waking up one girlfriend after another." But this isn't even close to being the first time he's had to regulate on some yapping nitwits on the train: More »
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Comment by Yoshimi: My only objection to mass transit behavior is people who eat on the train. I mean like chicken wings, or... more » | Other threads
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just asking
Why Don't Celebs Just Use The Iphone Passcode Lock?
Apparently every cab in New York will eventually be home to a celebrity iPhone; just a week after the NY Daily News reported on the guy who copied Annie Leibovitz's assistant's contact list after he found it in a cab, a Facebook user says he found the iPhone of Richard Cohen, the NYC real estate developer who recently divorced newscaster Paula Zahn, in a cab. The celeb contact list is below, so you can argue whether the list (which includes Kissinger, Kerry, and Deniro) trumps Leibovitz's. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Nick Douglas: @katieee: Right! A homeless man who lost his iPhone in a cab. more » | Other threads
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trendsquatting
Porn Is Coming To Phones! Again! For Serious This Time!
Actually no. Reuters' story today, "Porn to spice up cell phones," is just a rehash of a trend story that was never fulfilled, despite plenty of publicists planting the story to promote clients' phone-porn ventures. Take, for instance, the 2004 Cox News story, "Can you see me now? Porn coming to U.S. cell phones," a result of Playboy expanding into mobile phones. Of course Playboy was late, as there was already a story about the struggling phone-porn industry in 1992, when cell phones were actually larger than a naked woman. Click through for the full-size screencap from the Lexis Nexis archives &mdash and the real reason Reuters ran this story. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by DorothyMantooth: @fiveinchtaint: I just bought the first five seasons on DVD. It's TOTALLY as good as you remember, my dilznoofus!Gazziza! more » | Other threads
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perverted injustice
Teens With Phones: The Next Big Thing For Child Porn
Kiddie porn! Twelve-year-olds photographed against their will by mustachioed 40-year-old perverts and passed around to other perverts! Except it's also photos of high schoolers, taken by high schoolers, and passed around to other high schoolers, like the photos and video of two girls (one showing her breasts, the other having sex with a boy) that spread throughout an Allentown, PA high school for six weeks before the cops started to investigate. Students say everyone at the 3200-student Parkland High School got a copy, usually on their cell phones. So did students at another high school and at Temple and Harvard. So who goes to jail when underage teens possess underage teen porn? More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ext212: Speaking of phone sex: + Watch video more » | Other threads
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confessions
11 Confessions of a T-Mobile Sales Rep
T-Mobile doesn't want to be left out of the fun! One of their sales reps has generously and selflessly written down his innermost thoughts and sent them to the Consumerist for your personal edification. Bask in the glory of Confessions of a T-Mobile Sales Rep... [Consumerist]
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By Meg MarcoComment by tmobcsr: @weave & superbmtsub - You can file one unlock request per 90 days. However, you must wait 14 days... 1 Responses | Other threads
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cell phones
Cell-Phone Transmitted STD Hits City Schools
Well, okay, we made that up. But we couldn't help but think that something nasty is going to start going around NYC public schools after we read the following in the Daily News:From paying to stash cell phones at delis to burying them "where the sun don't shine," students across the city are going to new heights to skirt the unpopular ban backed by Mayor Bloomberg.
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cell phones
Hey you, yakking on the phone! Get a booth!
Does anyone have Cell Phone Plague (known to historians as "the Yak Death") worse than Silicon Valley? (Okay, probably Seoul, but the Koreans will always beat us.) The VCs and sales guys chatting it up on the street — as well as the ad kids calling Mom — should take a hint when "portable phone booth" art projects start popping up. More »
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