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November 17th, 2006

Getting a New Gmail Account

I’ve been using Gmail now for so long I’ve never had the need to setup another e-mail account with them. Well that need changed this morning and I went to do just that. I was presented with the following prompt:

I understand that Gmail now has mobile functionality and that’s a great feature, but why would […]

By Jason -- 133 comments

November 16th, 2006

It’s Actually Going to Happen - the iPhone

Apple places an order for 12 million units from a Taiwanese manufacturer. I’m not sure what the normal phone order is, but that doesn’t sound like much to me for something that Apple is going to be releasing. However, there could be something said for a little inflated supply and demand to make a product […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

September 3rd, 2006

Yahoo Go

Yahoo! has finally released what seems to be a full-featured mobile application for its users, Yahoo! Go. I haven’t downloaded and installed the application yet on my Sprint PPC-6700, but will be doing so later this afternoon and get the full scoop on how everything works.
Pocket PC Addict had the scoop and let’s us know […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

August 1st, 2006

YouTube Meets Mainstream Media

CNN.com has a new feature enabled on their website that allows users to submit their own eye-witness news stories, videos or photos, called “I-Reports” on the CCN exchange
I like the name actually, it definitely fits, but I think maybe “I-Witness-Reports” would have worked too, but now that I type it and see it in black-and-white, […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

April 8th, 2006

Cingular Does Music

Did you know that for 99 cents, Cingular will be happy to identify that song on the radio that you know but can’t think of? Cingular’s MusicID works like this:

When you hear a song, just dial #43.
Hold your Cingular phone up to the speaker for about 15 seconds, then end the call.
You’ll soon receive […]

By Aaron -- 0 comments

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