Apr 20
Amazing story on Talibs twitter about tracking down his stolen laptop from a Melbourne Australia dressing room, below a screen grab to some of the best tweets when he gets his computer back beats dealing with the cops!! Catch it all here http://twitter.com/realtalibkweli
The douche to the left is the guy who will forever be the clown who tried to steal Talibs Labtop.
Feb 19
TelTech Systems is offering mobile telephone users the power to unmask callers who block their numbers or names from being displayed. caller-id
The US-based firm launched a TrapCall service this month with an online posting thanking its development team and declaring “Get ready for the site to go ballistic.”
To use the service, people register mobile telephone numbers at a TrapCall.com website without having to download software to devices.
Calls from unidentified sources can then be bounced to TelTech computers, which reveal points of origin.
Mobile telephone users can then decide whether to accept the calls.
“All the while the caller hears a normal ring tone, oblivious to the fact that you know exactly who they are,” TrapCall maintains at its website.
A basic version of TrapCall is available for free. Premium versions of the service can record mobile telephone calls, transcribe voice messages into text messages, and reveal names and addresses of callers along with their telephone numbers.
Premium versions are available for monthly fees of 10 dollars or 25 dollars.
TelTech has for several years provided a controversial “SpoofCard” service that puts bogus identification information on calls and enables callers to alter the sounds of their voices.
“You have the ability to change your voice to a male or female,” the company says at its SpoofCard website.
“If you do choose to change your voice, the person whom you call will hear your transformed voice in real-time.”
Via streetknowledge
Feb 18
Via streetknowledge
Facebook’s efforts to build a business model around its online social network have hit another roadblock, as a backlash by its users forced the company to reverse a new policy.
The dispute involves changes that Facebook had made to its terms of service agreement. Some critics said the changes appeared to give the company a perpetual right to content that users post on the network.
People Against the new Terms of Service, a Facebook group created to oppose the changes, counted more than 88,000 users on Wednesday.
The about-face by Facebook underscores the sensitivity that many consumers have about their personal data, even on sites where they freely share information about their lives with online friends.
And it reflects the challenges facing Facebook as it seeks to squeeze money out of its network of 175 million users and to offset the costs of its rapid growth.
Facebook is quickly burning through its initial funding, said Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. Among other things, the social network needs to pay for the computers and equipment that host its online service around the world.
Feb 12
So Microworks decided to alleviate the technological mess that all of our devices can sometimes create for us. Try adding some nature to your room with this phone charger that’s a vine.
Feb 11
Armed robotic aircraft soar in the skies above Pakistan, hurling death
down on America’s enemies in the war on terrorism. Soon — years, not
decades, from now — American armed robots will patrol on the ground as
well, fundamentally transforming the face of battle. Conventional war,
even genocide, may be abolished by a robotic American Peace.
The detachment with which the United States can inflict death upon our enemies is surely one reason why U.S. military
involvement around the world has expanded over the past two decades.
The excellence of American military technology makes it possible for
U.S. forces to inflict vast damage upon the enemy while suffering
comparatively modest harm in return.
Feb 5
How About These Apples?!?!
“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design Conference, a confrence known for technology barrons, politicians, and Hollywood actors.
“I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
Gates waited a minute before letting everyone know that the mosquitoes were harmless.
Definitely a great display of what kind of fear the average African goes through on a day to day basis. Keep it gully Billy-G.
Feb 3
Watch out for this man talk about getting caught out there!!!
Though it looks like a standard mobile phone-and operates like one as well-the Q-Phone includes software that, once activated, allows you to listen in on any conversation held on it-or around it.
Here’s how it works.
The listening software on the Q-Phone is activated via two short text messages sent from your phone. When activated, the Q-Phone picks up-but without a ring and without a change on the display.
Utilizing built-in microphones, the Q-Phone can pick up pretty much any sound within the general vicinity.
Jan 28
FAIL
AOL isn’t exactly the best place for news but I’m sure they pay someone 10x more money than I make to pick out pictures for their main page articles. If you’re working on a Macbook Pro, I don’t think you should really be worried about the virus’ that await inside this article.
Jan 26
Buggy Smartphones Are the New Black
As the Blackberry Storm takes off like flight 1549 straight into the Hudson, RIM co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie calls jacked up phones the “new reality” and assumes we should just get used to it instead of humbly explaining the problems and setting up an easy solution to the customers problems. This is what I call the “Microsoft Fuck You”, we’ll help you with your problems but we’re not going to tell you when, why, or if it’s going to be better in the future.
With the Blackberry storm, it seems as though RIM should have just stuck to their guns with a phone that has buttons. You hear the argument every single day, iPhone vs Blackberry, Apps vs Business, Internet vs Copy-and-Paste. Obviously people want one or the other, and froth at the mouth at the mere mention of the other being better, so why put everything in one screwed up piece of tech that you have to return every week? Either way, I’m sure that most people just want a phone that “works”.
Jan 26
“Object Remix,” is the work of this designer dude Bob Turek. His work is said to challenge our perceptions, our expectations in fact, of an object’s traditional purpose. Um, yeah…I’d say he nailed that one. Here, Turek builds a stereo amplifier within the body of a fiberglass female mannequin, creating what he describes as a “radically new user interface.”
Jan 11
Cobra Electronics unveiled this Cobra XRS 9960G radar and laser detector in Las Vegas this week. The cool gadget detect red light cameras and speed cameras.
The Chicago company does this by maintaining a database of intersections known to have red-light cameras and stretches of road with speeding cameras. The database currently has more than 5,000 intersections, speed camera locations and popular speed traps. But it’s being updated twice a day by Cobra employees who are tasked with finding and verifying new locations by calling various cities, police departments and local businesses near major intersections. Due out in the spring, the detectors are priced from $389 to $439, depending on the model.
http://www.techotic.com/
Jan 9
via cnn
Cell phones and TVs converging with the Internet? That’s so 2008. The next big tech trend may be the marriage of computer technology to your car or truck.
This spring, Ford will offer a dashboard computing system on its full-size pickups and E-series vans.
This month, Hyundai is launching a system that warns motorists when they drift out of the lane they’re traveling in. Another manufacturer has developed pedestrian-detection software that works with heat-seeking cameras to alert drivers when someone is in their path.
In March, Ford will release a fully functional, dashboard computer — complete with keyboard — geared to contractors and other business folks who want to access the Web, review documents and log inventory while on the go. In the spring, AT&T will launch an in-car entertainment service with 22 satellite TV channels.
Industry executives hope the new technological bells and whistles will put some sizzle back into stagnant vehicle sales.
“Consumers want a vehicle that’s always on and always connected,” said Kieran O’Sullivan, vice president at Continental Automotive Systems, which supplies parts and technology to automakers. In the near future, he said, “consumers and carmakers will be able to customize the [dashboard] instrument panel to their individual tastes the same way that people customize their mobile phones.”
Jan 4
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
Jan 4
Will Apple approve the greatest application ever to come out for the iPhone? iBoobs, an app that allows you to wobble some beautiful breasts just by moving it, supposedly has been rejected by Apple on the grounds of “objectionable content”.
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Nov 29
We figured that instead of making you comb the internets trying to hunt down the latest information on the BlackBerry Storm, we’d compile a nice recap of sorts. Some of it is new exclusive information, and some of it is just other things that have been floating around. Let’s get into it…
Nov 26
Wow talk about your high tech gangsta shit! Italian police discovered a .22 caliber cellphone gun during a raid on a Camorra (Naples Mafia) compound.
Fully loaded, the gun’s capable of firing four shots in quick succession through the antenna using buttons on the keypad as the trigger. Officers also seized bullet proof vests, drugs, ammunition and thousands of pounds in cash.
Nov 23
1. Google Mobile
Google Mobile is an all-in-one package combining Google’s excellent mobile apps (Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Sync) with links to Google’s mobile-optimized web services (search, Picasa, Reader, Docs, Google Notebook, etc.).
Nov 22
