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Coming Soon From Sling Media: Watch Cable TV From Your iPhone 
emily via textually.org on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
SlingMedia, the company behind the popular (and very cool) settop boxes that allow you to stream cable from your house to your computer, looks like it has outdone itself.
At this week's Macworld the company wi
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'Wireless power' spells end for cables
emily via textually.org on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Experts believe that 'WiTricity' could do for battery life what WiFi did for internet. The Guardian reports.
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Move Over Kindle - E-Books Hit Cell Phones
emily via textually.org on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
By the time Amazon comes out with an update of its popular Kindle e-book reader, it might be too late. Applications to read e-books already exist for the iPhone -- and the Android platform isn't far behind. Readers say they don't want to have to carry anot
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Text messages and phone calls add psychological aspect to warfare in Gaza
emily via textually.org on Sat, 03 Jan. 2009
Text messages and phone calls add psychological aspect to warfare in Gaza Hamas fires threatening text messages at Israeli mobile phones while Israel bombards Palestinians with menacing phone calls.
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Curse of Silence' Attack Can Disable Texting On Most Nokia Phones
emily via textually.org on Fri, 02 Jan. 2009
Phones using a number of popular versions of the Symbian S60 mobile OS (the Nokia N95, E71 and N76 just to name a few) can be partially disabled by a maliciously coded text.
The attack has been lamely dubbed "The Curse of Silence".
[via Gizmodo]
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The Telegraph and BBC iPhone apps
emily via textually.org on Thu, 01 Jan. 2009
Two of UK's best newsmedia have launched free iPhone aps,
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Israeli Consulate Gives Press Conference Via Twitter
emily via textually.org on Thu, 01 Jan. 2009
People on Twitter participated yesterday afternoon by starting their tweets with "@IsraelConsulate," and officials responded as best they could (in theory) within the 140 character limit. Going through logs of yesterday's "Cit
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iStanford upgrade
emily via textually.org on Thu, 01 Jan. 2009
TIME reports on iStanford, which launched October 1, enabling users to access a campus map and course catalog,
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Thai PM Spams Citizens with SMS
emily via textually.org on Wed, 31 Dec. 2008
According to Tom's Hardware, Newly elected Thai Prime Minister decided to spam the entire nation of Thailand right before the holidays.
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Colleges, offices scrap land lines
emily via textually.org on Wed, 31 Dec. 2008
According to USA Today, the public college is one of a growing number of businesses and organizations across the USA that are shedding traditional land lines and replacing them with cellphones or voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) technology in an effort to save money during tough economic times.
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Texting and tweeting through Obama's swearing in
emily via textually.org on Wed, 31 Dec. 2008
Crowd control at President-elect Barack Obama's January 20 inauguration ceremony will present quite a challenge: On top of the 240,000 ticketed guests who will descend upon the National Mall that day, millions more are expected to join. Ten thous
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Twitter becomes a winner for big marketers
emily via textually.org on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
SMS-based social network Twitter.com is becoming an important part of the marketing mix for companies looking to humanize their brands. "There's something so gratifying about being able to connect in real-time and in a real way," said a spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts.
[TV We
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Average person will soon have two mobile phones
emily via textually.org on Fri, 26 Dec. 2008
According to a new study, the average mobile phone owner now has an average of 1.8 handsets and the figure is expected to rise to two mobiles for every person soon. The Telegraph reports.
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Over 4 Billion Mobile Phones in the World
emily via textually.org on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
GSM focused trade body, 3G Americas says that a historic milestone was achieved for the wireless industry in December 2008 with 4 billion connections to mobile devices worldwide.
[via Cellular News]
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Vatican-approved app for the iPhone
emily via textually.org on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
The Vatican is endorsing new technology that brings the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones. The
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App Developer Strikes E-Book Deals With Major Publishers
emily via textually.org on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Wired reports.
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Social networking boom for mobiles
emily via textually.org on Mon, 22 Dec. 2008
The number of people using their mobile phones to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo and keep in constant touch with their friends has rocketed this year, according to a study by Orange, reports The Guardian.
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Twitter's "Shorty Awards"
emily via textually.org on Tue, 16 Dec. 2008
Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the… Shorty Awards? [via Bits]
The awards, announced last week by the B
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Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting
emily via textually.org on Sun, 14 Dec. 2008
Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you sh
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