Sharon Cuppett joins Todd and Esby to the TPN Live CES coverage. They talk about zBoost – a Signal booster for cell phones. The YX540 is designed to boost in an apartment or condo. Therefore, antenna separation is not as needed. Any device that works in the 800-1900 MHz range can use this device. The YX540 is $299 […]
When I got my T-Mobile Dash a couple of years ago, I toyed with getting an anti-virus program for it. After doing some research, I discarded the notion; although smartphone proof-of-concept viruses existed, there was no indication that there was anything in the wild for Windows or any other phone operating system. That is no […]
Jeffrey was wondering about the battery life of Android and Nexus phones as compared to iPhones. I can’t compare anything to an iPhone, but I can report on my Android after about six weeks of use. The battery life specs, according to the User Manual (PDF here), are Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery: Capacity: 1150 mAh Talk […]
MarketWatch reports that, according to Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas, Android and iPhone handsets will be the next target for hackers. Kapersky is a leading manufacturer of anti-virus software. (Full disclosure: I have used Kapersky products for years and found them reliable. I have Kapersky on this Linux box even as I type.) Interestingly, […]
A G1. I’ve spent the last couple of days messing with it. Santa did good. I like it and figured others, who may have seen one but not actually messed with one, might like to know a little more about it. This model has both a hardware keyboard and a touch screen with a software […]
In his most recent Geekazine podcast, Jeffrey expressed some concerns about open source software on cellphones. I do not share those concerns. The issue is not open source; the issue is the Linux/Unix security model, which underlies the open source cell phone operating systems (“*nix” is sometimes used to refer to Linux and Unix to […]
MarketWatch reports that shopping by cellphone seems to have come into its own this weekend: Black Friday saw tremendous use of mobile phones by consumers to zero in on and make purchases, industry data reviewed by Dow Jones show. From a very small base last year, mobile online payments through PayPal surged nearly 650%, said […]
Odds are, you don’t really know. Researchers conducted a study involving giving persons cellphones containing spyware (they weren’t spying–the users knowingly participated in the study). The BBC report is here). They found that persons’ perceptions of what they themselves do diverge wildly from they actually do. A snippet:
Dumbness is the cause of too much texting. It never fails. When something new comes along and catches the attention of the Younger Generation ™, armchair shrinks appear with papers and telly vision interviews (before that, it was Marconi’s Magic Box; before that, Chatauquas; before that, drums) claiming that “It (whatever it is) is ruining […]