Entries tagged with: Mobile Phones

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Danger, Danger!

Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile to millions of Sidekick users: Whoops. Short version: Microsoft (who now owns Danger, the makers of the Sidekick) decided to migrate data from one storage network to another. That migration failed, and corrupted the data. Okay, annoying, so restore...

Posted on October 12, 2009 2:24 PM

New Fast Company: Awareness is Everything

I'm a bit late in noting this, but last week's Fast Company article is indeed available. "Awareness is Everything" looks at what happens as we keep adding sensory awareness to our personal devices. Imagine a desktop with a camera that...

Posted on September 9, 2009 8:46 PM

This May Not Be the Droid You're Looking For

So, through a series of unlikely events, I have a T-Mobile G1 "Google phone" on my desk right now. It arrived yesterday; beyond the jump are my 24-hours-later observations. (More pictures can be found here.) Short version: it's not even...

Posted on October 23, 2008 1:56 PM

Tuesday Topsight, December 18, 2007

Hey there, folks out there in Internet-land -- do you find these "topsight" posts useful or interesting? I sometimes puzzle over whether the various individual entries would be better off as individual short posts, rather than as a catch-all post....

Posted on December 18, 2007 3:30 PM

Thursday Topsight, October 11, 2007

I have too many windows open to pages that I really would like to post extensive commentary on if I can just get around to it. • Virtual Ownership: Herman Miller makes the Aeron chair, and (quite appropriately) doesn't like...

Posted on October 11, 2007 7:11 PM

Monday Topsight, May 7, 2007

Busy week coming up: working a panel on the future of sustainability tomorrow; delivering a talk to the TAKEAWAY festival of DIY media, in London (I'll be presenting remotely); lots of IFTF stuff; and prepping for a return to London...

Posted on May 7, 2007 12:38 PM

Co-opting the Participatory Panopticon?

Is it still "sousveillance" -- watching from below -- if it's going straight to The Man? The city of New York, in a rather clever move, has decided to equip its 911 (emergency) and 311 (non-emergency) call centers with the...

Posted on January 18, 2007 3:44 PM

Beauty and the Beast

Damn, that iPhone is pretty. I am primarily a Mac user, so I follow the annual announcements at Macworld fairly closely. This year, most folks expected Steve Jobs to unveil a phone, so when he announced it, few people were...

Posted on January 11, 2007 6:00 PM

Monday Topsight, June 19, 2006

• Turning Greenhouse Gases into Greenhouse Glass: One of my mantras when I was writing at WorldChanging was that "we can't assume that all the tools we'll have for fighting global problems have already been invented." Today brings another example...

Posted on June 19, 2006 5:19 PM

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