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Shorthand Mobile Offers Data On Feature Phones Via SMS

By ⋅ August 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Back in the early summer somewhere near the beggining of June I was in San Diego for the Uplinq conference put on by Qualcomm.  I was introduced to Craig Braun and thought the company he works for Shorthand Mobile has something very interesting going on.  They are brining data usage to people that may not [...]

Phone.com Gets An Android App

By ⋅ June 10, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

I have been a heavy user of phone minutes on and off for many years now.  At my peak I believe once I hit 5,000 minutes in one month.  That may not be a lot for some but boy was it a lot for me.  Anyways I have always been very cautious about giving out [...]

Why isn’t there IM in Google Maps Rant

By ⋅ December 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Warning, I’m about to RANT: I’m a huge fan of Google Maps.  It’s really a great stand alone app and it keeps getting better but I’m amazed that when they added Latitude they did not include (even just a basic form of) instant messaging with your Latitude friends. Latitude shows you were your friends are [...]

US Consumers Text more then Talk

By ⋅ April 7, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

I was recently reading a Nielsen report and it has some very interesting facts that really make me ask my self when will the mobile telcos figure out what young people want and offer them plans that reflect their needs. Did you know that the average US consumer now uses their mobile phone fore texting [...]

Google Voice should hire Spinvox for message transcription

By ⋅ March 30, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

I have been using GrandCentral for years and when they announced Google Voice I was elated.  I could not wait for the new features including my absolute favorites being SMS and voice mail being transcribed to text and emailed and texted to you. Well the SMS is great but the voice transcription is dreadful.  I [...]

Fantastic news from GrandCentral who is now Google Voice

By ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I have been a user of GrandCentral for a few years now and I’ve always been happy with the service.  It has always been adequate for me to use as my business number but it has always lacked a few features.  Well As of 2 days ago GrandCentral has been transformed and renamed Google Voice. [...]

NeuStar adds presence into your handsets contact list

By ⋅ March 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

My good friend Cian over at GoMo News wrote about NeuStar during Mobile World Congress and I’m just reading about it now.  I’m really excited because of what they are doing.  NeuStar is incorporating presence into the Telecom Italia (TIM) service.  In your handsets phone book they will show you how your contact wants to [...]

Why does everybody have a QWERTY keyboard phone now?

By ⋅ March 2, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Suddenly it seems like everywhere I turn everyone has a phone with a QWERTY keyboard.  I am curious why that is.  Is it the new statuesque?  Does this mean everyone is writing emails on their phone?  Or are people just texting with their QWERTY handsets? I have asked a few people and one or two [...]

Life without the Nokia E71

By ⋅ January 22, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

I want to thank Nokia and WOM World for  so graciously loaning me a Nokia E71 to review.  Now that they have it back (it’s been a few months now, I’m slow to publish sometimes) I am left without a work horse, everyday device.  I have been using a Nokia N78 but there are vast [...]

Hey GrandCentral where’s the SMS forwarding?

By ⋅ October 10, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Wow, it’ been a while that I’ve been using GrandCentral (one number to rule them all, by forwarding your calls to upto 5 US #rs at once) and I have always been quite happy with their service.  In the last few months though I have been getting perturbed that they don’t forward SMS/text messages to [...]

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