Superlatives and Hyperbole are common in any discussion of the mobile explosion. Smartphones are rapidly replacing ordinary cell phones as the default communications device on wireless networks. Mobile phone numbers are rapidly replacing old-fashioned landline phone numbers for consumers. In fact, during the keynote presentation at the...
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, the company’s latest attempt to crack the smartphone market, had a troubled start. Microsoft’s first update for Windows Phone 7 was essentially an update that would allow the real update to run, strange, isn’t it?
The First Update Disaster
That initial update has led to user complaints that their various...
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Gil Scott-Heron once wrote a song called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” More than 40 years later, it may not matter if a revolution is televised or not so long as it is tweeted; and now you can tweet from anywhere.
Smartphone Organizational Skills
In 2009, when Iranians were protesting in the wake of the elections that year,...
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Mobile phones and mobile apps are more popular than ever before and the mobile application market is set to explode in 2011. Well, at least that is what market analysts expect to happen, anyway, and judging by trends in 2010, the analysts are more than likely right.
The Evolution of the Mobile Phone
As phones advance, so do the applications...
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I’m playing a new game. It’s called Buying Darkfall Online. It’s a new MMO by Aventurine wherein the player pits his or her skill against the company’s billing software. To the victor go the spoils, and should the player manage to overcome the least scalable credit card billing system known to the Internet then it’s time to play Darkfall! Maybe. Urhi, one of the few strong enough to purchase the game says this of the game...
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It’s almost nightfall, and the shadows are running long between the tree line and the ridge that’s holding back one of the larger Goblin encampments near town. I find a deeper shadow to rest in, one that falls between a fine node of iron that I need, and a tree that blocks enemy view in the direction of Mirendil and Nagast. Groups of Alfar and Mirdain having been coming in from the South in short bursts for the last two hours. The...
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