Many of us have so many contacts on our BlackBerry’s we rarely know who’s calling until we pick up and answer. With so many people in the world, names have started to become less unique and more popular. For example, say someone named John calls you. Well you look at your screen and it says [...]
All of us are guilty of acting like a pirate at one point in our life. Perhaps it was after seeing the last big summer blockbuster, or maybe riding on a pirate themed ride, or maybe after dressing up like a pirate for Halloween. But how can we be certain our pirate lingo is accurate? [...]
Have you ever been surfing to a website on your BlackBerry using the default browser and a certificate error pops up? Well if this happens be sure to pay close attention before clicking continue. According to a Research in Motion (RIM) security warning [Click Here] on some BlackBerry Operating Systems (OS) the system allows web [...]
Well if our friend Alejandro Salomon (Salomondrin) is correct, then Research in Motion is working on a touchscreen phone with a real keyboard codename Mr. T. The details are a little light, ok almost nonexistent, but that’s good enough for me. A touchscreen BlackBerry with a full keyboard is my dream phone and I will [...]
How fast does something have to be before it’s almost incomprehensible? That’s the question I asked myself as I read the announcement from Alcetel-Lucent that the scientists at Bell labs had broken the transmission speed record of more than 100 Petabits per second. If you are like me you are asking, “What the heck is [...]
For most of us, we can confidently say our entire life is on our BlackBerrys. Everything from emails, schedules, social networking information, conversations, call logs, and contacts our BlackBerry’s link us to the modern world. So you can imagine how quickly your world comes crashing down when you lose your BlackBerry. Or even worse when [...]
You can’t walk into a high school class room today without spotting a few kids texting under their desks. Cell phones have become as much as a part of a teen’s life as shaky relationships and acne. As a teen myself I will admit you will rarely find me without my phone, I even sleep [...]
Most of us hate the piece of junk car we are forced to drive on a daily basis to and from work. Wouldn’t the one hour commute be a little easier to handle if we were driving the car of our dreams? Well now you can see how it feels to be the driver of [...]
There are few among us who could honestly say they’re not trying to lose weight. We’ve tried hundreds of different diets and books, hired expensive personal trainers, and even tried committing to an intense work out schedule. Yet we can rarely stick to any of them long enough to show results. Well one of the [...]
Remember back in the day when you were in elementary school and you told on someone? The next day you ended up facing his or her best friend and that’s the same childish mentality that is driving the latest move by AT&T to retaliate for the media black eye that Google recently dealt out to [...]
The human mind is like a muscle. Muscles need training to get stronger and so does the brain. And lets be honest, not much of us out there are training our brains. The most action our brains see is probably TV. So what can we do to save our brains from becoming weak and puny [...]
Chris Esparza at the Dallas Examiner made an interesting find. Amosu, maker of luxury phones, has apparently tricked out a BlackBerry Curve 8900 with 18k Gold and adorned it with 4500 diamonds for a total weight of 28.43 carets. According to the article each one takes over 350 hours to make. All of this opulence [...]
Well it might not directly cause you to be suicidal but if you work for France Telecom it could be that trigger that pushes you over the edge. Since the beginning of 2008, 22 workers have committed suicide and 13 have attempted it at the newly privatized French company. These aren’t just people going home [...]
According to a report by the Automobile Club of Southern California the Jan 2009 ban on texting has resulted in a 70% drop in texting while driving. California was the sixth state to enact such a ban. The decline indicates that laws do have the potential to change the behavior of motorists and reduce potentially [...]
Normally I would chalk this up to some nut job getting belligerent with Police and then trying to tape them as they “subdue” him, but in this case the person (Michael O’Brien, 29) who filed the lawsuit is a corrections officer and a member of the Army National Guard. According to O’Brien the incident revolved [...]
