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  • New Zealand law poised to ban GPS, e-mail, etc. on in-car cellphones

    New Zealand law poised to ban GPS, e-mail, etc. on in-car cellphones

    Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
    A well-meaning law, yes, but one that just misses the mark. I refer to, of course (as if you have any idea what I'm talking about), the Road User Amendment Rule 2009 in New Zealand. It would make it illegal to use a cellphone as a navigation device while inside a car.

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  • Sweet, merciful Alan Thicke! The iPhone Bug will attack today!

    Sweet, merciful Alan Thicke! The iPhone Bug will attack today!

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Put your iPhone in a lead box and step away from it, people. Someone is going to send you a text message with a square in it and then destroy your life a la that one movie with Will Smith in it when he goes into that warehouse and there's some dude in there inside a Faraday cage and he asks "Can they really do that?" or some permutation thereof and the guy in the cage says "Yes they can" or whatever and then they take over his bank account and Will Smith has to run around and solve like a mystery or something and it turns out it was the GOVERNMENT. Seriously!

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  • iPhone 4.0 could quite possibly not have “life event”-based notifications

    iPhone 4.0 could quite possibly not have “life event”-based notifications

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Welcome to the world of the future! In the future your iPhone will be able to tell you where you are and then adapt to those locations, turning things on and off (ringer, etc.), changing wallpaper (from Megan Fox to cute kittens in church), and from earth to space when you go on an intergalactic trip to free the citizens of Mars from the evil Cohaagen. Perhaps you ringtone could change to this? Basically this is a patent for something folks have been thinking about for years - targeted messaging based on time and location. Advertisers would love this but I doubt many of us want to be reminded by our iPhone to turn off our Shout The Devil ringtone while talking to the Dalai Lama.

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  • Who knew? MagicJack is flying off the shelves

    Who knew? MagicJack is flying off the shelves

    Posted on June 28, 2009 | No Comments
    More proof (see: the Perfect Pushup and the Snuggie.) that having a quirky, on-all-the-time commercial is a step in the right direction toward Big Success. MagicJack is selling something at the rate of 9,000 to 10,000 units per day, making its parent company, YMax Communications, some $100 million this year alone. But, in this age of Skype, who's buying this thing?

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  • Finally, a way to simultaneously mount all your favorite gadgets in the car

    Finally, a way to simultaneously mount all your favorite gadgets in the car

    Posted on June 19, 2009 | No Comments
    triplePerhaps your daily commute is so boring that you need three gadgets to keep you entertained on your way to work. Funny, though, that not even the manufacturer of this triple gadget mount could find a third gadget to include in the photo. I might suggest a digital camera in the third slot so you can take photos of yourself while you're weaving in and out of traffic.

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