Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid
Most of us don’t know who Martin Cooper is, he was the first person to make a call on a handheld cell phone prototype in 1973 and he is named on the patent “radio telephone system” filed that same year. Android now has some strong endorsers in the inventor of Linux and now the inventor of cellphones. Cooper did a piece on C-SPAN last week where he talked about spectrum and the politics of the industry. He also discussed the possibility that cellphones can cause cancer. The most interesting part of the interview came around the 30 minute mark where he stated: “Depends when you ask me. I always have the latest cell phone, and I try every cell phone out, only because people like you keep asking me. Right now I’m using the Droid, because I want to get some experience with the Android operating system, and I, so far, have some favorable results.” Click here to view the embedded video. [via androidcentral ]
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casca news: Call for Papers/Performances: Popular Culture and …
Call for Papers/Performances: Popular Culture and World Politics III Conference, 04-05 November 2010, York University, Toronto. Please submit by 02 April 2010. The York Centre for International and Security Studies and York University ...
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Popular Culture and World Politics (PCWP III): Call for Papers …
Colleagues at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Canada have announced a call for papers for the third annual Popular Culture and World Politics Conference (PCWP). Previous events have been hosted by ...
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Is Google a Thief?
The cellular network was built around voice - under 10K streams of voice. The problem is that VoIP uses anywhere from 30K to 100K packets. Each voice call on VoIP G.729 will use up 3x what a cell call would. That's one of the worries ...
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Pak cell phone service affected by Indian bandwidth interference …
Lahore, Feb 18: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has reportedly complained that bandwidth interference from Indian territories is affecting the service of some cellular companies here. ... Opinion (31), Photos (57), Politics (3417), Society (602), Videos (7), World News (1083), Education (345), Entertainment (2734), Cinema (2558), Life Style / Fashion (175), Environment (885), Health / Medicine (812), Religion (195), Science / Technology (1246), Sports (2379) ...
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All Saints- Bootie Call | What Is Wrong With The World Today
90's Girlgroup all Saints singing Bootie Call Just to avoid any more arguements Bootie Call means To call someone to.
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The 5 Most Interesting Things About Google’s ReMail Acquisition
Email startup ReMail announced this afternoon that it's been acquired by Google and there's a pretty interesting story behind this cool technology that could inspire future developments in Gmail. The news was announced by ReMail CEO Gabor Cselle on his blog today (we learned about it first via CenterNetworks ). Gabor was a former Gmail intern and was YCombinator funded. There are even more interesting elements to this story than that, though. Sponsor ReMail the app has already been discontinued from the iTunes App Store, but here are some ways it could impact Gmail in the future anyway. Cselle will now become a product manager on Gmail. The core feature of ReMail was full-text search of all the emails in your Gmail or other online inbox, even when you were offline. That wasn't the only cool thing about ReMail, though. The Reboxed application that sorts your contacts by priority was really interesting. It was like a little game that scrolled through your contacts, displayed two at a time and asked you to prioritize one over the other. Your individual ratings and the aggregate ratings of particular email contacts across all ReBoxed users were then used to bring emails from high-priority senders to the top of your inbox. It was a really fun little feature. While many data-centric startups would have just picked up email prioritization based on implicit behavior (whose emails you open and reply to) there was something to be said for allowing explicit rankings in a game-like setting. Whose emails are more important to you, your boss's or your mom's? That Google just bought something that's all about one of the iPhone's core functions, email, is interesting. Sure, the app is shuttered now, but imagine if Apple had decided to buy ReMail instead. If Cselle was working on the iPhone's native email application, that would have been better for Apple than this may turn out to be if he helps make Android's email the best in the mobile world. ReMail's founder was previously a VP of Engineering at the very ambitious Outlook plug-in provider Xobni . He left Xobni and ended up creating something very different. Cselle says he had a "multi-step plan for global email domination" but received advice "that instead I should build something small, simple, and useful." The end result? "It worked," he says. The man that gave him that advice and invested in his company, was Paul Buchheit , the creator of Gmail. Finally, Google just acquired a native mobile app, built on another platform. Much has been made of Google's emphasis on moving everything to HTML5 and the mobile web. But here's evidence that you can build an innovative application in an entirely different direction and still capture the company's eye. (Admittedly it probably helps to be super connected like Cselle was.) Discuss
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Quiz: What percentage of the world's cell-phone accounts are in …
By the start of 2009, 3 billion of the world's 4 billion cell -phone subscriptions were in developing countries, up from one-fourth of the world's total in 2000, the Economist reported in September. Connecting the poor has major benefits ...
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Dear World: get right: Movie Trailerz: Bad Lieutenant: Port of …
Dear World : get right. When liking stuff thats cool gets really real. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Movie Trailerz: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. New film with the legendary director/writer Werner Herzog. ...
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call me annie (: – Writer's Block: World's best snack!
call me annie (: Previous Entry · Next Entry · Recent Entries · Archive · Friends' Entries · User Info · Memories · Almost Loved. Writer's Block: World's best snack! The Girl. [info] annxpress. aka. call me annie (: Facebook (: Calendar ...
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