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Pope Knocked Down at Mass [YOUTUBE VIDEO]
What are the hottest topics on Twitter, YouTube and social media sites this Christmas Eve? While “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” are trending high, a full 0.83% of Tweets at 5pm ET tonight mentioned the word “Pope”.Pope Benedict was...
 
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BrowserLinux: Simple OS for web browsing, not much else
Google may think that the most important application for any operating system is a web browser. But while Google’s approach is to build an entire OS around the browser, others have taken a simpler approach. BrowserLinux, for instance, is basically a...
Texting more dangerous than talking while driving
An American study has found that there is considerably more dangerous texting than talking on the cell phone in traffic. The survey conducted by the University of Utah has analyzed how 40 young people behave in traffic when using a mobile phone.The...
 
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Nokia N86: Best Camera Phone EVAR!!1!
How's this for a vote of confidence? The 8-megapixel camera on Nokia' N86 is so good that I never once reached for a standalone camera on my recent trip around the world.
OMG! UBUNTU!: Photobucket "no longer supporting Linux"
Photobucket – once the darling of the online image hosting world – informed a frustrated Mint user that their service no longer supports Linux.
 
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A Christmas gift for Nokia fans: The N86 across Asia!
Here’s one final souvenir from last month’s trip around the world — three once-in-a-lifetime photo opps as...
 
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China Unicom disses the iPhone, orders more Windows Mobile, Symbian phones
China Unicom topped the 2 million subscriber mark this month and based upon its recent handset procurement, those wild and crazy China Unicom customers love Symbian and BREW, enjoy Windows Mobile, and, though they are buying the China Unicom-exclusive...
Your N900 Christmas Eve reading
A couple of very lengthy Nokia N900 articles from around the Interwebs for your Christmas Eve reading. Matt Miller, the 'USA's Nokia expert', has put up a nine page, detailed review of the N900 which makes for excellent reading. And Jay Montano has...
isoHunt Loses US Lawsuit Against Movie Studios
In September 2006, just months after the infamous Pirate Bay raid, the US movie studios turned their attention to isoHunt and other associated websites. Columbia, Disney, Tristar, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros issued a complaint,...
 
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Shibuya Crossing, as seen on my N86
 
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Re: N97 Contest Winners
If anyone's interested, my "official" response is here -- on Qik, of course!
 
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Meet my next Nokia!
One question everybody kept asking me about the N97 24/Tour I went on last summer was:“Are they gonna let you keep the...
 
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iPhone’s single-task operating system renders it a poor man’s Nokia
This afternoon it was snowing in Chiswick. That is unusual because it’s so near the city of London which seems to give off a load of heat meaning that whilst everyone else in the area is deluged in snow at the moment, we’ve had a bit of rain. Only...
Number portability arrives at WIND
WIND has been busy over the past few days and it seems after rushing to get everything in order… things are slowly coming together. They have announced that it’s now possible for customers on other carriers (except TELUS for a couple days) to bring...
What can Symbian learn from Sony?
It's been a rough year for the Symbian ecosystem, and an especially rough year for their partners. Samsung and Sony Ericsson have taken their portion of the punishment, but the lion's share belongs, for good or ill, to Nokia. The ecosystem strikes me...
 
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Does unlimited even matter anymore?
Unless you’re a cab driver or a realestate agent, is unlimited voice still what it used to be? Thanks to the wonders of technology, we find the vast majority of usage on a mobile phone is shifting from “phoning anyone” to SMS, IM, Web, Twitter,...
 
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Re: Does unlimited even matter anymore?
Nokia blogger Ricky Cadden (aka The Symbian Guru) has an excellent blog post on the subject:http://www.rickycadden.com/2009/03/voice-calls-...It looks like voice calls are becoming an artifact of the 20th century. I'm entirely ok with that.
Re: N97 Contest Winners
Qik is awesome, now even more so B-)
 
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@msjen I checked yesterday and didn't see it. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
Who needs eBay? Cheap crystal cases for your mobile phone are all over #PacificMallToronto -- here are the best deals: http://bit.ly/5aDk4Q
 
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Where to get cheap crystal cases at Toronto’s Pacific Mall.
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time you’ll know that I’m a big, big fan of the cheap...
 
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From iPhone to N97 mini? An opinion from the other side!
As an experiment, I lent my Nokia N97 mini to All About iPhone's Matt Radford, to see what he thought of the device and its interface, coming from a staunch iPhone background. Embedded below is my ten minute catch-up interview with him, for your...
 
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@Not_Al Ah. I'm not following that campaign at all.
@Not_Al Chatrium Suites. Why do you ask -- did @msjen *finally* publish my comment on your last LA Tuttle vid? ; )
@bdogg64 But fragmentation has actually made it better, hasn't it? P.S. I left a comment on that post: http://bit.ly/81fGbA
 
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Linux on the desktop: it’s so good it’s boring
celettu.wordpress: I believe that at this point there no use anymore in asking the question “Is Linux ready for the desktop?”. It is, and it works so well it’s boring.Advertisement: read more
 
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@Ew4n But it's true! It's not a slight against Ranger Rover, just Canadian (Toronto) Range Rover drivers. Come on over and I'll show you...
@bdogg64 What do you think of this? To me it seems like a bit of B.S. - #Ubuntu is fragmented but is the most popular #Linux out there...