Tag Archives: cell phones

First Ad For The New iPhone

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She’s Got A New Hat!

Here’s a live-stream of today’s iPhone announcement. UPDATE: The live-stream has concluded. Details about the new $99 phone are here.

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Microsoft Buys Nokia For $7.2B

Microsoft has purchased Finland-based Nokia’s cell phone business in a $7.2B deal that the New York Times is calling an “audacious effort” to capture the mobile market that has “largely passed it by.” Late Monday, Microsoft and Nokia said 32,000 Nokia employees would join Microsoft as a result of the all-cash deal, which is meant to turn the Finnish mobile …

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Samsung Launches Mega-Phone

Samsung’s ginormous Galaxy Mega phone, dubbed a “phablet” by tech sites, is going on sale here next week. The 6.3-inch phablet will be available via AT&T, Sprint, and US Cellular in Nova Black or Polaris White, Samsung announced today. AT&T said it will start selling the Mega on Aug. 23 for $149.99 with a two-year contract or $24 per month …

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New App Delivers LGBT History

Via press release: A new mobile app called Quist is now available worldwide to engage the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community in their shared history and help isolated LGBT youth feel less alone. “Presenting LGBTQ history through this interactive medium is one of the most engaging ways these stories have been shared with the world,” says the …

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New App – iPtown

Just in time for Bear Week comes a new app from the Provincetown Tourism Office. Located on the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown, MA, has been on the leading edge ever since America was launched with the signing of the Mayflower Compact, and the town is now unveiling a smartphone app as unique as its one-of-a-kind reputation. For instance, it …

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Jay-Z Forces RIAA Change

Last week it was announced that Samsung had purchased one million digital copies of Jay-Z’s coming album, which will be given away free when they launch a new cell phone app. Jay-Z then tweeted his millions of followers with a demand that the RIAA grant him a platinum album even though technically no one has bought it. Yesterday the RIAA …

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Apple Bans “Ex-Gay” App

Responding in part to a petition by All Out, Apple has banned an “ex-gay” app from the iPhone. Pink News reports: A Christian app has been banned by Apple for claiming to help users ‘cure’ themselves of homosexuality, it remains available for download by Google Android users. The app called Setting Captives Free claims: “Despite what you may have heard …

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NEW YORK CITY: Theater Critic Tosses Cell Phone Of Audience Member

Two days ago libertarian author and National Review theater critic Kevin D. Williamson was slapped by an audience member sitting next to him after he grabbed her cell phone and threw it towards the exit. He was then ejected by theater management. The incident has since spawned discussions on numerous sites, but not everybody is defending his action. Today Williamson …

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New “Buycott” App Launched

A new app has been launched which will tell shoppers if the product being considered was made by a Koch Brothers corporation or if its makers have opposed labeling requirements. “When you use Buycott to scan a product, it will look up the product, determine what brand it belongs to, and figure out what company owns that brand (and who …

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WASHINGTON: Man Accused Of Gay Rape After Growlr App Crime Spree

A Washington state man has been arrested and charged with rape after victimizing several gay men he met on the Growlr dating app. Accused in a gunpoint rape, Leverne Lee Maxwell is currently jailed on seven felony charges related to the purported crime spree. The most serious allegations center on the April 7 sexual assault, which Maxwell is alleged to …

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Cell Service Expands On NYC Subway

You’ll be able to use your cell phone in another 30 Manhattan subway stations beginning today.  Probably. Anyone using subway stations between 18th Street and 96th Street on the Manhattan’s West Side should be able to go online or have a conversation on their AT&T, T-Mobile or Transit Wireless phones. It is unclear when other networks, including Verizon Wireless, will …

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Parents Of Driver Killed While Texting Publish His Interrupted Final Message

Copyranter is calling this “more powerful than the usual violent, bloody images created by big fancy ad agencies.” The police report says Heit, a Northern Colorado student, drifted into oncoming traffic, jerked the steering wheel and went off the road, rolling his car. Witnesses told police that Heit appeared to have his head down when he began drifting into the …

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Facebook Launches Phone Takeover App

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Headline Of The Day

Well? Have you? Source.

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Another Violent Mugging In The Castro

The Castro continues to be plagued by a string of violent muggings, many of which involve the theft of personal electronics. Castro Biscuit reports on the latest: Around 9PM, Dalton Huckaby, popular personal trainer and 2013 Bare Chest Calendar participant, was on his way home from work walking down 17th Street near Noe St speaking to a friend on his …

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For Grindr Emergencies

At a Wilton Manors gay club last night I noticed this machine, which for $2 will charge your cell phone a whopping “25% faster than a wall charger.”  I’m betting we’ll start seeing these in airports and train stations right away. Unless they’re already out there and I just haven’t seen one.

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New App: Bang Your Facebook Friends

Dan Savage call this “another attempt at Grindr for straights.” By definition the guys a woman meets through Bang With Friends aren’t strangers. These are guys that the women on the site know. (In theory at least—some people are Facebook friends with strangers.) And while a woman can certainly be victimized, infected, sexually assaulted, or knocked up by a guy …

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The Predicktor

Oh brother.

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NYPD Gives Finger To NYCLU

I recently wrote about the smartphone app that allows users to record interactions with the NYPD and send the video directly to the NYCLU.  The app launches officially today and the NYCLU has posted the below response from two New York City cops.

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