Tag Archives: cell phones

JSpot: The Straight Jewish Grindr

A Brooklyn woman has launched JSpot, a straight version of Grindr for Jews. Interestingly, you can’t join JSpot until the owner determines (via your Facebook page) that you aren’t a “jerk.” Elissa Shevinsky has been combing the streets of Williamsburg, Bushwick, Park Slope, Crown Heights, and other neighborhoods packed with singles under the age of 40, looking for recruits who …

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It’s Bigger On The Inside

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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Text Messages To Contact Lenses

An interesting project via the Telegraph: Ghent University’s centre of microsystems technology has developed a spherical curved LCD display which can be embedded in contact lenses and handle projected images using wireless technology. “Now that we have established the basic technology, we can start working towards real applications, possibly available in only a few years,” said Professor Herbert De Smet. …

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NYC Wants To Reinvent The Pay Phone

There are only 11,000 payphones left scattered across the five boroughs and New York City has launched a contest for their reinvention. We know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent …

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Walmart Customers Riot For Cell Phones

The most predictable video of the year?

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Google Launches New Game

Buzzfeed tries to explain it: Ingress is just a game. A massively multiplayer alternate-reality game, one that that overlaps with the real world — so like you walk to actual places (a museum, or library) with your phone to do things in the game, in which you’re on a team with potentially millions of people competing against a rival, equally massive …

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HRC Files Complaint Over Anti-Gay Texts

The Human Rights Campaign has filed a complaint with the FCC over anti-gay text messages being sent to voters in states where marriage is on the ballot. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Following a series of anti-Obama text messages received on Tuesday night — some of which addressed the president’s record on LGBT issues — HRC, the nation’s largest LGBT …

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Photo Of The Day

There are still 12,000 pay phones in NYC and those without power are lining up. With power knocked out in her Sandy-ravaged neighborhood—rendering her cellphone useless—she got a crash course in the low-tech, low-status devices. She returned to her local pay phone Wednesday with more quarters and better knowledge of the pay-phone locations in her area. “You miraculously get resourceful …

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MTA To Launch Subway Arrivals App

New York City’s MTA has announced that it will launch a smartphone app showing arrival times for some subway lines. “The MTA is very close to being able to provide real-time train arrival data without having to go into the station,” MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg said. “We want everyone to access the countdown clocks on numbered lines just by looking …

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Orthodox Rabbis: iPhones Aren’t Kosher

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Yenta: The Grindr For Jews

What’s your schtick?

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Booming Biz For NYC “Phone Valets”

You might recall early this summer when one of these trucks was robbed of hundreds of phones, causing “panic and wailing” among students.

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Outrage Over Google Hooker App

There’s an app for the Android that works as a Grindr for local hookers and some folks are pissed at Google about it. The issue of sex trafficking of minors is hyped all too frequently by culture warriors and law enforcement to restrain civil rights and hound those engaged in what is a legal and regulated profession in many parts …

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New Sales Record For iPhone 5

Apple reported today that pre-orders for the iPhone 5 have eclipsed all previous records. More than two million units were sold in the first 24 hours. Last year, Apple reported that, overall, the iPhone 4S had sold one million pre-orders in the first 24 hours, a figure that the company said it was “blown away” by at the time. Demand …

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NOM Launches T-Mobile Boycott

(Via Good As You)

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More DNC Minutia

ABOVE: That’s one of the cell phone instant charging stations I mentioned yesterday. Just lay your phone on the pad and it fully charges by induction (or something) in about three minutes (allegedly). The owners of the above phones stepped back for the photo.ABOVE: The massive lighting rig above the stage appears to be counter-weighted by about a dozen very …

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Indiana University Launches Smartphone App To Self-Report Your Sexual Behavior

Via press release: Indiana University has released Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors. The pilot project allows citizen observers around the world to use free applications now available for Apple and Android mobile platforms to not only report on sexual behavior and experiences, but also to share, …

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Follow JMG At The DNC On Twitter

As it will be sometimes difficult to pull out a laptop and make quick updates to the blog, I’ll be posting commentary and photos for DNC events to my Twitter feed. You don’t have to be a Twitter user to monitor my feed. You can also read my tweets and see my photos by adding my Twitter name to your …

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Apple Vs Samsung, Round II

After winning a billion dollar patent infringement judgment against Samsung, Apple has already named the products it wants taken off the market.

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T-Mobile Endorses Marriage

Washington state based mobile phone giant T-Mobile today endorsed marriage equality. HRC has the good news: The Bellevue-based wireless carrier joins REI, Microsoft, Starbucks and a growing list of other employers in supporting the efforts of Washington United for Marriage. “Our support of this issue is a reflection of our culture, how we do business, and our belief in the …

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