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Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on May 11 at 4:00 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 24, 2011 at 7:37 am PT
New York-based CityPockets is expanding into one of the biggest trends in daily deals by acquiring DealBurner, which sends a text message to users when a deal is located nearby.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 18, 2011 at 8:50 am PT
The wireless carrier is doing away with its bundled plans, forcing new customers to either pay $20 a month for unlimited texting or a hefty 20 cents per message. Current customers, however, can keep their bundled plans.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on August 2, 2011 at 9:03 pm PT
Katie tests a new service, called GroupMe, which enables group messaging on any phone that can text — regardless of who makes it or what operating system it runs.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 24, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Among the more than 500 new features in the Mango release of Windows Phone are several aimed at making Microsoft smartphones into social butterflies.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm PT
Not only were people flocking to Twitter and Facebook to gab about the marriage of that prince and the English woman, but they were also sending a lot of text messages.
Mobilized has just one message, and it applies to anything happening at 2 a.m., and it is this: Do Not Disturb.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 21, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Here’s another variation on the idea that we will one day get offers sent to us on our phones when we are in the vicinity of a retail store. This time it’s from Visa. And, this time, it requires no application download and very little user engagement.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 2, 2011 at 5:15 am PT
The four major Internet companies in Egypt have turned their connections back on, and its traffic is returning to normal. Though it’s clear that’s not yet true of Egypt itself.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 11, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
According to a a new report, China is the biggest spot for the mobile Internet, with 73 percent of Chinese youths age 15 to 24 citing mobile Internet usage as among the things they used their cell phones for in the past month. That compares to less than half of American and British young people and less than a quarter of those in the rest of Europe.
Meanwhile, young women in most countries were more likely than males to send text or picture messages, although the opposite was true in India, China and Brazil.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 14, 2010 at 2:57 pm PT
Google Voice now supports iOS devices without cell service. Released today,
the updated version of the app supports the iPad and iPod touch, but only to a point. While it allows iPad and iPod touch owners to send and receive text messages or check voicemail from their Google Voice accounts, it won’t allow them to make VoIP calls. That said, it can be used to initiate calls on true phones associated with a Google Voice account, if you ever feel compelled to add another step to the phone call process.
