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Verizon Droid Sales Conjure Images of iPhone Release

Droid sales attract cell phone geeks
Stores opened at midnight. People lined up in the streets, awaiting Verizon Droid sales. When did people become cell phone geeks? I think it started with the iPhone, which was the first mobile communication device in recorded history to cause people to behave this way.
Now, [...]

Bye bye BlackBerry?

Price Wars! Verizon Droid Eris vs. Motorla Droid

Verizon Droid Eris a cheaper Droid
Everyone has heard of the Motorola Droid, set for retail release tomorrow. We’ve all seen the commercial publicizing Droid’s quest to one-up the iPhone. However, today it has gotten out that another Droid, the Verizon Droid Eris, will also be available, and for half the [...]

More smartphones on the way. (Verizon Droid Eris not pictured.)

Honda Skydeck Concept | Futuristic or Blast from the Past?

Back to the future, anyone?
People who have seen the Honda Skydeck concept minivan, which was unveiled the at the Tokyo Motor Show, call it “futuristic.” The front doors are scissor doors. You know, like the ones on the DeLorean, so that’s what I thought of immediately when I saw photos [...]

Honda Building in Great Britain. Image from Geograph.org.

Microsoft Layoffs Finished Ahead of Schedule!

Microsoft layoffs go the extra mile
Microsoft confirmed that it’s laying off 800 more employees today. Along with that announcement come a couple of fun facts: not only are they ahead of their June 2010 deadline, they are ahead on numbers of people they planned to lay off!
So I guess laying [...]

Microsoft research building in Redmond, Wash. Image from Flickr.

Droid Phones Revealed | Are They Multiplying?

Information on Droid phones released
Controversial commercials that take shots at the iPhone have caused the release of Verizon and Motorola’s Droid phones to be a much-anticipated event. Today, the companies have finally released pictures, prices and the official retail date for Droid phones.
Word on the street is that the Droid [...]

Motorola building image from Flickr.

Little Buddy Child Tracker – An Easy Way to Stalk Your Children

For the Love of Our Children
Most parents are willing to go through extremes to protect and closely monitor their children. It’s perfectly understandable. As a parent myself, I want to ensure my child’s safety, no matter how deep or how far I have to go to do it, even if [...]

Good Investment: Little Buddy Child Tracker

Little Buddy keeps kids on the radar
The most recent child abduction case to go national was the sad story of Somer Thompson, a 7-year-old Florida girl who was missing for days before detectives found her body in a landfill. No doubt this case will convince many parents that the Little [...]

Little Buddy Child Tracker can send alerts to smartphones if children arent where they are supposed to be. Image from Flickr.

Vevo Jobs Up for Grabs, but Not For Long

Everyone’s looking for Vevo jobs
Google has long been on the short list of high-earning companies who still continue to reap huge profits during the recession. So it’s no surprise that whenever Google is involved in a new venture, many people get the same idea: “I want to work for them!”
Google’s [...]

Looking to make a little more of this? Join the club.

VerizonWireless.com/Storm Has the Goods for BlackBerry

New downloads at Verizonwireless.com/storm
Verizon products have gotten a lot of attention lately, as the controversial Droid commercials directly target the iPhone. Now, people are paying attention to the new BlackBerry model, the Storm2. You can purchase the phone at verizonwireless.com/storm starting Wednesday and download the latest enhancements for all versions [...]

Soon BlackBerry users will have another option. Image from Flickr.

SpoofCard: Good for Privacy, Bad for Hacking

Is SpoofCard as harmless as it seems?
SpoofCard is, put simply, a service that allows you to change the phone number that shows up on someone else’s phone when you call. It sells its services under the slogan “Be who you want to be,” and advertises itself as a tool to [...]

Hacking into others' phones? Yep, unfortunately, there's an app for that. Image from Flickr.

Barnes and Noble Nook Competes with Kindle

E-book reader market expands
We all saw it coming. Well, at least people who are even mildly interested in e-book readers saw it coming. The Barnes and Noble Nook has entered the scene as the next big contender in the market for devices used to electronically read books.
A few other companies [...]

How much longer will these be around? Image from Flickr.

Droid Release Date Announced | Marketing Strategy Worked

Droid release date Oct. 30
Though the commercials for the Verizon Motorola Droid were stark and simple — just black text on a white background — they have created a lot of hype. Since the Droid commercials started airing, everyone has been waiting to find out the Droid release date, and [...]

Another contender is about to enter the war of the smartphones. Image from Wikimedia.

Apple Earnings Buck Recession Trends with 46 Percent Rise

Apple earnings up — way up
While most companies are still striving to pull themselves out of recession slumps, Apple is back and better than ever. The company posted sales of more than  $10 billion for the past three months. That puts Apple earnings somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.7 billion [...]

Image from Wikimedia.

Do ‘iDroid’ Searches Show Droid Commercial Backfire?

Consumers seeking ‘iDroid’
Verizon has made no bones about it: The Droid is its answer to the iPhone, and the company is doing everything it can to point out the superiority of its product, most notably in the Droid commercial that recently came out.
However, this Droid commercial has created a strange [...]

How long will we have to wait for the Droid?

Will Cell Phones Replace Credit Cards?

Cell phones and credit
In many countries outside the U.S., cell phones have replaced credit cards. In Japan and Finland, for example, travelers rarely carry cash, checks or credit cards, but rather swipe their phones or send text messages to pay for train rides.
In the U.S., the cell phone hasn’t yet [...]

Will Cell Phones Replace Credit Cards?

Spokane Website Design – Adworkz – Performance Marketing – SEO

Website Design, SEO, Advertising, and Marketing in Spokane WA

The “Pay Only For Real Customers” Network
New Spokane Washington company enters Spokane market for website design, internet marketing, lead generation, search engine optimization and video production services (see location: Spokane Website Design).
Adworkz is primarily an affiliate advertising network that connects advertisers through [...]

Brammo Enertia Electric Motorcycle – At Best Buy?

I Wonder How Much the Maintenance Plan Costs…
If I had $12,000 to spare, I’d jump at the chance to buy a Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle. Sure, I’d need quick loans to help pay (will Best Buy finance autos and accept down payments?), but considering that there’s a Best Buy only [...]

Here's the Brammo Enertia. But will it be street legal? (Photo: theelectricbliss.wordpress.com)

Affiliated Computer Services Sells to Xerox Corp.

Xerox makes largest-ever purchase
Xerox has seen a decline in demand for its services, and now it has decided to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion and shift the focus of its business.
Xerox will pay $18.60 a share in cash and 4.935 Xerox shares for each Affiliated Computer Services [...]

Xerox products have gotten smaller, but its business is getting bigger. Image from Flikr.

iPhone MMS | Free Service Finally Launches Today

Much anticipated multimedia messaging service
After AT&T delayed the launch of the iPhone multimedia messaging service (iPhone MMS) multiple times, the new, free feature will finally be available on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. If you have an iPhone 2G or iPhone 1G, the wait is not over for you. There’s [...]

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