Follow TechBlips on Twitter
textually.org Latest Blog Posts |
Add as Favorite
Claim Blog 
|
Click on the "vote it up" button to submit a story below to our homepage.
If you're the owner of textually.org, claim your blog to unlock additional tools and reports.
For the first time, an app is part of Bono's (RED) Project , a business model created to raise awareness and money for investments in African AIDS programs.
Teaming up with the world's most iconic brands , Shazam has launched a special charity edition app for iPhone.
When you buy ...
iPhone
Shazam
Five new restroom ambassadors will soon be tweeting from Charmin toilets opened last week at Times Square after beating hundreds of hopefuls for the coveted jobs. Reuters reports.
They won a contest that included aspiring actors, students and even a businessman hoping to greet and chat with ...
Online
As organizations look for more effective and cost efficient ways to reach customers during this year's holiday season, many of Clickatell 's customers are taking advantage of mobile marketing for immediate reach, reduced campaign costs, higher customer satisfaction, increased ...
Other
Apple iPhone Ad - Did You See My Email? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo .
Apple iPhone Ad - What Time's The Movie? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo .
Spotted on Business Week , two new iPhone ads launched last night, touting the iPhone's ability to hold a simultaneous voice and data ...
iPhone
iPhone
textually.org - 9 hours ago
—
textually.org —
According to The Copenhagen Post Online , four
public restrooms in Copenhagen have been fitted with technology
that enables customers to pay with their cell phones, by text message. The new SMS service provides a more flexible alternative for the ...
(more)
SMS opens public restroom doors in Copenhagen
Comments
vote down
Newlaunches.com
found this 9 hours agofound this
Alternative rockers Cake , debuted their second ringtone of the recently recorded song titled Federal Funding this week. Glide Magazine reports.
The group is currently in the midst of recording their sixth studio album and sharing the results with their listeners first, via a series of ...
Mobile
Ringtone
A Université de Montréal researcher has a special request for Canadian texters: "Everyone young and old, students and workers, artists and business people, no matter who you are, send me your text messages," says Patrick Drouin, a linguistics professor at the Université de Montréal who is ...
Other
textually.org - 27 hours ago
—
textually.org —
In an interview with Business Week , Apple's
CEO, Phil Schiller, talked about the app store's approval
process and revealed that 10,000 applications are submtted per week. [via InfoSyncWorld ]
(more)
10,000 iPhone apps submitted every week
According to InformationWeek , State authorities are testing a plan that would see the Emergency Management Office issue alerts over online gaming networks in addition to regular channels.
The goal, said New York State Deputy CIO Rico Singleton, is to reach younger residents who spend more ...
Gaming
Wii
Microsoft
Sony
Nintendo
The elimination of the iPhone's exclusivity to Orange in France has resulted in "more than double" the sales of the device and dealt a blow to the Blackberry.
[via Electronista ]
iPhone
BlackBerry
iPhone
mocoNews.net reports that the new Samsung Omnia II will include Swype's input method that they are calling Genius Texting.
Blockquote> The technology developed by Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the ...
Hardware
Samsung
Spotted on Ubergizmo , a Textminator , a coin-operated arcade that lets you put your texting skills to the test.
Other
Not related to cell phones, but wild if true. According to TechRadar, Apple is apparently refusing to repair computers that show signs of cigarette smoke.
According to reports from Mac owners seeking repairs under warranty, the company claimed evidence of cigarette smoke inside the machines ...
Hardware
Apple
Mac
Mobile devices are the preferred tools by social network site (SNS) users over PCs in at least four Asian countries, according to a recent IDC survey reports PC World .
The report, titled " Examining Usage, Perceptions, and Monetization: The Coming of Age for Social Network Sites in ...
Hardware
PC
The Iranian news website Tabnak and several bloggers are reporting that authorities are sending text messages to citizens warning them not to take part in antigovernment protests. Spero News reports.
According to Tabnak , the SMS warns recipients that they have been identified as ...
Other
KKTV has a news segment on spyware that allows you to listen in on cell phone calls. They don't name the company, but in their video you get a glimpse of a web page of a company called Flexispy which offers this kind of eavesdropping as "a way to catch a cheating spouse or keep tabs on ...
Other
People with an eating disorder may not want to attend a support group or meet with therapists, but a new report raises the prospect that "remote therapies" via e-mail, text messaging or through Web sites could help them recover. US News reports.
Related:
-- Nagging text messages help you ...
Other
Another way cell phones are being used in the developing world, by providing family planning information. allAfrica.com reports.
Other
Hang on to your handset ... smartphones are a goldmine of information for thieves, writes The Sydney Morning Herald .
... While many mobile-phone SIM cards might contain contacts and texts deleted from years ago, experts agree that it is the vastly improved data and storage capacity of the ...
Other
textually.org - 3 days ago
—
textually.org —
Dynamics Controls has integrated an iPhone with its
power wheelchair electronics - enabling power wheelchair users to
enjoy all the benefits of an iPhone or iPod touch. The solution connects a user's iPhone or iPod touch to the wheelchair system ...
(more)
Power wheelchair electronics displayed on iPhones
