This afternoon it’s hitting the web that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, held a meeting this morning and announced to all Apple employees that everyone who has been working there for at least a year would receive a free 8GB iPhone. Other internet rumors are suggesting even Apple store employees are getting in on the…
Press release. I swear, some people just don’t get it. Verizon and T-Mobile are about to have their worlds rocked by a cell phone that’s actually easy to use. Press Release: Verizon Wireless Stores Open All Day June 29 for Customers to Test Network, Buy Music Devices Verizon Wireless Stores Open All Day June 29…
Apple and Cingular came out with a press release early this morning with the iPhone data plan prices. All I can say is WOW that’s cheap! Briefly, here’s the breakdown. $60/month for 450 minutes, unlimited data, 200 text messages $80/month for 80 minutes, all the rest as above. $100/month for 135o minutes, all the rest…
37signals, a fantastic web based software company, took a huge leap forward today in allowing OpenID as a sign-on option for two of their products, Basecamp and Highrise. For those of you who don’t know what OpenID is check out my previous coverage and this page on OpenID. The basic idea is that it is…
This is huge (and great) news! According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Google has acquired Grandcentral, a service I’ve discussed many times before. This would be a big development in the VoIP world, in my opinion. Grandcentral has a great offering and it will complement Google’s other efforts including gmail, gtalk, and VoIP very well….
I seriously don’t understand this. According to this article in the Boston Globe, Cingular (now AT&T, again) is going to charge an early termination fee of $175 if you cancel your service agreement before the 2 years are up. Um WHAT?! See in the United States, we pay nearly nothing for most cell phones. This…
In this blog post, Grandcentral talks about how they have added ways to call out and have your Grandcentral number show up as the originating CallerID. This is a feature I’m very excited about, but I don’t like their methods so far which include: 1) calling out by clicking a button, which requires being signed…
On Saturday, Sean, Leo, and I conquered 40 miles of the Historic Columbia River Highway. It was an awesome bike ride that was more strenuous than Reach The Beach. The hills were steeper and we were biking into a 35 mile an hour west wind. That was brutal! Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR. We had a…
Well I had so much fun doing the Reach the Beach ride that I’m doing another long ride this weekend! While we were at the Reach the Beach, my wife saw a flier for the Gorge Ride. This weekend’s ride is a 40 mile trek from The Dalles to Hood River and back on the…
Flickr has added 7 new languages to their site including French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese, with other languages to follow. On another note – Zooomr just launched Mark III, their new user interface loaded with 250 new features. It’s no secret that Zooomr has a very excited and fanatic user community.Â…