What’s the first thing you do when you buy a new cell phone, laptop, or other electronic gadget? Well after the newness wears off, you’re probably like me and look for accessories to protect and enhance your new gadgets. This is especially true with Apple products such as Macbooks and iPhones. Speck Products is a…
Yelp.com is a popular website that I have advocated for on this site and countless times to my friends, family, and other online contacts. The idea of Yelp.com is simple: it’s an online site where anyone can leave a review on any business or address. For example, are you looking for a Chinese restaurant in…
Frequent travelers know that using your mobile handset can be expensive when you’re traveling abroad. For example, take you’re AT&T handset over to Europe, and you may pay $1-2 per minutes for even local calls and high rates for data as well. To combat these high calling prices, some travelers carry an unlocked GSM handsets…
I’m in a Starbucks in Salem, Oregon with the latest Boingo/Starbucks broadband speedtest. Not bad…I’m definitely the only one in this SB using the Wi-Fi, so these speeds aren’t indicative of a network being over used.
To celebrate Oregon’s 150th anniversary of Statehood, Oregon State University (my fine alma matter!) has joined the a Flickr project dubbed “The Commons”. In doing so, OSU is the first university to take part in the project. The contributed OSU images show the Civilian Conservation Corps show what life was like in Oregon’s earliest history…
Skype, the darling of PC-based Internet telephony, announced news today that will extend the company’s reach beyond the personal computer. At Mobile Wold Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Skype announced a partnership with mobile handset maker Nokia whereby Skype software will be pre-loaded onto some NSeries phones starting in the third quarter of 2009. The upcoming…
Truphone, the internet telephony application for mobiles, has added AOL Instant Messenger to the list of IM systems it can interact with. Now, in addition to Google Talk, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo, you can chat with your AIM buddies while on Truphone on an iPod Touch or iPhone. I have written about the…
Check out this sweet rap that features some of our favorite social media tools. Flickr, Firefox, Facebook…they’re all mentioned 🙂 One interesting note – my buddy Alec Saunders of Calliflower, gets a sweet include.
After a I interviewed Truphone’s CTO and he teased about the possibility of Truphone running a telephone app on the iPod Touch and the company announced the application’s pending released, I have finally been able to trial the service and can now post a review. First Impressions: Upon visiting the App Store and looking for…
I want to start a new weekly feature here on Techcraver.com. I’m constantly being asked questions about mobile phones, cell phone networks, and the state of the cell phone industry. So, in reply, I’m going to start a weekly question and answer feature that will probably take place on Wednesdays. Please send me questions…to get…