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YouGetItBack updated to include location.

September 30, 2008

There are several interesting startups solving the problem of cell phone loss. Both YouGetItBack, launched last June, and Maverick Mobile, launched at DEMO, back up your data, and let you lock down your mobile in the event of loss pointing out that with smart phones the most costly loss to the user is likely not [...]

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Tungle closes $5M, led by Commonwealth Capital

September 30, 2008

Some congratulations are clearly in order for the Tungle team. Right ahead of the market meltdown they’ve secured $5 million in additional financing led by Massachusetts Commonwealth Capital Partners. In addition, Tungle has released an update to their application in order to make it much more web based. Gone is the clunky desktop application for [...]

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Bell to interfere with GPS?

September 24, 2008

Speculation is running rampant that Bell plans to interfere with GPS on BlackBerry mobile phone devices in the near future. The rapidy spreading rumour says that in the coming weeks Bell will cause users of free GPS mapping applications (Google maps, or BlackBerry maps, for example) to experience GPS lock times of 2 to 10 [...]

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Email chain letter hits Facebook.

September 24, 2008

Yesterday Paul Brent from the local CTV affiliate dropped by my office to tape an interview with me about identity theft, privacy and online safety. My view is that these are really two subjects — one is managing your own image online (don’t put drunken pictures of yourself online if you’re worried a future employer [...]

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HelloTXT Hictu!

September 24, 2008

My pal Luca Filigheddu scored a victory for his Hictu! microblogging service yesterday. Popular cross-posting service HelloTXT is now including Hictu. HelloTXT lets you update all of your social networks from a single site. Video posting from within HelloTXT is apparently mere weeks away as well. Now, what I’d really like is a service that [...]

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MOBIVOX|PL, the Mobivox developer play.

September 24, 2008

You may recall the August 7th announcement that JAJAH and Mobivox had teamed up to provide a voice driven JAJAH service called JAJAH concierge. Today Mobivox announces their business model for allowing any company to deploy similar services on the Mobivox platform. Called MOBIVOX|PL, it’s a voice activated mobile services platform that lets users literally [...]

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A Hypnotist on the Loose?

September 17, 2008

Nokia launches their Nokia Legends campaign today. A quirky mix of urban legend film vignettes told by veteran character actor and author Ron McClarty, it consists of a series of oddball stories with a distinctly Twilight Zone feel about them in a clever interactive site designed to look like a newspaper. The stories cleverly mix [...]

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Head to Head: Chrome vs IE 8

September 2, 2008

Chrome fails to live up to the hype.

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Three reasons why Google Chrome isn’t a challenge to Microsoft’s OS business

September 2, 2008

stop with the hyperbole, already. Google Chrome will no doubt be a great browser. It’s not the second coming of Jesus Christ, and it’s definitely not a challenge to Microsoft’s operating system business.

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Rogers taxes Blackberry business users; shafts partner RIM

September 1, 2008

Rogers much publicized cuts in data rates earlier this summer apply unevenly to consumer and business customers. Users of the Blackberry Enterprise Server pay up to 20x more per megabyte than iPhone users.

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