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Apple’s GarageBand, Now on Your iPhone

by on November 1, 2011 in Mobile, News

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Picture this: you are Anthony Kiedis. You are out on the road (hopefully fully clothed (warning: NSFW) ) with Flea when you have a sudden burst of inspiration for an out-of-this-world track. You look around, but Rick Rubin’s studio is nowhere to be found. Do you:

A. Make a run for the nearest studio, while humming the tune over and over in your head

B. Pull out your iPhone and launch the slick new GarageBand app, sit down on the curb, and record a sweet melody right there on the spot.

C. Forget about the whole damn thing and ask Flea to do something crazy.

If you chose option B. you might very well be in luck, since Apple just launched GarageBand on the baby iOS devices – iPhone and iPod Touch – which should send a loud cheer through the millions of Macheads worldwide (who would’ve cheered anyway).

[via 9to5Mac.com]

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CallMyName Raises $6M to Create a ‘World Without Phone Numbers’

by on November 1, 2011 in Mobile, News

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Phone numbers remain a distinctively archaic invention, difficult to remember, cumbersome and perhaps, largely unnecessary given the ubiquity of Facebook. CallMyName, a Nicosia, Cyprus based startup, thinks so as well, and has just raised $6M in funding from Canaan Partners to rid the world of this century old invention.

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Can We All Agree That This is the Best Phone Ever Made?

by on October 22, 2011 in Mobile

Like most tech bloggers, I too have a little cabinet drawer filled with old phones, cameras, and other odds and ends. I call it my gadget graveyard.

Yesterday, after I managed to break my phone (don’t ask how) and wasn’t able to find an immediate replacement, I had little choice but to reach deep into the bowels of this graveyard and unearth what is probably the finest phone ever created. Continue Reading →

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No Greg, SMS Isn’t Dying Anytime Soon

by on October 13, 2011 in Mobile

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Yesterday, TechCrunch mobile editor, Greg Kumparak once again announced the impending death of SMS, largely because of the launch of iMessage.

This is one more example of first world complacency. SMS is expensive as fuck in the US. The carriers are hanging on to it for dear life; it is one of their last milch cows and you can bet they won’t let go of the death grip anytime soon. It is an outdated technology, no doubt about it, but its death has been, perhaps, greatly exaggerated. Continue Reading →

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Whatever Happened to .mobi?

by on October 12, 2011 in Mobile

Back in 2007, I remember being in intense, heated debates on the domain extension, .mobi, over at DNForum.com. In particular, the debate focused on the future of mobile internet and .mobi’s position within the same. The arguments were often carelessly thought out, vengeful, and with little insight or analysis – something I’ve come to expect from the sheltered, inward-looking domain trading world. Investors who had pumped thousands of dollars in the extension were obviously pumping up the hype, painting it as the savior of the mobile internet. Others – and this was the majority – were more pragmatic, adopting either the ‘let’s wait and watch’, or the ‘damn, .mobi sucks’ standpoint. The latter – “mobi sucks!” – became something of a catchphrase at the forum that drove the .mobi supporters into a tizzy. It was only after a series of very ugly arguments that I pulled myself off the debates. Now, four years down the line, I see that the verbal fights haven’t cooled off yet, despite the fact that .mobi has been a massive failure with little adoption outside the domain trading community. Continue Reading →

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