Tag Archives: iPhone
Wireless Providers, Set Us Free!
The other day I received an email appeal from Free Press, “a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to reform the media,” to urge the FCC to end unreasonable penalties for switching cell phone providers or cancelling service. Free Press’ mobile phone campaigns … Continue reading
The Next Nintendo? The Rise of Smart Phone Gaming
For years, Nintendo has ruled the mobile gaming world, first with the Game Boy, then with the DS Lite. After an amazing run, though, the torch is being passed. Not to another gaming company, but to smart phone makers Google … Continue reading
Inspired iPhone Storytelling
Using four iPhone apps, CameraBag ($1.99) Melodica ($0.99) Brushes ($4.99) and Banner ($0.99), Richard Koci Hernandez produced a 3:25 “movie” that uses 54 photos to document 54 days of riding Bus 54 in Oakland, CA. Content produced entirely on the … Continue reading
iPhone App Allows You To Record In The Field
Have you ever been somewhere and wanted to know what the name of a song was but could not figure out the name of it. Or maybe you wanted to record an interview or joke but did not … Continue reading
What If Mobile Were To Become The News Space?
Mobile applications might provide a new business model for some artists, according to one of my students who has been researching the music industry this quarter. Last month, for example, the Presidents of the United States of America released an … Continue reading
Twitter To The Rescue
I came across this story and I was very impressed with the efficient use of Twitter. A tragedy unfolded on Monday as two British snowboarders became separated from their party in white-out blizzard conditions in the Swiss resort of Verbier. … Continue reading
Blind love or plain obsession? iPhone: your hot, but problematic girlfriend
My Blackberry user friends have all chuckled when I complain about my iPhone woes, and clearly I’m not the only one (see Apple’s discussion: forum: iPhone 3G Reception Problems? You’re Not Alone and C-NET’s coverage roundup here) . This makes … Continue reading
My Elusive Quest for the Perfect Pocket Media Device
Posted by Hanson Hosein “notmyPhone.” There I said it. I own or operate five Apple computers, three iPods, two Airports, constantly curse anytime I have to use Windows, and regularly sermonize that Steve Jobs singled-handedly democratized media production. But in … Continue reading
