Popular free GPS navigation service Nav4All has lost its map license and is shutting down, according to an email sent by the company this morning.
Company CEO Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp states in the announcement that the service, listed as having over 27 million users, will be forced to cease in 3 days. Koerkamp states that [...]
“Eat up, Martha.” One of my favorite Simpsons moments, and a reflection of popular cultural views of the original Apple Newton platform. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Newton was a PDA platform developed heavily by Apple in the early 1990s, culminating most notably in the MessagePad series of devices.
The effort was widely regarded as [...]
Recently I did a little review of what I learned from social media in 2009. As part of that review, I spent a bit of time looking over notable tweets from others that I had saved from various points in the year. I found lots of useful information (even some I’d forgotten already), but one tweet really stuck out
8Dec09
Woot-off crash
If you’re looking for that elusive bag of crap, you won’t find it now. Woot is temporarily down, no update yet on when it will be back up. Too many Woot-off fans?
Update: The outage lasted only a few minutes, but there have been intermittent issues with accessing Woot all day. Maybe all the last-minute shoppers [...]
9Nov09
OpenGL support, Java GUI builder, and Theme Studio: BlackBerry Developers Conference Impresses
It’s a good day to be a BlackBerry owner. While iPhone users are getting Rick rolled by an impish hacker, the BlackBerry Developers Conference is in full swing with some big announcements.
Verizon Wireless must be doing something right with their new “There’s a map for that” ad campaign, because AT&T is chomping at the bit to get the spots taken off the air. Yesterday Engadget reported that the wireless carrier filed a complaint alleging false advertising and a motion to stop Verizon from airing the ads.
AT&T [...]
Earlier this week, the European Union’s governing body, the European Commission, unveiled plans to require all new music devices – including MP3 players and mobile phones – to have default volume levels. These levels would be set at what the administration deems “safe” for listening.
17Jul08
There…I said it.
I really don’t care about getting spam.
I think I’ve come to the realization that I am obsessed with having album art for all of my tracks in iTunes. I guess I’ve always been this way, even back in the days of my original (green) iPod mini. But now that I have a shiny new iPod nano with cover flow…
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