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A new Korean study shows that people will spend more time watching Mobile TV (DMB) then they spend reading the newspaper according to the Korean Broadcasting Advertising Company. The study's results, titled "Consumer Behavior 2005", are inline with the world wide trend of the last decade witnessing consumers migrating away from paper based products, and towards electronic versions of the same products (i.e.: email vs. postal mail).A synapses...

One connection for all device mania has hit, and it's about damned time!Today's breaking news is that a beavy of computer industry heavyweights want to create a new device connection between your monitor and computer called the unified display interface or UDI, by Q1 2006. This interface will not only be used for computers but also for consumer entertainment electronics unifying the two, seperated at birth, industries. UDI will be backwards...

Gizmodo.com is running a post about how a reader was gypped by Cingular with their new rebate for the RAZR phones.  Cingular is sending out Visa Debit Rewards Cards in leu of rebate checks.  I know this readers pain first hand, as I just bought two phones (Siemens SX 66 and a Sony Ericsson s710a) from Cingular for my wife and I, and we received our $150.00 rebate in the form of three separately mailed $50 Visa Rewards cards. ...

Update 11/28/2005: You will notice that this post has changed, I added two photo's from the wedding. As everyone can see, it's all legal now........This was the grooms cake. The kernel of the idea originated with the fact that we met while we both worked for the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. You have no idea how hard it was to find someone to breathe life into this concept using fondant and cake.Today will be my last post until...

Today, Apple announced a slew of new and upgraded products:New/Uprgaded PowerBooks15" & 17" - Bumped up screen resolutions 1440x960 / 1660 x 105022% greater battery lifeSuperDrives for everyoneNew PowerMacsDual-core PowerPC processors in addition to a new system architecture that supports 16GB of 533MHz DDR2 RAM1 terabyte (TB) of internal Serial ATA (SATA) storagePCI Express (PCIe) expansion slotsFour new graphics options for the refreshed...

The statement "Print is Dead" sounds as if I am trying to be sensational, but let me clarify, print as we know it today, is changing, the traditional media we hold between our hands and sullies our fingers will disappear.  Developments in e-ink or digital paper from the likes of Sony, Plastic Logic, E Ink Corp, and Phillips, are changing the way we read and ultimately interact with traditional print media.  Soon, you will be able...

Samsung Super Slim Slider Phone (via Mobile Burm)Blackberry connect for Palm Treo's (via Mobile Tracker)New Sony WalkMan Phone the W900i (via Sony Press Release)iTunes Phone, Motorola ROKR Reviewed (via Mobile Track...

Hidden internal documents found on Cingular's web site confirms that the company plans to launch a nationwide 3G network on November 1st. The markets in the initial launch include: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco / San Jose / Oakland, Seattle / Tacoma and Washington / Baltimore / NoVa. Some of these markets are large overlapping metro areas.According...

This week I purchased the Siemens SX66 Pocket PC to be used on Cingulars network. Many of you outside the United States know this device as the as the HTC PDA2K or iMate PDA 2K. The basic feature set is rich, and includes the standard organization fair: calendaring, address book, tasks, email, SMS, and MMS. The specs themselves are also impressive, a high performance 32-bit, 400 MHZ, XScale processor is shoehorned into a rather small...

You can email to any cell phone using the following addresses as a template (as long as the cell recipient has SMS/text messaging).T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com I use this feature to email reminders, as well as using email 'rules' to email specifically addressed users email to my cell phone automatically (no more deer in the headlight...

Post will resume today, after an industrial airplane accident. It seems this editor left his messenger bag open, at his feet, on the flight to New York, mix in a bit of turbulence, and one soda, and you may be able to extrapolate what happened next. It is safe to say that the new laptop I was intending to work from in New York, is essentially fried (but the screen has all these pretty colors...).Now that I am back in Austin, I have a laundry list of posts that will be going up in the next two days.Stay Tun...