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Killswitch Engage!

Tim Twelves — Mon, 19 May 2014 18:03:03 +0000

Hey, remember Killswitch Engage? The metalcore band formed back in 1999 from bands like Aftershock and Overcast? Not as popular as Atreyu? Those guys. Well, this article isn’t about them. This is about why your cellphone doesn’t have a remotely activated kill switch that you can use to brick your phone when it gets […]

PayPal Partners With Retailers To Pay By Phone

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:42:36 +0000

Chief Executive of EBay John Donahoe and Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan promised, earlier this year, to strike deals with twenty brick and mortar merchants allowing customers to pay via PayPal using their cellphones. Today, the two men completed their first round of fifteen such agreements, including Advance Auto Parts, American Eagle Outfitters, Jamba Juice, […]

Someone You Know Is Being Ripped Off By The Phone Company

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:03:05 +0000

We may not have jetpacks or cars that fold up into our suitcases, but this is absolutely the high-tech future that my parent’s TV shows promised. Most of us carry devices on us more powerful than the machines that put man on the moon. We have more ways to communicate than people we actually want […]

Gmail Extends Free Phone Calls Through 2012, Barring Apocalypse

Jeremy Goldstone — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:42:30 +0000

Good news, everybody! Do you like free phone calls? Because Google is extending Gmail’s ability to make free internet-to-phone (and vice versa) calls throughout 2012. Yay! Assuming you’re making domestic calls in the United States and Canada, anyway. This doesn’t change anything regarding Google Voice. So really, the news here is everything is going to […]

Olde Tyme Techcitement: The Erotica Phone (Possibly NSFW)

Matt Algren — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:37:16 +0000

Today’s relic is a novelty telephone from 1984. It’s so sophisticated, you guys. It was sculptured by a European artist. They don’t say who the artist was, but what a talent!

Olde Tyme Techcitement: It’s A Telephone That Looks Like A Football!

Matt Algren — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:00:24 +0000

It was a telephone that looked like a football! Back in the days when telephones all looked alike and were made to blend in rather than stand out, here was creativity, here was design!