The New Hampshire House is considering a ban on texting while Driving. Please, no.

Posted January 23, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: cell phone, communications, driving, law, restriction, texting. Be the first one.

If the news is to be believed, separate teams have found hardware and software-based solutions to unlock an iPhone.
It’s worth noting that all this is legal because of an exemption, much needed and hard fought.
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Posted August 24, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: cell phone, circumvention, hacked, iphone, reverse engineering, unlock, unlocked. Be the first one.

Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. Once paired, the Address Book can initiate dialing, notify the user of incoming calls, and send SMS texts.
Bluetooth Texter SMS Widget, message2net, and BluePhoneElite all offer further tools to interact with your Bluetooth-connected mobile phone. [...]

Posted August 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: applescript, bluetooth, cell phone, mac, mac os X, sms, texting. 14 Comments.

I’ve been talking up the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770 a lot, and I’ve mentioned a moment of lust for the LifeDrive (despite my complaints against PDAs), but today I bought a Treo 650 (even though I had doubts).
My decision surprised me, but the following factors all weighed in its favor:

My cell phone contract expired. [...]

Posted December 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cameraphone, cell phone, cellphone, palm, palmone, pda, phone, small camera, smart phone, smartphone, treo, treo 650, treo650. 7 Comments.

Though we imagine the Dutch to be a rather unexcitable lot, I did anyway, it turns out they have a history of getting rowdy at football games (yes, if this all happened back in the States I be calling it “soccer”). So it can’t be so much of a surprise that fans rioted again in [...]

Posted September 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: 5-0, agps, cell phone, cellphone, crime, engadget, feyenoord, football, gps, hooliganism, location aware, location aware technology, mobile, mobile phone, mobile phone companies, mobile phone numbers, police, police investigation, riot, rioters, rioting, sms, sms message, sms messaging, soccer. 2 Comments.

Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates.
All current cell phones support aGPS positioning to comply with federal E-911 mandates, but not all phones make it easy for the user to get that information out of them. Still, some do and GPS-enabled moblogging [...]

Posted June 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: agps, cell phone, coordinates, geolocation, gps, lattitude, longitude, map, mapping, maps, moblogging, network, networking application, palm, picture phone, social networking, wifi. 5 Comments.