Google Voice launches its very own phone booth

Remember how every new medium needs to refer to an old medium before people finally understand its value? People finally understood the value of TV when they were showed a classic play on a tv screen. The first thing on the radio was people reading books out loud. And to get people used to making free phone calls (like we all did when we were young and helpless in the pre-mobile era) Google...

Guru Gear helps you to find the good stuff

So today, just one day before my holiday, I was looking for all the right books to read. It was quite a hard job to pick the right ones. There’s so many titles that people I work with have been telling me about and there’s so many great books I read about on blogs and websites about the digital industry. It wasn’t easy to pick the right ones, but I managed to make a good...

Amazon starts selling apps…or ‘active content titles’

Yesterday I got an e-mail from Amazon, telling me they released the first two Kindle active content titles. So Amazon has officially kicked off their app store now. Although they prefer to call them “active content titles” instead of apps. When I wrote about Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle App Store earlier this year, I did mention that “..the e-ink technology is an...

There might be a virus on your Android phone

Sorry for the potential shocking title, but according to mobile security company Lookout the massive success of the mobile application has caused a rapidly growing number of mobile security threats. The founders of Lookout already demonstrated this back in 2005, when they exposed private data of celebrities attending the Academy Awards ceremony. The rise of mobile apps has made this threat even...

The great power of Foursquare badges

What once started out as a kinda nerdy service, Foursquare has now reinvented itself and closes some interesting commercial partnerships. The social networking service that helps you check-in at places you go to, like bars, restaurants and clubs, has recently started a partnership with the American cable network VH1. The partnership consists of celebrity tips on places to go and trying to win the...