Video: Lady Gaga Promotes Virgin Mobile
March 14, 2010
Are you one who is always on the lookout for some good product placement, whether so soon after you may like to take a glance at the latest Lady Gaga music video of her and Beyonce’s Telephone, which whether you keep your eyes open and off all the bare flesh enlarged sufficient you’ll spot a couple of Virgin Mobile placements.
The Lady Gaga and Beyonce Telephone video lasts just by the nine and a half minute mark with Virgin Mobile product placement sitting at the two minutes and four minute marks.
But besides having some Virgin Mobile product placement in the video obviously it is a great video for Lady Gaga and Beyonce fans, I’m a Beyonce fan rather than a Lady Gaga one myself.
Anyway, I digress…you can watch the new Lady Gaga and Beyonce Telephone video below courtesy of the guys by at pocket-lint, so hit it up and keep an eye out for the Virgin Mobile placement and off the police ‘do not cross’ tape Lady Gaga wares…enjoy.
[Source] James
Nexus One to Blame for Apple, HTC Lawsuit
March 14, 2010
When Apple filed their lawsuit against the makers of Google’s Android Nexus One, HTC rumour was rife that it was a sideways swipe at Android and Google. Well it appears that the rumours are true and that Apple is going after HTC considering of the Nexus One.
According to an essay by on the NYT, Apple and Google worked in harmony to deliver Google Search and Maps to the iPhone, and since thereupon the relationship amidst the two giants has been tainted.
According to 2 dozen industry watchers Apple’s Steve Jobs feels betrayed by Google considering Google stepped into the smartphone business and launched their Nexus One which “physically, technologically, and spiritually resembles the iPhone.”
Apparently Steve Jobs told employees during an all hands meeting shortly after the intro of their iPad, “We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. compose no mistake: Google wants to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”
So there it is; Apple is going after …
Motorola’s Jha and Brown take 25 percent Voluntary Pay Cut in 2010
March 14, 2010
Motorola has been working hard to claw their way back up to their former prominent status within the mobile phone world, and launching the likes of the Motorola Droid along with other handset has gone a towering way to reaching their goal.
However there is still a fair way to go before Motorola reached their former glory and thus according to an write-up by on paid subject matter, Motorola COEs Sanjay Jha and Greg Brown have again volunteered to take a 25 percent cut in their pay for the 2nd year running.
On face value it looks like the Motorola CEOs are taking a big cut in wages to help the company, but when you look at the bonuses they receive suck as Jha’ bonus when he was hired and what bonus he’ll get whether Motorola breaks up or not tends to outweigh the pay cut gesture.
For example, in 2008 Sanjay Jha received bonuses of $100 million, although most of the figure was in stock options. Having said that, how about rather than taking the 25 percent pay cut, why not drop the hug…
Telus Release Official OS 5.0.0.442 for BlackBerry Bold 9700
March 14, 2010
Yes all you BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone users out there in BlackBerry land, you can now update your BlackBerry Bold 9700 to the official OS 5.0.0.442 which has now been released by Canada’s Telus, reports crackberry.
Previously leaked versions of OS 5.0.0.442 for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 have been available for a while now, but some folks simply don’t like to use leaked OS versions, so that will suit them down to the ground.
So whether you are one that prefers to wait for an official carrier operating system release and own a BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone thereupon now’s your chance to update.
As that is an official update to OS 5.0.0.442 for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 we can dispense with our usual disclaimer but remember to back up your notes before downloading and installing.
[Source] James
BlackBerry Tour 9630 Artistic in Lego
March 14, 2010
If you are going to pay homage to a smartphone what better way than immortalising it in Lego, which is precisely what has been done with the BlackBerry Tour 9630. Yes folks, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 has joined the ranks of stardom by being constructed out of Lego bricks into a 5 foot version of the smartphone.
Not only has the creator Nathan Sawaya painstakingly constructed that large Lego BlackBerry Tour 9630, he plus incorporated a flat screen TV at a working BlackBerry Tour 9630 display; kind’a neat.
The guy must have a lot of patience to put together all those Lego bricks along with working it around a flat screen TV, I wonder how many Lego bricks where used and just how expanded it actually took to construct.
Anyway, you can watch a short video of the Lego BlackBerry Tour 9630 in full working order below, which comes courtesy of the guys by at engadget, so check it out and enjoy.
[Source] James
New BlackBerry Slider Pictured Again
March 13, 2010
The rumours are mounting of the coming of a new BlackBerry sporting the slider scheme factor, and today we gain more images of that slider BlackBerry courtesy of the guys by at bbleaks, and that moment round the BlackBerry Slider is captured side by side a BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone.
The guys state that whatever Research In Motion signal the BlackBerry Slider it is definitely a hybrid which brings together aspects of the BlackBerry Storm series and the BlackBerry Bold 9000 QWERTY keyboard.
Detail wise there isn’t a great deal known about that BlackBerry Slider other than it carries a 360 x 480 display, 802.11n WiFi, but other than that as the device they have can’t be powered up they aren’t too certain whether the Blackberry Slider sports a touch screen or not.
There is no megapixel label on the device either, so there’s no real clue as to what camera the BlackBerry Slider will carry although rumour has it, it will be 5 megapixel and include Liquid Lens Tech; more as and …
Nokia Asks US Judge to Dismiss All Apple Claims
March 13, 2010
The patent infringement battle within Nokia and Apple is heating up, as Nokia has apparently asked a US judge to throw out Apple’s claims that Nokia is trying to monopolise the wireless tech industry and grab iPhone related Technology reports an write-up by on business week.
Nokia said in papers filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, that Apple’s antitrust and breach of contract allegations are implausible and that they are “designed to divert attention away from free-riding off of Nokia’s intellectual property.”
Nokia plus accuses Apple of “revisionist history, misleading characterizations, unsupported allegations and flawed and contradictory legal theories to turn these fruitless negotiations into a multi-count federal lawsuit,” and says of the talks within them and Apple as a series on unremarkable offer and counteroffers which were unsuccessful.
With the filing with the ITC on March 11th, Nokia denies infringing on Apple patents and has challenged their valid…