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The Eternal Conference Call

Nicholas Carr — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:02:17 +0000

By Nicholas Carr, Blogger, Rough Type

What goes around comes around, if always a little faster.

Remember when we first started using email, back in the foggy depths of the twentieth century? The great thing about email, everyone said and everyone believed, was that it was an asynchronous communications medium.

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You Have No New Messages–Ever

Farhad Manjoo — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:03:52 +0000

By Farhad Manjoo, Technology Columnist, Slate.com

Since March, I’ve been using Google (GOOG) Voice, the search company’s fantastic Web app that gives you a single number to connect all your phones and lets you make rules about who can call which phone when. Voice is packed with many other amazing tricks, but there’s one feature that I’ve come to value above all: The software transcribes voice mail messages into text.

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McCain-Palin Campaign Dumps BlackBerrys Loaded With Personal Numbers, Internal Email

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:57 +0000

By Cory Doctorow, Co-Editor, BoingBoing.net

The McCain-Palin campaign fire-sale dumped a bunch of orphaned BlackBerrys, including at least one loaded with confidential personal numbers of important people, and a ton of internal campaign email. These were the people who were planning on running an entire country.

“Blackberry phones at $20 a piece. There were only 10 left. All of the batteries had died. There were no chargers for sale. But people were snatching them up. So, we bought a couple.

And ended up with a lot more than we bargained for.

When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 BlackBerry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails from early September until a few days after election night.”

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Storm Chasers: Long Lines at Some Verizon Stores for RIM's Much-Discussed New Touchscreen BlackBerry

Eric Savitz — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:02:47 +0000

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader Daily

The debut today of the Research In Motion (RIMM) BlackBerry Storm, the company’s first touchscreen phone, has drawn long lines at some Verizon Wireless stores, according to Reuters and other news reports. At some stores, people lined up by the “hundreds.”

Reuters notes that more than 200 people had waited at a Verizon store in midtown Manhattan early Friday, but that many were turned away after it ran out of phones less than an hour after it opened at 9 a.m.; according the report, “angry customers caused a ruckus and police came to restore order.”

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