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G'z One Brigade
Verizon Wireless recently released the Casio G’zOne Brigade, a tough phone that meets military specifications to survive electrical shock, water, dust, etc., that features a QWERTY keyboard, Push to Talk technology, a 3.2 megapixel camera w/ flash, and HTML browser and more. For more information and specifications on the new Gz’One Brigade, click here.
Xobni is offering Blackberry users a new app that creates a smarter address book. “The app creates profiles for every person you’ve ever communicated with and ranks them in order of relevance rather than alphabetically. Contacts you’ve most recently communicated with–or most frequently communicate with–will be listed at the top for quick access.
The app also aggregates all of your contacts’ social network accounts, like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, and lists them under one profile. The user interface is similar to the contact syncing applications we’ve seen on Palm’s webOS or some of the user interfaces for Android, like MotoBlur. You can access your contacts via the app or in the compose window of the BlackBerry Email application.” Credit: PC World
An administrative law judge in Illinois, Lisa M. Tapia, ruled on March 10, 2010 that Frontier’s acquisition of Verizon’s properties in the state would “diminish frontier’s ability to provide adequate, reliable, efficient, safe and least-cost public utility service.” The Illinois Commerce Commission is expected to decide whether to amend or adopt Tapia’s assessment in April.
On a personal note, my former employer, Verizon Plus!, in Bloomington, IL., was affected and closed because of this deal…a deal that put scores of hardworking and dedicated people out of work. IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the Citizens Utility Board and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) have been opposed to the deal; and this ruling by Judge Tapia has to be considered a major victory in the fight to, as stated by David Kolata of the CUB, “make sure consumers are protected.”
See Judge Blocks Verizon Land Line Sale to Frontier for more info.
AT&T, the company that is still touting its Edge network as being the best in the nation (while its 3G network leaves a lot to be desired, especially in LA), is planning on offering new messaging phones with cloud-based service: the Strive, Sunburst, Link and the Pursuit. AT&T’s “cloud based services is expected to “enhance messaging, video and photo sharing, including a new group messaging feature, “AT&T Mobile Share” to transfer photos and videos with social networking sites and “AT&T Address Book” to sync contacts to an online address book.” Credit: Mobiledia
Google is apparently the only organization brave enough to stand up to China, as the latter is now warning the former that it will “have to bear the consequences” if it stops filtering search results in the repressive communist nation. Does Google have the cojones to stand up to the People’s Republic?
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