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March 7, 2012
P-ART-Y
Who needs the art crowd of  Manhattan when you got Brooklyn?
Blogs
March 5, 2012
Sen. Chuck Schumer Champions Push To Protect Privacy Of Smartphone Sexters
Bad news, smart phone users: those penis private pics you snapped with your iPhone aren't as private as you'd probably hoped.Senator Chuck Schumer to the rescue.Schumer today announced that he's asked the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into whether smart phone apps on Apple a ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Happy National Condom Day! Find Free Condoms With a Phone App
It's Feb. 14 -- the best day of the year! No, of course we don't mean Valentine's Day (ew.) It's National Condom Awareness Day -- and 2012's holiday has gotten even more special for you and your special lady or man-friend: New York City's Department of Public Health and Mental Hygiene is releasin ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Senator Chuck Schumer to AT&T: Invite Us to Your Industry Meeting, Please
Appealing to his iPhone-addicted constituents, Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on AT&T to do something about the steep uptick in smartphone thefts in the city. You might be thinking: "What can this little ole cell phone provider do to fight crime in Gotham?" Well, our senator thinks the company can do ... More >>
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December 24, 2011
Santa Is Real, Track His Location Around The World All Day
If you're alone this Christmas Eve and you have a bit of an obsessive streak, then it's time to plant yourself behind your computer with a gallon of eggnog and study the NORAD Santa Tracker. Wondering where Santa is right now? He's hovering around the Philippines and steadily moving westward. ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Thief Does Not Want Your Stupid BlackBerry
No one wants.Obviously, people everywhere are angling to steal your wonderful, beautiful iPhone. Not to mention that shiny iPad you're always waving around! As evidence, the New York Post reports today on a duo that has been taking iPhones at gunpoint on the Upper East Side: They've stolen at ... More >>
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October 16, 2011
What's So Special About Apple's Siri?
Anticipation and hoopla surrounded the release of the iPhone 4S, but when people discovered Apple wasn't debuting the iPhone 5, the launch was dubbed a dud. 5 is one better than 4! Why are you robbing us of 5? On the evening Steve Jobs died, CNN.com's main headline was about how the iPhone 4S ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Click Send Brings Cell Phone Pics to Gallery Space
Marina Vykhodtseva / "A Tale of Two Phones"Even though it's an art exhibit about modern technology, we found out about LittleZGroup's Click Send in an old-fashioned way. One evening we were standing outside in Williamsburg when we were handed a flyer soliciting submissions by one third of Lit ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Stanley Patz, Father of Etan, Says Kids Should Have 'Leiby Phones' in Light of Kletzy Case
Etan Patz in 1978Stanley Patz is the father of 6-year-old Etan, who disappeared from a lower Manhattan street in 1979, making him, arguably, the most well-known missing child in New York City, as well as the first to appear on the side of a milk carton. Until last week brought another missing ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 13, 2011
MACHINES ARE OUR FRIENDS
So long as they don't turn into Hal
Blogs
March 20, 2011
AT&T Buying T-Mobile For $39 Billion
Strange bedfellows.And lo, one crappy service provider acquires another. AT&T announced today that it's buying T-Mobile USA for $39 billion from Deutsche Telekom. If the two companies fully merge, the deal will give AT&T another 46.5 million customers in America, pushing it way past Veriz ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
NYPD Cell Phone Crackdown Today, As Real Criminals Rejoice
Perfect Stock ImageThe New York City Police Department kicked off a 24-hour "enforcement operation" at midnight today, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, all across the boroughs, even including Staten Island, to "crackdown on the use of hand-held cell phones while driving." According to the release, th ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
BBM Coming to iPhone: Are There Still Reasons To Buy a BlackBerry?
Tech rumors are flying that BBM, the exclusive BlackBerry messaging service, will be headed to iPhone and Android phones within the next year. Engadget says that, "RIM intends to take its BlackBerry Messenger outside the cozy confines of the BB ecosystem and straight into its competitors' app ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Words With Friends is the New Angry Birds, Except You Might Just Fall in Love
When the iPhone game Angry Birds hit the front page of the New York Times, we were amazed that humans were collectively clocking "16 human-years of bird-throwing every hour." But has anyone ever met their mate on Angry Birds? They have on Words With Friends, Zynga's popular Scrabble rip-off, ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
PLUGGED IN
Actors read stories from Electric Literature
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January 11, 2011
Verizon iPhone Is FINALLY a Reality
via EngadgetThe long-awaited day has finally come. Verizon has announced they'll start selling the iPhone early next month. Preorders start February 3. The phone will cost you $199.99 with a 2-year contract. It's expected that as many as 13 million iPhones may be sold by Verizon in the first ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Adios, Cash Registers. Square Allows Customers to Pay via iPad
squareup.comiPay?Cup of pour-over drip coffee? There's an app for that. Small restaurants, cafés, and other vendors are using a new smartphone application called Square that allows them to charge customers directly from an iPhone or iPad. Are the days of cash registers numbered?
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December 6, 2010
929 Is the New New York City Area Code; Children Just Eating Them Now
Area codes! What do they even mean anymore? While once a "646" was undesirable, now it's become mainstream, and a "718" or "917" is practically vintage. Not to mention all the "foreign" area codes hailing from California or D.C. or wherever, which people don't even bother to change nowadays. ... More >>
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October 16, 2010
The Way We Parent Now: "Give the Baby the Damn iPhone!"
In Sunday's New York Times, the iPhone is called "the most effective tool in human history to mollify a fussy toddler." But this designation is not awarded in an advertisement for the cellular phone, or at least not one Apple paid for. The iPhone is dubbed a "Toy of Choice" for "many 1-, 2- a ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Art Stunts: Urban Speaker Allows You To Scream at Random New Yorkers, Remotely
Have you ever just wanted to scream, rant, and rave at complete strangers? Or even better, your fellow New Yorkers, and/or tourists who visit? Now, you can!
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August 17, 2010
VisualFriend.com (with Visual Benefits) Makes iPhone Dating as Creepy as It Is Portable
Pre-dating (dating foreplay, if you prefer) is becoming more personal than ever. Now that the iPhone 4 has video capability, early-adopting tech nerds are already using it to date online via VisualFriend.com, "the newest free online dating service that brings singles, FaceTime, and your iPhon ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
iPhone Users Barely Have Time to Make Any Calls What With All the Sex They've Having
Oh yeah, here's some news you can use. Dating site OkCupid has done a helpful survey of its users' phone and sex habits, and of all the phoning, sexing Internet daters out there, the iPhoners are the sexingest! After them come BlackBerry users and then people who use Android and may or may no ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
Jailbreaking Dongle Freedom! iPhone Users, DVD Copiers Oppressed No More!
Have you ever wanted to play video games that Apple didn't sell on your iPhone? Have you ever wanted to use apps that Apple didn't sell on your iPhone? Have you ever wanted to switch carriers with your iPhone (because AT&T blows)? Have you ever wanted to copy a copy-protected DVD? Have ... More >>
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July 5, 2010
The Best and Worst Ideas for the iPhone 4, the Fascination Continues
Last week, we brought you the best and worst ideas involving a vuvuzela, and now, we address an object of utmost cultural fascination and endless attention -- the iPhone 4, with all of its wondrous video capabilities.
Blogs
June 25, 2010
iPhone 4, Now With More Dropped Calls Than Ever! Steve Jobs: "Not a Big Issue."
If you have an iPhone -- and especially if you have an iPhone in New York City -- you're familiar with the concept of The Dreaded Dropped Call, because among other reasons, AT&T sucks and your iPhone likely only uses AT&T. Also, because it's supposed to be The JesusPhone, it's just inherently ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
The New iPhone, Revealed: The Basics, Why You're Probably Buying One
There are scoops, and then there are scoops. And there's reporting, and just getting absurdly lucky. And this is a scoop, and from the sound of it, someone got absurdly lucky. And someone else likely just got absurdly unlucky because of this. Meet the new iPhone:
Blogs
March 25, 2010
The Top 10 Non-Basketball March Madness Brackets
The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Here Is The Completely Charming Though Utterly Ineffective Neon Indian Bit Jimmy Fallon Did in His Opening Monologue Last Night
Anytime you have to explain to your national television audience a), what the iPhone app Shazam does, b) the out-of-state origins of the University of Washington's KEXP, c) who the band Neon Indian are, d), why it might be fitting that they have a song called "Terminally Chill" and e), repeatedly ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 19, 2010
Cheap Trick
Anytime you have to explain to your national television audience a), what the iPhone app Shazam does, b) the out-of-state origins of the University of Washington's KEXP, c) who the band Neon Indian are, d), why it might be fitting that they have a song called "Terminally Chill" and e), repeatedly ... More >>
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December 28, 2009
AT&T Seems to Stop iPhone Sales in New York; Apple May Be Planning New Version That Actually Works As Phone
The Consumerist details a conversation with an AT&T customer service rep, who allegedly told a Brooklyn resident that she couldn't buy an iPhone because "New York City is not ready for the iPhone." Which is weird, as in the streets of New York the iPhone is ubiquitous --not especially useful as a ph ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
PSA: Cell Phones for Food
Were you getting ready to can that old Motorola Razr? Before you do, check out the Cell Phones for Food campaign launched by The 4th Bin and City Harvest. Simply send them your old cell phones by mail. Starting next year, The 4th Bin will even come to you to pick up old mobile equipment. All ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2009
'718 Sessions Present Danny Krivit & Osunlade'
Were you getting ready to can that old Motorola Razr? Before you do, check out the Cell Phones for Food campaign launched by The 4th Bin and City Harvest. Simply send them your old cell phones by mail. Starting next year, The 4th Bin will even come to you to pick up old mobile equipment. All ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 24, 2009
Scanner+Mountains
Were you getting ready to can that old Motorola Razr? Before you do, check out the Cell Phones for Food campaign launched by The 4th Bin and City Harvest. Simply send them your old cell phones by mail. Starting next year, The 4th Bin will even come to you to pick up old mobile equipment. All ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2009
IT'S OH-SO-QUIET
Listen to the city—it's trying to tell you something
Voice Choices
May 13, 2009
The Bangles
Listen to the city—it's trying to tell you something
Blogs
February 13, 2009
VV: Now Texting You
Just in case you really cannot get enough of us, you can now subscribe to our text messaging. You'll get a restaurant recommendation texted to your phone three times a week: one for brunch, one for lunch, and one for dinner and drinks. They'll be real recommendations from me, not sponsors or adverti ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2008
Give to the New Museum's Rhizome, Get A YACHT Ringtone
Just in case you really cannot get enough of us, you can now subscribe to our text messaging. You'll get a restaurant recommendation texted to your phone three times a week: one for brunch, one for lunch, and one for dinner and drinks. They'll be real recommendations from me, not sponsors or adverti ... More >>
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July 11, 2008
Are You An iDiot? Camping Out For The iPhone
Just in case you really cannot get enough of us, you can now subscribe to our text messaging. You'll get a restaurant recommendation texted to your phone three times a week: one for brunch, one for lunch, and one for dinner and drinks. They'll be real recommendations from me, not sponsors or adverti ... More >>
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May 7, 2008
Assault and Batteries
Just in case you really cannot get enough of us, you can now subscribe to our text messaging. You'll get a restaurant recommendation texted to your phone three times a week: one for brunch, one for lunch, and one for dinner and drinks. They'll be real recommendations from me, not sponsors or adverti ... More >>
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April 9, 2008
Etiquette Lesson: The LIRR Cellphone Guy
Just in case you really cannot get enough of us, you can now subscribe to our text messaging. You'll get a restaurant recommendation texted to your phone three times a week: one for brunch, one for lunch, and one for dinner and drinks. They'll be real recommendations from me, not sponsors or adverti ... More >>
NYC Life
April 17, 2007
Nature Calls
New Yorkers love cell phones. How about the bees?
Blogs
January 16, 2007
Food, Wine, and Sarcasm in Brooklyn
New Yorkers love cell phones. How about the bees?
Film
August 15, 2006
'LOL'
New Yorkers love cell phones. How about the bees?
News
July 20, 2004
Fossil Fool
Palm pilots head for Jurassic Park—and that means bargains for you.
NYC Life
March 27, 2001
Cell-fish
Nearly Everyone Now Has a Mobile Phone. Convenience? Curse?
News
October 31, 2000
Paging Laurie Anderson
Free Exhibit Dials Future of Wireless Art
News
July 20, 1999
Cancerous Cells?
Voicing Concerns About Wireless Phones
News
April 13, 1999
I'm More Wired Than You!
Gadgetry Is Not Just an Obsession— It's a Way of Life
News
February 23, 1999
Playing Telephone
In a society of voyeurs, eavesdropping is an art
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