Android in your pocket: The Google Phone
November 9, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apps, Cell Phones, Web Apps, Wi-Fi
In a previous podcast, Mike Abundo explained how the Google Phone will not be hardware, but software. With the way Google collects information about people when they are in front of their computers, isn’t it a scary thought to have an “android” lurking in your pocket, learning your every move as you transfer from cell site to cell site?
Normally, you’re just under the Google lens when you’re sitting in front of a Web browser aimed at one of Google’s services. With an Android-based phone in my pocket, Google can be collecting data about me and my habits 24/7. It wouldn’t …read more
Stephen King’s Cell
March 5, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under The Unwired Life
Context clues folks. When the word “cell” and a picture of a mobile phone appear on the front cover of Stephen King’s semi new novel, you’re sure it has something to do with cellphones.
On my list of novels to read, Cell is up next. After I finish Identity Crisis, since it’s been ages since I read a comic.
“…The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone’s cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in …read more
