Mobile World Congress - Day One

Mobile World Congress – Day One

To say that Barcelona’s La Fira Gran Via, home of the annual Mobile World Congress, is busy would be something of an understatement. “We hope for 19,000 people!” my driver tells me, in between railing against the masses of unlicensed cabs that operate at this […]

Tech Review: Apple iPhone 6

Tech Review: Apple iPhone 6

Yep, Apple has finally got it together. To the Apple haters out there, Maestro Jonny Ive and his elite team out of Cupertino may indeed have taken eight previous goes at it, but permanence is not what they’re about. If you’re a naysayer, Apple’s designers […]

Kill Switch: Can It Kill Smartphone Theft?

It’s funny how one thing can lead to another, but it’s not the butterfly effect when Flash Mobs—pseudo-spontaneous gatherings of people organized by mobile phones and social networks which run the gamut from precious forums for creative expression to a Stealth weapon in the neo-anarchist […]

Blackberry Get Serious

Blackberry Get Serious

Probably nothing pisses off bosses more than having to pay overtime to an in-house accountant to sort through a morass of telephone bills. Or worse, having to hire an accounting consultant from outside the company. Yet nothing pleases them more than the way that, mutually […]

Meizu MX4: The Rise of the Pimp Mobile!

Meizu MX4: The Rise of the Pimp Mobile!

So you thought a pimpmobile meant a big old, hooptified pink or yellow late-seventies, all-steel Cadillac or Lincoln Continental, right? Well no, suckah! Ostentatiousness is a factor that can never be underrated, especially if you earn your crust as a drug dealer or pimp. Thus […]

Tech Review: Sony’s Xperia Z2

Tech Review: Sony’s Xperia Z2

Sony’s Xperia Z2 US$599 Sony Xperia Z2 is an update to the Z1, Sony’s so-called flagship phone released just six months ago. It’s slimmer, lighter and stretches the screen, with the addition of 4K video capture. All the same, with so many new phones all […]

Samsung Galaxy S5

Tech: HTC One Vs. Samsung Galaxy S5

Just a coincidence, huh? Imagine, two Android phones dropping out of the heavens into my lap simultaneously.  As of Friday, April 11, they were in the stores and all you had to do was choose! Beauty first: The HTC One is elegant and simple and […]

phone sex now?

Using Smartphones During Sex

There’s been some attention given lately to the research, valid or not, on the subject of Smartphone use during our most intimate of times. As is the case with so much market research, the interrogative terms used are as broad as something you’d read in […]