Archive for August, 2008

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Is this amateur porn hour? In fact, it is!

Canadian’s often feel overshadowed by American media. I mean, aside from Bryan Adams and Alanis Morissette, Canadian pop stars are fewer and farther between than their American counterparts.
But now Reuters reports that Canadian’s who have been rubbed wrong by the lack of Canadian generated porn, and their boredom with American porn, can [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Advertising, Content, Internet, TV, User generated content by Jason T.

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Morrissey: Don’t buy “Morrissey LIve at the Hollywood Bowl”

Music DVDs seem to be all the rage these days, and every band must have at least one. Everyone loves the “behind the scenes” videos and clips of band members doing things that, were they not your favorite band, would otherwise be not funny and entirely stupid.
LiveDaily is reporting that Morrissey is bucking this [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Movies, Music by Jason T.

Monday, August 18th, 2008

RFID used to retrieve urns

Can’t afford a burial plot for your deceased loved one in Japan? Here is a solution that CScout reported on–store the urn in a facility which uses RFID cards to automatically retrieve them from storage for viewing.
This use of RFID is a new one to me. It makes sense though, especially in a [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Hardware, User Interface by Jason T.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Olympics/iPhone take over my life

Woah. As we approach our 1 year anniversary here at Infinity and Beyond I seem to have fallen off the face of the earth.
First off the Olympics started last Friday and my breaks at work have now been filled with the Canadian Broadcast Channel and one of the many NBC/Universal channels carrying Olympic coverage.

Secondly, just [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Industry News, Uncategorized, iPhone by Jason D.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

iPhone dropped calls irking customers

Call quality and dropped call issues seem to be one of the biggest complaints about Apple’s 3G iPhone. MarketWatch ran an article today pointing the finger at the 3G chipsets in the phone, made by Infineon Technologies. According to the report, the chips are sseing one of their first large-scale deployments through the [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Hardware, iPhone by Jason T.

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Why the fuss over ‘I Am Rich’ app?

I’m just not sure why everyone is up in arms about the I am Rich app that was briefly sold on Apples iPhone/iPod Touch App Store. What does the application do? Absolutely nothing but show an expensive-looking red gem icon. How much does it cost? $999.99 USD. Why? Because [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Apple, iPhone by Jason T.