Technology - can you hear now?

Technology - can you hear now?

How to use the Samsung Galaxy S5 as a flashlight

How to use the Samsung Galaxy S5 as a flashlight

http://m.androidcentral.com/how-use-samsung-galaxy-s5-flashlight

People keep going to this home looking for their lost phones — and nobody knows why

People keep going to this home looking for their lost phones — and nobody knows why People keep going to this home looking for their lost phones — and nobody knows why http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2016/01/people-keep-going-to-this-home-looking.html

If your lost cellphone says it’s at this house, it isn’t

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/26/people-keep-going-to-this-home-looking-for-their-lost-phones-and-nobody-knows-why/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_switch-lostphones-920am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Christina Lee and Michael Saba live in an Atlanta house where several strangers come accusing them of having stolen their phones. Strangely, the phones are never there, and it's because missing-phone apps are mysteriously routing to this home. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post)

For months now, angry strangers have been showing up at Christina Lee and Michael Saba's front door with a curious demand: "Give me back my stolen phone!"

Sometimes, families will show up; other times, it's groups of friends or a random person with a police officer in tow, according to Fusion. Despite using different service providers, everyone who bangs on their door has been led to the suburban Atlanta home by a phone-tracking app.

The problem — as the couple desperately tries to explain visitors — is that the missing phones aren't at the house and never have been.

They are not, in fact, thieves. Saba is an engineer; Lee is a journalist.

The pair doesn't understand why exactly, but both Android and iPhone users on various networks are being directed to their house by phone-tracking apps.

Once the awkward situation is explained, most lost-phone-seekers are understanding. But the couple told Fusion that a smaller number of people who place absolute faith in their tracking technology are convinced that the couple is lying, provoking potentially volatile conflicts.

[…]

On several occasions, Fusion reports, the problem has led to serious misunderstandings, such as an incident in which the couple briefly became suspects in a missing persons case:

In June, the police came looking for a teenage girl whose parents reported her missing. The police made Lee and Saba sit outside for more than an hour while the police decided whether they should get a warrant to search the house for the girl’s phone, and presumably, the girl. When Saba asked if he could go back inside to use the bathroom, the police wouldn’t let him.

“Your house is a crime scene and you two are persons of interest,” the officer said, according to Saba.

[…]

Read much more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/26/people-keep-going-to-this-home-looking-for-their-lost-phones-and-nobody-knows-why/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_switch-lostphones-920am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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Lonely is the runner who runs 3.6 miles on the Wakefield Valley Trail - all to the tunes of Led Zeppelin.

Lonely is the runner who runs 3.6 miles on the Wakefield Valley Trail - all to the tunes of Led Zeppelin.

Update late in the evening: Fascinating. This was my first attempt at posting a smartphone screenshot of my run and it is essentially a failure. The resolution is so low that the picture is so pixelated as to be not of much value. Live and learn by trial and error... 

Test

Test - continuing to try to figure-out how to get my photos on to my website as efficiently as possible with my Samsung S5

Kevin E. Dayhoff September 9, 2015

Samsung's Galaxy S6: 3 things it gets right, and 3 things it gets wrong | PCWorld

Samsung's Galaxy S6: 3 things it gets right, and 3 things it gets wrong | PCWorld: "By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service Mar 1, 2015 3:20 PM

The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge are two great smartphones, with more power and better screens. But when users get their hands on them starting April 10, they’ll find that the vendor got some things right, and some things wrong." ...  http://www.pcworld.com/article/2890892/samsung-galaxy-s6-gets-3-things-right-and-3-things-wrong.html#tk.nl_pcwbest

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Almon Brown Strowger, the man who made the rotary dial possible

Almon Brown Strowger, the man who made the rotary dial possible

Don Surber at Don Surber - 3 hours ago

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My American Vignettes series on exceptional Americans continues with a profile of Almon Brown Strowger, the undertaker who took on the telephone operator, and invented the forerunner to the rotary dial, which put the phone, finally, in the hands of the customer. Almon Brown Strowger was born in Penfield, near Rochester, New York, on February 11, 1839. Legend holds that when his mother assigned them chores, he and his brother would think up a machine to do the work. He taught school in Penfeld as an adult and served in the Civil War on the Union side. After the war he moved to Kans... more »

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Report: Smartphone kill-switch could save consumers $2.6 billion per year | PCWorld

Report: Smartphone kill-switch could save consumers $2.6 billion per year | PCWorld: "Technology that remotely makes a stolen smartphone useless could save American consumers up to $2.6 billion per year if it is implemented widely and leads to a reduction in theft of phones, according to a new report."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2137740/smartphone-killswitch-could-save-consumers-26b-per-year-says-report.html#tk.nl_today

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HTC's next flagship smartphone needs more than Robert Downey Jr. | PCWorld

HTC's next flagship smartphone needs more than Robert Downey Jr. | PCWorld: "The HTC One: is a good phone not enough?"

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111121/htcs-next-flagship-smartphone-needs-more-than-robert-downey-jr.html#tk.nl_today

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The second iteration of the One is expected to have a 5-inch full HD screen and a Snapdragon 801 processor with four cores running at 2.3GHz. The phone is also rumored to have two cameras on the back that will work together to produce better images.

[...]

An improved camera has been one of the main themes on smartphones HTC’s newcomer will compete with, including the Sony’s Xperia Z2 and the Galaxy S5 from Samsung, They were launched at Mobile World Congress last month and will go on sale in April, with the S5 starting to ship on the 11th.

The smartphone market is anticipated to heat up further with a successor to the G2 from LG Electronics and a new iPhone as early as May or June.

HTC has already introduced three new phones this year: Desire 310, Desire 610 and Desire 816, which are all part of an increased focus on the midrange of the market. But a successful high-end model is key for any smartphone company, because it can both help improve profits with better margins and create a trickle-down effect for the rest of the portfolio.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111121/htcs-next-flagship-smartphone-needs-more-than-robert-downey-jr.html#tk.nl_today

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I know some of you are not old enough to get this

Wall Photos

I know some of you are not old enough to get this,
but you can pass it on to some old person who needs a laugh today!!!

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Washington Post Technology Report: Verizon has a new iPhone? Not really. By Rob Pegoraro

Technology Daily Report  Friday, Feb. 11, 2011

In the News

Nokia to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, scuttling Symbian (By Rob Pegoraro)

The Circuit: Privacy bills, broadband stimulus hearings, U.S. likely to halt Huawei deal (By Hayley Tsukayama)

Exabytes: Documenting the 'digital age' and huge growth in computing capacity (By Brian Vastag)

Obama promotes plan to get wireless Internet to 98% of U.S. (By Cecilia Kang)

Verizon has a new iPhone? Not really. (By Rob Pegoraro)

`Jeopardy' champs take on IBM machine (By DAVID BAUDER)

Nokia, Microsoft in pact to rival Apple, Google (By MATTI HUUHTANEN)

Review: Apps can enhance smart phone cameras (By RACHEL METZ)

Faster Forward: Apple to introduce cheaper iPhone, report says (By Hayley Tsukayama)

More Technology Stories  

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UN Secretary Rice On Facebook And Twitter: "Governments Are Increasingly Cognizant Of Their Power" [Video] (Alexia Tsotsis)

FlyScreen Lands On iPhone But Not As We Know It (Steve O'Hear)

Post-Pivot, SoundCloud Reaches Three Million Users (Steve O'Hear)

More TechCrunch News  

FASTER FORWARD by Rob Pegoraro

• Nokia to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, scuttling Symbian
• Portal 2 Valentines available from Valve
• Report: Apple to introduce cheaper iPhone

POST TECH by Cecilia Kang

• The Circuit: Privacy bills, broadband stimulus hearings, U.S. likely to halt Huawei deal
• President Obama pitches $18 billion wireless broadband plan
• Walden sets House Commerce committee tech priorities on net neutrality, spectrum, broadband

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About.com: House of Representatives Allows Use of iPads, BlackBerrys on Floor

House of Representatives Allows Use of iPads, BlackBerrys on Floor

By Tom Murse, About.com Contributing Writer 

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/iPads-Allowed-On-House-Floor.htm?nl=1

Jan 6 2011

Tweet, tweet.

That's not just the sound of robins in the springtime anymore.

It's the sound coming from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, which began allowing its members to use wireless devices such as iPads, iPhones and BlackBerrys inside the chambers for the first time during the 112th Congress, which was seated in 2011.

That's right: House members can use Twitter andFacebook all they want.

Read more: Yeah, Obama Does the Facebook Thing

The House Republican Conference, which took over the majority in the House of Representatives in January of 2011, approved groundbreaking parliamentary rules at the beginning of the two-year legislative session in January.

Among the changes was to the section of rules dealing with the use of electronic devices on the floor of the House of Representatives.

In the previous session of Congress, the rules stated: "A person may not smoke or use a wireless telephone or personal computer on the floor of the House."

In 2011, the House Republican Conferenceamended that section of the rules to read: "A person on the floor of the House may not smoke or use a mobile electronic device that impairs decorum.''

Read more: 10 Wealthiest Members of Congress

Spokesmen for the Republican Conference told reporters that the rule was softened so as to allow members of the House of Representatives to use their mobile phones and other electronic devices such as iPads and iPhones on the floor.

Of course, the key question was how "impairing" the "decorum" of the House of Representatives would be defined.

"The definition of what is 'disruptive of decorum' will likely evolve over time," one spokesman told the website techPresident.com, "but of course devices are not to make sound and members are not to be speaking on their phones while on the floor."

On Congress:

• Salaries and Benefits of U.S. Congress Members
• The Powers of Congress
• Quick Study Guide to the Legislative Branch

More on Congress:

• Why We Have a House and Senate
• The Great Compromise: Congress Created
• Requirements to be a U.S. Representative

Also See:

• 10 Wealthiest Members of Congress
• Yeah, Obama Does the Facebook Thing

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Road sign

Road sign

Cellphone

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Cellphone karma

Cellphone karma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wz5oReSa_U

OMG!



Cellphone karma

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20090904 sdosm YT Cellphone karma

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President Interrupted By 'Duck Ringtone' During Speech

President Interrupted By 'Duck Ringtone' During Speech

June 29, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypHIMqV5jhY

President Obama Interrupted By 'Quacking Duck Ringtone' During Speech



20090629 sdosm YT Pres Interrupted By Duck Ringtone During Speech

20071128 BBC: Europeans hang up on fixed lines

BBC: Europeans hang up on fixed lines

November 28,2007

I’ve considered giving up my land line phone for quite some time – and just have not quite been able to let go… I’m curious as to what other folks are doing?

Almost a fifth of European households use a mobile as their only phone, reveals research.

Lithuania heads the nations who have turned against landlines with 48% of households replacing a fixed phone with a mobile. Finland was second with 47%.

The figures from Eurostat, the EC's in-house statistical office, show how mobile phones have become essential to everyday European life.

It reports there are now 95 mobile phones for every 100 Europeans.

Read the entire article here: Europeans hang up on fixed lines

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20050225 Forbes: Cell phones you can't have ... yet

Forbes: Cell phones you can't have ... yet

In Japan and South Korea, future is already here

By Thomas Jackson, Forbes Updated: 3:57 p.m. ET Feb. 25, 2005

We've got some pretty slick phones on the American market today. From Motorola's Razr to Nokia's art-deco-inspired 7280, each is a pocketful of gadgets-camera, MP3 player, video game console and PDA-magically converged into one sleek package. But compared to their Asian counterparts, our handsets look a bit like grandpa's Automatic Electric.

Read the entire article here: Forbes: Cell phones you can't have ... yet