Codenamed Kiki, this handset, purportedly forthcoming from Sony-Ericsson, sports a glassy display and an unusual design , but no specs are offered. That’s Vodafone, in the mockup image, as carrier. Also, I fully support the call for more green handsets . [Mobil via Unwired View ]
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Kiki, Sony Ericsson’s strangest phone ever
Unfortunately, the villain wore a hat . [WaPo]
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Surveillance video of botched Apple Story robbery
The manufacturers included software at the the Chinese government’s behest , but the software in question was plagiarized. And now the pain begins, as the swiped software’s creator, Solid Oak, now files suit here in the U.S. The clone software even tries to access Solid Oak’s server for updates.
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Sony, Lenovo and Acer sued after shipping pirated software
The Wall Street Journal reports that AOL is secretly “upgrading” old customers, then sending the “debt” to collection agencies. About a month ago, we started getting bizarre phone calls from a collections agency … “concerning unpaid charges of $103.60.” When I asked what I was being charged for, I was told it was four months’ worth of something called “upgraded service” for AOL in late 2008. I pointed out that we had never requested or agreed to any upgrade, nor used any AOL service other than email. Please send a printed bill to my home address so I can formally dispute it, I requested. “I am sorry, sir, but we cannot do that.” The victim is the Journal’s own Jason Zweig, whose account was originally given tor him free of charge as a Time-Warner employee. He describes it as blackmail: “How can you charge me for something I didn’t order and certainly didn’t want, about which I was never informed, and for which I have received no bill of any kind?” It’s in the EULA, of course! Anyone who has ever had an AOL account — even if you just used email or AIM — needs to keep an eye on its decline into apparent shiftiness. Does it have your credit card information? Your bank details? Photo: Rogue Sun Media You’ve Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn’t Die
The Wall Street Journal reports that AOL is secretly “upgrading” old customers, then sending the “debt” to collection agencies. About a month ago, we started getting bizarre phone calls from a collections agency … “concerning unpaid charges of $103.60.” When I asked what I was being charged for, I was told it was four months’ worth of something called “upgraded service” for AOL in late 2008. I pointed out that we had never requested or agreed to any upgrade, nor used any AOL service other than email. Please send a printed bill to my home address so I can formally dispute it, I requested. “I am sorry, sir, but we cannot do that.” The victim is the Journal’s own Jason Zweig, whose account was originally given tor him free of charge as a Time-Warner employee. He describes it as blackmail: “How can you charge me for something I didn’t order and certainly didn’t want, about which I was never informed, and for which I have received no bill of any kind?” It’s in the EULA, of course! Anyone who has ever had an AOL account — even if you just used email or AIM — needs to keep an eye on its decline into apparent shiftiness. Does it have your credit card information? Your bank details? Photo: Rogue Sun Media You’ve Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn’t Die
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Wall Street Journal: AOL blackmailing former users with bill threats
To celebrate 4th of July, I dropped by Wired to play with the Solaire Anywhere Portable Grill and Oregon Scientific’s Wireless Talking BBQ Thermometer . Note: Sorry for the pre-roll ad.
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BBQ Tip: Try An Infrared BBQ & Talking Thermometer
The SK3 is a small, well-specced netbook that would be called a UMPC in a past life. What intrigues me about it is how it’s made to integrate with this standard-form business planner. It’s strange and pointless and wonderful, like something from an old science fiction movie. Check out the unboxing at UMPC Portal: Kohjinsha SK3. Ultra-Portable and Portfolio-Ready! (Unboxing video) .
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Kohjinsha SK3 is filofax for the 21st century
A few dozen old albums glued together, top-sanded and put on IKEA legs. $450. [ Bughouse via Awesomer ]
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Side table made of old LP sleeves
From the cover of the Christian Science Monitor. I’ll tweet the answer on Monday.
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Guess which one is the robot?
Witnesses heard shots fired in the back room of an Apple store in Arlington, Va., at about 10 a.m. this morning. One person was shot, and the shooter escaped on foot, and was reported to be wearing a fake beard. The extent of the victim’s injuries are unclear. [ Fox ] Cult of Mac Updates : “Police have confirmed that a 26-year-old, female Apple employee was shot in the upper body and injured at the Apple Store Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia, during a “violent armed robbery.”
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Shooting at Arlington Apple store
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