All posts containing the tag: "blackberry"
Posted Feb 17th 2009 2:50PM by TMZ Staff
There's nothing quite like sitting in the front row of a runway show at NY Fashion Week ... and catching up on your electronic correspondence.
Even with "Top Model" hunk Nigel Barker sitting at their side and a model prancing before them, Nicky and Paris Hilton kept their concentration and successfully ignored the Pamella Roland Fall 2009 fashion show on Tuesday.
Hopefully, later in the day, someone will text them what happened.
Filed under: Paris Hilton, Fashion
Tags: blackberry, cell phone, CellPhone, Fashion week, FashionWeek, iPhone, Nicky Hilton, NickyHilton, Paris Hilton, ParisHilton
Posted Mar 10th 2008 5:30PM by TMZ Staff
Barack gets the Black vote -- BlackBerry that is!
Research in Motion -- the maker of BlackBerry -- has teamed up with Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am's website, Dipdive.com, to run a series of pro-Obama videos.
While the folks at RIM haven't officially endorsed Barack, Will.i.am is a fierce supporter of Obama. The Dipdive website has so much Obama content, it might as well be run by his camp!
Hillary's people better call Apple and get on the iPhone train!
Filed under: Prez Election 2008
Tags: barack obama, BarackObama, blackberry, will.i.am
Posted Mar 9th 2007 3:00PM by TMZ Staff
Awww, Daylight Savings Time, when the day never seems to end. Are you PDA-ready?
Unfortunately, the new Daylight Savings Time changes (it's been extended from March 11 to November 4) may leave your smart phone out of sync with the rest of the nation after this weekend. No one wants to be late for a barbecue because their PDA hasn't been upgraded with the latest patch!
So head on over to your smart phone's OS website -- and update your gizmo before the Sunday morning time change makes you late.
Filed under: Celebritoyz
Tags: blackberry, daylight savings time, DaylightSavingsTime, gadget, palm, pda, smart phone, SmartPhone, technology, windows mobile, WindowsMobile
Posted Feb 7th 2007 2:21PM by TMZ Staff
If a proposed bill passes in New York, you won't see pedestrians in Manhattan bopping along to their iPods.
State Sen. Carl Kruger is planning to introduce legislation to ban the use of gadgets -- iPods, Blackberrys, cell phones, etc. -- while crossing city streets. Careful Sen. Kruger, you don't want to cross Steve Jobs!
"We're talking about people walking, sort of tuned in and in the process of being tuned in, tuned out," Kruger told WCBS-TV in New York. "They're walking into speeding cars. They're walking into buses. They're walking into one another and it's creating a number of fatalities that have been documented right here in the city."
Kruger's bill calls for a $100 fine, and would apply only to big cities in New York state, which already has a law banning the use of cell phones while driving, unless a hands-free device is used.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird
Tags: blackberry, cell phone, CellPhone, ipod
Posted Jan 10th 2007 2:52PM by TMZ Staff
Enjoy the spotlight Apple -- while it lasts. Apple, as you don't need me to tell you, introduced the $499 iPhone yesterday, and in so doing sent Apple's share price soaring by six percent. Close-competitor BlackBerry stock plunging by even more. To put that in perspective for you: Apple, Inc. is now worth $6 billion more than it was 48 hours ago, and the iPhone won't even be available until June.
I can see why. I recently steeled myself and managed to program -- slowly, painfully -- a few new numbers into my Motorola RAZR V3 cell phone. With its agonizingly slow web connection and painfully awkward text-messaging, being thin really is about its only redeeming quality. Fortunately, as Nicole Richie can tell you, being extremely thin is often enough to keep your name in the papers. When the RAZR came out in July 2004, it stopped traffic; Aircraft-grade aluminum, chemically-etched keypad numbers, all in a package less than 14 millimeters thick. Back then, we all agreed that cell phones were evil, and while they all more or less sucked for anything beside making a call, they were necessary. The least they could be was elegantly unobtrusive.
Steve Job's latest invention aims to contravene those assumptions. In addition to being a phone, it's got a multi-touch screen, scrolling navigation and a 2-megapixel camera, as well as the iPod music and video player. Daily Variety even put news of Apple's new, albeit limited, movie download agreement with Paramount Pictures on its front page the other day. (If you think your monthly cell phone bill is scary now, wait until it includes the price of the six movies, ten shows and eighteen songs you bought with it.)
More, I don't know about you, but my cell phone has taken so many beatings from me, it's considering taking out a restraining order. In contrast, I treat the iPod my wife gave to me like it's a Fabergé egg. I shudder to think what will happen to Apple if the five or six hundred dollar iPhone proves to be as delicate as it is expensive. Rather than use it to order 4,000 lattes, Jobs would have impressed me and the CES audience far more if he'd simply dropped his iPhone to the floor, as I've done a million times, then nonchalantly continued his prank call to Starbucks.
One other thing that leaves me head-scratching: Why would a guy so meticulous about what tech geeks refer to as "the user experience" throw-in with a bunch of chuckleheads like the phone companies? Ultimately, a phone is judged by its provider, and as anyone who's called directory assistance can tell you, the phone companies will deny that a restaurant you just drove by even exists -- especially when you need the number in a hurry.
It appears Wall Street's analysts share the same worries; this summer we'll see if Jobs can revolutionize chewing the fat the way he did spinning the wax.
Filed under: City Of Industry
Tags: apple, blackberry, cell phone, CellPhone, iphone, ipod, motorola, phone, price, ratings, rim, steve jobs, SteveJobs, stock
