In what could only be described as a Seinfeldian moment of schadenfreude, Philharmonic music conductor Alan Gilbert stopped Tuesday's performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony during the emotionally-taut ending because some guy in the front row wouldn't turn off his cell phone.
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First the iPhone was only available to AT&T customers, forcing Verizon users to wait four whole years until they could play Angry Birds like the rest of the tech elite. But with the release of the Android and various other Smartphones using a variety of carriers, it no longer seemed necessary to pay the $200 cancellation fee to switch cell phone providers. Until now.
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If your bank account is stored on your smartphone, guess what? Banking smartphone apps contain security flaws -- flaws that transcend the existential problem that mobile phones are small, portable and easy to steal.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Wells Fargo and Bank of America, among other banks, are currently at work patching up Read More
When it comes to cell phone use, New Yorkers are more likely than the rest of the nation to keep the thing in their pants. The Post reports that the Empire State ranked 15th for number of total calls per resident, and near the very bottom in the average duration of calls, according to the data Read More
Watching the mass impulse toward democracy in Iran over the past week has been alternately inspiring and terrifying. The power and clumsiness of the state never fails to scare me and the courage and intensity of the public in the street continues to inspire. Something is different about political participation in these early years of Read More
“I’ll sit there and watch the phone ring and be like, ‘UGH! Why are they calling?’” said Ms. Morrison, “99 percent” of whose Read More
U.S. purchases of new cellphones declined in the first quarter for the first time in several years, signaling that worries about an economic slowdown are hurting the handset market, according to two new studies.
Perhaps soon fewer people gabbing away in the Amtrak quiet car?
