Hacking My Cellphone AdapterNovember 18th, 2006 My cellphone adapter would accassionally refuse to recharge. I tried nudging and pushing, checking if something is loose.
Toilet Disposable CellphoneNovember 18th, 2005 Helsinki's sewerage problem with toilet-disposed cellphones gave me an idea. Why not design disposable, bio-degradable cellphones?
Imagine the great use cases:
You are very angry with your significant other / fiance or your boss.
Cyber criminals may have created first 'zombie' cellphone networkJuly 18th, 2009 LONDON - Experts have warned that hackers may have created a network of "zombie" cellphones, similar to a network of virus-infected personal computers, to send spam or carry out cyber attacks. 'Botnets' is the term that computer scientists use for such networks of computers.
Cell phone Neuralizer (Data Protection)September 8th, 2005 Cell phones today carry wealth of personal data. They can even act as mobile credit cards.
Dell Laptop Explodes in ConferenceJune 21st, 2006 A Dell laptop sudenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident, at a Japanese conference. "The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes"
via The Inquirer
I suspect it is the battery.
15 Ways to Increase your Laptop Battery LifeApril 24th, 2009 Always but always our laptops run out of juice just when we needed to make the vital presentation at the seminar or had something really worth doing. It doesn't depend upon the models these days because even a Macbook Pro can leave you stupid if not religiously charged every day and to the full.
I Hate Origami - Futuristic Laptop From Microsoft [Rant Ahead]March 10th, 2006 I have heard and seen enough of Origami, the futuristic laptop from Microsoft. I went through the apparently secret video of product advertisement, I have seen numerous pictures of origami and I have decided.
$100 Linux Laptop To Debut With 500 Thai Children (1 Million in Thailand Only by 2007)August 18th, 2006 The ambitious One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, to provide low-cost laptop computers to poor children around the world is about to take a big step forward. More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.
Third Dell Laptop Goes For Spontaneous CombustionJuly 31st, 2006 This is the third reported case of Dell Laptops exploding in flames, this time in Singapore. Register reports another Dell notebook, a Latitude D410, has burst into flames.
Dell XPS M1710 Laptop Rocks Mobile Gaming WorldApril 19th, 2006 It is arguably the fastest mobile gaming machine with Intel dual core processor and nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX. Specifications:
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo T2600
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
RAM: 2048 MB
Hard Drive Capacity: 100 GB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce Go 7900GTX
Primary Optical Drive: DVD+R DL
Wireless: 802.11a/g
Screen Size: 17 inches
Screen Size Type: widescreen
System Weight: 8.8 lbs
Price: 2558-2902-3474 (base configurations) from Dell Direct
XPS M1710 is equipped with six grills, lacing the laptop's edges, that light up in a myriad of user-definable colors.
How to Turn Off Your LCD Monitor in LaptopJanuary 14th, 2009 Interesting! Have you ever thought how to turn off LCD monitor in laptop. Often when you are on a go, hurrying with to get the job done and leave, turning off the laptop seems to get on your head.
Samsung Laptop Replaces Hard Disk with Flash MemoryMay 24th, 2006 Samsung Electronics said that it will launch a laptop computer and a "ultra-computing device," in early June. In these devices the hard drives will be replaced with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory.
Web 2.0 Enabled $100 Laptop Will Reach Children in FebruaryJanuary 5th, 2007 The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. However test XO machines are expected to reach children in February before the formal launch.
US Department of Transportation Loses 133, 000 Social Security & Address Records of Florida ResidentsAugust 10th, 2006 The US Department of Transportation has announced that a Dell laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. The information on the missing laptop included people in Miami-Dade County who hold commercial drivers licenses, Florida residents who have pilot's licenses and people who got their Florida drivers licenses from a facility in Largo, Fla.
Austria Figures Electronic Vote Counting Machines Were Fingered by Cosmic RaysJanuary 8th, 2007 An electronic vote-counting machine in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, declared that 4096 more people had cast their vote than the ballot slips testified. The machine had been thoroughly tested and deemed perfect.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:51 am
The MDA is a much better phone then the Sidekick II. Its true that the mda is more of a palmtop computer then a phone, Thats why I love it so much.
I created a website about hacking / modifying / tweaking the MDA, http://www.mdaTweak.com
March 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
hey, i have the tmobile mda phone and i dropped it a couple weeks ago. the screen completely broke it is all white now. i cant see anything. i need to get it replaced. do you know where i would be able to get that fixed? i didnt have insurance on the phone so tmobile told me that i would have to buy another one. which is rediculous. im hopeing you will be able to help me. eagerly awaiting your email.