Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Links to the latest mobile Obama inauguration news

Here’s the latest news on ties between mobile phones, President-Elect Barack Obama and his inauguration: The Presidential Inaugural Committee is letting people sign up for text message updates. [textually] A news report that Barack Obama values mobile devices. [Politico via Smart Mobs] After much speculation about whether Obama can keep his BlackBerry once in office, [...]

Chipotle burrito iPhone app makes possible previous Apple patent

Chipotle’s new application that would let iPhone users order burritos dissapeared quickly from the ol’ app store this week. But, it promises a trip back soon and it makes possible a previous Apple patent idea from 2007. Jeremy Horwitz over at iLounge writes that the iLounge crew was deciding on buying the Chipotle app when [...]

First photo of Hudson River plane crash taken with iPhone

Janis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone, reports Silicon Alley Insider. Thirty-four minutes after Janis posted his photo, MSNBC interviewed him live on TV as a witness. This comes a day after Robert Scoble wrote about how the social web has changed the [...]