It's "Normal" For iPhones' to drop 30% of Calls

If you're an iPhone user in New York City you have probably had quiet a few dropped calls.  Now, the iPhone is an amazing device, but it has a tendency to drop calls.  But, apparently, on average they drop 30% of their calls in New York City. 

Weekly Time Waster : Fig 8.

Figure 8 is an interesting (and very addictive!) web game.  The point of the game is to control a bicycle (using the arrow keys) while avoiding any and all black lines. This includes text, scenery, anything!

Fig. 8 is very easy to pick up and gets gradually difficult.  Save points along the way allow you to save your progress by circling them with your bike.  There are also score indicators as you go along.  The art is plain black and white, but adds the feel of history.  You  seamlessly traverse through a series of architectural drawings, each more difficult then the last.

First Look At Micosoft Pink Phones

These "leaked" pictures below show what Microsofts new line of phones, The Pink Phone, looks like.  It will be probably Microsoft's answer to the iPhone.   The phones, called Turtle and pure will be made by Sharp, the same company that made T-Mobile's Sidekick series.

Really, Awesome, Great, Apple Video

This video was taken from cuts of the Apple iPod event last week. It made me chuckle a little.

T-Mobile Axes Plan to Charge for Paper Bills

I'm going to right out and say it; I HATE T-mobile, I usually do not write biasedly ( probably not a word) but I have had nothing but trouble from T-Mobile. A T-mobile had another plan to get money from you for inferior service set to go into effect soon. They were planning on charging unfortunate customers a $2 surcharge for having there bills printed out.

I mean REALLY, it's considered a a common courtesy for bills to be printed out and mailed to you. But T-mobile decided to be "Green" (as in give them more greenbacks!) and email you your bill for free instead of mailing it to you normally. Apparently, people caught on to the fact that T-mobile was doing this solely for themselves so they revoked it. Apparently tons of there customers complained so now they are not moving forwards with the plan.

T-mobile had this to say: "Since the announcement we've heard everything from kudos to concerns about the move to paperless -- especially from our customers who today are receiving paper bills at no charge. So, we've decided to not charge our customers a paper bill fee for now. Instead, we'll be taking more time to determine the fairest way possible to encourage people to go paperless." But, they still will charge $2 extra for a more "detailed" bill.

Youtube in Talks Offer Streaming Movie Rentals

The Wall Street journal has reported that Youtube is in talks with 4 major movies studios, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Sony Corp., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros, to offer retail movie rentals. These rentals would be payed, about $4 per movie, or could be ad-supported. The negotiations aren't anywhere near finished but this could help Hollywood survive the dwindling DVD market.

Google's Chrome Web Browser is getting Desktop Notifications

Google's Chrome web browser is going to get built in "Desktop Notifications" soon. (similar to Growl)  A document on this feature can be found on the Chromium Developer site.  On Macs and Linux computers, the notifications would run through Growl and DBus (respectively). 

At this moment these notifications are off by default, but with some command line fiddling you can get them to work.  It's uncertain how this will be used, Growl has few applications that run it, and if it will not be used for "nefarious purposes".

(info from TechCrunch)