Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, October 11, 2010,
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Technology
Microsoft is dead serious about returning to the mobile phone business after their first failed attempt. Earlier today the company, in partnership with AT&T, showed off three of its new WP7 phones---the Samsung Focus, LG Quantum, and HTC 7 Surround, all of which will sell for about $200, the same as the latest iPhone. T-mobile will offer the HTC HD7 and HTC Mozart in November. The WP7 platform will allow access to the Zune music system and, in collaboration with EA Games, the ability to us... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Monday, September 27, 2010,
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Communications
The Obama administration wants to hear from you---without you knowing it---in new ways. It's drafting a bill right now, to be introduced early next year, which will enable the Feds to tap into your E-mail over the Internet and when you use wireless phones. For a number of years, our government has been spying on us as we make phone calls over landlines with a device called Carnivore, but it's unable to break the encryption codes used by the Internet, so they want Internet providers and cell... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, September 15, 2010,
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Technology
Think Americans have a love affair with their cell phones? Move over, friend, because South Korea has us beat. In a country with 48.8 million people, South Korea's Communications Commission reports that there are over 50 million cell phones in use. This means, theoretically, that there are some 1.2 million people wandering around with at least two phones, but if you factor in young children and people without a cell phone, the number is greater. Just like in some Arab nations and Japan, m... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
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Technology
Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry phones, has been singled out as a security threat recently in the Middle East because of the secure encryption it uses, which makes it impossible for outside sources to decode E-mails and messages sent with these phones. Saudi Arabia has issued a ban on BlackBerries, which may be lifted as soon as that country can evaluate the security and encryption codes that Research In Motion has supplied them with. India is getting in on the action now, citing Bl... Continue reading ...
Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Thursday, July 8, 2010,
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Communications
More problems have surfaced for the expected Messiah of cell phones, the iPhone4, which in the two weeks since its release has had more defects than Toyota. Who can forget the biggest hitch in that product, the fact that when the phone is held in a certain manner, you cut yourself off from your call? Detractors, which are legion, had a field day with that and jokingly called it "The Death Grip". Apple countered by saying that any phone with a built-in antenna will do that. Funny, but my f... Continue reading ...
Chief Jack has hosted The Mohawk Radio Show since August 1969. He is a champion for the cause of Indie artists, and many Indies have had great success since having their music played on the station. He is a Mohawk chief who played with a Canadian band for about 10 years. He publishes articles under the name Jacques Boulerice for Yahoo! Voices and is working on a new movie script.
