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On tonight's premier episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Steve Wozniak hacked Kathy's iPhone using AppSnap while on their way to the Producer Guild Awards.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/12/2008 11:41:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assassination by the Apple Secret Police I presume). Word on the street is that resellers across the country have also received similar packages. As seen by the picture, it's contents are protected under NDA until Tuesday June 10 - does that date ring a bell to anyone? Our source strongly believes that the package contains the much coveted 3G iPhone. Why is there only one and why is it here early though? Our source believes that the iPhone contained within is for promotional purposes, ie. after it's official unveiling at WWDC next week." Via MacTalk .
How long do you think it would take you to open this box if you received it, and it was really from Apple?;)
Labels: apple, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/06/2008 08:34:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Jay-Z was spotted carrying his MacBook Air even though he gets paid to endorse HP Laptops ;)
Labels: macbook air, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/01/2008 01:25:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Police were called to Britney Spears' mansion last night after she got into a heated argument with her "manager".Pictures were taken of an iPhone text conversation between Britney Spears' manager and her paparazzo boyfriend. I wonder if Apple thinks this is good product placement or bad? ;)
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/29/2008 08:22:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Look y'all, I got me an iPhone. I can watch my latest video, watch my older videos, listen to my latest CD, listen to my old music, surf the interweb, text the paparazzi, and flick through photos of my kids, I can even pinch them to make them grow y'all! The company that makes this thing even put a phone in it, it's crazy y'all!!!"
Welcome to the iPhone world Britney Spears...
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/23/2008 12:47:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: macbook air, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/22/2008 12:03:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"Sounds funny right. But I am dead serious. He signed my iphone and we had friendly conversation about it. He told me that Steve Jobs got him one too. I wanted to tell that Al Gore is on apple's board of directors, he should be able to get prerelease version with 3g or smth, but he was already taken away by his escort...." Via Livejournal .
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/21/2007 12:40:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
We here at Gadgets on the Go do not openly support any political candidates but feel as though we must say, 'Vote Ron Paul!'
Seriously, please do not take our advice. Vote for whom you think will do the best job.
¶ posted by Rocco Mandaglio, Staff Writer @ 10/21/2007 08:36:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Lindsay Lohan is still in rehab, but took a trip to the supermarket where she was photographed with her BFF, iPhone.
Below is a picture of Lohan with her iPhone as she left her last rehab stint. I'm not sure if this is good product placement for Apple, but it sure doesn't hurt.
Grey's Anatomy star Katharine Heigl has 2 good habits and one bad. She uses her iPhone while drinking Diet Coke and lighting up a cigarette. Hopefully developers will create a smoke quitting app for the iPhone and help her, and many others kick the bad habit:)
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/20/2007 07:42:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
MacDailyNews is reporting that President Bush's Senior Advisor Karl Rove uses an iPhone. I'm not too sure that's a good photo op for the iPhone, but I'm not going to get political. Just goes to show you how simple the iPhone really is;)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/06/2007 09:07:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Martha Stewart is on the cover of the August edition of Wired. In the magazine Martha shows you how to make a cake in the shape of a Wii. Martha Stewart's love of technology doesn't stop at making edible confections that resemble gadgets, she's actually a gadget freak. How do I know this you ask? Her daughter told me (kinda).
Alexis Stewart (Martha's hot daughter) has a very un-Martha like radio show called "Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer" with the equally hot Jennifer Hutt, on Sirius Satellite Radio Monday thru Friday, 5pm-7pm E.S.T. with rebroadcasts daily from 11pm-1am E.S.T . They talk about "whatever", it's a hilarious and addicting show. They also have a blog over @http://www.whateverradio.com .
Alexis told listeners last week that Martha was spending her 66th birthday attending Google Camp. Alexis also revealed that Martha Stewart has an iPhone, and uses both a Mac and PC. How's that for some geek cred?
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/06/2007 11:10:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Lindsay Lohan checked out of rehab and was seen with her new BFF iPhone. Lohan is usually seen carrying a BlackBerry, but like most of the country she got her hands on an iPhone this weekend. Checking out of rehab and getting an iPhone? She's off to a good start.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/01/2007 06:03:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"Some lucky celebs came out in Hollywood last night to celebrate the launch (and probably grab some samples) of the new BlackBerry Curve." Via PopSugar .
It's great to be famous, have the money to buy expensive things, but be given them for free (to be seen with) so ordinary people will feel like Eva Longoria when they get their hands on a BlackBerry Curve. The BlackBerry is really catering to the celebs these days, the SideKick better watch its back and plan a party soon.
Labels: blackberry, culture, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/02/2007 12:20:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
I was just watching TV and saw a new commercial from Sprint. In the commercial a man asks a woman if she's on Cingular, she replies "no Sprint". A commentator then appears behind them saying, "they are both at the starting gate." They both begin to download an email attachment. The woman is using a Sprint Blue Treo 755p, while the man is using a Cingular Nokia E61. The commentator explains, "the race is on between Cingular's Edge network and Sprint's mobile broadband network." The commentator finishes with, " crossing the finish line and Sprint is 5 times faster". The the Treo 755p pops up on the screen and you're told you can get the new Sprint Treo 755 for $279.99 @ sprint.com./business .
It's great to see Sprint advertising the Treo 755p and how much more powerful it is compared to other "smartphones" :)
Labels: sightings, sprint, treo
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 5/28/2007 12:13:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Verizon Wireless aired a commercial specifically about the Treo 700p during "My name is Earl" on NBC. I had to use my Tivo to rewind it because I couldn't believe my eyes. The commercial shows a woman walking down the street sending an email with some kind of pie chart in it, checking her calendar, replying to a text, and checking the weather. Here's the dialogue:
"With the Treo 700p and the Verizon Wireless network behind you, work, family, and everything in between is right at your finger tips. The perfect device for the business of your life."
Better late than never I guess.
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 4/19/2007 08:13:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"The cellphone. TWO cellphones. Because the new Treo is such a whiz with its GPS, e-mail, video capability, correct time in Tokyo, etc., I fear something may go wrong with it, and so I keep the old dinosaur. Just in case. I therefore need to deprogram both. Between voice mail and text messaging, that's logging on to FOUR places just to get a message like "Why don't you respond to my fax?"
It's a pretty funny article coming from a non-techie's view point, check out the whole article for a good laugh. C'mon Cindy, a Treo with GPS?? She obviously doesn't know Palm;)
Labels: culture, sightings, treo
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 4/16/2007 01:57:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"CONGRATULATIONS," my friend Lisa said to me as my handbag began to ring, "you graduated from a cell to a PDA."
"A what?"
"A PDA."
"What's a PDA?"
"It's what you're now using."
"I'm using a Palm Treo."
"What's a Palm Treo?"
"A sort of phone, computer, e-mail, Blackberry, text-messaging kind of thing. It comes in different colors. This pretty orange one, same one I saw Zach Braff getting, was a gift."
""Let me educate you. It's what's called a PDA."
"What exactly is a PDA?"
"I don't know. I only know that's what it is." Googling PDA, Lisa determined it stands for Personal Digital Assistant - whateverthehell that is. I don't understand technologicalese. What I understand is I'm losing my mind. I want only to answer the phone when it rings."
"So the company dispatched a techie to teach me. Erin's first lesson was: "To deactivate an open application, like, say, if you've downloaded music from the Web to use as your ringtone, press Purge with the stylus."
"Do what with the what?
"And you have to install your old SIM card unless your numbers were directly on the hard drive. Where did you store your contacts?" My what?"
"Look, to bypass the telephone book and go into speed-dial mode, just click on the home page by hitting the 'house' button then highlight the star icon which automatically brings up your prefs." To read the whole article click here
If Cindy Adams can use a Treo anyone can:)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 3/26/2007 07:21:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
I'd like to give Mr. Aguleira some advice, upgrade to a Treo 700p and you'll be able to communicate much faster using Sprint and Verizon's EV-DO Network. It could get you that picture much faster than another paparazzi using a GSM EDGE phone;)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/28/2007 10:49:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/27/2007 10:24:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
The Treo 700p has been getting a lot of airtime lately on primteime TV shows. The latest was on tonight's ABC's "Brothers and Sisters".
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/18/2007 11:06:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Palm's celebrity guests
"Lou Reed, one of the founders of the Velvet Underground and the author of a number of rock classics, recently suffered a personal loss: His Treo 600 got killed in a traffic accident.
"I can't believe this happened. I'm so bummed," Reed told Marcus Colombano, a marketing consultant who handles product placement for the Treo smart phone. "It fell in the snow and got run over by a truck." A new unit was sent off to him immediately.
Welcome to the world of influencer marketing. Colombano, who runs San Francisco-based Avantgarde, tries to build momentum for products by getting them in the hands of the right people. He conducts the Treo campaign for PalmOne, the hardware side of the former Palm, which acquired the Treo when it bought rival handheld maker Handspring in 2003.
For PalmOne and PalmSource--the software spinoff that is holding its developer conference in San Jose, Calif., this week--this personalized form of product placement appears to pay off. Actor Kevin Spacey gave the Palm companies a public-relations bump, for example, when he used his Treo 600 to conduct a remote television interview during the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
Avantgarde also landed a Treo 600 in the hands of Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. Whether there is a connection or not, Starbucks is rolling out Treos to parts of its field force at the moment. Are people so shallow that they'll buy something, just because it seems sort of cool? A PalmOne spokesman said the company has always perceived value in this sort of effort.
In a lot of ways, influencer marketing resembles high school for bigwigs. Musician Peter Gabriel got a Treo when it first came out--a model 180--in early 2002, Colombano said. Reed saw it and called up for one. Later, Gabriel and Reed went to dinner with Laurie Anderson, who asked for one, after she saw them making phone calls.
Soon after, assistants for composer Philip Glass, jazz musician Branford Marsalis and Metallica requested, and received, Treo units for their bosses. Naturally, picking the right influencer isn't easy. Veteran comedian Shecky Green probably isn't high on Colombano's list of potential targets. The units don't randomly go out in the mail: Typically, the so-called target--or a representative--agrees to receive one.
Still, the list of targets is rather diverse. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has become a Treo user through the program, as have actor Evan Handler, Fiat auto designer Michael Robinson, Oxford professor and author Richard Dawkins, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullins, and Andy Caldwell, a disk jockey. ("Caldwell's good for demonstrating it, because he travels a lot" and hence uses more of the communication bands, Colombano said.)
Celebrity ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick has joined the club, too. Colombano met Mitnick at a social occasion where Mitnick demonstrated to him--purely for entertainment purposes--how he could hack his cell phone to make it look like his wife was calling."
I know this article is now 3 years old, but it's still very relevant. I've been posting Treo sightings on GOTG over the past year, last week alone the Treo 700p was featured on 2 popular TV shows. Palm has done a great job of keeping the Treo in the hands of "important" people, isn't that the reason you use a Treo?
Labels: culture, palm, sightings, treo
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/16/2007 08:12:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
The Treo 700p made another appearance on FX's new series Dirt , starring Courtney Cox. This is the 2nd time this week I have seen the Treo 700p make an appearance on a TV show. Great product placement Palm!
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/06/2007 10:36:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
About 30 minutes into the show the Treo 700p made its 2nd appearance on tonight's episode of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/05/2007 10:36:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
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