Courtney Carlisle

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Courtney Carlisle

When Courtney Carlisle, a Memphis, TN native moved to Los Angeles "for the summer" seven years ago, the MacBook toting, BlackBerry addict never thought she would end up blogging about gadgets. But, after a crash course in the mobile industry launching the MVNO, Helio, as part of the in-house communications team, she was hooked and began writing about all tech things shiny, speedy and new.

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Music Wars: BlackBerry vs. iPhone

Apparently, according to Rim co-CEO, Jim Ballsillie, BlackBerry is all over the mobile music game...who knew? Yes - I have called fellow BlackBerry users only to be greeted with lovely answer rings,...

Carbon Diem wants you to go green using your cell phone

With LBS (location based services) becoming more effective and pervasive on cell phones, a London-based start up recently launched a new mobile application, called Carbon Diem that uses GPS to...

CES 2009: Re-introducing the First Projector Phone as the Logic Bolt

Logic Wireless debuted a show stopper this year for everyone sick of having to tote presentations on a laptop - the first viable "projector phone." The Logic Bolt, which originally debuted under...

Verizon takes San Francisco by Storm to give away 100 BlackBerry devices

According to the very well connected Boy Genius, Verizon is setting up a BlackBerry Storm challenge in San Francisco's Justin Hermann Plaza downtown. For a chance to win, step inside the  BlackBerry...

BlackBerry App center to launch in March 2009

While I?m certainly not thrilled about the wait, I am very excited about the new BlackBerry App store that RIM finally announced and dated this week. Beginning this December, developers will be able...

Samsung lays down the beat

Samsung launched the Beatb and Beats, two new handsets centered around Motion Play, which lets users access and enjoy music with a couple of clicks.  Shake the phone to skip to the next track, tap it...

Samsung and AT&T: The perfect rugby match

AT&T released the Samsung A837, the bright colored new clamshell that can withstand shock vibrations, rain, humidity, solar radiation and dust and is duly dubbed, the Rugby ($129.99 after rebate...

HTC Dream gets release date

According to my friend, Greg Kumparek on the Crunch* team, we can expect HTC's Dream out on T-Mobile as early as mid-October; in fact his post from this week says to expect in on October 20th if...

JuiceCaster now available on BlackBerry

JuiceCaster, the photo/video sharing application, is now available for free on the Blackberry Curve. Users can sign up to receive the JuiceCaster beta from here. The free beta application is...

T-Mobile unveils the BlackBerry Curve 8320 in sunset

This week, to spice things up a bit, T-Mobile launched the BlackBerry Curve 8320 in Sunset Red.  Like it's titanium and gold siblings, the Sunset version includes a 2 megapixel camera, music and...

WordPress available on iPhone

WordPress, the most used blog tool in its category, announced this week that they are live for iPhone! WordPress for iPhone is now available for download from the App Store.  All iPhone blogging...

New slydial services

We all do it. There is one call that you have to make that you keep putting off until tomorrow, and then the next day. Well, now, you can try Slydial, a new service that lets you connect directly...

Google Talk for the iPhone now available

A new version of Google Talk is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers to let users not only communicate via Gmail but also keep in touch with quick bits via Talk. Users need to use...

Google maps for mobile with voice search for BlackBerry

The Google Maps for mobile team announced that you can now speak your query instead of typing it on a certain BlackBerry devices (Pearl 8110, 8120, and 8130, US only). Using the same speech...

Stay plugged in with Samsung this 4th of July

Samsung Mobile recently added 22 new charging stations at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) to help phone junkies stay juiced up while traveling this week. I am personally grateful...

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