Cellular Phones

Finally, TABC Has an App to Tell You When You're Drunk

Have you ever been drunk? Have you ever wondered about how drunkenness affects your maze-completing ability? Have you ever wanted to test your drunken maze-completing ability using a taxpayer-funded smartphone app that constantly shames you about your drunkenness? If you answered yes to all those q ... More >>

The New Facebook Diet with a Side of Shame

This morning the HuffPo reported on a marginally successful cell phone restriction at Eva Restaurant in Los Angeles. The upscale spot offers a 5 percent discount for diners to put their cell phones away during meals. We've tackled this subject here before. Last year we lobbed the idea of a "cell p ... More >>

Cut And Paste

Hey Dallas, Send Us Your Instagrams (Again!)

The end of 2012 is quickly approaching, and in honor of Dallas' eventful year we're asking all of our readers (who have smartphones) to send us their Instagrams. Send Instagram photos of your favorite events, places, people, restaurants, chefs, cocktails, art exhibits, animals and basically anythi ... More >>

Gawker's Fruit Rankings Are Terrible So I Made My Own and They're Much Better

Gawker is actually ranking fruits. How pointless is that? Let's break down their rankings and rank the fruits of the world ourselves. 27. Fig 26. Date 25. Honeydew 24. Papaya 23. Cantaloupe 22. Blackberry 21. Pear

In the Katy Trail Robberies, Police Reports Paint Portrait of Bumbling, Brazen Criminals

We know a lot more about the string of recent armed robberies at the Katy Trail since the Dallas Police Department initially released some details on the incidents yesterday. We know, for example, that police think all were committed by a pair of black men in their 20s who were driving a silver, fou ... More >>

The Snozzberries Taste Like Snozzberries!

Dallas Restaurateurs Debate Whether a Cell Phone Ban Could Work, and How

A comment in my story a while back about phone stacking caught my attention. "In Japan they have 'No Phone Areas' in restaurants, bars and even the subway," Wagner Gui Tronolone wrote. "I think it's awesome!" It does sound sort of awesome. Sometimes a cell phone feels like a leash. At the other end ... More >>

Run on in Temple Run

Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you'll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. It's a rare day when you see an app in the iTunes store that has a 5 star rating (for the current rating at least, and 4 ½ stars for all versions, but who's c ... More >>

Designate These Drivers: If You Have to Ask, You're Not OK to Drive

​Cab rides aren't cheap, but they're a bargain compared with the costs of a DWI. Fines of up to $2,000, up to six months in jail, suspension of your driver's license, having your car impounded, bail money and lost time off work (if you're not fired) add up to make that mistaken "I'm OK to drive" r ... More >>

Modern Artifact

The Music of the film Winter's Bone (Featuring The Blackberry Winter Band)

Saturday, June 11, at The Loft

Don't Mince Words, Jon Stewart. How Do You Really Feel About Downtown-Based AT&T?

​Verizon announced yesterday that beginning next month, it too will offer service via the iPhone -- thus ending iPhone users' long national nightmare known as AT&T exclusivity. Jon Stewart's so excited by the news he used some seven minutes at the top of last night's Daily Show  to celebr ... More >>

Dallas Attorneys Take on Apple, App-Makers in California Federal Court Over Privacy Issues

Flickr user: Sigalakos​Today's Washington Post offers this heads-up: Last week in U.S. District Court in California, Greenville Avenue-based personal-injury attorney Majed Nachawati and West End-dwelling personal-injury attorney Jeremy Wilson filed a class-action suit in which three locals, among ... More >>

News Delays Launch of iPhone, iPad Apps and "Subscriber Content." Till When? Dunno.

​A couple of weeks back we noticed that The Dallas Morning News would begin offering very special "subscriber content"on December 14, the same date the paper intended to launch its new iPhone and iPad apps. Publisher Jim Moroney wouldn't offer any further details about DallasNews.com's banner anno ... More >>

Hash Over: Cheap Beer and Food
For The Quarter Bar and El Fenix Anniversaries; Maximo Celebrates Guacamole Day; DISH has a New Lunch Menu

​If we had to pick a theme for this week's Hash Over, then it would be cheap, very cheap, celebrations. So, we're going to need you to cancel whatever you have going on this Wednesday and Thursday, and join in on the fun, cheapskate. The Quarter Bar, part of the Uptown Bread Winners, will ce ... More >>

Totshop

Botti Blows

In Irving, Former Radio Shack and Sprint Bosses Want Your Old Cellphones. Now.

​The wireless world's in Las Vegas at this very moment for the CTIA confab -- where, just this morning, a former Radio Shack boss (David Edmondson) and ex-Sprint president (Ron LeMay) announced the creation of eRecyclingCorps. Which is, put simply: "The company will help carriers buy back used han ... More >>

Talkin' Trash About the City's 311 System

Hey, Jim, maybe Frank Librio can come pick up your trash in this sweet ride.​The Schutze household has been working on a mystery all day about how to call the city for bulk trash pickup if the trucks keep skipping your block during pickup week. We found that we could not reach 311 -- the service ... More >>

What'll Save Radio Shack? The iPhone, Duh.

​On Friday, Radio Shack issued this terse press release: "As part of its ongoing mobility strategy, RadioShack is pleased to announce that it will introduce Apple's iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a limited number of company-owned stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City metropolitan areas be ... More >>

Sure, There's QuakeCon in August. But Sure to Be All the Rage? Id's Long-Awaited Rage.

For about a year, this is all folks have seen of id's new Rage, which will likely debut at QuakeCon.At last year's QuakeCon, held at the Hilton Anatole, id Software's John Carmack made a few announcements considered quite major at the time, among them word that the Mesquite-based developer was looki ... More >>

Dallas-Based Big in Japan Is, Like, This Close to Launching ShopSavvy For the iPhone

Forbes today is but the latest in a long line of media outlets to celebrate Big in Japan's made-in-Dallas ShopSavvy app, currently available only for the T-Mobile Android. The Stemmons Freeway-based developers are rushing as fast as they can to get their bar-code-scanning, price-checking app to the ... More >>

Court of Appeals Tosses Out News's "Significant Victory" Over the City in 2007

Years later, a fight between the city and The News over Laura Miller's BlackBerry continues in court.Three years ago, The Dallas Morning News took the city of Dallas to court over e-mails reporters Dave Levinthal and Reese Dunklin had wanted from then-Mayor Laura Miller's BlackBerry. The city conten ... More >>

Caraway: If You Vote Against the Hotel, Dallas Will Look the Same "50 Years From Now"

We missed the pro-convention center hotel wingding in front of Dallas City Hall last night. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway did not. Here's his pitch for the hotel, and it apparently has something to do with ... cell phones?

A Wolfenstein at the Door: Id's Still Working On a New iPhone App, But There is Quake Live

A screenshot from Wolfenstein RPG for your cell phoneMesquite-based id Software's but moments away from unleashing its browser-based Quake Live, and in advance of that momentous open-beta occasion, John Carmack talks to MTV Multiplayer today about everything happening at id these days (everything ex ... More >>

Could Cell Phones Topple iPods?

Could your cellphone's ability to stream music render the iPod obsolete? Quite possibly.

Lucky Day

Time Warner North Texas Ain't Happy With Its Cell Service Either

Circles And...

See some cyclical art at Meridian Room

At the Anatole, John Carmack Got Gamers Quaking in Their Booties

UPDATE: The Greg Williams Aftermath -- Live Radio Discussion

Playback: The Week (5/30/08 - 6/6/08) In Review

BlackBerry, Berry Useless

Or, You Could Just Watch the Big Game on Your Cell Phone

Dr Pepper's Ahead of the Advergame!

Part of the Heard

Little Lolita

Celia Rivenbark campaigns against child skankiness

Arcadia Fire, Part II

Richie Rich Round-Up

Be Cool

Best City Council Member

Gary Griffith

Best Restaurant for Kids

The Purple Cow

Best Fast Food

Culver's

Missing Manners

What are the rudest things Dallas diners do?

Best Place to eat alone

La Madeleine French Bakery and Café

Critics' Picks

The Flaming Lips

Follow the Money

Don't let accusations of overtime fraud by low-level employees distract you. The real money disappears from the Dallas Independent School District through sleazy contracts awarded by top administrators.

Camp Player

Baseball's unemployed get in shape--and wait by the phone