Verizon cap in the a**

It's not necessarily news that Verizon cripples the Motorola RAZR from being able to transfer ringtones and media files. The guys over at Wired wrote an interesting article about this topic yesterday. Give it a read.

I used to have a RAZR from Verizon and tried BitPim and a Motorola Phone Tools hack, but both solutions took too much effort. And then there is Xingtone, which is a nifty application that let's you easily create ringtones from music you own. However, Verizon put a severe cap on the file size so that you could only transfer a Xingtone ringtone that was tiny (like less than 5 seconds long).

I understand Verizon is trying to make money off of their own ringtone sales, but come on... if the functionality already exists and you intentionally limit it, that's just plain evil.

Advertisers shouldn't overlook women when it comes to consumer electronics

According to the NPD Group, of $107.2bn spent on consumer-electronics in 2005, women accounted for 46% of those purchases or $49.3bn. That's an 18% increase in spending by females compared with the previous year, when women rang up $41.9bn in gadget purchases. Men spent about the same amount in 2004 as they did in 2005.

You can read more about this on c|net.

Calling all gadget divas!

Believe it or not, I created this blog in December of 2004. At the time, I was not working, having recently left Musicmatch which had just been acquired by Yahoo (which, by the way, had nothing to do with my leaving). Five months later, I gave birth to my first child.

Skip ahead 15 months... I spend a lot of time reading other blogs and websites about gadgets... Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired, and lots more. One thing I noticed is that these sites are really catering to men. And that's understandable given that the gadget market is heavily skewed towards men. However, I read a recent article in Mobile Magazine that made me realize that there are lots of other women out there just like me who love gadgets and would probably appreciate a place that is tailored to them where they can learn more about the latest, coolest toys.

So if you're a gadget diva like me, I welcome you to my blog and encourage you to contribute with your ideas and suggestions about mp3 players, cell phones, PDAs, PCs, DVRs, or anything else having to do with gadgets.