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When I woke up this morning, I was greeted with a couple of emails questioning me on a source for an article I wrote for MobileBurn yesterday – Motorola Patents Shocking New Silent Alert System.

It seems as though both Allen from Mobiledia and I had published similar articles at almost the same time. Allen thought that I had sourced his article and published my own without bothering to link back to his. This is understandable, as apparently Allen had scoured the USPTO’s website and found this piece himself – quite a daunting task. The unfortunate thing is that I had this sent to me as a tip before the Mobiledia article was published.

Hence, our two articles were published within nine minutes of each other, with both of us getting inbound links from different websites.

I would like to reaffirm my belief in journalistic integrity. I will never rip off another person’s hard work, as I know I would not want that to happen to me. I will site a source in the article, should there be one, and give credit where credit is due.

I have spoken to Allen, and he is fine with it. From what I can tell though, Allen has been emailing the sites that have linked to MobileBurn and told them that he was my source, and to link to him. As this was not the case, I certainly hope that damage was not done to neither my, nor MobileBurn’s reputation. I understand why Allen did this, so no hard feelings to him, but I hope that no unnecessary damage has been done.

Again, I would like to formally state that all the staff at MobileBurn practice good journalism, and uphold our morals in every way. No Andrew Orlowskis here.

Ever need to justify owning a mobile phone? Hands down, this is the best reason I have ever seen.

No nudity or anything, but probably not safe for work nonetheless.

Watch – [via YouTube]

You know the worst thing about working from home? Even when you’re sick, you still feel compelled to work…

Having not seen the Motorola announcements before they happened at CTIA, I still held a glimmer of hope that the manufacturer would release something decent from the show, after a string of nothing but new colors, and missing 3GSM totally. What did I get?

New colors.

The only announcements from Motorola were three new colors for the RAZR V3i, the V3m (which is just a V3c with a memory card slot), and a new low-end handset that takes queues from the PEBL.

I’m sick of Motorola.

The handset business of Motorola is getting by on the success of the RAZR, so the company is getting lazy. There is a lack of innovation coming from the manufacturer, and eventually the RAZR is going to fade away – if the company wants to keep its position in the market, it is going to have to show some interesting devices, or it will be caught with its pants down.

We can’t go on forever waiting for the Q.

While I wasn’t expecting HUGE things from the handset manufacturers from CTIA in Las Vegas this year, I was hoping for something to get me excited.

I have seen most (if not all, you can never be too sure) of the announcements that Sony Ericsson and Nokia will be making (still under embargo though, so I can’t reveal anything), and I’m not impressed. I have not yet seen anything that makes me excited.

I have not been privileged to anything from Motorola yet though, and despite rumors of the opposite, I’m still hopeful that they will announce shipping of the Q smartphone at least – though even that doesn’t get me excited anymore.

April Fool’s day is a Saturday this year (obviously), which is a great thing in my opinion. I feel really sorry for any company that actually needs to put out an announcement on April 1st of any year where that particular date falls during the week – no one would ever take it seriously…