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Two phones...?

It's not obvious that the phone user will know, or even care, that their "android phone" actually runs BREW as well.

But it's probably worth downloading the White Paper and seeing if it interests you...
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Edited by author 05-20-2009 05:27 PM

Mast Debating: will Femtos become scary?

The word "radiation" scares un-scientific minds. Of course, the possibility remains that one day, we'll find that phones and wireless PC do have an effect on human tissue; but right now, the epidemic of irradiated patients in hospitals hasn't transpired.

But what will people make of the idea that the Femto Forum is promoting? Will there be an outcry?

I'll investigate! Nick Hampshire will definitely know...

What to make of Amazon buying Stanza? Is it a plot to destroy EPUB? Maybe the current Stanza approach will continue. I think it could be to do with the phone bill. Amazon pay for the download on Kindle so the format control makes some sense. Stanza on iPhone the reader is paying so maybe EPUB will be allowed. Any other clues out there?

Location based ignorance

You need to embrace the openness of OpenStreetMap
Clissold Park http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.56126...m=16&layers=B000FTF

Finsbury Park http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.56632...m=15&layers=B000FTF

Pogoplug and security...

Still waiting for an answer to our questions about Pogoplug.

Don't buy one till we get the reply, eh?

:-)

Edited by author 03-05-2009 04:06 AM

Is a "magic wand" technology...?

If I belonged to a community of self-denial, I don't think I'd give up TXTing.

But I'm happy to give up Coronation Street. And Desperate Housewives. And Larry King Live. And...

Edited by author 02-27-2009 01:55 PM

Mondegreen!
I've been looking for an excuse to mention this one: and this is, I'm afraid, really reaching.

You have to listen to the clip, and it's quite safe for office viewing...

"Not available for arrest right now..."

One of the stranger stories: build up a mobile company - sell it, and get arrested for refusing to pay extra taxes?

Hope he doesn't talk on his mobile driving around London...

Who am I this time?

It's Quantum Leap, for sure. Logitech may call it a game pad but are we fooled?

Edited by author 10-20-2008 11:05 AM

"Don't tell my boyfriend!" she said...

It is worth a moment's careful thought, isn't it? If you give your IM permission to tell people where you are, you might have trouble pretending you're ill in bed when it says "At Twickenham..."?

The new e-reader report is out, by the way; see announcement on www.afaics.co.uk for details...

Another story about the screen technology for an e-reader

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08ink.html

More to be announced as Consumer Electronics. I think this is all about early devices that will be replaced. Still i am happy with my sony Reader for the moment. Just a USB cable for once in a while transfer, so not yet really on topic for newswireless.

It's like satellite broadband, silly!

Broadband is a simple equation, involving the number of users you can service from a single node, the cost of providing the node, and the price the user is prepared to pay for "standard" data rates. Push the price per bit down far enough and people will rush to buy...

...until, of course, the traffic builds up to the point where they are getting dialup speeds.

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