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My iPhone 3G Review
Call me a traitor. Call me weak minded to the Apple Jedi mind trick. Yes I have a 3g iPhone, the cheapest one of course. My Treo 750, which I really liked , was starting to have some battery fade. In addition, I was using the IE browser on my Treo more Read More...
Sony is brilliant, PS3 may surpass Xbox 360 in the future
The reason has nothing to do with games. Pretty much, all games are available on all platforms. The reason is Blue-ray. Is Blue-ray the best technology? No. Is it the cheapest? No. Is the PS3 a cheaper and better Blue-ray player than stand alone players? Read More...
ATT Internet problems, too many iPhones?
My customer just contacted ATT because their on-call phone hasn't been picking up email today via it's data connection. ATT said they are having nationwide Internet problems, but didn't specify the cause. Anyone care to take a stab at the problem? My Read More...
iPhone and ActiveSync, a security concern
A couple days ago, Mary Jo speculated that Apple has licensed Microsoft's Active Sync technology which allows iPhone to securely sync with Exchange servers (over its smoke signal speed, EDGE data connection). Will ActiveSync be out of the box today or Read More...
3 months with the Treo 750
I know I come across as a whiner sometimes about gadgets, especially phones . It's just that I want one device that can do everything from making a phone call to opening my garage door to sending tri-corder data back to my starship in orbit. The Treo Read More...
Motorola Q ends my phone nirvana!
I came very close to calling this post "The Motorola Q Turd", but I thought that was a little brash. After all, I have had it for about 8 months and at times it was a good phone and I even talked about it being close to Nirvana at one point . My troubles Read More...
A High Tech visit to the dentist
This week I had the chance to catch up on some much needed personal maintenance, including a visit to the dentist. Like most people, I have usually gone to the dentist that my wife or parents have gone too, without much research into the doctor, office, Read More...
NikePlus, Zune better be a platform!
There are two reasons why you will have to pry my iPod Nano out of my warm clutching hands (I am not that big of a geek to be buried with an Apple product). The first, is that it is so easy to control while I am running. The second is the new NikePlus Read More...
Seriously scary Blackberry
For years, competitors to Blackberry have been pointing out the inherent security flaws with RIM’s services such as, um, all your corporate data flows through their network (along with all your competitor’s data). Microsoft's play around this is the fact Read More...
iPod vs the alleged Argo
First off, I have no inside knowledge of the alleged Argo device. But from what people are saying , it might be a lot of things like and iPod with wireless, a small game console, a small browser device, maybe even a mobile phone. I haven’t go a clue. Read More...
So close to Mobile Phone Nirvana
Last week I finally switched to Verizon wireless. I had been meaning to do this for a long time but I had bought a Siemens SX66 from Cingular almost 2 years ago, and needed to fullfil my contract or pay some big bucks. My commitment was over, and I really Read More...
Outgoing Caller ID not supported on Vonage!!
So, I finally got rid of Qwest at my house, not even the line is hooked up to anything. I switched to Vonage for my primary home phone because it will save me about $10 a month, and my wife can use it to call long distance for free instead of having to Read More...
Comcast Improves, and I finish my home theatre
So, I decided to get a powered CATV amplifier for my house to see if my loosing picture with Comcast was maybe just the box saying “weak signal”. Well, this has solved the issue of it loosing picture! But, we are still having to power down the settops Read More...
Microsoft announces multiyear deal with DirecTV for media devices
I just saw this tasty morsel from the press release at CES about Billg’ keynote: “Gates also announced a multiyear partnership with satellite TV provider DirecTV Group Inc. to get the company's satellite video directly onto Media Center-based devices.” Read More...
UltimateTV vs Comcast’s HD/DVR
**Updated** I have gotten a lot of comments and questions internally at Microsoft because I offered to sell my UltimateTV boxes after switching to Comcast’s HD DVR ( Motorola DCT6412 III) about a month ago. I switched to Comcast because I have had a rear Read More...
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