Archive for June, 2007
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
this useful link shows the coverage pages from the major mobile data providers and I continue to be amazed that they can say they provide coverage. Even just trying out 3G coverage in Belfast is disastrous. (note: some links have moved so just search around a little).
Orange, my constant companion ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
David Morgenstern quotes Gartner Research Vice President Steve Kleynhans in saying that:
to these new customers, the current IT experience "stands for the inhibitor of technology," Kleynhans said. He observed that there is a basic conflict growing between the pushing clients and the IT traffic cops.
and really the rest of the ...
Posted in Bedouin, Commentary, Cool, News | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
A surprisingly good article on eWeek is harshly critical of the iPhone mostly because of security issues though, they admit, Information Technology experts have a logn way to go before they can point an accusatory finger.
The net is abuzz with discussion about whether the iPhone will mix with enterprise IT ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Paddysvalley is the story of an economic invasion force consisting of a van-load of itinerent immigrant workers (who call themselves entrepreneurs).
Some of the names involved are clever buggers so they must be onto something smart (apart from Joe who's on the list twice. Duh.).
Anyway:-
If you've been to Silicon Valley or ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
I grabbed this from Tom Raftery's social media? blog.
BarCamp Belfast is taking place in Queens University Belfast on Saturday June 30th.
Sign up on the wiki now if you are going to attend.
Here's the wiki link. I've never been to any sort of BarCamp so I'm not sure what to expect ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
From Motivational Quotes
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.- Theodore Roosevelt
This is an experiment. Working for $BIG_COMPANY. And I'm unsure I'll like it.
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Ars Technica took a look at the recent Safari Public Beta for Windows and came up with this gem:
Even if the final release is more polished and completely bug-free, it still won't be as powerful or feature-loaded as Opera or Firefox.
No, it won't be as feature-complete but that's by design, ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
An international research consortium today published a set of papers that promise to reshape our understanding of how the human genome functions. The findings challenge the traditional view of our genetic blueprint as a tidy collection of independent genes, pointing instead to a complex network in which genes, along with ...
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
CoreData is Apple's answer to EOF. A standardised way of saving local data which should be addressable in several ways, not least through a sqlite interface.
Google Gears is a method of storing "web data" in an offline mode. For example, making it so that GMail could be available when not ...
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
A couple of days ago I ragged on Microsoft for announcing what everyone else was about to ship just as they usually do when caught on the hop.
That said, the Scobleizer has a heap more detail on Surface
• There are a few roadblocks to getting one of these in your ...
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