Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 17th, 2007
From Electronista:The next version of Microsoft's mobile OS beyond Windows Mobile 6.1 will be the first to directly tackle advancements brought about by the iPhone, according to statements the company has made at the recent Mobius conference and echoed by Engadget. The unnamed update will effectively port a desktop version ...
Posted in Commentary, iPhone, infurious | 9 Comments »
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Philip Elmer-DeWitt makes an entire article for Fortune out of blockquoting a Forrester Research articleForrester predicts that the iPhone will find its way into many enterprise environments — if it hasn’t already — because C-level executives are buying them and expecting support from IT. It’s only a matter of time ...
Posted in Annoyances, Commentary, iPhone, infurious | No Comments »
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Microsoft bloggerI will say that if you are impressed by the "touch features" in the iPhone, you'll be blown away by what's coming in Windows 7.
What are the things that spring to mind here?
Vista is being derided as a turkey and here we have a Microsoft blogger selling us the ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
What is it about the laughing baby?
Made me smile. Her indoors had the giggles...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
\spazdor\ how do you get a Cisco Certified Network Administrator off your porch?
\cnug\ …?
\spazdor\ pay for your pizza
Thanks to Conor for pointing it out.
For a while there it seemed everyone was a CCNA - at least it seemed that way while I was at the Tech teaching people how to ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
At first glance, the association seems obvious. School is all about learning but also about socialising with other human beings (in the sense of trying to make you sociable).
Pastoral care can also be a term generally applied to the practice of looking after the personal and social wellbeing of ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
The thing about being in a small business is that everything is personal.
In a massive company, you're such a small cog that no-one has the same level of direct power (in a very negative sense). A CEO and his board can lay off thousands of people indirectly and can blame ...
Posted in Commentary, Startup | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I remember, about 100 years ago, in 1983 I was in school and being coached into writing a letter in French to a French person in return for a letter back in English. I remember not being utterly thrilled with the idea. About two years later a Spanish girl at ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
The BBC is outdoing itself this week with coverage of technology topics:
Supercomputers may one day be the size of a laptop thanks to research by IBM.
Does anyone remember the marketing of the PowerMac G4 because it was possible to do 1 gigaflop which was a previous measure of supercomputers (as ...
Posted in Commentary, Mac | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
A German web site did a test between the iPhone and a recent 3G phone in web rendering.
Time in seconds taken to render the following web sites
WebseiteiPhone(EDGE, 2.5G)Nokia E61i (UMTS, 3G)
Die Zeit7679
EBay3026
Applephoneinfo3127
You also have to consider that the iPhone renders it better but that may be an entirely subjective thing.
Posted in Bedouin, Commentary, Wireless, iPhone, infurious | 1 Comment »