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Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • Rise of Micro…commenting??

    This is something that has come to me only in the last couple of weeks as for whatever reason, I saw a story somewhere that said that FriendFeed was dead or dying (really or not ??). Then over about the same time, I’ve had quite the number of requests to subscribe to my feed. Most…

  • What has Glasnost done?

    I think there might be something very interesting going on in the days/weeks/months after Google and Measurement Labs released a set of tools to help people find out if they have a throttled connection – when it comes to peer to peer service. I’ve seen it reported that in Alberta, both Telus and Shaw throttle…

  • Get used to buggy phones?

    Mr. Balsillie said such scrambles [to get the Storm out for Black Friday]– and the subsequent software glitches that need to be fixed — are part of the “new reality” of making complex cellphones in large volumes (WSJ). For some reason, I don’t think this is really the case – I can certainly accept that…

  • SocialScope

    Yesterday I grabbed the opportunity to try out a new Twitter/Facebook app ont the Blackberry – SocialScope. It is so much faster than Twitterberry and Twibble and runs all day without draining the battery that even in an early alpha, it is a no brainer to use. It does just about everything that Twitter allows,…

  • Projector in your Pocket

    It was just over two years ago that I found an article about a company (Microvision) trying to put a projector into a cell phone (and late last year, 3M‘s pico projector), now there is a phone that has a production model. Logic Wireless has upped the ante on the ubergadget, especially on the smartphone…