Archive for: July 2007

31 July 2007

Back Online

Filed under: connectivity, telecom - 31 Jul 2007

ModemYou may not have noticed since I had a number of blog posts pre-written for your reading pleasure, but I’ve been only loosely connected to the Internet since about Friday. We took possession …

30 July 2007

Google Becoming The Next AT&T

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 30 Jul 2007

Now I don’t mean this in a derogatory way, but when I read Thomas Anglero’s piece on what Google is assembling with their femtocell investments, all that dark fiber they own, and the fact they want that 700Mhz spectrum …

29 July 2007

Verizon Wireless Must Not Think Highly of Gig Harbor, WA

Filed under: connectivity, mobile network operators, phoneboy - 29 Jul 2007

Here I am at my new house in Gig Harbor without broadband. Hey, I just took possession yesterday. Took three tries to get Comcrap able to accept my order for cable/High Speed Internet–that will be another post for another day. …

This Week in PhoneBoy 29 July 2007

Filed under: gadgets, voip - 29 Jul 2007

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Here’s my dispatches this week:

Charge Your Mobile In An Emergency! (From The Gadgets Weblog)
Some Final Thoughts on Ooma (From …

28 July 2007

Format Your Text Messages on S60

Filed under: gadgets, nokia - 28 Jul 2007

Here’s a great little tip that I didn’t know about, for those of you with non-QWERTY S60 devices: use the zero key three times and you get a carriage return. I’ve been using this on the N76 I’ve been …

27 July 2007

What’s Keeping US Mobile Phones in The Stone Age?

Filed under: mobile network operators - 27 Jul 2007

Pay Phone There’s an interesting thread going on on Slashdot right now about why mobile phones suck ass in the US. Lots of interesting ideas being spouted off. I can sum up …

26 July 2007

Pownce Invites, Anyone?

Filed under: blogging - 26 Jul 2007

I’ve got a few more of these Pownce invites to give away now, so leave your email in the comments to this post if you want one. I closed comments on the other post where I was giving away GrandCentral …

Review of AutoProfiles for S60 3rd Edition

Filed under: nokia, software - 26 Jul 2007

Auto Profiles 1.0

One of my colleagues on the S60 Blogs passed along an opportunity to review the AutoProfiles application. In short, it allows you to set a schedule to automatically change …

25 July 2007

Dispelling CTIA’s Myths on American Wireless

Filed under: gadgets, telecom - 25 Jul 2007

CTIA LogoMobileCrunch picked up on some ex parte communication with the FCC about how Americans aren’t getting screwed as much as Europeans are on wireless service. Let’s examine each of these “myths,” …

24 July 2007

Nokia Buys Twango

Filed under: nokia - 24 Jul 2007

TwangoI was perusing work email when I got up this morning and had read on an internal mailing list that Nokia bought Twango. A little scanning of Google Reader finds an article

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