Archive for: May 2008

12 May 2008

TRITTON AX Micro Bluetooth Headset

Filed under: gadgets, mobile phones - 12 May 2008

A while ago, the folks at TRITTON Technologies sent me one of their AX Micro Bluetooth Headsets to review. …

11 May 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 11 May 2008

PhoneBoyHappy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there!

This past week has been a busy week for posts, it seems like. I even managed a post on my internal Nokia blog this week. …

10 May 2008

The Nokia Tune: Grande Valse

Filed under: mobile phones, nokia - 10 May 2008

NokiaImage via Wikipedia

For some reason, people want the old, monophonic version of the Nokia Tune, i.e. Grande Valse (or Gran Vals), as …

9 May 2008

Does Operator Assistance Still Exist?

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 09 May 2008

I did an interesting experiment the other day–I tried dialing 0 for a number of phones. What does dialing 0 do? In the United States and Canada, dialing zero was how you reached the operator. You needed the operator to …

8 May 2008

Is This Thing On?

Filed under: gadgets, nokia - 08 May 2008

2008.05.08 - Share on Ovi
2008.05.08 - Share on Ovi
Can you tell by …

7 May 2008

VMware Fusion Goes 2.0 Beta, Free Upgrade For 1.x Owners!

Filed under: software - 07 May 2008

The folks at VMware have announced the availability of a new beta version of VMware Fusion, their virtualization software for Mac OS X. There are two reasons I immediately ran–not walked–to download and install this beta version:

Proper support for …

6 May 2008

Twitterfone: Giving Your Voice To Twitter

Filed under: blogging, telecom - 06 May 2008

About an hour ago, Pat Phelan announced to the world that Twitterfone was live. Within 40 minutes or so, he had 1500 signups. Since the service is invite only at the moment, it might be a bit before …

Qwest Signs Agreement To Resell Verizon Wireless Service

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 06 May 2008

Qwest Communications International, IncImage via Wikipedia

I recently had a chance to talk to a manager of one of the …

5 May 2008

How Deutsche Telecom Makes A Sprint Acquisition Work

Filed under: mobile network operators - 05 May 2008

Sprint Nextel CorporationImage via Wikipedia

Ok, this has come up again. Deutsche Telecom, the company that owns T-Mobile in the U.S., is supposedly

4 May 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 4 May 2008

Filed under: gadgets, nokia, voip, wifi - 04 May 2008

PhoneBoyWe’ve come to the end of another week of posts. It looks like I’m going to continue to crank out these posts, mostly because the automated methods to do this aren’t as attractive …

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