Archive for: March 2011

29 March 2011

The AT&T/T-Mobile USA Merger: A Balanced View

Filed under: mobile network operators,telecom - 29 Mar 2011

I’ve seen more pontification on the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. Unfortunately, most of it falls into one of two categories: shilling by AT&T (or lobbyists paid by AT&T) or from companies like Sprint, who have come

26 March 2011

T-Mobile Prepaid and an Unlocked iPhone 3GS

Something I’ve been meaning to try out for a while, but haven’t had the chance to, was to see if I could make my iPhone 3GS on iOS 4.2.1–jailbroken via PwnageTool 4.2 and unlocked via ultrasn0w via Cydia–work …

25 March 2011

Cases, Cases

Filed under: apple,computers,gadgets,iphone - 25 Mar 2011

I received a MacBook sleeve and a iPhone 4 keyboard to review. They are both essentially cases. Let me explain.

The MacBook sleeve, in this case, is a 17″ SeeThru Satin case made by Speck that …

14 March 2011

CPshared and CPUG: A Couple of Observations

Filed under: check point,security - 14 Mar 2011

On the two Check Point user community sites CPUG and CPshared, I made a couple of interesting observations today:

CPshared already had more active threads today than CPUG. This includes all the public boards, which I verified by loading …

10 March 2011

Announcing CPshared: The Open Technical Forum for all things Check Point

Filed under: check point,security - 10 Mar 2011

I’ve been a participating in the Check Point user community in various places for a long time now. Heck, I ran a Check Point community of my own for a while. It’s not often the community gets a new …

4 March 2011

Google Shutting Down Gizmo5

Filed under: telecom,voip - 04 Mar 2011

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Google shuttered the Gizmo5 service they acquired the service in November 2009. The date of closure: 3 April 2011. You can add credit to your account for another week, …

Introducing iPad 2: NSFW Parody

Filed under: apple - 04 Mar 2011

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