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1 June 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 1 June 2008

PhoneBoyBefore I go on my self-imposed blog break, I suppose I should do my weekly “Week That Was” post. I don’t expect I’ll post anything here until next week’s “Week That Was” post …

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 …

25 April 2008

Deconstructing The Skype Mobile Client for J2ME

Filed under: mobile phones,software,voip - 25 Apr 2008

Various people today on Jaiku and Twitter pointed me at the mobile Skype client for J2ME handsets. Several Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and SonyEricsson phones are …

20 April 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 20 April 2008

Filed under: gadgets,telecom,voip,week that was - 20 Apr 2008

PhoneBoyI feel like I wrote too many posts this week. I did a fair amount of cross-posting this week, which ends up being good for my pocketbook. However, I feel pretty spent. I …

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