iPhone vs Housebrick
October 22nd, 2008 Pete
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Computing, Cycling, horticulture, other stuff
34 iPhone questions answered by Steve
October 19th, 2008 PeteRecently the space key on my year and a half old Samsung mobile became so frustratingly useless that I decided I was in the market for a new mobile phone.
I had a basic idea of what I wanted in a phone and so I thought I’d take a look at what good smart phones were available. I wanted to know more about the iPhone. Was it over hyped? Was it as evil as some people say regarding vendor lock in? Or was the iPhone simply a great piece of technology that solved many problems in cool and interesting ways?
Steve, a colleague of mine, bought his 3g iPhone when it was first officially release in Australia about three months ago. I thought Steve would be the best person to ask about his experiences with this device because he’s been using it and patching it for the past bunch of months and he’s also a geek like me so I knew he would provide the perspective I was after. (No offence, Steve… *grin*). Ok, lets get to the QA… Read the rest of this entry »
Nokia admits defeat in the mobile business market
October 15th, 2008 PeteFrom IT News Australia:
The phone maker announced today that it will cease developing or marketing its behind-the-firewall offerings for business mobility, and has acquired Canadian firm OZ Communications to provide a new focus on consumer mobile messaging.
and this from Business Week Europe:
“It underlines our long-held belief that Nokia’s enterprise strategy has not worked at all, so from that point of view it makes complete sense,” said Richard Windsor, a mobile analyst at Nomura Securities.
Rather than admitting defeat, perhaps Nokia is taking another approach. Instead of a server and infrastructure being set up inside a company (such as a blackberry server for example) to get users inside the network to sync with business applications, Nokia are providing consumers with ways to sync against services such as MS Exchange from their own cubicles. This could be a better tactic to saturate the market with business-enabled phones that the users are able to manage themselves.
Instead of having to court the IT department of a company, Nokia can now persuade users to sneak their devices inside the firewall and sync up data on their own, even without the knowledge of the IT department in some cases. This raises many privacy and security concerns if mobile workers are taking copies of data outside the network without the knowledge of management. IT managers will have extra work on their plate to prevent leakage of data through these new and dynamic channels.
I’m syncing my Nokia E71 against the work Exchange server right now. 
More info:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1252532613
http://www.crn.com.au/News/85745,nokia-abandons-business-mobility.aspx
Can you Digg it?
Tron 2 Movie Trailer: Tr2n
October 7th, 2008 PeteOMFG Tron 2 Trailer! Looks like it could be cool…they even got Jeff Bridges back for it. They’re calling it Tr2n.
But I personally think the cycles should go way faster, they feel too cruisy in this trailer. I want to see more superfast 90 degree turns and the riders crapping their daks the whole time.
Trailer is here at IO9.com:
http://io9.com/5029516/tr2n-rips-your-eyeballs-and-light-cycles-off
Update1: .flv file download version here – FLV [Flash Video] of the trailer hosted on Alonso’s site
Update2: funny geek comic about the new Tr2n movie: http://hijinksensue.com/2008/07/30/2-tron-2b-4-gotten/
Enjoy!
