When I went to California earlier this month, I didn't have a lot of time to do my ritual of reading RSS feeds with Google Reader. It happens when I travel, particularly when I've only got a couple of days to get a bunch of stuff done. Then I came [...]
One feature I like about the newer S60 handsets from Nokia is that they include a built-in RSS reader. When you go to a web page that has feeds listed in the meta tags, you can automatically subscribe to those pages. Quite nice! But the RSS reader isn't really an [...]
I haven't done one of these posts in a while-6 weeks to be exact! I am doing three weeks worth here and will get the other three weeks posted later on. That should get me caught up Meanwhile, I am on the home stretch before vacation, where I won't be [...]
While it's nice to hear that Skyfire hired Mike Rowehl to improve their system scalability, they need a Symbian developer. Explains why I haven't seen a Nokia version of their mobile browser as of yet, even though I was orignally told it was supposed to show up in Q1 of [...]
If you've been following the Nokia-related blogosphere, you've undoubtedly heard about the site openatownrisk.com. Supposedly, something big was to be published on 7/7/2008 though this site. Instead, we see what appears to be some sort of cease and desist letter. While I'm certainly not authorized to speak on behalf of [...]
If you're a current AT&T Customer: For those of you not AT&T Customers: If you don't want to watch these cheesy videos from AT&T, then here are the particulars: 1. New AT&T customers will get the 3G iPhone for $199 (8GB) or $299 (16GB), complete with 2 year ball and [...]
One of my co-workers at Nokia forwarded me the page on Voadfone Italy, where they will be selling the iPhone unlocked, or at least unsubsidized. To convert that into U.S. dollars (using today's exchange rates anyway): the 8gb iPhone is $772, the 16gb iPhone is $880! It does make me [...]
Image via Wikipedia When I was a kid, I used to hate pulling weeds in my parent's yard. Nothing more undignified, unsatifying, or boring than pulling up plants out of the ground that shouldn't be there. Why in the world do I want to do that? Today, I did this [...]
Despite the fact my son's doing better, he's going to be in the hospital for a couple more days. Unfortunately, for those of you who read my blogs, it means less blog entries. It also means I've got some work to do as my bank of articles is now empty. [...]
I have a couple of Macs-and a lot of PCs. While I don't listen to music that often, I have collected quite a bit of it-mostly on these plastic disks called CDs. Some of you might have heard of them Anyway, when I got my hands on a Mac a [...]
I had been using Media Converter to convert videos for the Nokia N800/N810. I wasn't happy with the results as it would clip part of the video, but it worked and was pretty braindead. Thankfully, my employer has come out with a beta version of their Internet Tablet Converter for [...]
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 even make local calls at first, but as the equipment [...]
Image via Wikipedia Andy Abramson sent me one of the Nokia N95 8GB phones to assist in wiping it clean. Apparently, Flixwagon was used on the thing and it hosed the phone. I did take the opportunity to play with the phone for a day or so and got a [...]
Image via Wikipedia Nokia fanboys all over the world were all over this morning's press release related to Nokia 1Q2008 earnings. Stefan Constantinescu managed to get into the analysts call and Jaikued the thing. Aside from the usual positive results, there was a huge drop in overall device sales in [...]
I wrote way too many blog pieces this week. In addition to the 20 entries on this list, I've got another 10 or so queued up for next week. Hopefully, I can slow down a bit next week now that I've got a good queue to work from. Fat chance. [...]
I've often heard complaints that Jaiku doesn't have a robust-enough API to do the kind of apps people tend to do for Twitter. The fact is, we haven't seen that many apps for Jaiku because it's mostly been a Nokia S60 social network. I've even heard people complain it's not [...]
Ericsson is doing a study on Mobile Online Communities. This covers things like Twitter and Jaiku, but also mobile versions of things like Facebook. If you feel like helping their research efforts out and possibly getting some iTunes vouchers out of it, go take the survey. Took about 5 minutes [...]
I just read a thought-provoking piece about how Nokia's S60 platform is not exactly the paragon of a great operating system. The authors think that S60 is "confusing, obscure, constantly changing and always hugely underpowered and unresponsive." My opinion-not tainted by working at Nokia-is that the newer S60 3rd Edition [...]
Leo Blanco over at The Mobile Technology Weblog (which I also blog at) points to a study that says more consumers want GPS versus Mobile Internet. According to the study by Leo J. Shapiro and Associates (LJS) among 450 Americans, about 24% of the consumers want to have a GPS-enabled [...]
