In my household, we now have a Mac Mini as a “home entertainment” system for the sitting room. We discovered the really exciting Garage Band application for composing/recoding music. Moreover, we hooked it up to our keyboard via the midi port - great for easy composing and the kids are amazed at the conversion of [...]

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Ken Brickley from Zeacom told me about his great new service for personalised greetings - I’d love to have this on my phone and I think the youth will love it too! (Which is me of course.)
Here’s Ken’s intro to the service:
“For the first time, you can have a professional greeting for your clients, a [...]

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Wind-up Mobile phone Charger with flashlight
Is this the cutting edge of mobile accessories. Great ad (or is it a wind-up)?

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I’ve been using MIM this past week - an embedded client and a Java client, trying both out for size. It’s Wireless Village stuff - OMA IMPS standard for the technical - which means a protocol aimed specifically at wireless devices. The server has a peering connection with Google Talk and I’m just waiting for [...]

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People like me sit in offices and dream up “mobile solutions”. In the retail outlet shops they sell mobiles. Mostly, these two worlds are poles apart. There is little attempt to sell services to customers. It is almost impossible to experience these services anyway, except, perhaps, in UK Three stores where they have connected phones [...]

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