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Entries from November 2007

Donate a lap-top for under 100 quid

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Dear Friends in the UK - why not take advantage of the cheap US dollar and do some good by donating a laptop to a child in the developing world. By now you should have heard about the One Laptop Per Child scheme. Go donate one today and encourage all your friends to do the […]

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Text storage and search engine…

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

If you gets lots of texts and often need to ‘file them away’ because they have useful info, then this site (ThumbCrowd) might be useful to you. It enables texts to be forwarded to an account on the site and then you can look them up later using a fast search engine. The site is […]

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Making the web social (and my phone too please)…

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

You might be interested to join a social network (hosted by Ning) about Google’s Open Social API. It’s interesting that this Google API is basically providing a mediation function to other APIs, not unlike the function provided by what Telco’s call a Service Delivery Platform, although SDP is a broad and abused term.
I argued many […]

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iPhone experience

November 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I have an iPhone and really like it. There’s no point in talking about what’s good about it, as this has been discussed over and over. I can offer a couple of insights based on my experiences.
Firstly, if you’re a Blackberry user, there are two things to consider. Typing on a Blackberry is much faster […]

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Return of the ideas thread…Mobile Hot-Buttons (Idea #111)

November 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Talking to a few of you, it seems that there’s interest in continuing with the “100 Ideas” thread. I think I got to 110 before I stopped the thread, although not the ideas
I’ve just finished writing the second edition of Next Generation Wireless Applications, which is a fairly major upgrade. As you might […]

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