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Nokia Launches 4 New Phones: Live Blogging 3GSM World Congress

Nokia has just announced the impending launch of four new handsets to the line up of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer. For readers of my prior blogs, it is likely that the N96, the successor to the vaunted N95 … Continue reading

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Live Blogging 3GSM World Congress: Nokia Opening Press Conference

Nokia has a great deal of news this morning including announcing several new phones, improved maps – Nokia Maps 2.0, as well as the first new service based upon their purchase of TWANGO last year: Share on OVI. First, Nokia’s … Continue reading

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Blogger for Hire

In just a couple days I’ll be heading off to Barcelona for another 3 GSM World Congress. This is the mack-daddy, King Kong, monster-truck, fire-breathing, dragster-tractor, king-of-the-cage, free-for-all that all other mobile events can only pretend to be. In other … Continue reading

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Launch in Alpha at Your Own Peril: Izearanks, a study in why not

Rank Zero? That’s what the site says. According to IzeaRanks TechCrunch, which as we all know is – or perhaps I should say was – one of the most popular tech blogs on the planet. This is a new utility … Continue reading

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Something Strange in the Sky Near Las Vegas… a UFO?

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQvVAkw7Idw&autoplay=0 375 290] You might not believe in UFOs or the possibility that there’s intelligent life from elsewhere in the Universe visiting earth. You might think I’m nuts since I am convinced that this is the case. Regardless of your … Continue reading

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Our Freedom of Speech is Under Attack

Please Re-Post You have to hand it to our current administration. Even in the waning days of their questionably legitimate term in office they’re still trying to make us sit still, shut up, and stop asking questions. This time it’s … Continue reading

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Have You Seen Peepel?

I just spent the last few hours engaged in conversation with Stephen Kelly, the Founder and CEO of Peepel. This application was released a few months ago and has been profiled on a number of popular blogs including Mashable, however, … Continue reading

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Please Help Identify These Monsters!

Okay, I have a bit of a mystery and it’s driving me nuts. I’m a bit of a laser nerd. I collect a fairly wide range of DPSS handheld and larger Argon bench lasers. Among the things I do with … Continue reading

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Ribbit Looks Really Cool

Just checking out a new tool for managing your messaging: Ribbit . There are a whole raft of features but the easiest way to describe it (from what I’ve read since the beta hasn’t dropped yet) is that it’s GrandCentral … Continue reading

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AT&T Debating Becoming Bigger Big Brother: spying on peer to peer possible

AT$T the company we love to hate is at it again and giving us another reason to pray that Google buys that spectrum. This time the words come straight from CEO Randall Stephenson’s mouth. Apparently, AT$T has decided that it … Continue reading

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