01 Apr 2014: IBM (NYSE:IBM) International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has changed back to it's original name, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and will be selling off all post 1930 technology units to focus on it's core business of dial recorders, electric tabulating machines and time clocks.
There's a great interview by Dan Lane with a chap from Sonim about the phone / Land Rover deal over at The Really Mobile Project. It's a few weeks old if that tells you anything about the/. story! They drove around the Land Rover test track with it attached to one of the wheels, so it got to be spun around, submerged, and I think at one point they drive over it too.
If you visit any international airport you'll find plenty of people travelling in and out who switch their handsets sims. It's hardly unusual.
You're quite right that the iPhone can be unlocked easily, but that's not the point. It shouldn't be limited to those with the technical savy to do so. Anyone should be able to buy an iPhone handset and use it on any network they please.
In the not so distant past, iPhones unlocked with the simple as pie hack you suggest were bricked by a subsequent Apple update. Non techies should not have to worry their unlocked iPhone may die in this way.
Whether we can hack our way around the roadblocks is irrelevant. We shouldn't have to play these games with devices we spent a lot of money on.
Until the phone is available unlocked it's worthless to me. I need to travel between the US and UK, and don't want to have to pay extortionate roaming fees when I already have sims for networks either side.
Starting up in MODE 7 made sense as it only needed 1k of memory. Perfect for those text adventures, or Football Manager by Addictive. Ah those were the days.
The speccy was nice and cheap, but the graphics were naff in comparison to the C64 or Beeb. I always remember the Ferrari Testarossa on Outrun. On the Speccy version the bitmap for the car was much better, but on the C64 it used multicolour sprites. I prefer the latter.
Maybe so, but you are forgetting that Verizon already has a big chunk of the GSM market through Vodafone. That's not quite the case. Vodafone Group Plc (UK) owns 45% of Verizon Wireless. However, Vodafone do not have management control over them, so among other things, a decision to open the Verizon network won't have been a Vodafone one.
The only GSM network Verizon has any sway over is a 23% stake in Vodafone Italy. This isn't really a 'big chunk' of GSM.
I think the real story here is that CDMA is loosing market share to GSM. The latter is cheaper and globally widespread so Verizon are trying to bolster CDMA device usage.
Yes, it is truly terrible that the people killed were not those the military intended. Do you fall to your knees in tears over those the nightly news report shows reduced to sandals and a puddle of blood , or are you now numb, perhaps resigned to dealing with it through humour?
Exactly. Why they persist in trying to squish the folder list up to the top while giving space for the todo/calendar list in Lightning I don't know. It just doesn't work if you've loads of folders.
Putting the mail and calendar on separate tabs/buttons (as Outlook does) would be something worth doing.
That's exactly my feeling. Some may like the GCal extension for Sunbird/Lightning. I guess they don't mind their tasks and events being known to the almighty G in addition to their searches, e-mail, sites they visit (through AdSense being almost everywhere these days), purchases they make (via Analytics rolling out on lots of e-commerce sites), places they might be going (via Maps), etc. Personally I prefer no one entity to have all the pieces, but that's just me. I must have something to hide eh?;)
The Kerio site shows various features are still missing, and the only groupware capable clients listed as supported are by Microsoft. It's not an independent or open solution and as long as Microsoft have their OS on PDAs and phones 3rd parties are always going to have to deal with them and their horrid Activesync or expect users to put a 3rd party client on their mobile device.
When vendors use protocols as open as POP, IMAP and SMTP by default on their mobile devices things might change. Perhaps SyncML will become the solution, I don't know. Maybe the Mozilla Calendar team will get going now they're working with Sun. The way it seems at present Duke Nukem Forever will get released before everyone else / OSS catches up with the Exchange, Outlook & PocketPC gig.
These days even SMBs want e-mail, tasks, calendars and contact lists that follow them around. Exchange and over the air sync services like Good Mobile Messaging provide that. When Apple can offer that they *might* get a foot in the door.
There are way more lights than there are data centers, so if the government were serious about saving energy they could stop the production / import of incandescent light bulbs, or at least make them as financially unattractive as possible. Perhaps taxes on bulb sale and high import tariffs would do the trick. Link here.
"You're a good guy. You try your best. You also don't understand the patent system. It is *not* a patent. Yet."
I shouldn't feed the trolls but I'm bored! Surely whether it's a patent yet or not is irrelevent. The points I made were based on the possibility that it could become one. Admittedly I used 'the patent' rather than 'the patent application' but given the way USPTO seem to rubber stamp anything these days it may as well be a patent. You admit as much with the 'yet' so it seems to me though you're being pedantic over a minor detail not to mention rather patronising. With that in mind, other than the nod about the points was there any serious point to your reply than to piss on someone's cornflakes?
I'll work off the assumption there has to be some financial and or control related gain to this or they wouldn't do it.
MS's market dominance will ensure Vista and IE7 will become the majority OS & browser rig over time this patented RSS aggregation / delivery API system will be part of it.
The patent states "the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications" so it would be fair to assume that over time more Windows applications will work with the feeds via this mechanism. I'm sure they'll do their utmost to make it nice and easily accessible through development tools, etc.
MS are setting themselves up as a vital link in the RSS supply chain; the toll bridge troll as it were. With sufficient install base and support by Windows applications there are lots of things Microsoft could do. This being/. I'm obligated to mention the evil ones I've thought of so far.
1. Microsoft don't own the RSS format and can't dictate how it's run. After a while of this mechanism being in place a new patented and big media friendly format could be introduced and promoted to the detriment of RSS. To the applications using the mechanism, and thus the end users, all this is transparent. MS then have a format they can control.
2. They could throw lawyers at anyone who produced a similar system for other operating systems.
3. They could add to this mechanism a way to make some feeds chargeable through a standard payment system.
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In other news, Nokia now plan to sell only 3310's to Mexico.
01 Apr 2014: IBM (NYSE:IBM) International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has changed back to it's original name, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and will be selling off all post 1930 technology units to focus on it's core business of dial recorders, electric tabulating machines and time clocks.
It was fook'n good! Did you not feel like saying fook a lot after watching it?
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There's a great interview by Dan Lane with a chap from Sonim about the phone / Land Rover deal over at The Really Mobile Project. It's a few weeks old if that tells you anything about the /. story! They drove around the Land Rover test track with it attached to one of the wheels, so it got to be spun around, submerged, and I think at one point they drive over it too.
A perfect way for the Large Hadron Collider guys to avoid the bad press and legal threats! Just call up the MythBusters and have them do it.
"In this episode we'll see if our particle accelerator creates world eating black holes!"
Set it in London. Snatch / Lock stock style :)
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If you visit any international airport you'll find plenty of people travelling in and out who switch their handsets sims. It's hardly unusual.
You're quite right that the iPhone can be unlocked easily, but that's not the point. It shouldn't be limited to those with the technical savy to do so. Anyone should be able to buy an iPhone handset and use it on any network they please.
In the not so distant past, iPhones unlocked with the simple as pie hack you suggest were bricked by a subsequent Apple update. Non techies should not have to worry their unlocked iPhone may die in this way.
Whether we can hack our way around the roadblocks is irrelevant. We shouldn't have to play these games with devices we spent a lot of money on.
Until the phone is available unlocked it's worthless to me. I need to travel between the US and UK, and don't want to have to pay extortionate roaming fees when I already have sims for networks either side.
Double height text lives in 2008! :)
Starting up in MODE 7 made sense as it only needed 1k of memory. Perfect for those text adventures, or Football Manager by Addictive. Ah those were the days.
The speccy was nice and cheap, but the graphics were naff in comparison to the C64 or Beeb. I always remember the Ferrari Testarossa on Outrun. On the Speccy version the bitmap for the car was much better, but on the C64 it used multicolour sprites. I prefer the latter.
The only GSM network Verizon has any sway over is a 23% stake in Vodafone Italy. This isn't really a 'big chunk' of GSM.
I think the real story here is that CDMA is loosing market share to GSM. The latter is cheaper and globally widespread so Verizon are trying to bolster CDMA device usage.
Euros? You should take a look at the British pound at the moment. Strongest in 26 years against the US dollar. £1 will get you $2.10 USD or €1.40.
Maybe he replied via his iPhone.
Yes, it is truly terrible that the people killed were not those the military intended. Do you fall to your knees in tears over those the nightly news report shows reduced to sandals and a puddle of blood , or are you now numb, perhaps resigned to dealing with it through humour?
So they emasculated GI Joe? We still have Chuck Norris. Balls of steel!
Exactly. Why they persist in trying to squish the folder list up to the top while giving space for the todo/calendar list in Lightning I don't know. It just doesn't work if you've loads of folders.
Putting the mail and calendar on separate tabs/buttons (as Outlook does) would be something worth doing.
That's exactly my feeling. Some may like the GCal extension for Sunbird/Lightning. I guess they don't mind their tasks and events being known to the almighty G in addition to their searches, e-mail, sites they visit (through AdSense being almost everywhere these days), purchases they make (via Analytics rolling out on lots of e-commerce sites), places they might be going (via Maps), etc. Personally I prefer no one entity to have all the pieces, but that's just me. I must have something to hide eh? ;)
They've known this since 1978 (see last paragraph) ;)
The Kerio site shows various features are still missing, and the only groupware capable clients listed as supported are by Microsoft. It's not an independent or open solution and as long as Microsoft have their OS on PDAs and phones 3rd parties are always going to have to deal with them and their horrid Activesync or expect users to put a 3rd party client on their mobile device.
When vendors use protocols as open as POP, IMAP and SMTP by default on their mobile devices things might change. Perhaps SyncML will become the solution, I don't know. Maybe the Mozilla Calendar team will get going now they're working with Sun. The way it seems at present Duke Nukem Forever will get released before everyone else / OSS catches up with the Exchange, Outlook & PocketPC gig.
These days even SMBs want e-mail, tasks, calendars and contact lists that follow them around. Exchange and over the air sync services like Good Mobile Messaging provide that. When Apple can offer that they *might* get a foot in the door.
There are way more lights than there are data centers, so if the government were serious about saving energy they could stop the production / import of incandescent light bulbs, or at least make them as financially unattractive as possible. Perhaps taxes on bulb sale and high import tariffs would do the trick. Link here.
"You're a good guy. You try your best. You also don't understand the patent system.
It is *not* a patent. Yet."
I shouldn't feed the trolls but I'm bored! Surely whether it's a patent yet or not is irrelevent. The points I made were based on the possibility that it could become one. Admittedly I used 'the patent' rather than 'the patent application' but given the way USPTO seem to rubber stamp anything these days it may as well be a patent. You admit as much with the 'yet' so it seems to me though you're being pedantic over a minor detail not to mention rather patronising. With that in mind, other than the nod about the points was there any serious point to your reply than to piss on someone's cornflakes?
I'll work off the assumption there has to be some financial and or control related gain to this or they wouldn't do it.
/. I'm obligated to mention the evil ones I've thought of so far.
MS's market dominance will ensure Vista and IE7 will become the majority OS & browser rig over time this patented RSS aggregation / delivery API system will be part of it.
The patent states "the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications" so it would be fair to assume that over time more Windows applications will work with the feeds via this mechanism. I'm sure they'll do their utmost to make it nice and easily accessible through development tools, etc.
MS are setting themselves up as a vital link in the RSS supply chain; the toll bridge troll as it were. With sufficient install base and support by Windows applications there are lots of things Microsoft could do. This being
1. Microsoft don't own the RSS format and can't dictate how it's run. After a while of this mechanism being in place a new patented and big media friendly format could be introduced and promoted to the detriment of RSS. To the applications using the mechanism, and thus the end users, all this is transparent. MS then have a format they can control.
2. They could throw lawyers at anyone who produced a similar system for other operating systems.
3. They could add to this mechanism a way to make some feeds chargeable through a standard payment system.