Flurry - (http://www.flurry.com) Mail and news on my phone.
Also useful are:
Google Local (http://www.google.com/gmm) Maps on my phone.
Opera Mini (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/) Web browsing on my phone.
EQO (http://www.eqo.com/) VoIP and IM on my phone.
Note that these all work with data services from Cingular and Sprint, but T-Mobile has recently started preventing the use of these services on their phones unless you buy an "unlimited" plan. Verizon either charges a few dollars a month for them or doesn't have them available in the first place.
If you have Boost mobile service, you should also check out Loopt (http://loopt.com) - a service that lets you tell your friends where you are.
Re:The cost of doing the right thing
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Peter Quinn Resigns
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I find it interesting that this happened in Massachusetts of all places. Granted, in most other states OSS would never have gotten as far, but MA is usually more progressive than to tear down a cost-cutting advocate. To have corporate interests launch such a public attack on a public figure, especially in a place like MA, shows just how little fear and much power they have.
Java hyper-enthusiasts are alive and well in the world of mobile application developement. J2ME is the leading platform for developing cell phone applications, and provides the kind of platform independent framework that led to java's original adoption. Having done BREW and J2ME development, I am a strong evangelist of java on the handset. Since there are certain benefits to having an end-to-end system in the same language, I think that Java will have a strong position in mobile application development (client and server side) for the forseeable future.
That being said, J2ME isn't perfect. Not sure if cell phones could run Ruby, however....
I would disagree that people don't care because it's depressing. If you look at the RIM/NTP case, the minute you threaten to take away something that they have made part of their lifestyle everyone takes notice. It needs to move beyond the technical jargon into the realm of pop culture though, for it to even make sense to most people.
I went to an interesting discussion as part of Mobile Monday a few months ago where both Google and Yahoo were together on a panel. While they were cordial as it appears they were in this conversation, it was clear that they were uncomfortable making any announcements lest the competition one-up them with a bigger announcement. In fact, I think I even saw some sideways glances. =)
The web portal competition strikes me a bit like the space race of the 1960s where everyone knows the goal but they aren't quite sure what the competition is up to. I can imagine that leads to a fair bit of paranoia.
While I agree that "innovatition is not as important as a good overall product" - innovation is what has lead to most of the products we use everyday. You might not want to drive an "innovative" car, but the process for building your time-tested car has been improved greatly over the years by innovation. In fact, in order for your car to be time-tested it needed innovation to improve on safety and reliability.
I see innovation as a philosophy for constant improvement and trying new approaches. Borrowing a programming metaphor, innovation is the randomness in a Simulated Annealing process - without it you never find an optimal solution.
What's the real difference between spying and restriction? Spying is, of course, a necessary prerequisite for restriction as the government needs to know what you're up to in order to prevent you from doing it.
So what the president ordered wiretaps?
If the president ordered wiretaps in violation of his Constitutional duties then he violated his oath. If you allow one president to violate the Constitution for "security", then you are saying the President is above the law. That, unfortunately, is a prerequisite for dictatorship.
I'm not so sure. They block serving on port 80, so what is the point of the huge up-stream pipe? So you can upload embarassing videos of yourself?
It's unlikely that we'll see really innovative broadband until some form of wireless becomes popular and the infrastructure barrier is eliminated. Until then, we'll be forced to live with products designed, built and priced by monopolies.
http://www.flurrymail.com/ is another option if the client on your phone is too slow. It's fast and client based, with the option to send alerts to your phone when you have new mail. Works with other e-mail services too. I like that it uses compression to reduce bandwidth costs.
It's surprising that better mobile e-mail solutions haven't come along sooner. Why all of a sudden are they popping up everywhere?
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Flurry - (http://www.flurry.com) Mail and news on my phone. Also useful are: Google Local (http://www.google.com/gmm) Maps on my phone. Opera Mini (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/) Web browsing on my phone. EQO (http://www.eqo.com/) VoIP and IM on my phone. Note that these all work with data services from Cingular and Sprint, but T-Mobile has recently started preventing the use of these services on their phones unless you buy an "unlimited" plan. Verizon either charges a few dollars a month for them or doesn't have them available in the first place. If you have Boost mobile service, you should also check out Loopt (http://loopt.com) - a service that lets you tell your friends where you are.
I find it interesting that this happened in Massachusetts of all places. Granted, in most other states OSS would never have gotten as far, but MA is usually more progressive than to tear down a cost-cutting advocate. To have corporate interests launch such a public attack on a public figure, especially in a place like MA, shows just how little fear and much power they have.
Java hyper-enthusiasts are alive and well in the world of mobile application developement. J2ME is the leading platform for developing cell phone applications, and provides the kind of platform independent framework that led to java's original adoption. Having done BREW and J2ME development, I am a strong evangelist of java on the handset. Since there are certain benefits to having an end-to-end system in the same language, I think that Java will have a strong position in mobile application development (client and server side) for the forseeable future.
That being said, J2ME isn't perfect. Not sure if cell phones could run Ruby, however....
They are going to have to pry my MythTV from my cold, dead fingers.
Or just wait for the HD to die, it's been spinning non-stop for 2 years and I don't know how much more it can take.
I would disagree that people don't care because it's depressing. If you look at the RIM/NTP case, the minute you threaten to take away something that they have made part of their lifestyle everyone takes notice. It needs to move beyond the technical jargon into the realm of pop culture though, for it to even make sense to most people.
I went to an interesting discussion as part of Mobile Monday a few months ago where both Google and Yahoo were together on a panel. While they were cordial as it appears they were in this conversation, it was clear that they were uncomfortable making any announcements lest the competition one-up them with a bigger announcement. In fact, I think I even saw some sideways glances. =)
The web portal competition strikes me a bit like the space race of the 1960s where everyone knows the goal but they aren't quite sure what the competition is up to. I can imagine that leads to a fair bit of paranoia.
While I agree that "innovatition is not as important as a good overall product" - innovation is what has lead to most of the products we use everyday. You might not want to drive an "innovative" car, but the process for building your time-tested car has been improved greatly over the years by innovation. In fact, in order for your car to be time-tested it needed innovation to improve on safety and reliability.
I see innovation as a philosophy for constant improvement and trying new approaches. Borrowing a programming metaphor, innovation is the randomness in a Simulated Annealing process - without it you never find an optimal solution.
What's the real difference between spying and restriction? Spying is, of course, a necessary prerequisite for restriction as the government needs to know what you're up to in order to prevent you from doing it. So what the president ordered wiretaps? If the president ordered wiretaps in violation of his Constitutional duties then he violated his oath. If you allow one president to violate the Constitution for "security", then you are saying the President is above the law. That, unfortunately, is a prerequisite for dictatorship.
That's about 76 more than the number of worthwhile games available for the Xbox. They got ripped off. =)
I'm not so sure. They block serving on port 80, so what is the point of the huge up-stream pipe? So you can upload embarassing videos of yourself? It's unlikely that we'll see really innovative broadband until some form of wireless becomes popular and the infrastructure barrier is eliminated. Until then, we'll be forced to live with products designed, built and priced by monopolies.
http://www.flurrymail.com/ is another option if the client on your phone is too slow. It's fast and client based, with the option to send alerts to your phone when you have new mail. Works with other e-mail services too. I like that it uses compression to reduce bandwidth costs. It's surprising that better mobile e-mail solutions haven't come along sooner. Why all of a sudden are they popping up everywhere?