UIQ dead

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I read today that UIQ is filing for bankruptcy. I used this platform for many years on the P900, P910 by SonyEricsson.  It was the most advanced touch screen smartphone available at that time in my opinion. Maybe they were too early to market, or embedded on only extremely expensive devices ...

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The Net Neutrality debate

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. Without Net Neautrality telephone and cable companies can decide how fast certain content is delivered to you, what you do, where ...

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MidVentures –> is very hungry

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Great to meet Geoff and the guys over at midventures yesterday. What was to be a drop in "say hello' turned into hours of brainstorming and sketching on these really neat stick-it white boards (you can print on them too for u mkt wizards) They are cooking up some good stuff...to ...

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Another one bites the dust

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

I'm getting too many of these emails lately - pownce, stikkit, many startups shutting down. Sad part is several of these were cool ideas that unfortunately will never have lift off. Makes me angry. Hello, Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors. Stikkit will going offline at ...

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iTunes remote control on the G1 - Gmote

Friday, December 5th, 2008

If you want to use your G1 as a remote control for your itunes music download Gmote - it's perfect! Takes 1 minute to setup. As good as the iPhone remote  That was the coolest feature of my iphone... more proof of the power behind third party development ;) Why ...

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Apple will own my living room

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I desperately need to get a media machine hooked up to my television to handle all of my music, video, photos, and anything else taking up GIGS of memory on my day-to-day computer. AppleTV was a poor product and I was upset because I thought that would be the solution. But ...

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www.change.gov

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

www.change.gov, originally uploaded by David-Wayne. I have to love Obama's use of internet media (now officially mainstream media according to many). This is really is Change. Change.gov Weekly Youtube address CTO for the White House Maybe there's also hope for net neutrality and control over what I believe will be ridiculous price spikes ...

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A video taken with my stolen iPhone - qik

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Update: QIK is cooperating to find out more about the stream. Street level view, address, etc. Thank u google and qik. Here is a video taken by the people who stole my iphone (or the people who purchased it from them). They finally re-activated it and figured out how to ...

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Why I Love/Hate Twitter

Friday, November 7th, 2008

original photo via CC Champan - Flickr Damn it twitter! Such a great tool but sometimes fails miserably when you need it. Much of the advanced functionality (i.e. tracking) seems to never work. Tracking allows you to receive messages based on keywords you are "tracking," very similar to Google news alerts. ...

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My new G1 Google Phone

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

 Update:It's a negative. There's only one port on the device for headset/charge/usb. This means I can't keep my phone charging and use a wired headset for long conference calls. argg! (BTW I don't like the bluetooth headsets b/c the battery is always dead - I forget to charge it.) Yesterday ...

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Steve Jobs Pitching

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

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We can do better with passwords

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Passwords are an obstacle. We are too often forced to remember numerous combinations of numbers and letters for our various online accounts, devices, computer logins, and even home entertainment systems. Can't we do better than the good ole character password system?  Here's an example I just went through opening a new ...

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congrats Dave on sale to Rackspace

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Just learned today that JungleDisk and Slicehost were picked up by Rackspace. $28M including earn out. Pretty good return for 14 Months ;) Rackspace now looking very much a Utility Computing player. hmm..Wonder what Rackspace competitors will do to respond? Congrats Dave. No related posts.

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Why do we still use business cards?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I always have this pile of business cards that I end up throwing away every few months. I meet people at meetings and conferences, scan their cards into my address book with my IRIS  card scanner, and then I forever have their information in digital format. I do not need ...

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Glad I met Robin

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

This is Robin, a person I wish everyone could meet. I met her on my flight home from San Francisco. It was the best conversation I've ever had on an airplane with a complete stranger, and I got off the plane feeling like I'd just been cured of some disease ...

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