Archive for: March 2006

31 March 2006

Talk about No Frills!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 31 Mar 2006

Man, I thought flying Southwest was rough, but this CNN Money story on Ryanair shows us that even Southwest can learn a thing or two about making fares lower.

In one sense, it sounds worse because while …

30 March 2006

I’ve been tagged!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Mar 2006

In a post by Ken Camp on making A Gilmour Gang for VoIP, I got a Technorati tag: PhoneBoy. The basic idea behind a tag is to help categorize what you’re writing about so other people can …

28 March 2006

Give It Away

Filed under: Uncategorized - 28 Mar 2006

One of the joys of having a plethora of cell phones at my disposal is that once in a while, I can give one to someone.

A friend of my wife’s needed a new phone for Cingular. Her old …

27 March 2006

Public WiFi: Immature Technology Run By Amateurs

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Mar 2006

As I reported a couple days ago, I officially became iPass-enabled. I did have an issue with the T-Mobile Hotspot I was using in SFO on Friday night and I reported it to our iPass Pilot Team. The response …

25 March 2006

EQO adds Skype IM

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Mar 2006

One VoIP-related thing I did this week was attempt to use the latest version of EQO, which is a Skype plug-in that runs on a Windows PC that brings Skype to your mobile phone. I say “attempt” because I didn’t

Multitasking

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Mar 2006

I read something about how the younger generation of kids is learning the art of multitasking. Do their homework, listen to music, IM your friends, and more. While the mix of tasks is a little different, I admit I multitask

Brain Dump

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Mar 2006

It seems that lately at the end of a trip, I “mind dump” into my blog before I get home. If I have kept count correctly, this is is my forth or fifth entry of the evening, though the mesages

iPass Enabled

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Mar 2006

This week I was informed of a pilot my day job is running with iPass. In short, iPass is a connection aggregator service that allows you to use one set of credentials over a wide range of access methods: …

23 March 2006

Blackberry Killer?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 23 Mar 2006

Tom Keating wanted to know if anyone was using a Blackberry Killer. Well I’ve been using the Nokia 9500 for almost a year now. At the moment, I am currently travelling with a Nokia 9300, which is it’s …

Locked Phones in Finland?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 23 Mar 2006

It sounds like Finland is going to taste of what is common place here in the US: locked mobile phones. The reason there is fairly simple: they want to give people expensive 3G phones with a contract to get …

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