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2005 June

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Sprint and Motorola Plan a Joint Effort on Wireless Technology

Ack! Tell me that this is not the preemptive move as a merger lingers in our future! While I see no real evidence of it, working this closely together always makes me distrustful of mobile carriers.

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UTStarcom 860 Cell Phone

Eh, I am sure that the UTStarcom 860 is quite adequate. But I am generation X, I want cool in addition to functional!

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Motorola RAZR Black Cell Phone

Boy, it seems like ‘ol Motto has been kicking butt and taking names lately with their newest phones. The new RAZR certainly sounds like it could be part of this proud tradition. Yet, I have yet to see a picture of it as of this writing.

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BuddyBuzz

Sort of reminds me of some sort of cool information manager, but not really of the PIM variety.

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Siemens SL75 Cell Phone

“We’re missing buttons, Jim!” That was my first thought when looking at this otherwise stylish mobile phone. The phone itself looks just about killer, but will the lack of buttons (physical ones anyway) take some getting used to?

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Broadcom’s Bluetonium chip to drive wireless headsets

Hey, any chip that can improve the abilities or performance of Bluetooth headsets certainly has my full attention.

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Philips readies platform for sub-$20 mobile handsets

Hey quit laughing! It might be a great option when I take long trips and go to other unknown areas of the world.

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Cell phone movies: big name directors to hit the tiny screen

Well I knew it had to happen eventually, but in China? I’d figured elsewhere first…at least with the dedicated movies anyway.

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Anti-spyware market to rocket

Hence why I doubt we will every see certain OS’ really look at the exploits that allow for the need to ‘protect us’ from spyware in the first place. It’s big business, folks!

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Any good recommendations for laptop backpacks?

You have to understand. A new notebook is an investment. So making sure that it is kept in a secure, well padded backpack is the only way to go unless you plan on having issues in the near future.

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French firm bets on TV service for cellphones

This is a pretty big leap of faith. But as history has taught us, history tends to favor the brave. Besides, this TV mobile phone thing could prove to be huge!

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Should There Be A Common Infrastructure For Mobile Technologies?

And the title of the article linked here brings up the question of who would then in turn, possess the control over the infrastructure?

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Wireless: a peer-to-peer music asylum

And so the question remains. If P2P technology is so darn evil, then why are more and more mobile companies beginning to embrace it?

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Turn That PocketPC into a GSM/GPRS Phone

Last month I wrote about the need for a CompactFlash cellular phone card that could plug into your PocketPC and turn it into a genuine phone and thus forget waiting for the carriers to take cutting edge devices to just cutting off their edge by the time they finally release. Well Lockergnome reader Kristopher […]

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Kyocera KPC650 EVDO card “doesn’t work with Tablet PCs” … huh?

Well this certainly sucks! Nothing more annoying than trying to get a new PC card to work only to have the drivers sit there an laugh at you.

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Is it time for the Apple i-pod to move over and make room for the latest converged mobile devices?

To be frank, this is more than a fair question in my opinion. After all, these days there are plenty of other options other than just the Apple iPod.

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Verizon Wireless further expands BroadbandAccess

Wow, could it be safe to say that Verizon is dead serious about bringing wireless Internet everywhere you can think of?

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Gnomedex pictures and Tablets, Tablets, Tablets

I too, was amazed at the number of Tablet PCs that I noticed at Gnomedex. Never before have I seen so many people using this type of computer in a real world situation.

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Handango to add Tablet PC software

While everyone else was at Gnomedex last week I was attending the Handango Partner Summit in Miami. Every year Handango invites a few hundred developers who sell their software on the Handango online store for a few days of networking and technical talks.

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A Dizzying Array of Options for Using the Web on Cellphones

Options, options, options. These days it would seem that options for using the Web on your mobile phone is hardly a challenge any longer. Then again, what about data rates?