I have a weakness. Though I watch a lot of TV, I seldom really pay attention to it. Generally I have only one eye and one ear focused on it at any given moment it is on, but there is one program which never fails to completely grabs me. And that hour of my life [...]
I’ve been trying to post to Writing On Your Palm via my XDA for days now, and Blogger is just not cooperating. If I can’t get it working reliably in the next day or so, I’ll be moving back to static HTML. Why am I telling you this? Because it’s going to mean that those [...]
Okay - finally - here’s WOYP’s official coverage of my "annual pilgrimage to Mecca." Just so there’s no question of my hiding anything, I guesstimate this little outing cost Microsoft ~$2,000 to include me, counting airfare, lodging, food and yes, cool toys. I accepted this, and I’m going to tell you what I really think [...]
Okay, it’s not unlimited, but T-Mobile has dropped the prices on all their data plans and added 50MB and 200MB(!) monthly GPRS data plans! Check ‘em out! I’m going with the 50MB plan, which should be just about enough, as I go through about 1.5-2MB a day.
Wired has a good article on the state of Intellectual Property insanity.
There’s a truly disturbing article in Wired right now about the battle to remove the restrictions on encryption technology. The worry is that such laws make individuals powerless to prevent media companies from using the DMCA to restrict their rights. But how far do you go?
‘ “When you empower people to do things, we empower [...]
Lies! Lies! All Lies!
So I figured that by going to an actually stand alone T-Mobile location I would find accurate answers to all my questions. Nope! The salesman outright lied! I asked him 3 times if he was sure that the “Sidekick Plan” was available for any phone, and 3 times the answer was, “Yes.” [...]
I have finally entered the modern age. Friday night my wife and I broke down and bought a Sony Ericsson T68m phone with T-Mobile as the service provider. Do I need a cell phone? Probably not, but the tech-geek in me was charmed by the new revelation… The service plan for T-Mobile’s “Sidekick” in not [...]
And so it begins. Sprint PCS has announced an unlimited plan for PCS Vision, their version of the CDMA 1xRTT packet network. For any PCS Vision plan, an extra $10 will get you unlimited data.
In the highly competitive mobile market, how long can T-Mobile and AT&T continue to not to offer unlimited GPRS?
With the exception of today, I haven’t carried any sort of mobile technology (other than a pen and notebook) in about a month and a half. My problem was�and in many cases still is�that given the type of work I do and the situations that I have to do it in, using a Pocket PC [...]