A friend from work is on vaction in Puerto Vallarta this week and emails me:
Thanks Pat – have one for me!
The Wireless Report has an interesting post about mobile and VoIP communications taking over the world. I agree that the trend is moving in that direction, but what is fascinating to me is how long our country takes to catch up to the rest of the world. Our providers and the media do a great job of covering up what new options there really are for us to use and move to. To save money and gain flexibility – it’s only the web-savy “power-users” and folks in the IT industry that are “in-the-know” as it were.
While I find this very disappointing, its good to see these options start to pick up here in the U.S. – and I think the traditional telephony providers are dreading this very trend. How they will fight it I’m not sure, but I’ll put forth my $.02 and suggest that they simply provide the fastest, cheapest, biggest communications pipe to my house. That is all I want from them, I’ll find my content places that are focused on content, not as a means to attract me as a broadband or infrastructure customer.
Via: The Wireless Report
Ok, here is the phone I’ve been waiting for. T-Mobile’s version of the HTC Wizard – the MDA. Neat device, I was able to test this very unit back in October/November.
It has EDGE Quad-Band services which are much faster than straight GPRS bandwidth. The keyboard is a trade-off, but I was able to adapt quite quickly to it. The screen is razor sharp, bright and clear, sound quality was good, phone quality as well.
One handed operation was a little iffy – and was the source of most of my suggestions on improving the product. We’ll see if they incorporated any suggestions. The pull-mail features of Pocket Outlook were fantastic – I had it pulling mail every 15 minutes for 5 accounts. I also had a number of software packages that pulled data from the ‘Net on a regular basis as well – like weather, news and such.
Performance suffered a little with the 200MHz processor, but I think a person can adapt what they run. Overall a good phone when a person makes an effort to adapt to the device a little.
Well, an update to one of the best Today screen Pocket PC program launchers is available. Among the numerous updates to iLauncher 2.3 are:
Looks like a nice update. Kudos to Jason, Amit and crew over at SBSH Mobile Software!
Well that didn’t work. Ok, note to self… don’t try to change the base domain name for your web site when you are transfering it from one registrar to another.
Seriously, when I say it to myself that way, I realize how stupid it really was. You may have noticed that this site actually resolves to rickmahn.net, I own rickmahn.com as well and have it forwarding here. Its in the process of being transfered to my new hosting service, and well, I thought I could do a few things that just didn’t work.
The short of it is that it’ll just have to be forwarding to rickmahn.net for another few days until the domain has been transfered, then I’ll move the site from rickmahn.net to rickmahn.com.
Sorry for any confusion! Just my stupidity showing itself :).
There’s NO valid argument against the SAVE America Act.
My bill would make it easy to vote.
And hard to cheat.
As soon as DHS is fully funded (as it should be within 48 hours), the Senate should resume consideration of it—and stay on the bill until it passes.
Pass it on.
How are Democrats cheating in L.A.?
Let me show you…
There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in Los Angeles.
I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot.
No homes. No mailboxes.
As governor, the State Capitol will stand for unity and common sense.
In addition to the POW/MIA flag that has long flown over the State Capitol, we will fly two flags when I am governor: the Wisconsin state flag and the American flag.
That’s it. No politics.
