Playing with Cingular 8700c this weekend!

Our BlackBerry project at work is starting to make a little bit of headway on the “fun” meter.  We just got in our first development device – a Cingular BlackBerry 8700c!

Too bad Cingular makes it super-difficult to link to specific devices on their website, so I’ll link to the actual BlackBerry page (here and here) instead.

Three Things

Got tagged with the Three Things Meme by Kent Newsome

For this meme, you should identify three things that you would like to see occur during your lifetime.  It can be anything, anything at all – whether serious or whimsical.  Others have touched on more big-picture items like world peace, ending world hunger, etc… All good noble things.  So here are mine:

1.)    A motorcycle “style” other than the current crotch rockets and copies of Harley Davidson V-twin cruisers (I miss the ’80s Honda Nighthawks)

2.)    Snow year ’round (I’m a winter sports enthusiast)

3.)    An operating system release that actually meets my expectations

So, who to tag next (need to think a little)

Jerry Loss, Rod Boothby

RIMarkable on Visto Post

RIMarkable has a post on the same Visto story I talked about earlier today.  I still can’t figure it out, and have the same question as Robb Dunewood – who actually uses their technology to get mobile email?  There are dozens of people that we all know that use BlackBerry’s, some that have Palm Treos, Nokia Series 60/S60 devices, and Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones that use alternate methods like GoodLink, POP3, IMAP and Exchange 2003 solutions.

While I don’t agree with some that question the viability of patents today, I do lament the lack of integrity of patent filers/holders and in the disappointing performance of the US Patent Office itself regarding technology patents.

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