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T-Mobile UK has released the AKU2 update ROMs for several of phones in their MDA line. Check it out at The Mobile Lifestyle.
Some people will never understand blogs
I was convinced of that today during a meeting at work. I’ve been planting the blogging seeds at work for several months, with some success at the IT management level, but was reminded quite aggressively by a coworker that some people have a real hard time with something new.
To some people, change brings disruption, uncertainty, fear, and anger. Obviously they don’t understand what a blog is for or what it can be utilized for. The reaction I experienced today has made me certain that there are some people that you simply can’t reach. Their ability to grasp new concepts and really understand the significance of the difference from existing ideas is a wall blocking their ability to learn new skills.
The amazing thing to me is that intelligent people actually fear things. Rather than take a minute or two and actually listen to a quick explanation or demonstration, they simply make knee-jerk assumption and move on, not knowing what they missed.
Oh well, more opportunity for me!
UPDATE: If anyone is interested in a tactic to address some of the things I’ve talked about here – check out Ann Michael’s post The Change Resistors: Snipers on her Manage To Change blog. There are some great tips on dealing with individuals who enjoy shooting down ideas simply because of lack of understanding.
Through the wringer
This week was the week from hell. It just seemed like everyone was overworked, overtired, overstressed, and trying not to let it get to them too much. Maybe its the run-up to one of the biggest holiday weekends of the year, but work just seemed not to let up all week.
Ugh, glad to be out of the office and away from everyone for awhile – I think everyone needs it.
New Version of Virtual Earth Mobile
Jason Fuller has posted about a new version of Virtual Earth Mobile v1.64 on the Windows Mobile Team Blog. If your interested, you can read the post, or download directly from here.
CoolCamera 1.12.5
msmobiles.com is reporting that Ateksoft has released CoolCamera 1.12.5. Operating as either a camera or camcorder, the new version sports some improvements over the standard camera software.
Supported on a wide variety of HTC devices, the software supports higher frame rates and smoother video. Check out the msmobiles.com site for more details and the download link for the software.
Robert’s Last Day
Wednesday was Robert Scoble’s last day at Microsoft. Though he didn’t talk about Microsoft at all, he did post some interesting topics (as usual)! One is a neat video tour of Carnegie Mellon’s robotics lab – check out his post here.
I think Robert is giving us an idea of where his focus is shifting too with the new job. It looks to be quite interesting – I’ve not really followed video bloggers, so I’m kind of interested in what is developing in that area.
Ah, more Windows Mobile Goodness
Looks like Cingular will be getting three more Windows Mobile devices this year. The Boy Genius has the post over at Engadget Mobile on the trio of devices: HTC Hermes, HTC StarTrek, and HP iPaq hw6920.
While I’ve posted about the hw6900 series before, the Hermes and StarTrek devices are going to be more interesting. With HSDPA on the Hermes for 400-700kbs data rates, it’ll be quite speedy. The wonderful design of the StarTrek flip phone will appeal to the average and high-end cell phone user.
Can’t wait to see more of these devices spread to other carriers as well – or in the case of the HTC devices, simply look around for the iMate and HTC versions that can work with any GSM carrier. Damn, I love technology. 🙂
Intel’s XScale on the selling block
Ed Hardy over at Brighthand.com is reporting that Intel is planning to sell it’s XScale line of processors. The XScale line has long been used in mobile devices, from Pocket PCs & Smartphones, to Palm and BlackBerry devices.
Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. is the company that will be purchasing the devision, along with about 1,400 employees that will make the transition to the new company.
The immediate impact on the XScale line & its direction is unknown, but it is my opinion that Intel just wasn’t focusing a lot of attention on expanding the capabilities of the line of processors. Maybe Marvell will be able to take the chip to another level of integration and features that could leverage more functionality for all of us in the end.
Long day
Ugh, I had to go back into the office this evening to work on one of the servers supporting our VPN system. The darn Integrity database got snarled up, and its still restoring.
This doesn’t bode well for my 8:30am meeting does it. 🙂
UPDATE: Guess I’ll just blog a few items as I catch up on yesterday’s news! Database restores can be so boring.
Ugh – comment spam
Just cleared out 60+ spam comments. What garbage – “Good job guys!”, or “Great site…”. Please.
Thank-you to Matt and crew at Automattic for Akismet!
I hope the leadership of the Republican Party will take his word seriously. Because this is exactly right.
This is very simple: only Americans citizens should be allowed to vote in American elections.
The SAVE America Act is common sense, and we need to pass it now!
I don’t recall you complaining when gas was $5.00 under Biden.
Hypocrisy much?
Please RT!
This Middle Ages bullshit is a cancer on the planet👇👇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸