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You may not know this but I’m a sledhead (snowmobiler). So I watched the 2007 model webcast for Polaris, and I have to admit that I’m a little disappointed. Last year I was eyeing up the 700 Classic, but it’s disappeared from the lineup for ’07. Instead, they’ve got the 600 HO IQ LX CFI for 2007. A great sled to be sure, but I was really impressed with last year’s model. Oh well, maybe one’ll turn up in decent condition this spring.
Performancing for Firefox
So I’ve installed Performancing for Firefox – a plug-in for Firefox that allows creating blog entries right from the browser. I happend to stumble across this while setting up Performancing Metrics. So far I’m very impressed.
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Cingular brings BlackBerry Connect to Market
Acording to RIMarkable, Cingular is bringing BlackBerry Connect to the US market with the Nokia 9300! Good news to all non-BlackBerry device users. RIM actually has a version of BlackBerry Connect for Windows Mobile and Palm. With the lawsuit settled, and the release of BB Connect with the Nokia 9300, there may be other versions of the BB Connect software making it to the US market in the near future.
Corporate Blogging – Part II
While the concept is encouraging, I think that some companies (including the one I work for) don’t really ‘get’ blogging. There has been some talk, and the only place I’ve heard it from is the corporate officer level. This worries me because I don’t believe that the right people are thinking about blogging, or that they are thinking about it for the right reason.
What may be a powerful means of communicating with customers, or even simply within the company, is getting lost in a typical discussion of what tool to use. The fact that SharePoint was looked at along with wiki software tells me that the people looking for the blogging solution at our company, don’t even know why they should blog. SharePoint is a powerful tool and one can add a blogging component to it, but at its heart SharePoint is a collaboration tool.
It’s similar to what we did several years ago with SourceSafe. We had (actually still have) a need for a document management system. Somehow, someone got the ‘great’ idea to use SourceSafe. SourceSafe itself is a good product… for source code management. How the fact that it was a source code management system and not a document management tool got lost on everyone with decision-making power. What did we use SourceSafe for? Managing Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents, CD ISO images (please stop laughing, yes really), and many other items that should never be stored in a flat-file database (and these were ‘IT’ people who decided this!) Now I’ll be the first to rave about the wonders of SharePoint, and for a number of reasons, but blogging will not be among them – at all. Luckily it didn’t make it too far in the evaluation, and I’m not sure what software has made it any farther as the criteria for a corporate blogging solution is being tightly held.
What use is even considering a corporate blogging solution when the people evaluating the concepts don’t even understand what a blog is for? This is what concerns me about corporate blogging – that it gets tied up with the wrong people. And that the whole idea of blogging is for the wrong reason. I’ve got a suspicion that most companies that either have or are considering corporate blogging have the wrong idea about it, and have the wrong people investigating it.
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Moto Q in April?
So the Moto Q may be released in April by Motorola.
Via: Jason Landridge
Update: So CoolSmartphone.com is saying that it’s not coming in April – too bad, this phone is crazy-awesome!
Another T-Mobile MDA Review
Pocket PC Thoughts’ Vincent M. Ferrari has posted a full review of the new T-Mobile MDA on thier site.
Alienware snapped up by Dell
Dell finally pulled the trigger on the Alienware purchase. Read some of the details at BetaNews.
Last days of Cingular TDMA
According to this RCR Wireless article, Cingular Wireless will be shutting down their TDMA and analog networks in 2008. This will be the beginning of the end for consumer analog cellular phone service, as it fits in with the government’s timetable for analog to digital transition.
Cingular’s plans are nothing new, as the migration of the user base from analog to digital has progressed for many years. The announcement is the start of the implementation plan and will probably get a little tweak here and there as customers either start migrating sooner, or add their comments, concerns & complaints to the companies plans.
What this really brings to Cingular (and other carriers as they phase out analog) is the reclaiming of needed wireless bandwidth to support the new GSM/GPRS/EDGE & UMTS/HSDPA networks that replace them. In the end, it’ll be a good thing and you will see additional coverage even out some of the existing “dead” or marginal spots.
Russ on PayPal Mobile
Kind of get the impression that Russell Beattie likes PayPal’s new mobile service. I’ve been waiting for a service like this to finally make it to the US, should be kind of neat. Should be interesting, but I’m a little hesitant to jump right into the service – I’ll probably watch and see what some others think on the experience.
Thanks for the tip Russ!
Windows Vista 2007
So who out there hasn’t heard that the consumer release of Windows Vista has slipped again?
I’m not going to rant on Micrsoft about this – I’m one of those people that belives that any product destined to reside on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide should be as close to perfect as possible.
Kudos Microsoft!
The important thing with an OS upgrade with the scope of Vista is stability. As both a corporate IT architect and a home consumer of MS producs, I have an expectation of technology. Usually I’m the one that accepts the glitches, the anomolies, the problems with most software. I simply either work around them, or understand that that is how the program simply “works”, or don’t even notice. To be precise, I understand how it works and accept the faults as a matter of course.
This outlook of mine has started to change in the last few months or so, and with Vista I’ve changed my expectations more than I thought I ever would. More and more, I am using technology for a reason, not simply because technology is cool. There are tons of cool things out there, electronics, software, golf clubs, whatever… but this time cool isn’t going to cut it. I am anticipating not just “the most stable version of Windows yet” (which incidentally I’ve already had several times – NT, Win98, W2K, XP), but the most usable system as well.
Well here is looking forward to the future – it’ll be closer to a year from now to walk into the store and pick up a retail version of Vista, but it should be worth it.
As an aside – when the public preview comes out, you should try the new OS out. It is definitely different, though not radically so, and will take quite a bit of getting used to.
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👇👇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸