Archive for May, 2010
BlackBerry OS 5
One of the side effects of getting a new machine was that I used BlackBerry Desktop for the first time in ages. When it started up I was offered an upgrade to the newer 5.x OS, which I went ahead with (luckily I wasn’t in a hurry). Here’s my experience of running the new OS [...]
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Tags: 5, 8900, battery, blackberry, curve, os, SplashID, twitter, upgrade
This is my first follow up post after my first impressions, which went up ten days ago now. I’m using the X201 as my main machine on the road, at work and around the house, so it’s getting to the stage now where I know it reasonably well. Pimping my ride I’ve done a few [...]
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Tags: 3G, lenovo, review, tablet, thinkpad, WWAN, x201, x201t
Not Only SQL
No, or Not Only One of the most sensible things to emerge for the recent no:sql(eu) event (which sadly I didn’t attend) was a statement that NOSQL should be expanded to Not Only SQL rather than No SQL. This is an interesting development, as there’s been lots of good stuff going on in the NOSQL [...]
Filed under: cloud, software, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: cloud, database, dba, iaas, nosql, paas, rdbms, sql, storage
Broadband Britain – really?
I’ve just spent the last few weeks trying to suck the cloud through a very thin and broken straw – my mistake, trying to use the Internet in the City of London. The proposed telephone tax that came out of the Digital Britain report (and failed to find its way through parliament in the finance [...]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: adsl, broadband, efm, fiber, fibre, sdsl, voip, xdsl
The arrival of my shiny new Lenovo X201 Tablet meant that I had to lay my hands on a 3G SIM so that I could try out its WWAN (the 3 SIM in my MiFi was pressed into other duties, but that’s another story for another day). For a while I’ve been recommending Vodafone’s Top [...]
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Tags: 3G, APN, payg, sim, tug, vodafone, WWAN
A few weeks ago I was pretty upset with Lenovo after they cancelled my order for an s10-3t netvertible. My last update flagged that Lenovo had been in touch, and I wondered if there might be a happy ending? There was, as Lenovo came back to me promising an s10-3t as soon as they hit [...]
Filed under: did_do_better, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: 3G, GPS, lenovo, review, tablet, thinkpad, WWAN, x201, x201t
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