Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Android Experimentation
When I started my new job I had two choices for mobile device – a company owned BlackBerry or buy my own iPhone and get company email using Good. I didn’t want to go back to having two phones in my pocket, which would have been necessary if I’d gone down the BlackBerry route (as […]
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Tags: 3G, android, Androot, clockwork, cyanogen, Froyo, hotspot, mifi, Orange, recovery manager, root, San Francisco, unlock, wifi, ZTE Blade
Every hotel room should have one
Last week I was very impressed to find this at my desk in the Westin Jersey City: and yesterday I found this in the Crowne Plaza Zurich: NB The D-Link pocket WiFi router being powered by the media bar USB. For some odd reason this hotel doesn’t have WiFi (but thankfully it does have free […]
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Tags: audio, HDMI, hotel, screen, tv, USB, VGA, video
The wrong sort of radio
This post is about the madness of corporate web filters in the age of ubiquitous consumer devices with Internet connectivity. I typically see three types of connectivity in any given corporate setting: The company network. Usually wired, but sometimes with a wireless adjunct, this network offers the same liberty as an oppressive Middle East regimes[1]. This […]
Filed under: security, technology | 5 Comments
Tags: 3G, data, filter, filtering, HR, mobile, policy, security, social, time, web, wifi
I was very pleased to see Google’s announcement yesterday about Email authentication using DKIM now available to all Google Apps domains[1,2]. DKIM is an important weapon in the war on spam, and may well be crucial to stopping email from slipping into irrelevance. Of course this may just make the spammers go after our Google […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 5 Comments
Tags: DKIM, GABE, GAPE, gapps, google, Google Apps, Postini, spam
Bubble 2.0
I had the misfortune of missing most of the first Internet bubble. Although I’d got into the Internet before there was a World Wide Web I’d signed my life away to the Royal Navy (in exchange for a great education and generous financial package). Thus I got to spend the two years it took between […]
Filed under: technology, wibble | 14 Comments
Tags: bubble, Facebook, google, investment, IPO, social networking, valuation, Zynga
I live in the UK, and I feel like I’ve been waiting for Google Voice for way too long. I also travel frequently to the US, so I could get some use out of the service as it stands and it’s been frustrating that I couldn’t sign up. Disclaimers Google only offers it’s Voice service […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: google, google voice, IPkall, sip, SIP sorcery, SIPgate, skype, SkypeIn, SkypeToGo, UK, US, Voice, voip
Shortly before digging into the copy of Cognitive Surplus I bought on Google ebooks the other day I read this piece comparing the relative merits of Google, Amazon and Apple’s offerings. One of the areas of the store/reading experience it didn’t touch on was gifting. Since getting my Kindle I don’t really want any more […]
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Tags: amazon, apple, content, DRM, ebook, geography, gift card, gifting, google, Google checkout, iBook, payments, publishing
One of the big tech news items today is the launch of the much anticipated Google eBooks. Sadly the service is only available in the US at the moment, so I thought I’d have a poke around and see what the hurdles were. US Browsing Browsing from my regular connection at home I could only see […]
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Tags: Adobe, amazon, Amex, Calibre, convert, Digital Editions, DRM, ebook, epub, google, Google books, kindle, mobi, payments, proxy, UK, US
Region locks – My 2¢
Since I started using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy I’ve found that I’m exploiting it pretty regularly. Every time that I see one of those ‘you can’t access that content from your country’ type messages I have a choice. I can give up and move on, or I can fork out 2¢ to spin up […]
Filed under: could_do_better, media, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, lock, micro payments, micropayments, payments, proxy, region, region lock, SSH, tunnel, video
My friend Randy posted a few days ago on Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?. I started to make a comment on the blog, but it was getting too long so I moved it here. Randy does a good job of pinning down both performance and scalability, but in my experience productivity trumps both. This […]
Filed under: cloud, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: cloud, grid, MPI, parallel processing, performance, productivity, scalability
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