Monthly Archives: September 2003

Mobile Food for Thought

Russell Beattie has some interesting thoughts on “simplexity” and phone usability, content vs. contact, and mobile gaming.

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The Future of Database Research

Werner Vogels: “Every few years a group of senior database researchers get together to do some self-assessment about the current state of database research and recommend new and future research areas. In the spring of this year there was such … Continue reading

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Cocoa Literature

More Cocoa articles than you can shake a cinnamon stick at. (via ranchero.com)

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SMS Sender for Windows XP

The Scobleizer: “Microsoft has released a new SMS sender for Windows XP (GSM cell phone and a direct modem connection also required).”

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Hands on G5

In which Tom Hoffman stresses out a G5 at the Warwick CompUSA.

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Does your 3650 have that "not so fresh" feeling?

If so, check out Russell Beattie’s instructions for blowing out all the cruft. He says: “My phone is definitely working much faster now and has almost a meg more memory to play with.”

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T-Mobile Hotspot at TF Green (PVD)

I’m flying out to San Francisco today, sitting at Gate 18 in TF Green Airport (aka PVD), and when I booted up, I found a T-Mobile hotspot. I didn’t see any signage in the airport, but I did get directed … Continue reading

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Massive Mobile Post

Russell Beattie with a bunch of notes on: whether or not “Europe has almost caught up in many ways to Japan” UIQ and the P800 Electronic Arts as the “kingmaker” of the N-Gage So many Java games, so little time … Continue reading

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Mac OS X and Sierra Wireless Aircard

Mac OS X Hints: Use an Aircard 555 with OS X

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Whither (wither) the Relational Database

William Grosso: “What I know is that the world is mostly made up of semi-structured data and I know that database schemas often evolve at a ferocious rate because, when we impose more structure, we often get it wrong.”

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