Category Archives: wireless

Clayton Christensen on Apple vs. Nokia (Nokia FTW)

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Brian Jepson

Originally posted on the BIF Speak blog. Walt Mossberg continued his conversations on day 2 of BIF-3, bringing storyteller Clayton Christensen up on stage. It was refreshing to see Christensen say that the cell phone is poised to disrupt the … Continue reading →

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Workaround for Microsoft Smartphone IMAP Delete Bug

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Brian Jepson

At first, it seemed incredible that a bug like this could find its way into a shipping product, and it becomes even more annoying when you realize you probably won’t see a fix for it until you buy another phone. … Continue reading →

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Testing a Post from YoMoBlog.com

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Brian Jepson

Dave is doing some cool stuff with mobile blogging, not to mention mobile blog reading. This is my first post from his newly-launched YoMoBlog.com. Dave says it’s short for Your Mobile Weblog, but I think it’s short for Yo! Moblog!

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Rhode Island’s Border-to-Border Wireless Network

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Brian Jepson

A few months ago, my home state made the news for its work on an initiative to cover the state in wireless with a true border-to-border network. The RI-WINS initiative (Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Networks) officially flipped the switch on … Continue reading →

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Come and Learn about RI’s Statewide Wireless Network

Posted on June 13, 2006 by Brian Jepson

I’ve been organizing a Town Hall-style event for Providence Geeks. It goes down next week: Wednesday June 21 at AS220, from 5pm to 6pm. Representatives of the RI-WINS project will be on hand to brief people on this effort, and … Continue reading →

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Visit the Hacks Booth at the Maker Faire

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Brian Jepson

If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Hacks @ LinuxWorld Boston

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Brian Jepson

I’ll be giving a short talk and demonstration on Ubuntu Hacks today (Wednesday, April 5 at 12:30) at the O’Reilly LinuxWorld booth. Drop by and learn about getting Ubuntu running under colinux, going online with a Bluetooth connection and a … Continue reading →

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T-Mobile Blocking Google or Google Blocking T-Mobile?

Posted on December 13, 2005 by Brian Jepson

This is weird. I’m in Providence, connected to the Internet via T-Mobile EDGE (PowerBook to Treo via Bluetooth) and everything works just fine… except anything at google.com (including gmail.com). http://www.google.com/pda is the only google property that works. What’s stranger is … Continue reading →

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Convergence Oceania ’05

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Brian Jepson

gnat: “Apparently the infrastructure whose costs they’re recouping is entirely built out of fibre spun from the eyelashes of Indonesian princesses and each packet is transmitted in a 24 karat solid gold envelope.”

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Kicking up my T-Mobile EDGE

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Brian Jepson

As soon as I was sure I had EDGE speeds in 02881, I snagged a GC82 EDGE card on eBay for around $50. It arrived today, and I’ve told the story of its setup in pictures.

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