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g1 android beats iphone

( Mobile )

Well, it does for me anyway.    A month back I wrote that I was trialing both the iphone and the g1 (aka google phone) side by side, as a candidate replacement to my blackberry.  
Bottom line:  I’ll be carrying the g1.   The iPhone is a beautiful device, but with my usage the battery runs out in [...]

New tech tool-chain decisions

( General )

I abide by the wisdom that competition fosters greater innovation, honing and improving approaches and efficiencies in just about any domain.    It’s one of the things that moves mankind forward, and has led to the incredible productivity gains of the internet age.
But at times standards races, or de-facto standards races, can be a downright [...]

Early Xmas present from Comcast

( General )

 
Comcast has received some bad press in the last few months, from disrupting large transfers with RST packets, to putting bandwidth caps in place.   And I decry those things.
But I do have a soft spot in my heart for them — in 2005 they cabled my street, a low density area in a rural [...]

eComm vs. F2C in 2009

It used to be that I would struggle with the month of March — there was VON in San Jose, and a week later David Isenberg’s excellent Freedom to Connect unconference in Silver Spring.   But, not being a professional conference goer, I would either skip one or the other, or else attend both and [...]