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Email access in Europe

( Italia and Mobile )

Ampersand switched to gmail (well, google apps) last year and hasn’t looked back. This means that I can get at all my mail, calendar, contacts, etc. from any browser anywhere.  But in order to work effectively during the summer abroad I needed to monitor and respond to short term emails from anywhere — a train, [...]

Tech Requirements for a Summer in Europe

( Italia and Mobile )

Section 1.0 Overview
Our family decided spend 9 weeks this summer travelling around Europe.   Since I was unable to take 9 weeks off cold turkey,  this was to be a summer working in Europe for me and partly for my wife, not a summer off, so we need to be able to communicate easily and [...]

International Travel Technology

( Italia and Mobile )

I was fortunate enough to be able to work from Europe this summer, combining the need to earn a living with the desire to spend the summer with the family in a variety of interesting locations.    It went well, and in this day and age it’s certainly possible to do a lot given an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mobile tech update

( Mobile )

I’ve been spending some time playing with mobile technology in the last few weeks, and will write some more comprehensive notes here when I get a chance.   But here’s the gist:

 I was in Italy on vacation, and used a Nokia N95 with the 3G carrier Tre (3).   I used to carry a first gen [...]