Phones

Earthlink and Nokia are working on a promotion, looking to increase interest in Earthlink’s muniFi and boost the sales of Nokia’s new Internet tablet in the U.S. Earthlink plans to offer free muniFi to users of Nokia’s N800 Internet tablet until the end of 2007.

I am seriously pleased with myself! This entire blog entry was posted from a Nokia 6600, without recourse to my PC at all! And that includes the picture!

FreeConferenceCall.com CEO David Erickson said you can add his company to the list of free-calling concerns whose access numbers are being selectively blocked by Cingular, now part of the wireless arm of AT&T.

Court backs FCC over states in VoIP case

Police found a gang running a fake Hutch call centre from E-45 Subhash Vihar in Bhajanpura. A raid was carried out at the premises and one man, Rajiv Chaudhary, was arrested. Eight Tata landline phones and around 1,000 fake customer agreement forms, some of them filled up, were recovered.

When we migrated to Cingular and got our current LG phones, I ordered software for the new phones. It works, but you can get a good idea of how useful it turned out to be by the fact the cable and software now live on Chris’ computer and it’s probably been over a year since I did anything with it. I couldn’t tell you if she’s ever used it, even though I installed it on her computer so she could.

Google 2.0 = Google Cell Phone + Tell Me like services + Google Adwords will result in game changing play as to how traditional telephone directory services (yellow pages and directory assistance) make their money.

Next up, I tried downloading the new Yahoo Go 2.0 application. You have to download it from your operator by submitting your phone number and then they send you the URL via SMS. Unfortunately I don’t use a RAZR or Windows Mobile. Looks like Symbian isn’t supported and if I missed it somewhere, my guess is that others have as well.

I don’t sync my email with Outlook on my PC. Instead, I use Outlook Mobile on my Treo 700w to connect directly to the University’s mail server. Below, I describe the steps I took to configure IMAP. Please note, however, that this is a limited solution. I only lets me see mail in my Inbox, not other folders. For me, this is adequate.

Just got a new Verizon RAZR V3M phone and being how I am I have to see what I can do with it. The is no Java on this so I’m pretty much stuck with BREW which means I’ll have to buy apps off of Verizon’s service. Bummer since there is a lot of good Java apps for this phone available. Verizon has done a lot of things to make the phone as non-customizable as possible, less for them to worry about with support (curse the world of idiots!).

I’ve been following the progress of two very different companies with a very similar M.O.: capture business at the ILECs’ expense. These two companies are Covad and Vonage. Both share a desire to compete against the Bells, and both offer a net result of the Bells losing revenue. But one is diversified, forward-looking, and asset-rich (Covad) while the other is mired in question marks and is asset-poor (Vonage).

But later Nokia phones that I owned seemed to abandon games altogether. My last phone was a Sony Ericsson W810i, and aside from its laughable excuse for a keypad, it didn’t seem to have any particularly compelling games on it.