Archive for the 'mobile' Category

Mobile devices as development machines
Monday, November 17th, 2008

Tim O’Reilly tells the story of how Vic Gundotra, my manager at Google, came to the conclusion that the future of software lies somewhere in the intersection of mobile and cloud. Indeed it does, but I jokingly twittered back that we still need PCs — how else are we going to write our mobile [...]

T-Mobile and Twitter
Friday, December 14th, 2007

Altnernageek, TechCrunch and others are reporting, and Biz is confirming, that T-Mobile is restricting/denying access to Twitter.

According to Alternageek, T-Mobile’s customer service department wrote:

T-Mobile would like to bring to your attention that the Terms and Conditions of service, to which you agreed at activation, indicate “… some Services are not available on third-party networks or [...]

A bug in the system, or why ISPs should use SPF
Monday, December 10th, 2007

I awoke this morning to see numerous emails in my personal inbox reading:

To: dewitt@gmail.com From: nnnnnnnnnn@vtext.com Subject: Stop texting me!

Now obviously I’m not spam texting anyone. Not via the phone, not via email. But Verizon runs an email-to-SMS gateway at text.vzw.com that allows anyone to send an email to [...]

Bye Bye BlackBerry
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

It is really amusing seeing Dave getting so darn excited about his new BlackBerry.

While I understand his enthusiasm about being able to read (and write) syndicated content on a mobile device, I personally arrived at a totally different place with my BlackBerry. In fact, that place would be hurling the [...]