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GSM halfway to world domination

Dawn Ahukanna — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:14:43 +0000

According to the Register - GSM connectivity now enjoyed by 4 billion, 4 billion people (60% of the world population derived from Wolfgram Alpha ) have access to or own a second generation (2G) GSM mobile phone.

Far behind in second place is the third generation (3G) GSM mobile phone used by 0.5 billion people and third is CDMA devices used by just over 0.4 billion people. The other platforms are "duking it out" for the scraps.

I created the image below to summarise the article, as a picture is worth a thousand words.

Capture screens on the Blackberry Bold

dawn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:54:21 +0000

Just downloaded CaptureIt 1.4 from www.thetechmogul.com OTA (Over The Air or wirelessly straight to the phone). Installed and removed it 4 times before I figured out from this post -Capture it 1.2 install details at crackberry.com that the key to this working is you have to allow ALL permissions . If you don't, you just get an image that is just a white screen. Otherwise, you get a screen shot of whatever was on the screen at the time. Here's mine of downloaded apps on the Blackberry Bold.

Publishing on the move

dawn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:29:30 +0000

I'm posting this using wordpress for blackberry Beta 0.9.0.149. This is really cool as the focus is totally on content generation real-time. I'll experiment with this to see how it stands up to real use.

You buy the content but who owns the data?

Dawn Ahukanna — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:11:48 +0000

Amazon Pulls Already-Purchased Books from Kindle caught my eye. Interesting concept going on here. I pay for something that is delivered to me. When the manufacturer decides they do not want to supply the item any more, they retrieve the item without my permission and give me my money back.

I understand the issue was a copyright infringement but does that allow retrospective application of the solution on a customer who has already legitimately purchased the item? That's like buying a hard copy book at a book store and when you get home the pages are blank. In the meantime, the store has left you a message informing you that your money has been refunded.

Is that doing business and making customers happy? Related Post - Are PCs becoming dumb terminals