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The “network of everything”…personal networks in the year 2017

If you are feeling a little squeamish already about the ubiquity of technology already interlaced within our daily lives, this article from ScienceDaily is not going to do anything to help: ”Wireless experts believe that, by 2017, personal networks will have to cope with at least a thousand devices, like laptops, telephones, mp3 players, games, sensors and [...]

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Update: Google Voice Search works and works well…

Earlier this week I posted about both my excitement and trepidation surrounding the new Google voice-activated search functionality now found in the Mobile App.  Well, I can safely say that my fears were unnecessary and probably unjustified as well.  In a nutshell, the voice-activated functionality of the application works surprisingly well! 
Not only can you perform [...]

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COOL! Another Android-based phone on the way…

Okay, maybe not here in North America,but Japanese telco DoCoMo recently announced that it will release an Android-based phone sometime next year in hopes that it will differentiate them from rival telco Softbank.  Now that we have all seen and played with the G1, what would you like to see from the next Android-based phone? 
I would love to see [...]

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Google launching voice activated search for iPhone…

According to the NYTimes, Google will be launching an iPhone app that provides Google search via a user simply using their voice.  To search, all an iPhone user would have to do is state their question into the phone with the application launched.  Theoretically, this could be the easiest way to solve all those incredibly important debates [...]

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If you like Google Earth for your desktop, try it for the iPhone…

I have been a fan of Google Earth for quite some time now and have been wondering when the Internet behemoth would be bringing out it’s iPhone app.  Well, look no longer…the iPhone app is now available (here) and it is slick!.  As good iPhone applications do, the app doesn’t try and replicate the desktop experience, [...]

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John Chambers, CEO Cisco, on Telepresence and Unified Communications

While at the Gartner ITxpo today, Cisco CEO John Chambers gave a keynote speech (more of an informal group interview) to over 800 attendees. During the session, Mr. Chambers talked about some of the changes we as consumers and businesses can expect in the near-term. Most notably was the focus on media-rich [...]

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Hands-on with three of the newest and coolest handsets

I am currently down in Orlando at the Gartner ITxpo where there is a wealth of manufacturers and technology providers.  Early this afternoon I had the opportunity to get hands-on with the Blackberry Storm and Flip and the HTC G1 running Android.  Unfortunately, based on the crowds, I had only a short time with each device, [...]

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Why on earth would anyone want to do this to their iPhone…

Over at Gizmodo, they are reporting on a Norwegian developer that has apparently been able to get Windows Mobile running on an iPhone (…the horror…the horror…). If this is anything more than just a case of doing something because you can, I don’t understand it.

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Bell and Telus are bringing HSPA to Canada…finally

Although the rumors of this network upgrade have been lurking around the blogosphere for some time now (at least since July of this year), Bell and Telus have made the announcement official. With the emergence of handsets and applications that leverage these higher bandwidth capabilities on the rise, the convergence of multimedia, phone, wallet [...]

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Finally, a mobile replacement for cash…

I’m not sure about you, but I have been anxiously awaiting the time when I can stop carrying my wallet and just use my phone for cash transactions.  Well, thanks to a recent innovation from RBC we are just about there!
RBC has just launched an SMS-based payment solution called Mobex, which allows anyone with an SMS capable mobile phone [...]

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