If it's not open it's broken.
Available right now for mobiles running Nokia’s S60/Symbian OS and coming soon for Android and crippled Internet appliances, buddycloud automates the tedium of manual check-ins. As soon as you “teach” it a particular place — by entering as much or as little detail as you choose to — it uses any combination of cellular towers, GPS, WiFi antennas and even Bluetooth radios to figure out when you’ve returned.
It’s one of those things that makes you wonder why nobody thought of it sooner…
If somebody writes a book with “open” and “mobile” in the title I pretty much have to read it. Though you can buy a paper copy of Open | Mobile on Amazon you can also download a free PDF from the authors’ site — which is what I did…
For my recent two-week trial of Nokia’s N900 I decided to take WIND Mobile for a test drive as well. Unfortunately, while the N900 continued to surprise and delight, Canada’s new national carrier was a complete non-starter…
By the time you read this my Nokia N900 will be packed up and on its way back to the kind folks who let me test it. As a last hurrah I spent my evening yesterday seeing how far I could push it; the results are fairly spectacular…
If you haven’t heard, two flavours of the world’s best browser for mobile phones came out of beta yesterday, and the one that didn’t used to be free now is. Both share a fantastic new interface that you can master in about five seconds.
So what’s the difference between the two? Can you see a difference? I can’t see any difference…
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