One of the great things
about writing for
WebWorkerDaily
is the exposure I get to the latest technologies and thoughts about Web
2.0, productivity, and web working. Professionally, it has helped me
think deeper into some of my own personal information management issues
and approaches.
Growing up with dyslexia
always made personal organization a challenge for me. Also, I found out
years ago that I am better organized electronically than I am in a
traditional paper and filing cabinet method.
Continue reading "Recent Thoughts about Personal Information Management" »
I was a long time Palm customer dating back to the time that predates smartphones. In fact, I first started carrying a Palm PDA back when you could sit around a conference table and the meeting participants who were carrying a PDA where the exception rather than the rule.
Palm and I had a break up during the Treo 650 generation
because they became irrelevant as they lagged behind in technology.
When developments in the Treo product line grew stale, I became a
Blackberry user.
Continue reading "My Initial Impressions about the Palm Pre" »
Yesterday, I followed the Apple WWDC keynote online via Engadget, gdgt,
and other online geek news outlets. While FY 2009 is probably not going to see any
new hardware upgrades in my home office, I was enthused about the
announcement of Snow Leopard and the next generation of the iPhone.
Continue reading "Thoughts about the Recent Apple WWDC Announcements" »
I had multiple sightings of the iPhone 3g
in the wild while I was out and about in New York City during my last
visit. In fact more than once, I felt like I was in an iPhone 3g
commercial. As an early adopter, I began to wonder why I have yet to
surrender to the iPhone.
Continue reading "Why I've yet to succumb to the Apple iPhone 3g" »
In 2007, I parted ways with the Palm OS and the Treo platform altogether. Migrating to the Blackberry 8800 was a productivity boon as I spent more time mobile between my home office and client sites. I lost faith in Cingular/AT&T and needed push email that my Cingular Treo 650 couldn't provide me.
Continue reading "Favorite Mobile Apps of 2007" »
NTP: We sue the (wireless) world by ZDNet's Larry Dignan -- NTP is back for more patent goodies. And this time the patent-holding company is suing a lot more than just RIM. NTP is suing AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel. The claims are similar to what were made in NTP’s RIM suit, which was a long, drawn out affair that led to a $612.5 million [...]
No True Product (NTP) is at it again with their litigation as a business model strategy but now they are going after AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Spring Nextel over
Continue reading "No True Product Bites Off Even More" »
I've long been known as an early adopter much less a user who rediscovered the Macintosh and the brilliance known as Apple engineering after a long respite.
However, I made conscious decision to avoid the iPhone. Here is why:
- Cingular offered great service and when I called customer care there was a native English speaker on the other end of the line who was competent and knowledgeable in the product line beyond the script they were reading from their computer monitor. As a customer, I was willing to sacrifice 24/7 customer support providing I had the comfort of knowing that I could call a native English speaker who could solve my problems (which I had plenty of as an early adopter of the Treo 650 on Cingular's network).
- When the ATT/Cingular acquisition was consummated my calls were dropping so much I would joke that it was the network with the most dropped calls. While some drops could be attributed to the condition of my phone the sudden drop in service quality made me wonder if ATT Mobility was decommissioning the more expensive Cingular built networks in my home region.
- My smartphone needs changed as I went to independent consultant status and my ISP wouldn't allow email forwards to my Treo so migrating to a Blackberry 8800 made good business sense. It was important for me to be able to respond to emails even if I was out on a client site (sans using their equipment).
Continue reading "Why I passed on the iPhone" »
I was a longtime Palm and Treo user and with all the changes at Cingular and I must say the launch of the Palm Foleo -- it was time to move on. So I traded in my old school Cingular Treo 650 (a holdover due to a LT Cingular contract) for a T-Mobile Blackberry 8800.
My history as a PDA and later a SmartPhone user started back in the day when you could walk into a meeting and a minority had such devices on the table besides their laptop, drink, notepad, and pens.
Here are my initial thoughts about moving over to the T-Mobile Blackberry 8800:
Continue reading "Bye Cingular Treo...Hello T-Mobile Blackberry 8800" »
With the whole Cingular/AT&T merger and my personal suspicion that AT&T is decommissioning the better Cingular built networks in my local area because my service is tanking steadily, I have begun to consider switching my wireless phone service to a new carrier even having to eat an early out penalty with Cingular.
My current client engagement means I have to be accessible via phone and email and I do hate poor call connections when I am speaking with a client. The tanking of my call connections means I have even started conducting phone interviews for my article writing projects from home so I can use a landline or VoIP versus my Cingular phone.
Thus I am debating switching to a Blackberry on another carrier's network and retiring my current SmartPhone.
Continue reading "Switching to a Blackberry?" »
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