Disqus - Friends of acurrie

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

constantine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:45:54 -0000

I have that exact same plan as well.

Re: Mobile Industry Review turns into a weekly newsletter next Friday

constantine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:04:31 -0000

RSS would be preferred, I agree. I signed up for the newsletter option anyway.

Re: Mobile Industry Review turns into a weekly newsletter next Friday

constantine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:03:43 -0000

not really. don't judge content by the method used for transmission.

Re: How to Create Loopable Wallpapers for Nokia N900

constantine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:38:57 -0000

in full agreement with that statement

Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

russellbeattie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:36:45 -0000

Well then, in your personal weblog you're using the wrong terminology, and you might want to correct that to be more technically accurate. Just a suggestion of course... I completely support your freedom to write whatever nonsense you'd like, disregarding completely the thousands of readers who might be influenced by your words.

:-)

-Russ

Re: Unannounced 32GB Nokia Alvin passes the FCC

constantine — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:05:02 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Wireless Electricity at TED Global 2009

constantine — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:20:35 -0000

"According to Dave Schatz, the head of business development at WiTricity, the Intel project is one of a handful that have a long way to go before they result in products. "A number of companies have stated that they're doing similar [wireless power] as a research activity, but there are no products," he says. If these companies do make products, Schatz suspects that there could be intellectual property issues. Soljacic and his team applied for patents in 2007 before the technology was announced, and since then, the company, founded in April of that year, has been working hard to develop products. Schatz believes that others will find it difficult to catch up. "Not only do they have a lot of technology to develop, but there will also be IP issues to consider," he says."

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendl...

Fantastic, WiTricity sounds like another Qualcomm, out to make money by suing the living hell out of people doing the same thing they're doing.

Re: Europe no longer matters to lead position in mobile

constantine — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:36:09 -0000

That's like saying a 10 year old calculator isn't going to be useful today because it didn't get a firmware update.

Re: Ahh it’s not charged!

constantine — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:36:05 -0000

old isn't a bad thing, what does James Whatley carry with him
everywhere? Nokia N95 8GB, that is over 1.5 years old too.

Re: Exclusive: The search for the N…

constantine — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:43:05 -0000

same here! well the shirt really, not the stickers.

Re: Video Diary: Ben on the future of ‘The Really Mobile Project’

constantine — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:18:15 -0000

guess i'm just not used to the grid approach, i'm so used to seeing the blog format aka reverse timeline of posts.

Re: On The Kindle

constantine — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:45:43 -0000

So what have you purchased so far for the Kindle? Just books or magazines or are you literally just using it for Instapaper?

Re: Apple previewing iPhone OS 3.0 at an event March 17

constantine — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:45:42 -0000

Thought it was a chop until I saw the same news on more blogs. Going to be live blogging the announcement like you live blogged the Facebook redesign launch?

Re: Twhirl Hits 1 million Downloads Since Joining Seesmic

constantine — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:02:42 -0000

No problemo: http://feedback.twhirl.org/pages/general/sugges...

User Voice is a bit too ... weird for ordinary people to use and the
UI isn't very intuitive. Better than nothing, glad to know you're
listening!

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

constantine — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:09:07 -0000

that's always the case with any technology, the unintended uses.

you think the guy who invented SMS expected people in Africa to setup bank accounts with it?

you think the guy who invented the combustion engine expected it to power airplanes?

the most interesting twitter usage, to this day, for me personally at least, was that woman who wore a device while she was pregnant so that every time the baby inside her kicked, he tweeted.

Re: “MIR should go camping” - what do you think?

constantine — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:33:40 -0000

i've stopped assuming i can assume weather patterns :-) but yes, you should do it, have fun!

Re: This ZumoDrive upload is going to take a little while…

constantine — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:00:16 -0000

and you wonder why I hesitate to move to England, third world plumbing and broadband infrastructure doesn't really sell itself well

Re: Live from Facebook: A move to share more information

constantine — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:25:01 -0000

Actually we're both wrong ... and we're both right. Facebook is a tool, just like a screwdriver or an ax.

I can see where you're coming from, but at the same time for the new kids who just joined and have no idea about events and photos are, Facebook is just a huge Rolodex.

I'm 22 and use Facebook as a way to keep track of my friends mobile numbers since they're traveling all the time and swapping SIM cards, and to keep track of parties and events around Helsinki.

Re: Exclusive Video: Visiarc’s “Mobile Documents” for Nokia

constantine — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:02:01 -0000

I still swear by the fact that the Gmail client is one of the three most powerful applications available for mobile devices today, the other two being Google Maps and Opera Mini. With Gmail you can search through gigabytes worth of email, view conversations as conversations, it's just powerful.

You poked fun at Google buying this company, well this is what the Gmail application is, but instead of being for text based documents, it is for actual files.

Good luck with their patent request for server side attachment manipulation, I've been doing that for a while now. Just go to the mobile version of gmail in your browser, find an attachment you sent to someone, click forward, change the subject line and the text in the field and boom: server side attachment manipulation.

Granted what I described above is a kludge, it can still be done. File manipulation is not possible yet with the current Gmail application from Google.

Now that I think about it ... they should buy it and rebrand it!

Re: Nokia N96 in the flesh, in Prague

constantine — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:41:07 -0000

that face is priceless!

Re: Q&A with the Valley’s Mr PR, Vijay S. Chattha

constantine — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:36:15 -0000

Nice website, just had a go.

I see where you can be useful and I'm at fault here for looking at the world of PR and consumption of products and services through the lens of how I consume said products and services.

If Ewan says you guys are some of the best chaps, then I'll believe him.

Re: Q&A with the Valley’s Mr PR, Vijay S. Chattha

constantine — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:39:58 -0000

That's the problem, most people do not want to listen to other people shouting.

Make something awesome, tell a few key blogs, forums, customers about it and there you go: organic growth with little to no money spent on marketing.

Take that money and pour it into making a better product, more people talk about it, it's a win win for everyone!

Except the marketing people of course.

Re: MIR Show - The Microvision Mobile Projector - GENIUS

constantine — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:29:51 -0000

Mitsubishi was supposed to start making televisions based on that laser technology, but you know what ... those plans have been canceled. Until I see these babies in volume I'm going to remain bearish on projectors in phones.

Too niche, too geeky, too many technical problems.

Anyway, at least your other video with you beating the piss out a mobile was awesome and even sold me!

Re: MIR Show - The Microvision Mobile Projector - GENIUS

constantine — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:19:13 -0000

did you ask him what a replacement bulb costs and what the lifespan of each bulb is?

Re: MIR Show - we chat to Jeb Brilliant

constantine — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:50:51 -0000

mAh do not matter, the output voltage does