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Death to Outlook and Exchange: two-way, over the air Google Calendar to Blackberry sync!

April 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If I could sync my Blackberry with Google Calendar over the air, bidirectionally, I'd be able to dump Outlook forever. (Though admittedly Google doesn't have a particularly robust contacts system for Gmail yet and it would be nice to sync…

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Customise your Google Personal Mobile homepage

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Nice.

http://www.google.com/ig/cp

Now you can customise what appears on your Google Personal homepage when you access it via your mobile.

Via DownloadSquad.

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Opera CEO wants widgets on mobiles

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Opera's grand plan for widgets has become a bit clearer with the news that it plans to make its widgets run on mobile phones, TVs, car stereos … anything that can have a screen and a simple processor embedded.

jon_s_von_tetzchner Opera CEO wants widgets on mobilesThis…

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Getting closer to the perfect internet mobile

February 7th, 2006 · No Comments

m600i Getting closer to the perfect internet mobile

UPDATE | According to this story, the M600i is not only Blackberry-like, it actually supports Blackberry Connect for push email. Looking nicer all the time! (Microsoft ActiveSync is also supported so I guess that means it should be easier to sync…

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Warming up to WiMax

November 9th, 2005 · No Comments

thumb-inlaptop Warming up to WiMaxI just posted a review of Unwired's new PCMCIA card on APCMag.com. (My incessant nagging to get a look at one of these finally paid off!)

I'm looking forward to the day my laptop has WiMax built in and can access…

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Traceroute from a 747

September 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment

connexion Traceroute from a 747I'm extracting some true geek pleasure out of being on the internet while in a 747-400, 35,000 feet up en route from Heathrow to Singapore thanks to the Boeing Connexion wireless broadband system on the plane. And because I got…

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Observations of a travelling geek

September 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Angus Kidman would be proud; I've been travelling Singapore, France and the UK for the last few weeks and been giving my 15" Apple PowerBook, Nikon D70 digital SLR camera and Sony Ericsson S700i mobile phone a workout.

I've made some interesting discoveries:

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