atmaspheric | endeavors

Not exactly ad free, but no graphical ads… Google is providing both the search results and the search technology to what is essentially the iWon platform (it was created by the same people). Based on how hot text ads are right now, they expect to be profitable after the first month!

Hype or reality? [...]

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Now that the new Palms are here, it finally occurred to me that choices are going to have to be made… As I often discuss with friends, we use the Palm OS so that automatically leans us in that direction vs a switch to PocketPC/SmartPhone, Symbian or even Blackberry. The new Palms look [...]

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First, why the Tungsten designation? Two models will come with this new name but be differentiated by their concluding letter? Whatever.

The Palm Tungsten W looks like a winner though. Imagine a color Blackberry, that can handle up to 8 email accounts (pop or imap), make voice calls, browse the web, share voice [...]

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I received an email from Palm today announcing the Tungsten T today. Seems like a killer. It has a sliding button bar that moves down to reveal the grafiti area, keeping the unit as compact as possible. Palm OS 5 and the new Arm processor, plus integrated bluetooth and voice recording [...]

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Unlike the David Coursey review I posted the other day, this more balanced and complete overview from InfoSync covers it all, rather than simply stating how great it is to have windows in your phone…

Now, with all of these applications you’d think that you need a task manager of some sort - right? Wrong. According [...]

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InfoSync provides a solid commentary of the current smartphone landscape even pushing to state that while Palm OS is in devices called smartphones, it was not designed to be a smartphone…

While Microsoft shrinks its Windows platform to fit in a mobile phone fom factor device, the Symbian camp is made up from a number of [...]

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Just passing on a link which is making the rounds… nothing like a bit of sarcastic humor.

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Just reviewing a presentation that will be used for a Monday meeting and caught this headline:

A fully integrated, synergistic brand-building and franchise-expanding initiative
I know I work in marketing but come on… Could that be any more self-serving and meaningless?

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Kill the pop-ups is a silly game but can be appreciated by most web surfers, especially windows or IE users.

Since running Chimera on Mac OS X I have virtually eliminated pop-ups. If you are on Windows, you should check out Mozilla or Phoenix.

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So I went to see the Jackass movie last night and I have to say that it is a very funny movie. While far from award winning cinema, it kept the theater laughing for the entire movie, literally until the screen went black after the credits.

Johnnie Knoxville and his crew seriously push the limits [...]

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I guess engineering and marketing a product designed to kill you over the longest possible amount of time tends to skew your view of reality…

Philip Morris, the largest cigarette maker, has also expressed its disapproval of strong anti-tobacco ads. In April, company officials wrote to Debra Bodenstine, the director for health awareness and tobacco at [...]

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Google is watching you…

Go to google.com

Type in your phone number, in quotation marks

When it finds your name and address, click on “Maps”

You are here.

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Let’s take a look at the highlights:

They use the Internet, by virtue of TCP/IP, as “proof” of their thesis.

They state that you cannot improve OR adopt OR commercialize GPL software.

They state that you cannot integrate GPL’d software with proprietery software.

They say you should keep publicly funded code away from the public sector, so that proprietary [...]

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The Orange Smartphone exceeds the capabilities of the current generation of top-of-the-line handsets, including Siemens S55, Sony Ericsson T68i, and the Symbian-powered Nokia 7650. Perhaps these companies have been sandbagging a bit, waiting for Microsoft’s entry into the market, but comparing a Smartphone to the rest of what’s out there is depressing if you’re [...]

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The Times article (login name: cyberpunk21; password: cyberpunk21) is a reviewer’s comparison of the two products. But, with MSN advertisements surrounding the content, the page indirectly suggests the article is biased toward MSN — diminishing The New York Times’ journalistic credibility.

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What’s the connection between Wi-Fi wireless networks, Weblogs and Web services? They are among the few technologies thriving amid the industrywide downturn. What’s more, they are examples of the trend toward decentralization.

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This dazzling beauty is astoundingly feature-packed yet fully utilizes its compact design to the hilt in a chicly creative way never before seen on a mobile handset. The color is a fresh mesh of arctic pale blue with opalescent white trim. The buttons on the keypad are a bit more finger-friendly with fast-paced error-proof [...]

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From Salon:

Dot-com visionary David Wetherell could do no wrong — until he started building a mansion on an ancient Indian burial ground.

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According to the Yankee Group, interest is low to get on the mobile web…

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most U.S. mobile phone users do not use wireless Internet service and are not interested in it despite aggressive marketing campaigns by wireless telephone companies, a study said on Monday.

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Your mistake equals my news… I received the following email this morning for some reason and thought I would share for those sports/telecom fans.

Names have been blocked to prevent any bad sh!t coming my way too quickly.

From: X.X@orange.co.uk
Date: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:53:32 AM America/New_York
To: X.X@allsport.ch
Cc: X.X@psiad.com, Xx@mediaplanning.co.uk
Subject: F1 Circuit Advertising

Message from [...]

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