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Business Week Just arrived and they have a fun list of cool stuff…
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According to T-Mobile, I’ll be up and running with my old number again by tomorrow afternoon. Everything is all set, though it did take some manual intervention to get the required corporate information (Tax ID etc…) from my Nextel account.
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Amid some privacy concerns, the Java advocate enters the retail-tracking game in Europe by opening a test center where companies can test their radio frequency identification systems. [CNET News.com ]
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Facing declining music sales, the Virgin Megastore chain is hoping new digital gadgetry will lure customers away from Internet file trading and into its stores. [Wired News]
Store based downloads… thought this was the idea in the pre-broadband era.
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It may work with iChat AV eventually… [InternetNews.com]
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Finally got things going… Buzznet is in the blog. On the left side, you can now find some images taken in passing and in the moment. I’ll be shooting them on the go via my mobile.
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I snapped a shot of this guy while walking past this morning… fortunately my iPod was going so I did not have to hear the Bagpipe playing - yes the bag pipe! Sorry it’s blurry - I took it while walking and over my shoulder so I would not draw his attention…
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In a press release today, Scientific Atlanta and Time Warner Cable-Green Bay (Wisconsin) announced availability of the Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to TWC-GB cable customers. “Scientific-Atlanta announced today the availability of its integrated dual tuner high-definition digital video recorder set-top solution…. [GearBits]
Looks like early next year will be when this is ready for prime-time in other [...]

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I can’t seem to find any way other than the Palm Browser to fully post from my Palm to moveable type. I’ve tested Kablog and Blogplanet which are essentially the same java apps. I know about Pop2Blog, but I can’t set up the necessary details on my host. So far the only [...]

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Working on minimal sleep today… should be interesting. For some reason I was not able to get to sleep even though Hannah was ready to go for 5 hours again last night.
After much high test I am still groggy. Perhaps after lunch some faculties will return.
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Test 123
—This post was made with a trial version of BlogPlanet, a photo blog client for mobile phones. For more information visit www.blogplanet.net.
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I know I’ve mentioned the Treo 600 rather obsessively in the past, but I am now officially glad it has yet to arrive through T-Mobile. After long consideration, I’ve decided to instead be a 2 piece guy (for now) and manage my life with Palm plus Phone. I really like the Sony Ericsson [...]

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Wired magazine presents 77 of the coolest stereos, 3-D screens, toys, cameras, DVRs, games and gadgets of the year. [Wired News]
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Virgin Megastore is testing out the MusiKube Personal Music Guide at their store in San Francisco. The MusiKube is a customized wireless Pocket PC which connects back to a server that shoppers can carry around with them in the store and use to scan the bar codes on CDs and listen to samples of songs [...]

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I received everything I needed from my office in order to officially port my number from Nextel to T-Mobile and completed the process today. It apparently will take up to 7 days which is officially 5 days longer than the FCC said it would. Oh well… we’ll see what actually happens.
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