atmaspheric | endeavors

I saw the news that there was an iPhone tethering app available tonight in iTunes and decided to check it out now once I got home. As you can see it’s in the iTunes Store, but my access is blocked in the US. Interesting …

I’m not sure why this is blocked, as [...]

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What a week for customer data …

Apparently a woman in the Uk signed up for Lovefilm, but was connected to one of my email addresses. This is an obvious mistake, but concerning as I’ve never signed up for Lovefilm directly to the best of my recollection and am wondering how my address was [...]

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Google Maps for Mobile has been updated to support Transit routing which is excellent. I’ve had that functionality for a while on the Blackberry, but since I no longer actively use one, it’s great to add this option to the E71 and others. The UI could use some work, but the functionality is [...]

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To be officially confirmed later today, but apparently the Mayor’s office will be passing on lighting up the city. The plan is to instead focus on providing affordable access to everyone which is certainly an admirable goal.
According to a piece in Computerworld, the consultants have decided not to focus on a particular access technology, [...]

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I just discovered a handy tip for Nokia Chat fans … It’s possible to set your default contacts view to jump right to Chat rather than the main contacts application view. This works great for me since I really don’t need to scan my contact list … I tend to access who I need [...]

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Travelling Light, originally uploaded by Soul101.
My friend Andy Abramson has written two excellent posts on his Working Everywhere blog that are work reading, bookmarking and sharing. While I’ve certainly traveled a lot for work, I’ve got nothing on Andy’s experience. In a series of posts, he’s shared his experiences on maintaining business class [...]

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Hooter Hiders Ship Free, originally uploaded by atmasphere.

Discovered in my GMail … While responding to something about the E71 …
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Verizon is making some noise today with the apparent release of FiOS TV, though when I checked their site for two different addresses (Grammery / Union Square and Hell’s Kitchen) I only see coming soon. So, who can actually get this?
The packages and services they will be carrying actually look great with 100HD channels [...]

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Peter Rukavina wrote a very cool hack for Nokia Chat and Plazes over the weekend. Using a jabber bot, you can request Plazes places based on your location. Of course the results vary based on user submitted data, but the idea is quite compelling and something I would imagine we’ll see more of [...]

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I love this …
It’s the Larry David rule of life - you just want things to work for you, regardless of how much something contradicts your stated opinions. AT&T is not opposed to the Sprint / Clearwire merger, they just want everyone to have fun dealing with their lawyers and the FCC.
In this [...]

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Nokia has just pre-announced that in September they’ll be recruiting for a new program called Nokia Pilots. Pilots will give those recruited the chance to impact future next generation products and services through advanced access and feedback. While there’s only a limited amount of information posted, I believe this will be [...]

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The Nokia E71 North American Edition (NAM) is finally available!

There was actually a special launch event tonight at the Nokia Flagship in NYC which I stumbled onto just making calls for availability. If you are interested it’s running for $483 plus tax. You might be able to find a better deal [...]

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Last week, Nokia Beta Labs released a very cool new application called Nokia Chat. As you might guess, Nokia Chat is an IM application, but that just starts to scratch the surface as there are also additional layers of presence and location. Unlike some apps you might have tried like Jaiku or twitter, [...]

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I’ve been playing with Nokia devices for a few years now thanks to the blogger relations program but the program has been focused on the Nseries line. This past week however, I received an E71 which has made me an instant Eseries convert. The E as you might expect stands for Enterprise which [...]

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love the close quarters of the commute, originally uploaded by atmasphere.

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As noted previously I have not purchased the iPhone 3G and as of this moment see no compelling reason to do so … I did update my iPhone to the 2.0 software though after the update re-harvested the SIM for my other devices.

I like what I see in the app store, meaning I [...]

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Due to some cosmic craziness, the Address Book on my Mac Book Pro had swelled to over 140,000 contacts! 141,674 to be exact. There were actually even more but I was successful in killing a few off.

I have no idea what caused the duplication bug to occur, but it was way [...]

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At some point over the long weekend last week I started to re-think my position on upgrading to the iPhone 3G … I’ve been trying to keep the hype in check, but it’s seriously hard given the rather considerable volume of discussion.
As I checked back in with the world following a flight to San Fran, [...]

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I’ve been using Boingo on and off for a few months now and it’s been indispensible from my mobile devices though until now there’s been no Mac client … It’s finally here though, GoBoingo for Mac works just like the PC and Mobile editions and lets you connect to the vast international network of hotspots [...]

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BBC is running a very cool piece on the Supermarket of the future. You scan your items as you go via your phone’s bar code reader and then the phone’s software generates a single bar code to total everything making it quick on the checkout side as well. You can even choose to pay [...]

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