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Tuesday, July 23, 2002Do you really want to compute on your phone?
Michael McCarthy covers Stewart Alsop's keynote for the BREW 2002 Developers Conference:
The fundamental issue, said Alsop, is successful convergence versus unsuccessful convergence. The printer converged with the fax machine; that worked. Some manufacturers have converged the cell phone with the camera—he thinks that will fail. In his own portfolio he has a cell-phone games company, and a cell-phone email company, because he thinks these are two of the most important areas of convergence you will see on cell phones.
Alsop believes that BREW will be a long-term winner because it provides carriers with complete control over billing, distribution, and application management.
The Register has the scoop on HTC's Canary SmartPhone device, noteworthy for being yet-another-SmartPhone lacking Bluetooth. PPCW is reporting that it is not possible to use a PPC Phone Edition device as a modem for another device (ie: Notebook PC). I don't find this particularly surprising, Palm OS-based phones have also not supported this functionality. I suspect that the MS SmartPhone platform lacks support for this as well...John Robb on my "BMW Whacking"
I did the same with my BMW 733 in snow back in 1990. My accident included a full 360 and ended up tail first in a snowbank. [...] BMW has corrected this stability problem with their all wheel drive vehicles like the X5 (my last car). It features a 60/40 torque split between rear and front wheels. Very stable.
I remain impressed with the stability of the BMW E36 platform, as compared to other RWD cars. My car was sideways so quickly that I doubt a rear-biased AWD system would have transferred power to the front wheels fast enough to prevent it.
The bitch of it is that I had the car corrected, pointed in the right direction with the wheels straight, when that guard rail assaulted me without provocation. I have witnesses! Seriously, a couple more inches of maneuvering room would have saved me a ton of embarassment (not to mention time and money).
Codesta: Uptime Realities in the Internet World
Nobody wants downtime. It's a terrible thing that always involves blood, sweat, tears, and inevitably, a loss of money. This is why when you talk to the upper management of any company with a strategic online initiative you'll be told that the IT group has the highest goals, and that downtime is considered to be an anathema to be stamped out vigorously.
Unfortunately, when you talk to the company's IT manager you commonly hear a different story; the resources to back-up the company’s lofty online goals are hard to come by.
[via Slashdot]
Uptime is a subject near-and-dear to my heart. The article does an excellent job of explaining why 99.7% is an appropriate uptime target in most situations, and is nearly management-friendly.
infoSync: Nokia 7650 review. This phone is based on the "Series 60" platform, Nokia's response to Microsoft's SmartPhone. It's based on Symbian's OS and also supports J2ME. Stand-out features are Bluetooth and a VGA-resolution camera. GSM900/1800, no word on a North American GSM1900 version.Why does Nokia continue to produce phones in this price class that are not tri-band?
