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November 2005 - Posts

• Google Local for Mobile on Audiovox SMT-5600

  I have used the Smartphone version of MSN Virtual Earth a few times but it is painfully apparent that this is the software equivalent of using a shoehorn to squeeze a bull into a bullhorn. Google has just released a free Java client for mobile phones Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:44 AM by sjh | 36 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Tools & Reference, Mobile

• I made the Carnival of the Mobilists 4

  The Carnival of the Mobilists is a weekly collection of highlights from the mobile-centric blogging world. Friday, the 4th edition was posted at Open Gardens and I am honored to be one of the featured posts. If you are interested in mobile tech, the Carnival Read More... Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 7:40 AM by sjh | 27 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Mobile

• Don't watch TV while Walking, even on your iPod

  I guess someone was bound to try it... Ars Technica reviews the Video iPod and discovers this amazing discovery: I walk to work and today I tried watching some video on my commute. Result: disastrous. I nearly ran into several people and almost injured Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 7:34 AM by sjh | 1 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Mobile

• .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Installed

  Yesterday, I decided to jump straight into the deep end and installed MS SQL Server 2005 (which I wasn't really worried about, I've been running it since Beta 1) and Visual Studio .NET 2005 on this machine. Just in case you're wondering, this machine Read More... Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:49 AM by sjh | 27 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, Tools & Reference, Mobile

• Microsoft .NET Developers vs. Microsoft .NET Demos

  When I want to write some code, my weapon of choice is C# via Visual Studio .NET. I currently work for a company that does almost 0 .NET development (and what they do is because they are forced to do it, not because they want to). If you are a .NET developer Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:46 AM by sjh | 19 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General

• Nokia Takes the First Step Toward The Death of the Home Phone

  Good news for me, bad news for the Baby Bells: Oliver Starr at Mobile-weblog.com points to a story about Nokia Successfully Tests UMA: Seamless Voice and Data Calls Passed between Cellular and WiFi Nokia has completed both voice and data calls with Unlicensed Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:25 AM by sjh | 25 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, General, Mobile

• Bad News Regarding the W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices Group

  Luca Passani, of Openwave and WURFL made this post Friday to the wmlprogramming Yahoo! Group : Last week I decided to stop contributing to the Best Practice document. Without going into too much detail, the main reason why I decided to abandon is that Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:17 AM by sjh | 4 Comments Filed under: Tech/Geek, Tools & Reference, Mobile