Archive for January, 2012

Locking down Linux.conf.au

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Give five hundred very technically proficient Linux enthusiasts unfettered access to the same Wi-Fi network and you might be asking for trouble. Nearly every year, network administrators at Linux.conf.au, Australia’s premiere open source conference, have to deal with some sort of shenanigans on the network. Chief among the concerns for conference network admin Steve Walsh [...]

Motorola Razr Review

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

While Motorola calls this the slimmest phone in the world, it actually isn’t strictly true. While the Motorola Razr is slim for the most part, it does thicken up considerably towards the top where the 8MP camera and the speakerphone sit. However, you won’t really be touching that part at all while using the phone, [...]

Review: Thunderbird innovates, but Web mail wins

Friday, January 20th, 2012

This screen shot provided by Mozilla, shows a new version of Mozillas Thunderbird Web email. (AP Photo/Mozilla) I embraced Web email a year after Google’s Gmail came along in 2004. Until then, Web email had been inferior to stand-alone desktop programs. Gmail’s revolutionary approach to email prompted rivals to innovate. As a result, Web email [...]

Bharti Airtel launches 3.75G in Zambia

Monday, January 16th, 2012

India’s Bharti Airtel continues its move into Africa, launching a 3.75G platform in Zambia to give users high speed broadband Internet on their mobile phones. The new service will also allow users to watch television and make video calls from their hand devices, the company said on Tuesday. 3.75G technology will give our customers the [...]

First impressions of the Nokia E6; my T-Mobile SIM is staying in it most of the time

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

I have liked the Nokia Nseries devices over the years for their media creation experiences, but it was always the Eseries that earned a spot in my pocket and long term use of my SIM card due to their workhorse functionality. The Nokia E61 was the first front facing QWERTY keyboard Nokia Eseries I bought [...]

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