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I think that most of us went through the experience of unpacking a new Microsoft based Personal Computer. You turn it on and you start the configuration process that finally will lead you to your desktop.
Very often you will find your tray filled with pre-installed applications like Messengers, Anti Virus Software, CD/DVD Burning software and [...]

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Addicted to Jaiku

I have been using Twitter for quite a time in the past, and I liked it.
From a couple of weeks I have dropped Twitter and I have jumped into Jaiku.
I have written in the past that I think that quite all applications should be built around the Contact list since it’s a revenue generator by [...]

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For several reasons I will not be attending the 3GSM World Congress this year.
From the reports that I am reading from the Internet there is great focus on Media and Internet companies. Yahoo, Disney, MTV have their own booth at 3GSM and all the recent press releases talk about these companies and their initiatives with [...]

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An old melody (first released in 1975, is it really “old”?) made by The Tubes and entitled “What do You Want from Life?” could be the hymn of a new virtual paradise, the so called Second Life place. I’ve never visited it, like many others, but I’ll try to write something about it, made by [...]

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We’re all fascinated by the bright future we’re going to have thanks to the RFID technologies. It happens monthly, somewhere and sometimes experts start all together to talk about RFID, new implementations, new tags, new performances and, obviously, new customers. Monthly, because there is a process and a timeframe to respect: the scoop, the understanding, [...]

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The ME problem

Another intriguing argument that needs some innovative ideas to solve, it is what is called the ME (Mobile Essentials) problem. “Mobile essentials” refers to the objects most people consider essential and carry most of the time whilst out and about, and the first time I read something about was in a Jan Chipchase (and others) [...]

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As part of my daily job I join every single service on the internet I become aware of.
I think that I have something like 200 accounts out there and I have been using most of them for no more that a couple of days. Different reasons for this:

No interest in the service for my job.
No [...]

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Somebody told me that there is a class of warning messages in your email client, related to the calendar application, that sounds like the one in the picture above. A message that appears subtly, unexpected, but only if you deserve it. It’s only a warning, and the aim is to bring people to think that [...]

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If you are not a road warrior corporate user with one of those fancy BlackBerry (Web Site) device, and still want to be able to access you several e-mail accounts there are several options you can look at:

Gmail Java Client

This is one of the latest addition the mobile java e-mail clients. You can download your [...]

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