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  • On the post: Bad Idea: UK Launches Database Of Info On Every Child

    iyogi ( profile ), 19 May, 2009 @ 12:36am

    good-idea

    If its a government project then its a good idea.

  • On the post: The Value Of Twitter As Compared To Google

    iyogi ( profile ), 18 May, 2009 @ 12:40am

    RE:

    I was looking for a new backpack for my computer -- and I had very specific requirements. It was quite difficult to come up with a Google query that made sense for such a thing, but I could ask it easily in 140 characters and plenty of people could easily understand it, and then provide thoughts and recommendations.

  • On the post: Sony Pictures CEO: Nothing Good Has Come From The Internet

    iyogi ( profile ), 18 May, 2009 @ 12:36am

    RE:

    who views those opportunities as threats, as apparently Michael Lynton does, shouldn't still have a job. It's bad for business. It's bad for shareholders. And it's bad for customers.

  • On the post: Are Cellphone Carriers Like Gas Stations?

    iyogi ( profile ), 14 May, 2009 @ 11:04pm

    Cell Phones

    In case you do not know, there was an incident where a driver suffered burns and his car severely damaged when gasoline fumes ignited an explosion while he was talking on his mobile phone standing near the attendant who was pumping the gas. All the electronic devices in gas stations are protected with explosive containment devices, (intrinsically safe) while cell phones are not. READ YOUR HANDBOOK! Mobile phone makers Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia, all print cautions in their user handbooks that warn against mobile phones in "gas stations, fuel storage sites, and chemical factories." Exxon has begun placing "warning stickers" at its gasoline stations. The threat mobile phones pose to gas stations and their users is primarily the result of their ability to produce sparks that can be generated by the high-powered battery inside the phone.

  • On the post: T-Mobile Germany Tries The Jedi Mind Trick With Mobile Skype

    iyogi ( profile ), 14 May, 2009 @ 10:53pm

    RE:

    Skype is the doomsday machine for telco’s. It will literally relegate them to being dumb pipes faster than any other technology. Telco’s in europe already give you unlimited txts/mms and big x-net mins – the EU competition Commission has now set pricing on roaming. Skype would just finish them off. My thoughts on the wifi situation is that T-Mobile offers the wifi bundled in its call/data/txt packages, in London anyway, and they’re pretty prevalent (in big cities) so offering wifi would more or less be de-facto 3G for some users.

  • On the post: AT&T Says Its Network Can't Keep Up With All The Cool Stuff You Can Do With The Smartphones It Sells

    iyogi ( profile ), 13 May, 2009 @ 11:28pm

    TV from their Slingbox at home on their mobile device. The app has now been released, but it only works over WiFi, not the 3G mobile connection

  • On the post: BSA Releases BS Numbers Yet Again, Then Says Don't Pay Attention To The Numbers

    iyogi ( profile ), 13 May, 2009 @ 11:01pm

    RE:

    I just changed the formula in the Excel Spreadsheet. Now, Neil owes me $7T! Payable in non-serialized bills by this Friday. Leave the cash in an unmarked 747 on Runway 4 at LaGuardia, Make sure the tank's full, and keys in the ignition.

    Yeah, their Threat-Alert Reporting is really that superficial, and that much a joke. When you report your own numbers, you can say whatever you want.

  • On the post: Sony Says It Should Have Been More Open… But It Said That In 2005 Too

    iyogi ( profile ), 12 May, 2009 @ 11:27pm

    Re

    the PS3 pricing and BluRay DRM that DECREASES the user experience, add the absolute idiocy of the rootkit fiasco and these completely PR-driven "we should have done better/we promise to do better" hollow, empty "admissions" that NO ONE BELIEVES and you have a recipe for complete disaster. Bye Sony, been nice knowing you.

  • On the post: Software Developer Liability Up For Debate In Europe

    iyogi ( profile ), 12 May, 2009 @ 11:08pm

    software

    While I can understand the argument that buggy software is bad, and it sucks when people buy something that is less than promised, it's...

  • On the post: Now, It's The Next World Cup That Will Make Mobile TV A Success

    iyogi ( profile ), 12 May, 2009 @ 02:17am

    TV-Mobile Supports

    There is not much else to add here, except maybe for the fact that the company's subscribers can rejoice knowing that it can solve their problems so quickly.

  • On the post: Don't Newspapers Owe Google Money For Helping Them Research Stories For Free?

    iyogi ( profile ), 12 May, 2009 @ 12:26am

    Newspapers

    It’s not just the newspapers – print magazines are hurting too. Blender, Domino, Men’s Vogue…these won’t be the only titles to get the axe. It’ll get worse before it gets better, but I’m also optimistic that some very creative and useful new venues will emerge from the wreckage.