Sprint launching Nexus S 4G

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For those of who want the “pure” Android experience, the Nexus S 4G will connect to Sprint’s WiMax network. I have the Sprint EVO 4G and though I’m very satisfied with the phone and use the 4G WiMax network often, I will probably take a very, very serious look at Verizon’s LTE network next year when my Sprint contract ends. Why? While I love the WiMax network, it’s really a second network that you have to turn on and off. It’s almost like wifi. I want my phone connected to a high speed network all the time. I don’t want to have to tell my phone to “connect” to the 4G network. I want 4G everywhere. WiMax doesn’t do that and I personally believe that because it requires a conscious switching on/off is why phones like the Nexus S and EVO 4G do NOT have video chat on Skype.

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Facebook going after Groupon and the “Social Deals” market.

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This will be one the first real test for Facebook’s (perceived?) greatness. While FB has absolutely decimated social networking competitors like MySpace (who?) and Friendster (what?), those scenarios were more like horseraces to the top rather than pull down the king of the hill.

This time it’s different. The social deals market already has reasonably entrenched competitors like Groupon and LivingSocial with large infrastructure and serious market penetration. Facebook is going to have to fight for this one. Let’s see what happens. May the best company win. (Gosh I love free markets)

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Is your fav website down? Could be Amazon’s fault

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Amazon’s cloud service “EC2” which powers many big web site brands, crashed and is apparently still crashing and burning. Not much you can do other than wait for your favorite sites to come back up. As an IT guy, I feel sorry for them. It totally sucks when servers go down and it’s even worse when those servers don’t come back up. If you’re affected, pretend the power went out. Read a book. Go outside and soak some sun. Smell the roses. Take a friend out to lunch. The world will resume after this brief technical interlude

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Why Oceanic Mobile works for people who work.

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This is why Oceanic Mobile really works for me and anyone else that lives in the cloud and works on the road.

 

Google’s Android takes market lead over iPHone

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I predicted this in early 2010. Nice to see it validated. Android will win for the same reason why Windows won the PC war: they have a software platform available to all manufacturers and carriers and the price is right

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Why Android will take over the world

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This post is slightly long but describes in great detail why, from an economics perspective, Android via Google will dominate the industry. More broadly, it describes why Google is a massive game changer to the tech industry in general.

http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-android/

Sprint EVO 4G dethroned by Verizon Thunderbolt LTE

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I’ve got the EVO and love it. However, when my contract is up, I’m definitely moving to Verizon

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Google Motion is an April fools joke!

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Folks, I hope you didn’t get sucked into this like some of my friends did. It’s an April Fools joke!

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IE9 bug fix on themeforest design agency template

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One of my clients (Hawaii Employee Leasing at JS Services, Inc.) is using a wordpress template from Themeforest called “Design Agency”. It was working just fine except under Internet Explorer version 9 (IE9), the links in the header do not render.

I went to the author’s page on Themeforest and saw an unanswered note from a user several months ago stating the same problem. So I figured it would be a waste of my time to send another message to someone not responding to the previous message.

So I paid a programmer to fix the bug. He did a good job and it’s up and running right now (you can test it at the link above in IE9 and you’ll see it works just fine).

If you would like the fix too, let me know. I’ll charge $100 to give you the fix and you can pay me via paypal. If you know your way around wordpress and can use FTP, you can fix it in less than 5 minutes.

Verizon’s ThunderBolt is a smoker!

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Though I love my Sprint EVO 4G, when my contract expires I will absolutely positively look at Verizon’s LTE network. Some have reported downloads of 14mb/s and upload of 4mb/s. These are crazy speeds! Unforunately, though, Hawaii is not on the short list of cities getting 4G though it is listed as “coming soon”.

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