I wrote most of this entry the day before the earthquake in Haiti. It was motivated by the magicJack announcement and my interest in mobile devices within developing nations.  However, the thoughts in this post suddenly seemed more real after I started hearing reports of communication breakdown after the earthquake.
The femtocell
At the recent CES, the magicJack company [...]

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It all started years ago when i got a Nokia 6600. It was a dope phone and it really raised the bar for me in regards to my expectations for a smart phone. It was one of the first “good” symbian devices. In regards to today’s standards – it isn’t that great. But back then [...]

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So I sold my Nokia E61 to my friend Scott – he will probably use it more than I and he doesn’t mind it not having a camera – and I used the money to pick up a Nokia N73.
The Nokia N73 is a really nifty phone. It is a bit longer than [...]

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So hiromi got here monday. it has been really fun.
On monday I picked her up and we hung out around my house. Went to our friend becca’s house and hung out.  It was fun. After that we went home – picked up chris – went to irazu and then went to the empty bottle to [...]

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its nuts. but i do love bluetooth. connecting to the internet magically while riding uncomfortably in a bus. haha
so i am going to madison wis, for a juggling festival. it will be a lot of fun. but i missed the 9 o clock bus because the trains broke down and i had to wait a [...]

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This last couple days have been insane. So obviously i was in nyc working. then i hung out and partied all night in manhatten with amjad. That ended with us eating tater tots at 4 in the morning. and INCREDIBLE idea. seriously. whoever invented that was smart. S M R T. then the plane [...]

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check out this comic. so very very true. unfortunately it is being banned by newspapers all over. too bad it is true. heh. I love shit like that. Some really exciting thing…

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So as everyone knows – paris hilton’s phonebook was "hacked." it seems to me that it was gained through social engineering. and that social engineering was nothing more than someone calling up paris and asking for her tmobile password. probably something along the lines of:hacker: Hi. I am operator #123 from T-Mobile. There has been a se…

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So on new years day i got a little “carried away” and got my Nokia 6600 wet. The joystick immediately stopped working and all hell broke loose. i was unable to do anything fancy like call or text. it was so annoying. so i got out my nifty little Sony-Ericcson t610 and continued my day. [...]

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I got my OGO in the mail today and have been using it on and off all day. It is a pretty cool device. Unfortunantly (as any new device) it has some pretty annoying bits to it. I will give a basic rundown of the features as i see them.
The OGO is basically a device [...]

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