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The cool guys from NovaTel Wireless had promised me one of these for a few months for testing and after much nudging and prodding it arrived on Friday.
Andy has been writing about it for a few weeks now but I think its the first one on these shores.
So what is MiFi?
A mobile broadband dongle? yes
A [...]

Its been a nutty day so I didn’t get to say much about the fantastic new N97, looks amazing, I love the pop up keyboard and the design is definitely futuristic.
Lots of links on this
Om
Robert
BoyGenius
Jonathon

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This is going to be absolutely huge.
Nokia Build
Nokia now allows it customer to totally personalize their handsets. At present its limited to the 7310 Supernova but I expect it to spread to other models asap.

Nike id has been been an incredible success for Nike and I can guarantee that Nokia will spread this across its [...]

My friends know how much doing this stuff turns me on
MAXroam running with full 3G on an unlocked G1 Android phone

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Sometimes an idea comes along that’s just so good you wish “why didn’t I think of that”
Flip was one of those, as was Kindle now I think they will be joined by Peek

Numbers wise there is an issue with mobile email, lots of people don’t want the complicated Windows Mobile or Blackberry based devices, they [...]

I have been looking for this since I got the phone, its a tiny hack and allows you to take screenshots from your iPhone, I presume it works on iPod touch also but haven’t confirmed this.
Here is one I done early

You click your home button and your power button at the same time, please note [...]

Just back from VON.x
An excellent show where video came to the forefront. I got to pitch a few questions at Loic LeMeur regarding his post Is there a future for local startups?
You can watch it here on QIK
For me the highlight was our St Patrick’s Day party where I gave a brief demonstration of our [...]

If you have been around here for a while you will know that Jawbone is my favourite bluetooth headset.
They have just launched a special edition set designed by Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject studios
The three models – in black, white and copper-brown – are called dirty talk, trash talk and sweet talk, with discrete logos [...]

Local man about the town/Journalist Damien Mulley called into MAXroam HQ to see our Macbook Air, I think he was impressed.
Its a wonderful machine, pity its an Apple though:-)

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One of my Cubic Telecom business partners Alan Keane recently travelled to France to vacation @ “Chateau Keane”
He forgot to bring one of our sims and was just battered by O2.His normal bill is around 150 Euro which you can see as he forgot to pay his last bill.
This bill is 876 Euro a jump [...]