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Barcelona Mobile World Congress first impressions
Today the 2009 Mobile World Congress got started in Barcelona. I was planning a couple of visits, but they got postponed at the last minute, so I went on a tour. Most impressive was the new iMate 810-F. This has to be the most rugged smartphone I have ever seen – with impressive specs, such [...]
iPhoto 09 Facebook exporter bug
I like iPhoto 09, it brings many cool features to the table. However, the Facebook exporter leaves a lot to be desired. Apart from not being able to push photos to pre-existing albums, as it creates albums with the event name for every photo set you upload, it seems to completely ignore the login credentials [...]
Deutsche Bank part 2: blame the branch manager
I got a call today from my account manager at Deutsche Bank, who was really worried about a ‘negative mark’ he had received from above. Turns out that DB is on the lookout for any kind of negative publicity, such as my recent blog post about their crappy online banking system, and they managed to [...]
Deutsche Bank, possibly the worst online banking system ever
Today, after almost a month waiting, I picked up the access details for our company account at Deutsche Bank, which would enable me to manage it through DB’s online banking. After one day of using this thing, I can conclude it’s the biggest [expletive deleted] -ever- in the history of online banking. One would be [...]
Boingo abandons own WiFi maps, uses JiWire
It seems that Boingo didn’t want to carry on improvements to their own hotspot finder service, which I wrote about a few months ago, and have chosen JiWire’s white-label service, found at http://boingo.jiwire.com. The maps look very nice, and are much more usable than the previous hotspot finder – kudos Boingo!
Skype implements WISPr for WiFi access
The cat is out of the bag, so I guess I can now disclose that we had a few talks with Skype regarding integration of the Whisher client with the Skype client through an API, which would allow Skype to get its users online at over 150.000 hotspots through payment of a per-minute fee deducted [...]
A few days in power hell
For some reason, the power utility and my DSL provider decided to take a dump during the last week, both at the same time. It all started with a day without power, which was blamed on maintenance work. Until today, I ran an APC BackUPS 350 to filter out any power problems that could affect [...]
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