On OLN in Canada is a program called Mantracker that I watch quite regularly. This is where experienced Search and Rescue tracker, Terry Grant from the Foothills Search and Rescue Team in Alberta tracks down contestants in the mountains of remote Canada. Each week he and a buddy track down two individuals who team to [...]

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Yesterday Samsung launched their Application Marketplace, http://applications.samsungmobile.com/. Unlike Google, Apple and Blackberry, both Windows Mobile and Symbian’s application strategy is all over the map:
If you’re looking to start an application outlet, you need to be at the reins of the platform; if you don’t, you’re further segmenting an already messy market. With Samsung launching their [...]

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Over at Gigaom, they are predicting a wide spread slow down of Wireless Data Services WDS:
Last week, UBS Research in a research note pointed out that AT&T had 1.25 million 3G laptop subscribers as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2008. Net card additions had fallen 121,000 from the 186,000 additions in the [...]

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[Uploaded via flickr by Thomas Hawk]
With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, will be slow and painful and will be a result of lots of small cuts, not a wholesale shift to [...]

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[Uploaded on flickr on December 29, 2005 by niallkennedy]
With the departure of Bill Gates from the day to day running of Microsoft it marks an end of an era for Microsoft and one of the truly great business icons. However Gates is not remarkable for the technology he produced, but for his ability to transform [...]

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Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
2007 will go down in history as the turning point where smartphones became mobile [...]

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