Dec 16 2012
Google announced today that they are discontinuing Active Sync services on their gmail service. This is a very geeky way of saying that Push notification on Mail applications on the iPhone and Windows phones will not longer work making gmail useless on those devices. While this can be described as diabolical on the part of …
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Nov 17 2012
If you go into a Telstra, or Optus outlet for that matter, and ask for a new Smartphone chances are they will push an Android into your hand. “An iPhone!??!!” they will exclaim in horror, “Why would you want an iPhone?” (That is a direct quote from one of my clients when she asked for …
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Sep 17 2012
If you ever watch Apple promoting Siri you will see them asking her for the “nearest coffee shop” or “any good steak restaurants nearby”. This is all very cool but I bet when you try you only get two suggestions and one of them was gutted by fire ten years ago. As an example my …
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Sep 09 2012
I have long maintained- if you own a smartphone- that Telstra really is the only choice of carrier. This recommendation doesn’t come without a great deal of handwringing as I know they come with a whole host of issues- but signal speed and strength isn’t one of them. Their customer service for a example is …
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Jun 06 2012
There has been a lot of blab in the press about Siri and how bad it is. How Apple have duped us all into thinking its created a Star Trek fantasy right in the palm of our hands but that it’s all smoke and mirrors. I have already documented my thoughts on this but the …
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