Starting today, my telco, Qwest, is offering all of it’s broadband Internet customers the opportunity to use AT&T WiFi hotspots as a benefit of their montly broadband purchase. That’s right: any family or business who uses Qwest high-speed Internet at home can now utilize AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots when they are on-the-go. AT&T Wi-Fi is a…
Check out this sweet rap that features some of our favorite social media tools. Flickr, Firefox, Facebook…they’re all mentioned 🙂 One interesting note – my buddy Alec Saunders of Calliflower, gets a sweet include.
The WhiteHouse.gov site got a makeover with the new administration. I love the new site that was announced earlier today! One fantastic new feature – there’s a blog on the front page. I hope this new site continues the social media features and transparency that Obama had in his campaign!
Because of a matter of weird events, I’m holled up in a Starbucks in NW Portland. However, I have my iPod Touch and a Dell work laptop to pass the time with. What’s a techcraver to do? Well, fire up Boingo and hope that this Starbucks is on the Boingo network. Lo and behold they…
After today’s little debacle regarding Michael Arrington and Techcrunch’s new stance on embargoes and Marshall Kirkpatrick’s response on ReadWriteWeb, I wanted to take my stance: Without a doubt, I respect and will not break embargoes. So entrepreneurs, startups, and their respective PR firms, please pitch to me at my email address – I’m at jason…
Nokia Maps was updated today with some exciting new features, plus a new offering called Nokia Maps plus Ovi. First, looking at the Maps application, the mobile mapping software client has been updated to include high-resolution images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities and terrain maps. Using their relationship with NAVTEQ, Nokia is to giving users…
What could Nokia be announcing? On their European site – europe.nokia.com, the Finnish mobile phone giant has put up a mysterious countdown timer, which at the time of this writing is set to 42 hours and some minutes. It’s interesting that the countdown timer is set to when Nokia’s CEO will be giving the opening…
Introduction I have tried a few Nokia NSeries phones and I have been impressed thus far. With that, Nokia’s Blogger Relations Program recently included me in a trial of the Nokia E71, the Finnish mobile handset maker’s follow up to their extremely popular E61 and E61i handsets. For my thoughts on the E61i, see my…
Keynote Systems has released a report that illustrates a big problem for those excited about mobile web adoption. The problem (as we already know): mobile websites suck. Defining the Problem Keynote Systems queried iPhone users to gather their satisfaction rates when visiting mobile-optimized websites. They found that mobile surfers are frustrated with the usability of…
There have been some blog posts lately about Nokia build quality, particularly with the Nokia NSeries. More specifically, a few weeks ago, Michael Hill of Symbian Freak wrote of the poor build quality on his N82. Michael notes creaky button pushing, scratches on the screen where he’s taken great care of it, and overall low…