Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Amazon is including prepaid mailers with their shipments that can be used to recycle your old cell phones in support of the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. This organization, started by two teenagers in Mass with $21 of their own money, and has since raised over $1 million and provided 400,000 prepaid calling cards to [...]
Noticed a menu item in Apple Mail called “bounce”: “To discourage someone from sending you messages, you can reject or “bounce” messages from that person, as long as the return address is valid. Bouncing messages can be useful for rejecting mass mailings from companies whose mailing lists you’ve been added to after buying products.” Cool, [...]
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I’ve been watching the stream of press releases coming out in recent weeks about this or that BigSoftwareCo joining the DataPortability organization and, apparently, been having the same thoughts that Canter has. So lets please lighten it up on the press releases and claims of support – when its just not clear what the hell [...]
Johannes Ernst is moderating a panel on OpenID that should be interesting, if for no other reason than Yahoo will be on it and talking about their embrace of OpenID. I wish I could go but I will be in Denver on the 29th.
Let’s say Apple ships 7 million iPhones for the full year and that is 20% of the total market… iSuppli is forecasting that global handset shipments will be 1.3 billion units for 2008, so as a component of the overall market smartphones are pretty damn small. It clearly shows a steady increase in iPhone sales [...]
I finally bought an EVDO card for my Mac. So far it’s been a great experience, the expresscard driver software is already in Leopard so I didn’t have to load anything, basically it was as simple as taking the card out of the box, inserting it in the slot, and clicking on the “connect” menu [...]
Backdoor dialing… just the sound of it makes you want to check around to make sure no one is looking when you load the page… It’s an interesting concept, you basically tap into the telephone network and place calls to numbers supported by the network. I was trying to find a simple label to hang [...]
I have written on several occasions about my experience with the Clear security program at SFO and other airports around the country. All things considered this is worthwhile for me, $100 a year to avoid lines at security checkpoints isn’t a steep price to pay for frequent travelers. Having said that, I recognize it for [...]
The linked article nicely sums up why one-off “economic stimulus” packages are nothing more than hand waving designed to convince voters that their politicians are doing something. Economic stimuli programs are not one-time checks to give people back money they already paid as taxes. If somebody grabbed your wallet and then handed you back a [...]