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Entries from February 2008

Back to the iPhone

February 2nd, 2008 · Comments

A while back I wrote about switching to the BlackBerry 8800. The long route to that BlackBerry was because I wasn’t entirely happy with the iPhone - it was just a glorified phone/iPod when released. Now that Google Mail supports IMAP IDLE, 3rd party apps are running, and the 1.1.3 update can be used on my preferred T-Mobile (with [...]

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Tags: BlackBerry · Blogging · iPhone · solyoung.com

Jiffy Lube

February 2nd, 2008 · Comments

It used to be any male able to convey more knowledge than octane numbers to a Jiffy Lube salesman would avoid upselling. Not any more. I haven’t become such a geek I can’t hang with grease monkeys. Those tactics are sending me elsewhere… The dollar votes.

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Tags: Etiquette

A merger sort of week

February 1st, 2008 · Comments

Wow, what a week to be in the media industry. Yesterday with Amazon picking up Audible, and today with Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!. It’s consolidation-for-growth time.
Audible is Apple’s provider for Audiobooks. Having Amazon, a primary competitor to Apple, pick up the company makes for some interesting times ahead of us. Will Apple continue to use Audible as [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · iofy