Monthly Archives: November 2007

Hey Jungner, maybe they have a life

Posted on Nov 30, 2007 by sim

Yesterday, YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company, recipient of our TV license fees) chief Mikael Jungner caused yet another stir by wanting to take a peek at the subscriber databases of all the for-pay TV channels to cross-check with the payers of … Continue reading →

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Oh the smell of disappearing operator assets…

Posted on Nov 29, 2007 by sim

Hmm, looks like it’ll be the second Google-post in a row. Well never mind that, ’cause this is cool: Google Maps Mobile now uses cell ID in addition to GPS to show location information. Technologically, there’s not much new about … Continue reading →

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Google diversification

Posted on Nov 28, 2007 by sim

Google diversifying to other projects from their cash cow, search advertising, is nothing new per se. With all the cash and the great market valuation that they have, Google can afford to have lots of services and projects that don’t … Continue reading →

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Browsing experience worsens with Nokia’s new N-series devices

Posted on Nov 26, 2007 by sim

My main mobile device is a Nokia N80, a “multimedia computer” that, at two years old, can soon be considered ancient. By far the single best feature of that phone is the web browser. Now lately I’ve been testing some … Continue reading →

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Review: Freakonomics

Posted on Nov 22, 2007 by sim

Next up on my reading list was a book that I had long planned to read but only now got to it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economics Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a book that has no unifying theme … Continue reading →

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