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Wow, I was not surprised but disappointed to see that Helio is no more and is now owned by Virgin Mobile.  They were purchased for only $39 million.  I won’t go into the details but I’m sad to see this because Helio was the last MVNO here in the US.  RIP Helio.

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Nokia, you know I’m a fan boy, but I have a question for you.  Where is Sync with Ovi?  I have been waiting for months and months now and I’m getting inpatient.  I now have an N78 that I can’t sync with my MacBook because no plug in exists yet, or that I have seen.  [...]

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Alec Saunders, one of the nicest people I met at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain is the CEO of Iotum which has just this morning announced Calliflower. Calliflower is a free conference call service originally only on Facebook, but now it is a stand alone application (you can still find it on Facebook). [...]

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Nokia is getting better at launching phones.  It was only a few weeks ago the N78 became available world wide and today it became available here in the US.  This is much better then the months and months we used to have to wait for US editions.  Anyways back to the announcement.  With the launch [...]

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Wow, I’m so excited. I have been trying for the last 6 months or so been trying to upload my life and work to the “cloud”. I think the this is a great way to run your life for someone like me. I’m a huge laptop fan and I tend to randomly [...]

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I am absolutely enthralled with different technologies, as you can see from my blog, it’s mostly mobile related.  I also used to do a great deal of travel for business a few years back.  Now when I came across this story of Delta Airlines going paperless by using compatible mobile phones I got very excited.  [...]

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I got a sneak peak recently from FlixWagon demonstrating their live video to the net service on the iPhone. This is great news for them and a big step forward for the iPhone. I don’t know of any other similar service yet that supports the iPhone.
Good stuff always coming from FlixWagon. Keep [...]

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A little late to the table with the actual announcements but you can find the press releases below for my next phone the Nokia E71 and the other phone released yesterday (also very exciting) the E66.
PRESS RELEASE
Email made easy: Nokia unveils two new Nokia Eseries devices optimized for personal and professional email
June 16, 2008
Slim, stylish [...]

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Well some not so exciting news coming out of todays announcements is that the E71 will not have a dedicated camera button or a 3.5mm jack. It will sport the 2.5mm proprietary port.
On a different front here is a quick overview of the E66 from @RobEvans from Jaiku on his blog Rob’s Digital Life, funny [...]

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This is great news for the Nokia E Series lovers like myself out there. Nokia has added 2 new sibilings to the E Series family in the way of the E66 and the E71. Both have stellar product sheets and here they are, Nokia E66 and Nokia E71.
I was lucky enough to get [...]

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