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[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2009-08-23 20:43 ]
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Posted: 2009-08-23 21:42:36
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P1i pics; really battled with the white balance/contrast today, but anyway...:
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2009-08-23 21:02 ]
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Posted: 2009-08-23 21:48:33
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@wanqa: Can't wait to see this England side demolished when they come here. Mind you, Broad bowled out of his skin but the batters were generally poor with the exception of Trott. This is just from looking at the scorecard.
Australia though for me lost this game when they managed to collapse in the second innings from a good start. I can't see Punter lasting till the summer tests.
Trott is the only one amongst the SA-born players whose link is more than tenuous. Strauss, and Prior left as children.
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Posted: 2009-08-23 22:14:00
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Yeah true that, mate. Still, it's an interesting stat that about a third of the England squad were born in SA.
Looking forward to the clash with the Proteas; a chance for SA to further cement their number 1 rankings.
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2009-08-23 22:01 ]
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Posted: 2009-08-23 22:26:37
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I'll be at Newlands cheering our guys on. Whatever happens, I can't see England in their current guise beating us.
Granted they have some great players but it should be said that as a team they're not strangers to long bouts of collective self-doubt.
On the topic of Samsung, their flooding of the market has definitely helped them increase their marketshare considerably.
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Posted: 2009-08-23 23:44:00
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Creating er... art with the P1i's cam settings:
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Posted: 2009-08-24 15:15:14
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New HTC Android and WinMo devices spotted:
http://www.gsmarena.com/shots[....]d_htc_click_leak-news-1083.php
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Posted: 2009-08-24 15:24:54
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NOKIA have announced their own Netbook. The NOKIA Booklet3G:
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia[....]let_erhh_netbook-news-1084.php
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Posted: 2009-08-24 16:17:24
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For people who wish to serve The Big Red Machine Network (not for me, thanks...):
Taken from The register:
'Vodafone's Ovi-killer leaks
The world's biggest global mobile network appears to be planning to put the skids under Nokia, Google and Apple's plans for mobile software. According to videos leaked to TechCrunch UK last week, Vodafone is planning a comprehensive services offering called "Vodafone People". Apple might not be too worried, but Nokia and Google should be.
VP promises to federate social network messaging, as well as stalwart offerings such as backups, sync, maps and app downloads. It will support both PCs and Macs, which Nokia's perspiring services leviathan, Ovi, hasn't been able to manage.
Judging by the promo videos, VPeople will bring together messaging including SMS, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and IM services, into a contact-centric UI. Since many people, particularly the older set, now use Facebook as their messaging service (it's the new Hotmail, really), and Twitter has superseded IM for some niches, this makes sense. Palm and 3 are also trying to federate messaging, so the users doesn't have to fiddle unnecessarily.
Vodafone is the largest global carrier; China Mobile has more subscribers, but only operates in two countries. Voda also has a 45 per cent stake in Verizon, which is driving pell-mell towards LTE. So there's a potential in settings standards. The clincher is really the price.
Google and Nokia will be content to continue shipping their own offerings on their own platforms - but really they want the operators to use their own respective services where they can.
Google has the best mobile Maps client, a popular email and calendar, and a decent photo sharing service. Nokia has a first rate professional Maps business that underperforms on mobile, and not much else.
Recently I advised Nokia to stop trying to be a mini-Yahoo!, and to give up on the social networking bits of Ovi. No one is interested in these services, and which are better done by Flickr, Picasa or Facebook - and a few key areas such as messaging, maps and music need attention much more urgently. For example, Nokia's flagship phone this summer shipped with a seven-year-old email client that can't read HTML. Ovi doesn't make Nokia phones more attractive - and may make them less competitive.
For Google it's possibly even more threatening, because they're not making any hardware revenue. (Nokia still makes handsets people like, even if they're running Flickr and Facebook, not Ovi.) Vodafone subscribers staring at the People app may not be staring at Google ads while they do, and Google won't be making anything from transactional revenue.'
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Posted: 2009-08-24 18:06:45
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Thank goodness that Monday is only 24 hours long....
I see that MobileCrunch has mentioned an S.E. announcement next week, but nobody there seems to be quite certain about the content of the announcement.
http://bit.ly/1VFhm1
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Posted: 2009-08-24 18:58:00
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