Since my very first days with a GSM handset I’ve been heavily using this little yet essential service – Email-to-SMS gateway. In fact, this part of the mobile package was determinative in deciding to enter then-undue mobile realm.
Fast forward few years to now, and what I see is “Push e-mail” as the hottest topic in today’s wireless business world. The whole enterprises like BlackBerry sprung out of this sole concept – “always-on” email.
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Упорство Голден Телеком GSM сломлено: после почти 4 лет удержания цены $0.20 за минуту входящего звонка на прямой киевский номер, для широкой публики введён безлимитный пакет всего за $6 (“Дуэт+”, стоимость переадресации с прямого городского номера Киева (или Одессы) на сетевой номер 8-039 GSM $0.00).
А для “своих” абонплата ещё ниже – $3/месяц плюс куча бонусов.
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I wonder if a bluetooth headset exists out there capable of switching between two or more preconfigured mobile phones.
Imagine it like a personal micro-telephone-exchange system: you receive calls at all your mobile phones with a single headset, able to switch between several conversations, possibly connecting them into a super-conference call – all carefree.
Even more fun it’d make having implemented voice control. I’d fancy it wouldn’t be too hard to add some logic for selecting an outgoing cellular terminal based upon called party requested (by voice dialing), time of day, etc.
That would be a perfect solution to the inconvenience of having multiple mobile phones on you.
UPDATE
Looks like there are quite a few multiple-phone bluetooth headsets most notable of which are Anycom BSH-100, Plantronics Discovery series i.e. 640, 645, 655 & Plantronics Voyager 510 (they’ve got “Multipoint Technology” connections), BlueAnt X3 Micro is even capable of switching between 3 phones.
Need to do further research on other features from my wish-list…
A planned feature announced by Google – “personalized search” (also here) is surely to go along the Google’s party line with invading people’s privacy. In the article we even see how they adapt to the modern public trend of suspecting Google in all the evils by mentioning how they “value” privacy, how users will be able to opt-in and such. Nothing really new in this news.
On the other hand, Google is no doubt to help myriads of those with ADD by this new service.
Indeed, if you, like me, do like the variety of the generic SERP’s with lots of [slightly] unexpected results you can easily be distracted from the main topic you are researching. And since the majority of folks on the web who suffer from ADD would find this feature curative to them, Google is to celebrate another success on the way to it’s Grand Goal.
PS
Also notable here is the subtle evidence of enormous Internet growth. Some 10 years ago you might feel lucky having only a handful of results returned to many of usual searches, now to most searches, even elaborated ones, you often get millions of results – so the search engines now really have got the material to work with.
This is almost invisible yet extremely helpful feature of FireFox web browser.
The two great inventions – middle button in mice and the Web – emerged virtually simultaneously (though independently). And they made a really great tandem: when you click links you control at ease whether they open in a new window by simply choosing a mouse button – left or middle. That simple.
Yet, internet tricksters turn up here and there (surprisingly or not – much more notably so in former USSR (CIS) web space) who abuse the early-internet oversighted adoption of the target attribute for the <a> anchor tag. As you know, when this attribute is set to “_blank” the linked page opens in a new window regardless of the site visitor’s choice.
That’s annoying. Just try to imagine Google SERP with ALL the links in the results page with such behavior. Unimaginable. Absolutely. Nevertheless, major search engines in Russia & Ukraine feature this. Some sites in the “developed” world unfortunately still do so too.
Now FireFox has come to get back the web. This “_blank” weirdness is easily cured in standard UI.
But what about Opera? It’s a nice browser having great deal of appeals compared even to wildly growing in popularity FireFox, and it lacks this much needed control.
There’s a solution for Opera as well. It’s through User JavaScript. Very cool.
Finely tuned bash UNIX shell can really help streamline the workflow.
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