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The 10 Most Disappointing Technologies of the 2000s

I have just realized that FOIB and ianbell.com passed their 10-year anniversary some time in 2009 without me really marking the event.  During that time I’ve authored thousands of articles, missives, and comments that have been shared from my online pulpit and...

Microsoft’s Kick-Ass PDA

http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/learnmore/hardware/ prod_specs.asp?p_id Overview With the Pocket PC Phone Edition from T-Mobile you can achieve the next level of productivity. A combined phone and organizer, it includes pocket versions of Microsoft Word and...

Nextel, RIM and Motorola Agree To Produce Voice-enabled Handheld

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020124/242427_1.html Thursday January 24, 3:26 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Nextel Communications Nextel, RIM and Motorola Agree To Produce Voice-enabled Handheld RESTON, Va., WATERLOO, ON & SCHAUMBURG, Ill.–(BUSINESS...

Handheld PDAs

Okay, so I’m what you’d call “unique”. I am a very mobile user and also very disorganized, so I need tools to prop me up. But, over the years, the hard lessons of early-adopter victimization have saltied me to the gimmickry of high-tech,...

Fwd: Re: Modo.net shuts down, Idealab blamed

>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:31:23 -0700 >To: Tom Whore , Tony Berkman >From: Ian Andrew Bell >Subject: Re: Modo.net shuts down, Idealab blamed >Cc: Mike Masnick , fork [at] xent [dot] com >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >At 7:52 AM -0700 10/26/00, Tom Whore wrote: >>You mean...