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Recently I have been contemplating about a new phone. It is about time, as I have been using my faithful Samsung I600 for 20 months now. Two months ago I was given an iPhone, but somehow it failed to conquer my heart. Yes, it is a gorgeous toy. It has brilliant applications... I could play for hours with Bloomberg, rotating the screen up and down. Or watch music videos... But when it comes down to some serious business, the iPhone seems to remain a gadget... So after long hesitation, I decided to give Blackberry a try. The Bold seemed like a perfect choice. Sync - perfect, it is able to fully synchronize with Google via the Google Sync . And it is able to synchronize with iTunes music library, I decided to by my master music meta data. I was about to buy one, but then I met a friend who had been using one for a long time. What scared me was his routine task of removing the battery twice a day... to keep the berry fresh and up to the task. No data connection? Remove the battery... Unab...

So what is the next big thing after the Internet? That question still remains my top one since I formulated it in June 2008 at the Intel Capital CEO conference. It was just a week after the impressive presentation by Chris Cooper at 2008 Telecosm Conference . Still being a little jet lagged, I was immediately awaken by the vision of nano confinement fusion. Today, while the nano - scale fusion nuclear batteries are not ready, and will not be ready for some years to come, we may soon be getting an intermediate solution - the mini - scale fission reactors. They are just moving into a mass production. According to The Cutting Edge : ... nuclear battery technology pioneered by government scientists at Los Alamos—the facility that developed the first atomic bomb—has been licensed to private companies for mass production and distribution... in its initial format, each micro-reactor will produce just 25 megawatts, but enough to provide electricity for 20,000 average American-sized homes or ...

Computers on the Internet have IP addresses. Like 208.77.188.166. We are used to locate them based on names or Web addresses. Like www.example.com. DNS ( Domain Name System ) is what translates Web address into an IP address. Seems pretty easy and straightforward. But DNS is absolutely central to the integrity of the Internet and there seems to be a serious weakness that may cause us a lot of headache. Fake DNS servers. Under normal conditions you get access to the DNS servers when you log in to youe ISP (Internet Service Provider). It is in the very interest of the ISPs not to mess with DNS system and provide the proper references to DNS servers to their clients. But there is nothing that would stop me from setting up a free WiFi network providing fake DNS references. Then any computer joining such network would go to fake DNS servers to resolve any name a user types in the address bar of the Web browser. And as a result users would be redirected to fake servers. After typing in www.M...

Last week I found myself in a situation prompting me to figure out the new setup for my virtual office. My previous setup was mainly based on the Microsoft Exchange 2007. My laptop running Outlook 2007 with local cache of all mail / contact / calendar items residing on a server. Windows Mobile 6 powered smartphone on top of it, synchronizing everything over the air via the ActiveSync protocol. This worked flawlessly. I had all emails and contacts and calendars in sync all the time. My phone, my laptop plus a working copy on the Exchange server. The challenge now has been to do the same, sans Exchange. So I started thinking about my new setup. These days we tend to sore everything in The Cloud (the Internet). I use GMail and Google Documents for my private stuff a lot, so my first steps were to try setting up everything around Google services. I soon found out this was not that simple. Starting with contacts, my first goal was to move my database of contacts from Microsoft Outlook to Go...