Ben's Talk3G Blog

It's officially time for the Macs at work to go Snow Leopard.

With the exception of one refusenik who's still clinging on to Tiger (which is a fantastic OS, but I am doing everything in my power to ensure this situation does not persist for much longer...) the office is a Leopard paradise. Credit where credit's due, Leopard has been really great for us - smoothing out some of Tiger's rough-around-the-edges bits and providing very reliable client-server networking.

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Typically a SIM and a handset can only have one mobile number. As mobile phone 'enthusiasts' typically have many handsets, we also tend to wind up with many numbers.

I've always shied away from porting, as, IMHO, it's a broken system. On the operator side call termination charges are all screwed up, and prefix-routed SMS delivery is also screwed. The result of this is that I have three contracts with 3 different networks.

Ideally I'd be able to use all of these numbers ...

Yesterday's new iMac unveiling had something of a surprise with it. For the first time, starting this November, Apple will sell the iMac with a desktop CPU - namely Intel's Core i5 and Core i7.

Now, I don't know a lot about the Core i5, but the Core i7 is the next generation Intel architecture that includes an integrated memory controller and the ability to shutdown some cores and over-clock others, making it the master of both multithreaded and single-threaded performance.
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There's no doubt that digital money is the future of our money system. As we rely increasingly on electronic devices, which are wholly incompatible with physical money, it is entirely logical that the transition to digital money must occur.

Currently almost all of our digital money is managed by private companies, and the balances of digital money, be it a credit or debit, are stored centrally, remotely. This is in stark contrast to physical money, where we can actually hold the credits ...

There's no doubt in my mind that smartphones have reached the stage in their development where they're taking over as the primary computing and Internet access vessel for some users. I know two people now who have 'survived' for several days (or more) using just their smartphone and I find that quite incredible. The iPhone is so good that even I could probably survive one quiet day without having to whip out the laptop.

This is a critical turning point for mobile, and a massive change ...