Archive for June, 2006

Mainstream Mobility: “Square Feet. Oh, How Square! “

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

The rise of mobile workers has companies unloading space and rethinking what’s left Chances are that on any given day up to 40% of your colleagues are not in the office. Instead they are working in rumpled T-shirts on their sofas, long-hauling it to Asia for client meetings, or mooching Wi-Fi and power in some café. The professional class is going bedouin, as some in Silicon Valley say.

By Michelle Conlin July 3, 2006

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The MoPR Blog Cam

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Battle tested in the most challenging of environments (the MoPR road trip), the Cingular 8125 is the MoPR camera phone of choice. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera that was able to capture almost all the important moments of our lives, three seconds after they took place.Melissa’s takes pictures only in sepia now (on purpose).

This phone rocks! It has Windows Mobile 5.0 with Outlook, so we get all our email right off our server. Synchs our calendars and contacts. It has Word, Excel and Powerpoint. It even has Adobe Acrobat! I read my efaxes right off my email on my phone! (Yeah, they’re all spam faxes, but that’s not the point… I can read them on my phone!).

We used the speaker phone on mine for a conference call in Vancouver.

The best feature, besides the camera of course, is Bubble Breaker. Bubble Breaker is Tetris on acid. We’re all competing now for high scores.

The Cingular 8125 is made by Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC under the name “the Wizard.” (If anyone from HTC marketing is reading this blog, we love your phone and want to represent you in North America.) T-Mobile sells a version, and I’ve seen this phone all over Europe. There is a web community dedicated to it, too.

When you see pictures on this blog of any of the MoPR gang, chances are it was taken by “The Blog Cam” — our much beloved Cingular 8125 mobile phone.

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That’s Gold Jerry!

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Our excellent photo shoot in Seattle took advantage of the seriously groovy architecture of the Experience Music Project, and despite Rodan’s laser-guided doodie, I’m sure we’ll have a bunch of fine pix to share with you soon.

So I’m just standing there at one point watching the proceedings and before you can say “that’s gold Jerry!” I realize fate has put me in this place and at this time for a reason: I must photograph John S snapping a pic of uber-photog Jeff who is photographing my MoPR comrades Melissa and Stacy. Now I know how that photographer felt when those Marines raised the flag on Iwo Jima.

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