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- What will-and won't-work during the next BlackBerry service disruption
- Hayden, who runs the superb Pinstack BlackBerry forum, offers a post with some practical advice the next time it appears that your BlackBerry service has gone down. The first thing you should do is run a test to determine whether it is just...
- Tags: Network, RIM BlackBerry, SMS, Outage, Hayden, PIN, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
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- What a cool idea dept.: First-ever dedicated BlackBerry store opens
- Hayden of BlackBerry discussion and forum site Pinstack notes that the world's first BlackBerry-only store has just opened. Apparently the first of its kind, the store is an exclusive deal between BlackBerry-maker Research Inb Motion, and Wireless Giant of Madison Heights, Michigan. On...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Wireless, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Finding conversational marketing's heartbeat
- Eight years ago, Chris Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger presented the The Cluetrain Manifesto, which came up with the phrase that in the Internet age "markets are conversations." Now Peter Hirshberg, chairman of Technorati, and Steve Hayden, vice-chairman of Ogilvy & Mather...
- Tags: Conversation, Marketing, Advertisement, Brand, Conversational Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Some juicy BlackBerry 8820 Wi-Fi and GPS pix here
- Hayden from popular BlackBerry board Pinstack has obtained and posted some photos of the immediately forthcoming Wi-Fi and GPS-enabled BkackBerry 8820 in action. Nice work, hayden. The pix at top shows the BlackBerry 8820 looking for a Wi-Fi network. Let's...
- Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Wi-Fi, GPS, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effect
- Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effectWell, if you could prove that......hacking is another form of bearing arms, you might get their attention. Then again, I think the NRA General Council would rather be out target-shooting, duck hunting or selling guns anyways.NRA should be all over this...After...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, tool, hacking, security tool
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Amazing case: how sweet the sound of 10% off
- I've always had the highest personal and professional regard for BlackBerry online community and forum PinStack. Hayden James, who is the proprietor, is a good dude, a gentleman and extremely knowledgeable about all things BlackBerry. I even hired one of their moderators for a gig not so long ago or...
- Tags: BlackBerry Software, BlackBerry Promotions, BlackBerry Gear
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Virtual GPS now available for most BlackBerrys
- The Navizon Virtual GPS is now available for BlackBerry.Navizon works on any Java-enabled BlackBerry. Its available for a 15-day evaluation period with a purchase price of $24.95 after that."With the Navizon application you can see where you are on a map and navigate to other locations, see...
- Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Reports: BlackBerry service coming back up just now
- Hayden James, who runs Pinstack, says:"Just contacted RIM moments ago they informed us that service has been restored for most BlackBerry users."They also said that they are closely monitoring systems in order to maintain normal service levels," Hayden adds.
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- FL county muddles through the paper trail
- In Sarasota County, FL, where 18,000 ballots registered no votes for Floridas 13th Congressional District House race, dozens of recount volunteers are scrutinizing pieces of paper, seeking mathematical errors in the computerized tabulation of votes, The Miami Herald reports. Its a meaningless ritual, said David Dill, a Stanford University...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Ruckus music service spams and scams college students to sign up
- The effort to exploit the most lucrative college student demographic backfired recently when a digital music downloading service got ahold of thousands of Facebook users' emails by falsely setting up their own group profile and luring students to join, reports eSchool News. Ruckus Network of Herndon, Va.,...
- Tags: E-mail, Ruckus, Facebook
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Coding as Art
- A long time ago, after one stultifying conversation too many, I worked out a definition of "art" that I've stuck with ever since. Art, I maintain, consists of expressing as much as possible within the tightest possible set of constraints. Look at the history of music and that's what...
- Tags: bridge, software
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- A quick tour of marketing magic
- A client of CNET’s recently asked me to do a presentation on “important events in marketing,” and I got to thinking about it in the pool this morning. Good marketing sings; it resonates with something that’s already in the recipient’s mind. And that’s why I love it: A...
- Tags: advertisement, Federal Express, marketing
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- NSA datamining - what is it good for?
- Data mining - what is it good for? Without or clue or lead of some kind, absolutely nothing. That's pretty much what datamining experts told Washington Post reporter Guy Gugliotta. Details of the NSA's activities remain unclear, but data mining experts say they are puzzled about how the...
- Tags: data mining, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- TYS: Surveillanceworld
- TYS = "Told You So." And this is not something I was looking forward to being right about, but the Bush Administration seems intent on driving toward a complete Orwellian world. According to CNET sister publication of ZD Net, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller met with...
- Tags: SurveillanceWorld, ZD Net
- Blog posts 2006-06-02
- Serious scaling for open source databases
- One of the biggest problems for those who want open source databasing is scaling. And now it may be solved. Once you start storing terabytes, and want to do deep business intelligence analysis on that data, a simple mySQL installation on a Dell...
- Tags: PostgreSQL, GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- A civics lesson from General Hayden
- A civics lesson from General HaydenCommon Sense & PrinciplesThank you for this analysis.The focus of past legitimacy of such trap'n'trace procedures has been the fact that, because I voluntarily give the phone company both my number and my destination number, the phone company becomes somehow a "Third Party" to the...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Telecom & Utilities, Batman, government, telecommunications company
- Discussion threads 2006-05-18
- A civics lesson from General Hayden
- I've been watching and listening to General Michael Hayden, the former National Security Agency chief now nominated by President Bush to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. You can find reports about the content of his comments here, here and here. Let's focus here on the lack of...
- Tags: Michael Hayden, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- NSA Eavesdropping: Deep inefficiency
- President Bush likes to argue for the NSA's warrant-less eavesdropping by saying "If you're calling al Qaeda, we want to know why." It was a key argument during the State of the Union address. But now NSA sources are admitting that the program is yielding few or no terrorist...
- Tags: warrant-less, NSA
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
- Bush allies defend NSA surveillance
- Bush allies defend NSA surveillanceIf it is so obvious that they are only intercepting terrorist communicationcommunications, it would take very little time to convince a Judge and get a court order. We need a judge to ok these kinds of things. I do NOT trust Bush and his buddies.Well, this...
- Tags: Osama, NSA, FISA Court, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2006-01-24
- Eavesdropping: A little dab'll Dubya
- General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency who was in charge when President Bush first authorized wire taps of U.S. telecommunications that might involve terrorists and currently the second-in-command for U.S. intelligence operations said today, according to the Financial Times: “The trigger is quicker and a...
- Tags: 9/11 commission, 9/11, General, intrusion, General Hayden
- Blog posts 2006-01-23
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