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Friday, May 23, 2003

Testing Nokia 6800 -- Comment()
I today received my new Nokia 6800 phone, which contains an internal keyboard for writing SMS and e-mail messages. I haven't yet tested the phone (the battery has to be charged first), but it is quite light and reasonably small. A colleague used Nokia 6800 for making notes in a seminar, and the keyboard worked well. Have to see if the phone fits my purposes. There are a lot of features compared to my current phone, Nokia 3210. So, it will probably take some time to get used to this new tool.

Welcome spammers -- Comment()
Lessig Blog writes:

Dear Spam Robot:
I don't have much time to read emails, and I especially don't have much time to read unsolicited commercial emails. But I have decided to make an exception. If you would like to send me unsolicited commercial emails, then I agree to read them on the condition that you promise to pay me $500, and subject to the additional conditions mentioned below. You can accept this offer by sending unsolicited commercial email to me at mailto:make-my-day-q2wxe4q1@pobox.com.
In accepting this offer, you also agree (1) to be subject to the laws of California for the purpose of enforcing our contract, (2) to pay any costs, including attorney fees, incurred in enforcing our contract, (3) to pay your obligation under this agreement within 10 days of sending the email, by mailing a check to me at the address referenced in the Contact section of this site, and (4) to accept service and costs associated with any bill collector that I hire to help collect obligations owed me under this contract.
Good luck with your business.

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How Apple's Spam Filter Stacks Up: "I won't say I don't receive pitches for the occasional mortgage discount or Vegas vacation, the latest performance-enhancing elixir or anatomical wonder pills. In general, though, I've had good results with a built-in spam stopper in Apple's Mail program, which I've used daily since it was released with the Jaguar update of OS X last year." [osOpinion]

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IBM 1980 = Microsoft 2000?: "Aaron Goldberg is writing about the same parallels that I have used in many discussions: Microsoft has contracted the same disease IBM had in the mid-'80s. It's called screw-your-customer-itis. The symptoms go from the ill-timed price hikes last year disguised as license changes to the poorly executed, capricious end-of-life announcements for key products to the carnage they've left in the 'Windows-compatible' software business." [vowe dot net]

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Steve Jobs' half note: "Buying music online got a lot easier with Apple Computer's new music store. It's a promising sign of things to come in the music business. That said, the service feels like half a loaf--it only begins to offer the music experience that is possible with the Internet." [Google Technology News]