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SESP Wave-Shield pocket sized cellular phone jammer

Here’sthe gadgetI need to take with me to the cinema. Cell phone users beware!

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Posted on 31st March 2001 Details

Belgacom Extrasurf

What the hell is Belgacom thinking? They’ve developped some new half-arsed concept calledextrasurffor micropayments. When you reach a site that uses the system, you’re disconnected then reconnected to a special number where you’re billed differently depending on the services you have chosen. I can imagine the problems when you start disconnecting and reconnecting every time you want to pay for something. And how about if you’re on a cable connection? And if you’re running a Mac or Linux (It’s a window solution, of course) ? I can’t imagine the ISP’s will be very happy about their clients logging off and on every 10 minutes either. The bets are on, I predict failure within less than a year.

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Posted on 2nd April 2001 Details

AFX press: Belgacom accused by Wanadoo, Tiscali, KPN of anti-competitive practices

Belgacom are a bunch of abusing liars. I hope theylose.

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Posted on 8th April 2001 Details

Envisional points to 'another Napster in the making'

Ok, this is getting really ridiculous: Illegal downloads of mobile ringtones costs music industry $1million per day…another Napster in the making.

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Posted on 25th April 2001 Details

ZDnet: Le maillon allemand du reseau Echelon bientot raye de la carte

The Americans areclosing down their listening station in Bad Aibling, Germany; a station which was a part of Echelon. Advances in technology make the use of satellites more interesting and discreet. Meanwhile, Menwith Hill in the UK will, of course, keep listening to us in the name of “democracy”.

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Posted on 8th June 2001 Details

Terminate screenshots (warning: MIDI background music)

Now there’s one hell of a blast from the past. I’d completely forgotten about this, but in 91 or 92 (I think) when I was still doing ANSI graphics, I designed the logo/startup screen for theTerminatecommunications terminal. Here’sa screenshot(it’s that terminator style title).

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Posted on 16th September 2001 Details

iCE advertisements

That ‘terminate’ discovery got me searching the web for related items: in those days I was also a member ofiCEwhich still exists today and has a website (no, I won’t tell you the alias I went under). Long-time arch-rivalsACiDare still around too.

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Posted on 16th September 2001 Details

Skynet lance le protocole V.92 en Belgique

Belgian analog modems users: Skynet is looking for people totest V.92 connections.

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Posted on 28th September 2001 Details

Reuters: Cellphones Spook Ghosts, Expert Says

All those mobile calls and text messages aredrowning out ghostsit seems. Haunted tourist attractions in Britain could disappear if the number of mobile users keeps growing.

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Posted on 15th October 2001 Details

Ananova: Villagers can't make calls without being routed through France

On the coast of Kent, residents’ mobile phones arelocking on to French mobile networksacross the channel and giving them heavy bills.

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Posted on 25th November 2001 Details

Masterclick Phone and Fax services

Here’s a service that lets yousend faxes for free via the net. It’s limited to text in a form, so no word documents or anything like that. Not all countries are covered, but Belgium is in there.

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Posted on 18th January 2002 Details

Independent: Hoaxers force Number 10 to change its number

Hi mate, phone me ASAP, crap signal in this pub. If I don’t answer,ask for Tonywho runs the place.

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Posted on 26th February 2002 Details

Techniformer: Talk on Your Cell Phone Without Saying a Word

Talk on the phonewithout making a sound.

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Posted on 28th March 2002 Details

Salon: When 300 baud was the bomb

Back in the day, there were boards.Bulletin Board Systems. BBS’s. No Net, no Web, no cyberspace, nothing.

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Posted on 31st May 2002 Details

iCE Advertisements

That BBS article brings back memories of my first online designs: the infamous ANSI graphics. I used to be a member of [iCE]. And, no, I won’t tell you what handle I used and I’ll thank the few readers out there who know from refraining to post it :) - I’ll give you a hint, there’s a design by me onthis page.

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Posted on 31st May 2002 Details

Observer: Police to spy on all emails

Europol (the European police organisation) isproposing a planwhere telephone and internet companies will have to retain logs of all activities such as email, web visits, chat room conversations, mobile calls and even SMS messages. Here’s theoriginal documentin PDF format.

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Posted on 9th June 2002 Details

General Public Site

Since October 1st you can change mobile operators while keeping your existing number. Call pricing being different depending on what operator you call, you cancheck what network they use.

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Posted on 4th October 2002 Details

Guardian: How mobile phones let spies see our every move

Mobile phone mastsspying on us? It seems a little far-fetched to me, but who knows?

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Posted on 15th October 2002 Details

Arcade Themes, Screensavers and Ringtones for T68m(I) and T300

I just got a bluetooth dongle for my Mac and now have it syncing with my Ericsson phone. The installation was painless. Plug in, OS X recognizes it, discovers the phone, then iSync merges my calendar and address book with the phone’s. The extra functionality is fantastic.

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Posted on 7th November 2002 Details

Mobiledia - Free T68 / T68i / T300 backgrounds, screensavers, themes, ringtones, games, and articles

Yet another sourcefor quality T68i backgrounds, screensavers and more.

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Posted on 11th November 2002 Details

Bluetooth Mac email discussion list

Another interesting resource for Bluetooth-equipped mac owners: theBluetooth-Mac mailing list.

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Posted on 11th November 2002 Details

Scripts for Ericsson GSM and HSCSD phones (65kB)

For anyone that’s interested, here’s how I got my OS X Powerbook setup to surf the web via theBASEHSCSD network with my bluetooth-enabled T68i GSM (I’m assuming you already have a bluetooth connection setup between the phone and the mac):

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Posted on 27th November 2002 Details

Sinfilo: hotspots

If you’ve got a wi-fi enabled laptop, here’s a list offreely accessible hotspotsyou can use in Belgium. I’m going to give the Hotel Stephanie one a try and see if I can pick anything up.

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Posted on 4th December 2002 Details

Light Reading: VOIP Gets New Numbers

A step forward for voice over IP. Internet telephony now has its own country code:87810

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Posted on 11th February 2003 Details

Sunday Herald: Teachers call for urgent action as pupils write essays in text-speak

Girl writes school essay inSMS format: My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2 go 2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :-@ kds FTF. ILNY, its gr8.

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Posted on 3rd March 2003 Details

Guardian: Firm adds insult to personal injury as it sacks workers by text message

2500 workerssacked via SMS. Those Proximus ads that are everywhere right now never seemed truer.

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Posted on 2nd June 2003 Details

The inquirer: New world record set for mobile phone throwing

A newmobile phone throwing recordhas been set.

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Posted on 26th August 2003 Details

Reuters: 3G mobile signals can cause nausea,headache-survey

In arecent Dutch study, people exposed to 3G mobile phone base stations felt tingling sensations, got headaches and felt nauseous. Expectlots of sick peoplein the Netherlands within a few years.

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Posted on 1st October 2003 Details

PC World: Hackers Crack Nokia N-Gage

That was fast. the N-Gage console from Nokia hasalready been cracked. Some people have already got the games running on other phones with the same OS base like theSiemens SX1.

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Posted on 13th November 2003 Details

Yakuta

Spice up that GSM phone: colour visuals and polyphonic ringtones made by well-known artists can be found atYakuta.

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Posted on 2nd December 2003 Details

What is bluejacking?

Got bluetooth on your mobile? Have fun in public places or at the office withBluejacking.

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Posted on 2nd December 2003 Details

The Mirror: intexticated

Over the holiday period, many Britons becomeintexticated.

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Posted on 23rd December 2003 Details

Le 1er livre en langage SMS

The firstbook in SMS languagehas been published, and it’s in French. Ben ke C 5pa.

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Posted on 1st February 2004 Details

Cnet - Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes

A story on Cnet says that unpatched PCs, once connected to broadband, are compromised by “malware”within 20 minuteson average. I got a “something’s wrong with my computer” phone call 5 minutes after it being hooked up to cable once, so I’m not surprised at all.

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Posted on 28th August 2004 Details

Download Skype for Mac OS X Beta

And while we’re on a mac vibe,Skype for Mac OS X is availableas a beta from their site.

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Posted on 31st August 2004 Details

Cellular News: Using phones to monitor road traffic

An interesting pilot project I hadn’t heard about: real time traffic flow in Antwerp will be measured by “anonymously” sampling thepositions of mobile phonesin moving vehicles. Antwerp, of course, being the ideal place for an experiment of that type considering the currentroadworks-induced chaosthere.

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Posted on 6th September 2004 Details

Free phone booth at Burning Man

This is a very neat hack. During the annualBurning Man festivalin the Black Rock Desert, Brad Templeton setup areal phone boothbuilt using VOIP, WiFi and a 2-way satellite internet connection. VOIP being dead cheap, calls were free to anywhere in the world.

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Posted on 23rd September 2004 Details

Skype Opens API Beta

The world of internet telephony is about to become more interesting. Skype have justannounced their APIwhich suggests addons, software and hardware, will be flowing into the market in the near future.

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Posted on 9th November 2004 Details

SHHH, the Society for HandHeld Hushing

Here’s anamusing antidoteto those ghastly mobile phone users who share their conversations with everyone within a 15 meter radius.

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Posted on 10th December 2004 Details

Download latest Skype beta for Windows

Things are getting interesting on the Skype front, thelatest beta(for windows) supports voicemail. That’s one of the missing features that kept me away from Skype, even though there were3rd party addonswith the same functionality. Now give me a proper wi-fi phone that works with Skype, and I might just hop on the bandwagon.

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Posted on 21st December 2004 Details

wengo - le libre acces au telephone sur internet

France’s Neuf Telecom is attempting to follow in Skype’s footsteps with a hybrid offer calledWengo. It works on your PC with the usual headset configuration but you can also connect an ordinary phone to it if you add a USB-to-RJ11 “wenbox” to the setup. Several packages are available if you want to call outside the free wengo to wengo network, some of them include the wenbox in the monthly subscription. It’s ISP-agnostic too. Quite an interesting move, if you live in France anyway.

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Posted on 4th January 2005 Details

freeloader

Freeloaderis a mobile ringtone service emulating internet-based collaborative models for creation and distribution. It facilitates the personal creation of ringtones and sharing them with others in the community through a standard WAP interface; bypassing the premium-rate services, walled gardens, or the need for special cables or bluetooth to enable direct phone-to-computer links. (via)

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Posted on 8th January 2005 Details

The Guardian: Generation text

The Guardian is running an interesting article on thesocial and cultural impact of mobile phones. A notable example is that we no longer decide on strict meeting details, but rather tend to text each other at the approximate hour in order to define an exact time and place. Amusingly, we also instinctively listen with extra attention to conversations we can only hear one side of. This results in frustration from being deaf to half of the conversation and increases the tension provoked by people making or receiving calls around us. The complete esearch paper the article refers to can be found at the160 characters(PDF) website.

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Posted on 15th January 2005 Details

SFL phone

SFLphoneis an open-source softphone forVOIP, it supports the standards likeSIPand is completely skinnable. It’s in early stages right now and has only been compiled on Linux, but support for other platforms is planned. It’ll be interesting to watch how people will tweak it and integrate it with existing applications.

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Posted on 15th January 2005 Details

Silicon.com - Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP wins

Peter Cochrane is a bona fide telecom veteran, he’s been in the business for 38 years, part of that as head of research for British Telecom. He seems to be one of the few in the business who actually sees that the way we communicate is radically changing. Hisexperience with skypereveals what many of his peers would see if they actually started putting these disruptive applications to real use (of course, when you work in the industry, your telecom costs are usually negligible or non-existant, so the incentive isn’t really there).Many people are pointing to a future with two distinct layers: services and infrastructure. Right now most actors are playing on both, but for how long?

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Posted on 18th February 2005 Details

More preposterous ideas from the Euro-buffoons: ta...

More preposterous ideas from the Euro-buffoons: taxing email and text messages.

Linked on 27th May 2006 Details

Patterns over satellite imagery.

A new BBC series overlays multiple types of data over satellite imagery to show things like traffic patterns and phone chatter spread.

Linked on 4th August 2008 Details

A new BBC series overlays multiple types of data o...

A new BBC series overlays multiple types of data over satellite imagery to show things like traffic patterns and phone chatter spread.

Linked on 4th August 2008 Details