Paul Jacobson

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  • The way we live next according to Nokia

    Nokia invited me to be part of a Joburg-based focus group based on its event in Finland titled “The Way We Live Next 3.0” which took place in the last few days. Its video pretty much sets the atmosphere for the event and presents a number of exciting possibilities for future mobile devices: Rich Mulholland…

  • Public service announcement: Nokia initiates charger exchange program

    I received this release from Nokia’s agency, Fleishman Hillard this morning which may be of interest to Nokia users. You can read a little more on the Nokia Conversations site too. Global announcement from Nokia – Nokia identified a potential product quality issue with certain chargers manufactured by one of its third-party suppliers and as…

  • A couple things Afrihost should fix

    I had the misfortune of being disconnected from Afrihost this morning because my scheduled payment didn’t go off my card for some reason I suspect has more to do with Standard Bank than Afrihost (yes, there is money in the account). I didn’t receive the email from Afrihost telling me about this on my MacBook…

  • Google Maps South Africa launch

    I was invited to a Google Maps launch event at the Helderfontein Estate. Of course I immediately agreed to attend although I was wondering what I would see at the launch that I haven’t been seeing recently on Google Maps. It turns out that Google Maps is pretty important to Google with roughly 50% of…

  • Is history repeating itself with Nokia?

    I just saw a line in a post on the Android Community site that caught my attention: We all know Microsoft was the biggest player in the mobile OS arena for a long time, not because WinMo was the best, but because it was a lonely business in the past. One of the more interesting…

  • Connected in SA: a few cool connectivity options

    Fact: we have expensive Internet connectivity compared to most of the developed world. You can throw a stone at a story about connectivity in SA without grazing a mention of the costs here compared to, say, the UK or the USA. Thankfully we do have developments like the Seacom cable, the upgrade to SAT-3 and…

  • Seacom gets fancy in Sandton

    I’m at the Seacom event at Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton and I thought I would do a quick post here using the bank of computers lined up for our use.  I captured the initial speeches using Qik and my N97 which you can watch below here. There wasn’t any public wifi available but we…

  • Memory leak shutting down my Nokia N97?

    Update: It turns out clearing the cache in my phone’s browser cleared about 10MB of data on the phone memory. Solved that problem. Sigh. This is one of those days it is a little difficult being a Nokia user. I have been using my N97 since I figured out how to configure Mail for Exchange…