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Ron Liechty's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: Connectivity

Web 2.0, Part 2.0 Sales

My local newspaper recently changed to truly be local with only one page devoted to national or international news yet on Sundays they have the expanded news and there is one page devoted to business. In this weeks paper the main feature was Technology helps reinvent cell phone...

Web 2.0, Part 1.5

While I enjoy blogging and it does put a human face to a company I don’t see it as the penultimate feature of web 2.0. However, when you talk to bloggers or the media (where journalists are pretty much just paid bloggers) you would think that blogs are the beginning and the end of Web...

Web 2.0, Part 1.0

I dislike buzz words like Web 2.0 that don’t mean anything so why not have a series of articles that tell what it means. One of Nokia’s employees uploaded a thesis on Web 2.0 to the Developer’s Wiki that I think every mobile developer should read. When it...

What's in Your Wallet? What's a Wallet?

Mobile devices have replaced the wrist watch as the most popular time piece. Most people only wear a wrist watch as a fashion statement, using a mobile device when they want to know what time it is. Another clothing accessory that is soon to go out of style is the wallet. Already people carry...

Brinkmanship

Thomas Schelling wrote “Brinkmanship is thus the deliberate creation of a recognizable risk, a risk that one does not completely control. It is the tactic of deliberately letting the situation get somewhat out of hand, just because its being out of hand may be intolerable to the...

Does Big Brother Really Want to Watch You?

There is a bill in California, USA that is putting some restrictions and a moratorium on the use of RFID chips for school ID cards and driver’s licenses. The fear is that the state can track you wherever you go. There is the same fear about super store chains tracking the merchandise...

Beware the Ides of March, Daylight Savings Start Time Changes

Normally the change from standard time to daylight savings time (DST) only affects me in that I wake up an hour later than normal. However this year the date for daylight savings time will change in the USA from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in...

The Continuous Adventures of Puppy Robot and his friend Rover

What do you do with a few Nokia 770 Internet tablets and a Robotis Bioloid Robot Kit? Why of course you create a canine robot named Puppy and his lonely pal Rover. The robot kit is reviewed in Robot online magazine and Puppybot and Rover’s first video is reviewed on the...

This is the Year That Will Be

The first of the year is always a good time to predict the future. Of course predicting the future is a lot easier in hindsight but my memory is so poor that isn’t right most of the time. So let’s just pop in and see what some of the trends are in technology. I see...

Winter wear is WinterWare for Geeks

For those of us that live where there really is a winter, places like Helsinki, Michigan and San Francisco there are often places in the offices or home where there are drafts or a bit cooler than other areas of the building or house. My house is an old farm house that was built originally...

From the Home of the Luddites, Down with WiFi

At a preparatory school in Chichester, West Sussex parents concerned about effects of low levels of radiation caused by WiFi networks in schools lobbied the headmaster to remove the wireless network and revert back to a cabled system. Their concerns were that children with their thinner skulls...

The BlueSnarf is not a new character on the Smurfs

Did you ever wonder where to go to find out about the vulnerabilities with wireless mediums and protocols? I think we all know that there are bugs within operating systems, the equipment or the servers and the browsers but what about the protocols in particular. The Wireless...

Caution Rules, Wireless Networking in Public Places

If you think you are safe web surfing or doing e-mail using a smartphone at an internet café or at the airport you may be fine, but there may be danger lurking. WiFi Sniffers are easily downloadable and may be used for perfectly legitimate purposes. But they can also intercept packets...