Blackberry is in Nigeria but not in Finland?

Yes, the Crackberry, I mean..Blackberry is in Nigeria but not in Finland! There are not so many countries out there that don't have the Blackberry-hardware and the service available.

Canada has the highest Blackberry-penetration in the world, so I guess Nokia dominates Finland as well in this respect. But is that the reason for Blackberry to not do business in Finland? How is Nokia doing in Canada?

Blackberry is also very popular in the US for corporate users and in the financial sector. There is a lot of business going on in Nigeria for the US, Chevron and the others, so you need to have the corporate email covered there as well locally for the expats. How much business there is in Finland for the US, how many expats? I guess not so many.

A new Tesla, finally!

A new Tesla (Model S) was revealed just now. It's an electric supercar seating 7, 300-mile range, 0-60 in only 5.5sec, 45-min quick charge, 5-min battery exchange, all this for USD 50K. Not bad, eh? I'm already dying to get one!

This just came out, check this for more details:

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/26/tesla-model-s-50-000-ev-sedan-seats-seven-300-mile-range-0-6/

But when you think of it a bit more, and if you want to keep it luxurious, wouldn't it be more comfortable to also consider a new kind of a hybrid, all good for driving in the EV-mode for reasonably long, but also a car that would run on gas if needed?

So check this as well, the Fisker Karma, profiled here:

• 0-60 in less than 6 seconds (0-100 km/h 6 seconds)
• Top speed 125 mph (200 km/h)
• Two Driving Modes: The driver will be able to select between two modes of driving. The first mode is Stealth Drive, which is the quiet economy mode for optimal relaxed and efficient driving. By flipping the second paddle behind the steering wheel, the car will switch to Sport Drive, which will access the full power of the vehicle.
• Regenerative brakes featured to recapture braking energy
• Low center of gravity provides optimal sport vehicle driving dynamics

http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com/

OSX Software Update crashed the login-system

I know I'm a bit off this time from the "Saturday Mobile" but I just had to submit a report concerning the fact that the OSX Software Update on Tiger crashed the whole login-system on my iMac!

What happened was that as I was normally checking all the necessary security updates and everything on the Software Update, and as I was left with the login-window after the reboot, I couldn't log into my account anymore! When I selected the user, typed in my password, I was revealed the desktop briefly, but then abruptly slammed back into the login window.

It lets me to get in via another account (but with less privileges), and I can open up a terminal and log in as the user that I was supposed to log in in the first place. I can then open up Disk Utilities to run the Disk Permissions -test, etc. but that doesn't help. I also booted the system up from the OSX-installation-discs, took away passwords, tried the Disk Utility functions once more. Tried also some safe-boot instructions to do some magic tricks that I found from the net for this, but no deal. (You'll find a lot of stuff about this issue by Google under: login loop osx tiger problem)

So now I'm left with two options:

1. Use the another account. Somehow lift its privileges to a super-user level, move all the privileged material from under the closed account to the one that I would be using from then onwards. Delete the ex account.

2. Trying to install the OSX from the installation discs: Can I install the OSX into a specific earlier created partition and leave the other partitions intact, thus saving the data? See I'd want to install the OSX from scratch but I'm afraid that the install will wipe out everything on these partitions.. They say you can do it, but better to take a backup first. I agree, but 500GB data to be stored somewhere, buying a new disc for this, oh man, where is my IT-support?

Apparently we need Steve J. back from his major sick-leave.

Fring with Nokia E71 is a great moneysaving productivity-tool

Fring with Nokia E71 is a great moneysaving productivity-tool

People don't even realize how much they can save and how EASY it is to install Skype for their phones!

Usually when you are traveling, the most urgent things are handled by calling but otherwise with email. But nowdays, you can use Fring as a mobile Skype over wlan (as well as on 3G). I'll tell you a bit more about that later on, but it's really really simple.

In fact it's a very beautiful system, I'll guarantee you that! Usually the biggest problem is that people don't want to hassle with anything new, but I think if you calculate your yearly savings with using Fring/Skype, it's definitely an eyebrows-rising-effect. But first I'd buy the most updated and the fastest phone there is for that; the Nokia E71, and don't worry about the cost, it'll be payed back in no time. (Also it's good to add to the bunch the Mail for Exchange for a real-time email, don't ask me why, just do it, it's comparable with the Blackberry experience, plus you'll get the Fring... Also make sure you have an unlimited data-plan, so you are charged only a fixed amount on a monthly basis for that.)

So, after purchasing the phone, download the Fring, it's super-easy! Just go to: http://www.fring.com/download/
and go from there accordingly.

And here comes the best part, the Fring doesn't need you to update anything, e.g. you are chatting at the office using the wireless internet (wlan) and then when you change your location, the Fring automatically uses the second fastest option you have, such as 3,5G or 3G. Voice conversations (Skype) need to have at least 3G in order to transfer the data for the conversation. Text chatting on the other hand can be done with a slower connection (edge and gprs). When you have a Fring to Fring conversation on the E71 in a wlan area, it's really clear and fast. You can't tell if it's a Fring or just a "normal" telephone-call. It becomes the norm pretty fast and you start to ask people can we change the conversation using the Skype instead and then you'd want even some more, like Fring supporting videocall, Fring receiving links you can open with your phone-internet-browser...etc. Using Fring is really fun and easy!

So whenever you've subscribed into a wireless network, may that be provided by your local Starbucks or for example the Union Square San Francisco, the Fring then onwards automatically switches to the network that is available in the preference-order you've selected. The preset is to find wlan, then 3G, etc.. but you wouldn't have to worry about this at all.

When I'm at the office the Fring automatically connects me to use the office wlan, then when I'm off to a lunch, it is being automatically switched into using 3G and I still get Skype-calls in and text-chats for sure, but you really need to have a good connection for the 3G-call though. Usually it's just fine. So all this for a fixed price when you have an unlimited data-plan! So there's no charge for making nor receiving the call.

p.s. I'm always curious about the radiation values, the SAR-values as they call it. The lowest SAR-value for the Nokia E71 is: 1.33 W/kg and the highest is: 1.53 W/kg. As a comment those can be actually quite alot when the highest should be only 2.00 W/kg in Europe. I don't know the regulations on the actual measurement but if the new ip-phone-protocol is being also implemented on this measurement, it might mean that the wlan-function radiates the highest. And usually it's the one that drains the battery the most in any case, so... But if you have a better view on this, please send me an email, I'm always curious about SAR-values:

paulallenthethird@hotmail.com