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What Should We Think About Japan’s Nuclear Problem?

Nuclear Update Random, long-term, unavoidable—a bit like life: the consequence of nuclear radiation An update on the nuclear situation. My first point is that the optimism of last week, reflected in my previous email, has not been maintained. Au contraire, the...

Should I Keep My MobileMe Subscription?

Some call it the Apple tax, but the idea of the Mobile Me service by Apple is quite good. But is it up to Apple standards? Many people talk about Gmail as the answer to Apple’s Mobile Me service. They suggest Apple should make the service free to...

Willcom Introduces New Call Anyone For Free Plan

Willcom, the lone remaining PHS provider in Japan is pulling out the stops. They are offering free phone calls to any domestic number for up to 10 minutes per call and 500 calls per month. See the campaign here (Japanese). With the introduction of the White plan from...

So What`s Wrong With Wikileaks?

Recently we’ve all been inundated with information about Wikileaks, the website owned by Australian Julian Assange. Assange got confidential US government information and posted it on his website creating incredible diplomatic pain for the US government and other...

Apple iPad Now Supports Multiple Exchange Accounts

If you bought the Apple iPad, and had an iPhone 4 you might have been a bit disappointed. Once you put on your company account (for example like something hosted on AINEO Secure) you were only able to set up IMAP, POP3, AOL, Gmail, or MobileMe accounts. That was lame...