Author Archives: jabellas

All media – all the time

Posted on May 17, 2007 by jabellas

  Personal Media Players (PMPs) are a product niche that continues to struggle to find an audience because of their compromises between portability, versatility, capacity and screen size. The Archos 704 WiFi is the first device that may become the … Continue reading →

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Broadband anywhere

Posted on May 17, 2007 by jabellas

Whenever I am out of reach of a broadband Internet connection, withdrawal quickly sets in and lack of access to Google feels like I had part of my brain surgically removed. This is usually a problem on vacations, especially at … Continue reading →

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Throwie – Electronic grafitti art

Posted on May 17, 2007 by jabellas

Graffiti art is ascendant, buoyed and legitimized by years of insinuation into the mainstream and six figure auction sales.  As with all things modern, even this most primitive of art forms – kids with spray cans and illegal access to … Continue reading →

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Text text talk

Posted on May 17, 2007 by jabellas

Pay-as-you-go cell phones have usually been the most basic, bottom of the range handsets that you can get, out of style and devoid of features. As mobile phone providers ooze into every nook and cranny of the market, a couple … Continue reading →

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Twitter, twitter

Posted on May 17, 2007 by jabellas

In the world of social networking, websites can come and go as ever more fickle users surge through cyberspace as orderly as sheep scattered by wolves. Just look at Friendster’s precipitous drop from must-be-at status to tumbleweed-ridden wasteland and Facebook’s … Continue reading →

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