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iPhone Hits Version 2.2 On Blackberry Storm DayNovember 21

Busy day in the mobile world. Today marks the availability of the iPhone OS 2.2 which features:

Enhancements to Maps
- Google Street View
- public transit and walking diretions
- display address of dropped pins
- share location via email
Enhancements to Mail
- resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
- improved formatting of wide HTML email
Improved stability and performance of Safari
Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular)
Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
Preferences to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard settings

Also, if you are looking for that OTHER touch screen device (As Apple would like you to think of it), the Blackberry Storm Verizon now has it on sale to the general public. Its available on the Verizon website for $200 on two-year contract.

Inside JetBlue Terminal 5November 17

As the major domo at Experiment23 and as a general technologist I travel a lot. I’ve had the opportunity to see tons of places and in the process have become an airport buff. A well designed airport can make a flight extremely enjoyable but the lack of attention to detail can really ruin anybodies whole traveling experience. Thankfully JetBlue, in cooperation with the Port Authority of NY paid careful attention to all the details to create a really unique and passenger friendly airport. Terminal 5 is such a breath of fresh air compared to the decrepit eroding Terminal 6.

From the get go the new terminal is clean, wide open and airy, there are tons of places for passengers to sit plug in a laptop and surf online. There are 20 security lanes with one central queue which makes waiting for security much shorter then other airports. However, I’ve never seen all 20 lanes open. Once inside there are 22 restaurants and food outlets plus 25 stores. JetBlue, on their new premium flying kick, has made each shop and restaurant have a very boutique modern feel. No nachos and beer here (well if you don’t count one of their Mexican restaurants, Revolución). They have a steakhouse (5ive Steak), Tapas restaurant (Piquillo), Jamba Juice, French Fry House (Pommes Frites), two pizza places, as well as a open buffet market. But if you don’t want to sit at a restaurant at each gate JetBlue offers at gate ordering via touch screens where your food is delivered as you w

Partnership of the Decade: TiVo and Domino’sNovember 17

Fresh in from Zatz, seems like TiVo has made, what I think is the most logical partnership ever.

You can now order Domino’s pizza right from your TiVo UI. No need to get off the couch, forget looking for the phone, forget the computer (even though Dominos online pizza tracker is REALLY cool), just use your TiVo peanut to get your favorite multi thousand calorie meal delivered to your door.

Would you use this service?

AT&T Offers Free WiFi to iPhone and Blackberry Users… Now Here is How to Use It on Your LaptopOctober 30

I find it hardly fair that AT&T offers free WiFi that you can only use on your iPhone or Blackberry, so here is a work around to allow you to use your free wifi on nay device.

Fist of all you have to make sure you have a Blackberry or iPhone to qualify for the free internet. That being said to trick AT&T you have to change your browsers User Agent. If you use FireFox download User Agent Switcher (UAS) to start the process.

Then you need to alter the UAS settings (Tools - User Agent Switcher - Options - Options - User Agents - Add) to the following:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

(Make sure all of that is on one line)

and if you have a Mac in Safari 3.0 in the Preferences, Select Advanced and check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar”. A new menu item called “Develop” should appear in the menu bar. Click on that menu and select “User Agent” and then select the sub option “Mobile Safari 1.1.3 - iPhone”.

With the user agent now switched you will be directed to a landing page designed just for

Android, At First Blush… And Dan Eats Some CrowOctober 24

Well, its tome for me to eat my hat. Now, I’m not posting a full review yet - BUT - I must say my gut reaction to Android was wrong. Yes, the OS is far from a finished look and feel. Yes, The G1 may not be the best piece of hardware to showcase the OS (Having to constantly switch the device on its side and flip out the keyboard to type IS annoying) BUT the Android OS has promise.

At first blush I thought the G1 was just a Sidekick on steroids (Although I can see may converters) but Android IS a viable OS. Having the ability to code any application and distribute it WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS is appealing. No, Android will not beat RIM or Apple but Palm should be VERY worried. Windows Mobile isn’t safe either. Mark my words, Apple and RIM will battle for number one. Android will place a strong second. Windows Mobile third and I think Palm will fade away or just distribute the WinMo OS.

I must say, I thought I would hate Android… I don’t… Stay tuned! Thoughts?