Monday 2 April 2007, 11:25 PM

Well Hello

Posted by julian

Since I've just created this Blog, I suppose I should write an entry now. I got to know about ZDNet as a channel on AvantGo for my PDA. A good source of IT news. Then suddenly it stopped. No more news and for no apparent reason.

After getting over the withdraw symptoms, I go hunting to find out where ZDNet has gone. Well ZDNet is still happening, but not on AvantGo. A shame as I spend most of my time out and about instead of sitting in front of desktop PCs. I can access the ZDNet website on my company Blackberry, but it is slow and I have to wade through loads of website waffle before I reach the nitty gritty IT news. I find out today there is a Blackberry solution for accessing ZDNet, but it means downloading an application and guess what, my company's IT provider has locked it so hard down, I'm lucky to get emails on the damn thing. In fact it is so useless, I try not to take it with me when I go out. It's not the habit forming crackberry for me. Perhaps I should consider myself lucky.

So The Blackberry solution is a non starter. Perhaps I should try my other belt worn gadget. My HTC TyTN. Well I assume that is what it is. It is in fact a badged Orange phone, the SPV M3100, but it does everything a TyTN does and all the buttons are in the same place, they are just a different shape that all. The main difference between the Blackberry and the PDA/phone is that the PDA is mine, not the company's. I pay the bill, I say what it can and can't do. OK Orange has a say in the matter, but I'm the customer, and I am always right.

So on my list of things to do, when I get the time, is to try and get ZDNet IT news downloaded onto my Windows 5 PDA phone. I'll let you know how I get on.

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