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Locked phones making number portability a pain







Locked phones making number portability
a pain

Locked phones making number portability
a pain
12/04/2003 11:59 AM

Surprise, surprise, some people are finding out the hard way that when you switch carriers, you can take your number with you now, but usually not your phone. Besides the incompatibilites in networks (Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, Nextel, T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, and Cingular use GSM) most carriers lock their phones so that they can't be used with anyone else. It is possible to unlock most phones so they can be used on another carrier, thought it's not always easy, so if being able to take your phone with you is important, you probably should just suck it up and pay extra for a phone that comes unlocked in the first place. Read [Thanks, Mike]...




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So after one year and 70 million songs, $0.99 now buys you less rather than more -- seven hard burns instead of ten soft ones. What will Apple 'allow' us to do with the music we 'buy' next year? three burns? one? zero?

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Bottom line. MS Reader is DRM at its worst. Unlike competitive solutions, like iTunes, Reader won't let me authorize AND de-authorize a computer. Yes, you can request more authorizations from MSFT, but that's sort of useless when you're trying to read a book. I'm staying away from Reader at this point and going to use Palm Digital Media that has a far friendlier DRM that's never locked me out of my content yet. Like most users, I have no objection to DRM, it's necessary to prevent abuses but should never, ever be something a legitimate user should bump into, like i kept bumping into tonight...." [Michael Gartenberg, via Scobleiz er]

Except that, I bought a book from Palm once. Once. They tied my credit card number to the title, and three years later, I have no idea what that credit card number was, so I can't access the book anymore.

So in summary, iTunes, MS Reader, and Palm Digital Media DRM: bad.

This is what really scares me about libraries getting into the digital files business, even outside of all the issues surrounded subscription-based access versus ownership. When terms change on a whim, upgrades take away existing rights, and files become locked and inaccessible, how is this going to affect how we circulate titles to our patrons? It's not like libraries have any leverage in this situation since publishers and Congress are doing their best to eradicate fair use rights, including the right of first sale.


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I've already got Verizon for EV-DO service with the PCMCIA card. I wonder if they'd let me add the phone service on, too? I might just have to see.

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I was talking to guy in a waiting room while we were both getting our cars serviced. Turns out he is some sort of higher up corporate level Nextel employee and he's impressed that my dad's business is on Nextel.

So I said to the guy, "When are you gonna finally get on the Bluetooth bandwagon?"

He told me they have a Bluetooth phone in the pipeline they are calling the "Service Master" that they developed with Motorola (surprise). Basically he said the only reason they are coming out with it is that Stanley Steamer, ChemLawn, and a few other companies comprising some 30,000 accounts demanded the bluetooth technology from Nextel and that's a big chunk of their business so they decided to keep them happy.

He didn't give a time frame for the release of the phone but indicated that the named businesses would be the first to get them.


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Becta does deal to
save schools up to
37% on Microsoft
software

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