Published by Robert Scoble
I give you a front-row seat on the future. Focusing most of my efforts now on next-generation augmented reality and artificial intelligence, AKA "mixed reality."
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WATCH MY LATEST SPEECHES:
State of VR with Philip Rosedale (done in VR itself, very cool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAA1EVGUZU
At GEOINT, June 2017: http://trajectorymagazine.com/glimpse-new-world/
Augmented World Expo, June 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xHILvLD8E
At Leade.rs, April 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
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BIO:
Scoble gives you a front-row seat on the future.
Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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SPEAKER PITCH:
Apple and Facebook now have revealed their Augmented Reality strategies, which means your business needs one too. Rely on Robert Scoble, the world's top authority on AR, to bring to your conference what businesses should do next.
SPEECH ABSTRACT #1:
TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
Learn more about Robert's speaking style and contact his agent at http://odemanagement.com/robert-scoble/Robert-Scoble.html
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #2:
"The Next Two Clicks of Moore's Law."
Over the next four years, or two clicks of Moore's Law, a ton about our technology world will change. Scoble will bring you the best from his travels visiting R&D labs, startups, and innovators around the world.
He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #3:
"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
What role does augmented reality play in both worlds?
Get Scoble's insight into where augmented reality is going, see tons of real-world demos, and understand what he means by 'personalized meaning.'
CONTACT:
If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com.
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ENDORSEMENTS:
IZEA Top 25 Tech Influencers: https://izea.com/2017/07/07/25-top-tech-influencers/
Time: One of the top 140 Twitterers!
FT: One of the five most influential Twitterers!
Inc. Top 5 on list of Tech Power Players You Need to Know: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/30-power-players-in-tech-you-need-to-know.html
Next Reality: #4 on top 50 AR influencer list: https://next.reality.news/news/nr50-next-realitys-50-people-watch-augmented-mixed-reality-0177454/
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I would edefinatly take one for $500!
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I would edefinatly take one for $500!
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for $500 i wouldn’t be eagerly awayting my macbook right now…
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for $500 i wouldn’t be eagerly awayting my macbook right now…
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oh spelling…
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oh spelling…
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btw, google video demo!
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2006/09/something-looks-different.html
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btw, google video demo!
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2006/09/something-looks-different.html
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Me too!
At ~1000+, I can get a desktop or laptop. But if you say that…
I can get pretty close
And be able to haul it all over the place
And be able to do (almost) everything I’d do on a laptop
For half the price!
…I’ll pay for it very happily 🙂
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Me too!
At ~1000+, I can get a desktop or laptop. But if you say that…
I can get pretty close
And be able to haul it all over the place
And be able to do (almost) everything I’d do on a laptop
For half the price!
…I’ll pay for it very happily 🙂
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Hm, but I’d like to hear what you think of OQO which has been around for a while, very small and I think they were migrating to Tablet OS.
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Hm, but I’d like to hear what you think of OQO which has been around for a while, very small and I think they were migrating to Tablet OS.
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how about replying to your email? your blog has really gotten off topic.
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how about replying to your email? your blog has really gotten off topic.
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They didn’t look all that great from that one flip one they showed. I like that they’re going with low-power Core-based chips, but price and form aren’t there yet.
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They didn’t look all that great from that one flip one they showed. I like that they’re going with low-power Core-based chips, but price and form aren’t there yet.
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Part 2…Alpha morphs sorta Beta. What no viral marketing dust-up this time? 🙂
But the problems go well well beyond just pricing, but pricing will never decrease anyways, Microsoft studies notwithstanding. The only way to get them down, is to commodity mass-market them, but that (as everyone well knows) will never happen. So it’s screwed by default. The OEMs know their market levels, slicing off limbs for Microsoft’s lucid dreams, ain’t gonna happen.
Will hold the same court as Mobile Div. slash Smartphone, Tablet and all…low verticalish market, with minor inroads into the outlay sidelines, fish-stocked with the usual Mircosoft goons, preaching to the already converteds.
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Part 2…Alpha morphs sorta Beta. What no viral marketing dust-up this time? 🙂
But the problems go well well beyond just pricing, but pricing will never decrease anyways, Microsoft studies notwithstanding. The only way to get them down, is to commodity mass-market them, but that (as everyone well knows) will never happen. So it’s screwed by default. The OEMs know their market levels, slicing off limbs for Microsoft’s lucid dreams, ain’t gonna happen.
Will hold the same court as Mobile Div. slash Smartphone, Tablet and all…low verticalish market, with minor inroads into the outlay sidelines, fish-stocked with the usual Mircosoft goons, preaching to the already converteds.
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I think what UMPC is missing is standardized external connectors. Once it is done, then battery problem could eventually be avoided by numerous scenarios of a 7 inch screen.
A car could have a standardized docking station. I dock my UMPC there. It serves as a media player, GPS, video screen for the rear camera, car-system monitor, cell-phone dial-pad, calendar and appointment reminder, etc.
In return car could charge the UMPC battery and the car CD player could act as a CD-drive for the UMPC. Since on my way to work, I need the media-player, cell-phone controler and my calendar, I will have my UMPC with me which I will dock into the car. I reach office and my UPMC is fully charged.
Similarly on the return journey to home my UMPC is fully charged. It will also be fully charged when I go to a mall or other places, where some of the UMPC scenarios are visualized.
In my office, I do not need to run the device for more than 2-3 hours on a typical day. If I need to on an atypical day, then I would need recharging it my office too. But for a single atypical day, I do not want to carry a heavier battery in my UMPC all the time. Instead if this is needed frequently, I will need to have a separate replacement battery. Or if it becomes an eventual big success and increased everybody’s productivity then a pool of replacement batteries in my office could be a great for dozens of people to use it.
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I think what UMPC is missing is standardized external connectors. Once it is done, then battery problem could eventually be avoided by numerous scenarios of a 7 inch screen.
A car could have a standardized docking station. I dock my UMPC there. It serves as a media player, GPS, video screen for the rear camera, car-system monitor, cell-phone dial-pad, calendar and appointment reminder, etc.
In return car could charge the UMPC battery and the car CD player could act as a CD-drive for the UMPC. Since on my way to work, I need the media-player, cell-phone controler and my calendar, I will have my UMPC with me which I will dock into the car. I reach office and my UPMC is fully charged.
Similarly on the return journey to home my UMPC is fully charged. It will also be fully charged when I go to a mall or other places, where some of the UMPC scenarios are visualized.
In my office, I do not need to run the device for more than 2-3 hours on a typical day. If I need to on an atypical day, then I would need recharging it my office too. But for a single atypical day, I do not want to carry a heavier battery in my UMPC all the time. Instead if this is needed frequently, I will need to have a separate replacement battery. Or if it becomes an eventual big success and increased everybody’s productivity then a pool of replacement batteries in my office could be a great for dozens of people to use it.
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@10, I messed up my comment in the last paragraph. What I wanted to say explicitly is that if I am going to use it for more than 2-3 hours in office besides using it in car and home, I would not mind putting another $200 for a charger and a replacement battery.
If it serves the scenarios in a car, then I won’t mind paying a four digit cost either.
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@10, I messed up my comment in the last paragraph. What I wanted to say explicitly is that if I am going to use it for more than 2-3 hours in office besides using it in car and home, I would not mind putting another $200 for a charger and a replacement battery.
If it serves the scenarios in a car, then I won’t mind paying a four digit cost either.
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I’d buy a tablet at $500 or less… and I’m poor!
So I think that there are a lot of people that would *like* to have them. But they aren’t a necessity and most of us can’t justify the cost.
I wouldn’t even mind a minimal OS, as long as I can write on it, pull up the web, etc. I don’t need to play World of Warcraft on a tablet PC.
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I’d buy a tablet at $500 or less… and I’m poor!
So I think that there are a lot of people that would *like* to have them. But they aren’t a necessity and most of us can’t justify the cost.
I wouldn’t even mind a minimal OS, as long as I can write on it, pull up the web, etc. I don’t need to play World of Warcraft on a tablet PC.
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I’ve seen Tablets for under $700 before. That’s pretty close.
The thing about the Sony is it has 33 gig of Flash memory (32GB+1GB video memory). If you bought that much flash memory in the form of Sony Memory sticks (1GB), it would cost you over $1400. So $1800 doesn’t seem so unreasonable.
Give it time… give it time.
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I’ve seen Tablets for under $700 before. That’s pretty close.
The thing about the Sony is it has 33 gig of Flash memory (32GB+1GB video memory). If you bought that much flash memory in the form of Sony Memory sticks (1GB), it would cost you over $1400. So $1800 doesn’t seem so unreasonable.
Give it time… give it time.
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$699.95
Gateway M275 Convertible Tablet PC Intel Centrino 1.5Ghz Processor, 40gb HDD, 512MB Ram, DVD-CDRW Combo, 802.11B-G Wifi, 10-100, 14.1TFT
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$699.95
Gateway M275 Convertible Tablet PC Intel Centrino 1.5Ghz Processor, 40gb HDD, 512MB Ram, DVD-CDRW Combo, 802.11B-G Wifi, 10-100, 14.1TFT
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I tried one of the new Sony machines last week and although there were some nice features, the whole thing was significantly more complicated than it should have been. Both handles were covered in buttons and toggles and switches – and inside, there were several distinct-seeming “modes” that seemed to have little relation to one another.
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I tried one of the new Sony machines last week and although there were some nice features, the whole thing was significantly more complicated than it should have been. Both handles were covered in buttons and toggles and switches – and inside, there were several distinct-seeming “modes” that seemed to have little relation to one another.
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hey scoble, thansk for helping me out with my blog.
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hey scoble, thansk for helping me out with my blog.
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>The only thing wrong is still the price.
Even if it were the only thing wrong, isn’t it a critical thing to get wrong? Who decided there’s a market for the UMPC? Someone that was around a lot of geek bloggers I suppose since those living outside the nerd bubble don’t seem to give a damn.
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>The only thing wrong is still the price.
Even if it were the only thing wrong, isn’t it a critical thing to get wrong? Who decided there’s a market for the UMPC? Someone that was around a lot of geek bloggers I suppose since those living outside the nerd bubble don’t seem to give a damn.
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@17. Yea, what Brent said.
Who the hell is asking for these devices?
(Wait for it.. here comes Scoble’s: “who was asking for a PC back in 1975?. And if is wasn’t for me telling the whole world about PC’s and CD players…bla bla bla, they never would have been adopted” repsonse.)
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@17. Yea, what Brent said.
Who the hell is asking for these devices?
(Wait for it.. here comes Scoble’s: “who was asking for a PC back in 1975?. And if is wasn’t for me telling the whole world about PC’s and CD players…bla bla bla, they never would have been adopted” repsonse.)
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The air of self-importance with which you guys think about things is amazing. Fundamentally, you’re so ridiculously out of touch with the real world that you have no idea why UMPC will fail… just like how everyone was oblivious to why Web 1.0 failed.
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The air of self-importance with which you guys think about things is amazing. Fundamentally, you’re so ridiculously out of touch with the real world that you have no idea why UMPC will fail… just like how everyone was oblivious to why Web 1.0 failed.
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If the Sony one is the one that I’ve read about, then it’s not a UMPC because it doesn’t have a touch-sensitive screen (and also doesn’t have the 7″ screen that I think is required). I’m not sure if UMPC is just a broad term or not, but most people associate it with Origami, and Origami has strict guidelines, which this device doesn’t adhere to. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong here.
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If the Sony one is the one that I’ve read about, then it’s not a UMPC because it doesn’t have a touch-sensitive screen (and also doesn’t have the 7″ screen that I think is required). I’m not sure if UMPC is just a broad term or not, but most people associate it with Origami, and Origami has strict guidelines, which this device doesn’t adhere to. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong here.
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You know Robert…I have watched the last couple posts here and there is only one way to describe your blog lately….chucking grenades. One thing that I always liked about your blog is the way in which you engage in dialog among the comments, sometimes infinitely better content than the original post. But lately…crickets! Hellooooo…..are you there?
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You know Robert…I have watched the last couple posts here and there is only one way to describe your blog lately….chucking grenades. One thing that I always liked about your blog is the way in which you engage in dialog among the comments, sometimes infinitely better content than the original post. But lately…crickets! Hellooooo…..are you there?
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“The air of self-importance with which you guys think about things is amazing. Fundamentally, you’re so ridiculously out of touch with the real world that you have no idea why UMPC will fail… just like how everyone was oblivious to why Web 1.0 failed.”
well thats why Scoble and everyone blogs about “here today, gone tomorrow” companies, he blogged about the lickityship company that will also fail, why? because look at the business model. and again, the tablet is just a niche product for companies who are already huge.
I would like to see growth and profits or a decent business model before I blog about companies
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“The air of self-importance with which you guys think about things is amazing. Fundamentally, you’re so ridiculously out of touch with the real world that you have no idea why UMPC will fail… just like how everyone was oblivious to why Web 1.0 failed.”
well thats why Scoble and everyone blogs about “here today, gone tomorrow” companies, he blogged about the lickityship company that will also fail, why? because look at the business model. and again, the tablet is just a niche product for companies who are already huge.
I would like to see growth and profits or a decent business model before I blog about companies
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Microsoft should make their own low-cost UMPCs; screw the OEMs.
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Microsoft should make their own low-cost UMPCs; screw the OEMs.
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Too bad: I’ve been at the Podcasting Expo all week and haven’t had time to get on the computer. Sorry that you don’t understand that sometimes offline work takes priority over online work.
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Too bad: I’ve been at the Podcasting Expo all week and haven’t had time to get on the computer. Sorry that you don’t understand that sometimes offline work takes priority over online work.
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@24…but you can update your blog from the fast lane of the highway while the wife drives? 🙂
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@24…but you can update your blog from the fast lane of the highway while the wife drives? 🙂
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Scoble’s more about posting entries now than he is in engaging in any type of “naked conversation”. I don’t see any type of “conversation” going on on this blog lately. Scoble, drive by blog posts don’t really do much to generate a conversation, do they?
If you’re busy finding more names to drop to maintain your narcissim, that’s understandable. Simply say so and don’t post. But when you do post, it sounds like your readers expect a “naked conversation”.
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Scoble’s more about posting entries now than he is in engaging in any type of “naked conversation”. I don’t see any type of “conversation” going on on this blog lately. Scoble, drive by blog posts don’t really do much to generate a conversation, do they?
If you’re busy finding more names to drop to maintain your narcissim, that’s understandable. Simply say so and don’t post. But when you do post, it sounds like your readers expect a “naked conversation”.
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Um, you kinda told us the last ones rocked and now those are officially “lame”.
And now Microsoft is blaming the OEMs for not being able to get the price down? That _is_ kinda lame.
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Um, you kinda told us the last ones rocked and now those are officially “lame”.
And now Microsoft is blaming the OEMs for not being able to get the price down? That _is_ kinda lame.
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hot hot hot : i want one!
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hot hot hot : i want one!
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I work in the software group at Intel and while I can’t speak for Intel, personally I’m not convinced that the proposed plan for a sub $500 Ultra Mobile device is necessarily going to be the tipping point for mass market adoption.
Intel has been talking about delivering a sub $500 device with a full day’s battery and anywhere internet access. The technical achievement discussed at last weeks Intel Developer Forum really take things up a notch in terms of what can be done with an Ultra Mobile device. I’m working to support software developers advancements in providing the value add that these devices will give the user.
I see the tipping point being a killer application that allows the users to add value to standard information in a creative way. This will easily trump a multi-use device such as the In-Car Ultra Mobile that replaces existing capabilities of broadcast (radio, satellite), in-car DVD, and MP3 play back.
I’m thinking that sub $500 is nice but not a requirement for rapid adoption. People balked at the iPod’s price saying that it would not reach mass market appeal until it hit the sum $100 mark. These people were wrong. I believe that a compelling use model will give the product legs at a sub $1000 price point.
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I work in the software group at Intel and while I can’t speak for Intel, personally I’m not convinced that the proposed plan for a sub $500 Ultra Mobile device is necessarily going to be the tipping point for mass market adoption.
Intel has been talking about delivering a sub $500 device with a full day’s battery and anywhere internet access. The technical achievement discussed at last weeks Intel Developer Forum really take things up a notch in terms of what can be done with an Ultra Mobile device. I’m working to support software developers advancements in providing the value add that these devices will give the user.
I see the tipping point being a killer application that allows the users to add value to standard information in a creative way. This will easily trump a multi-use device such as the In-Car Ultra Mobile that replaces existing capabilities of broadcast (radio, satellite), in-car DVD, and MP3 play back.
I’m thinking that sub $500 is nice but not a requirement for rapid adoption. People balked at the iPod’s price saying that it would not reach mass market appeal until it hit the sum $100 mark. These people were wrong. I believe that a compelling use model will give the product legs at a sub $1000 price point.
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I posted the wrong web site URL for my name. External link is corrected on my name below.
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My post link is wrong, internal only. I have updated on my name.
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My post link is wrong, internal only. I have updated on my name.
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They are quite cool little gadgets to have but I would never pay over the odds for one even if they do go for $500. A Blackberry would suffice for when I’m on the go and when I’m not I have a PC anyway.
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They are quite cool little gadgets to have but I would never pay over the odds for one even if they do go for $500. A Blackberry would suffice for when I’m on the go and when I’m not I have a PC anyway.
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