Greg Royal


Mobile Times They Are A Changing

Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink...

Is Mobile Inherently Peer to Peer

Although we are currently used to cellular phones being tethered walled systems, my feeling is that this is not the natural order. The natural order is that personal mobile communicators are peer to peer tools not fixed point...

10 Things I Would Like To See With iPhone SDK

Now that Kleiner Perkins is handing out their Pets.com profits to iPhone developers, here are 10 things I would like to see on my iPhone: A really useful VoIP client like Gizmo Project or Skype. It should completely remove the need...

Apple To Allow VoIP on iPhone But...

Apple is going to allow VoIP clients on the iPhone using it's new SDK. More specifically, Jobs stated that, as long as an application is not using the mobile carrier's network, VoIP functionality in applications will be allowed. The...

Integrated Software Systems Come To Automobiles

[img]http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u139/gtroyal/yaris.png[/img] I had a chance to drive a Ford Explorer this weekend that had the Microsoft Sync installed. I of course had my trusty Video iPod and USB cable so attempted to use...

IPhone Drives Up Mobile Web Dramatically

The quote of the week comes from Google at the World Mobile Congress: Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able...

Elmore Schools Plan for Emergencies

Elmore County Schools operates 15 schools and over 10,000 students. Recently it implemented the Cistera Event Alerting and Notification solution: To verify the effectiveness of Cistera's Event Alerting and Notification solution in a...

Gendarmerie Guillotines Microsoft

The National French Police has started moving its desktop environment to Ubuntu after successfully moving to Sun Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird over the last two years. "We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a...

Quote of the Day

In reference to the Microsoft Yahoo Drama: It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster. From none other...

Some Things You May Not Know About Microsoft Yahoo Mash Up

There has been a lot of bytes chewed up today over the unsolicited bid by Microsoft for Yahoo but there are a few things you may not know about the bid and the history surrounding search and Microsoft's attempt to get into this...

MSN Going Nowhere Bids For Yahoo

Microsoft has made a public bid for Yahoo where Microsoft will pay approx $44.6B made up of half stock and half cash. Microsoft would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31...

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