Dan's Blog (2.0) » Mobility http://www.torgo.com/blog Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:39:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What Time is It? http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/12/what-time-is-it.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/12/what-time-is-it.html#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:02:20 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/12/what-time-is-it.html
Dali Clock

Why, in this day and age, when they can send a man to the Moon, is it so frickin’ difficult to tell what time it is? Specifically, what makes it so seemingly difficult for mobile devices, which are connected to a public network, to tell what time it is? Surely mobile connected devices should be our most trusted time sources. The network they’re connected to is constantly pumping out a time-sync. So what is the problem? Three examples:

I normally carry around a couple of devices. Most recently, these have been consistently unreliable sources of the time. The Blackberry has two time-sync options: network and “blackberry.” Neither of them ever yield a correct time (as measured by my Mac, whose time-sync works flawlessly when measured against the BBC).

The N73 also has a “network sync” option which sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. I have often found that the time is wildly off – by as much as a few hours. It also doesn’t help matters that a change of this setting requires a reboot.

I have to manually set the time zone on the Blackberry but the Nokia N73 somehow can figure that out for itself.

I just came out of the other end of the Channel Tunnel and my iPhone hasn’t picked up the fact that I’m now in Central European Time – so it’s still showing an hour behind.

In this fast-paced world, it’s more important than ever for your device to know the correct time. This becomes especially important when you’re sharing media (as, for example, a number of people are contributing camera-phone images into a photo pool which you then want to be able to view sequentially). I constantly find myself on conference calls with multiple people in different time zones and knowing the correct time can be extremely important in such situations (and don’t even get me started about how most software just does not know how to deal with meeting planning that happens across multiple time zones or meetings that are being scheduled in a time zone other than your own – the software on Blackberry is a rare exception – I often find myself using the Blackberry to schedule a meeting even when the PC is right in front of me). So what’s going on here and how do we fix it? I’m open to suggestions.

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For more details, or to register for the event, please visit the event web site.

]]> http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/01/svg-event-in-new-york-on-the-29th.html/feed 1 3GSM: Mobile Web and the Mobile Monday Invasion http://www.torgo.com/blog/2006/12/3gsm-mobile-web-and-the-mobile-monday-invasion.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2006/12/3gsm-mobile-web-and-the-mobile-monday-invasion.html#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:29:02 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/2006/12/3gsm-mobile-web-and-the-mobile-monday-invasion.html I’ll be at 3GSM this year again. I’m expecting (and hoping) this year’s event to be more interesting than last year’s. At the last event, it was all about MobileTV. This time, the Mobile Web will be front and center. I will be attending mainly in support of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, which will have an increased presence (at the ignominiously designated 7D56 booth in Hall 7 – hopefully better placement than last year). We will also hopefully be featuring a special speaker this year on the mobile Web which I think will get people talking.
We will also be running a Mobile Monday “Global Peer Awards” event there this year, which is certainly a step up from the informal gathering around the Finpro booth we held last year. Rudy at Mobile Monday Barcelona has put together a great event with some help from Helsinki and some of the other chapters. I’ll be acting as a judge at the awards. This will be the 3rd annual Global Peer Awards, although the first to run at 3GSM (the last two ran at the Mobile Monday Global Summit in Helsinki). The awards will once again be throwing the spotlight on innovation in the Mobile community by featuring an array of start-up companies put forward by Mobile Monday chapters from around the world. If you’re going to be in Barcelona, I urge you to register early to be a part of this event before the space fills up. I guarantee it’ll be like nothing else you’re likely to see at 3GSM.

Also find more info on Upcoming.org.

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