Mervyn Alamgir on February 15th, 2009

Over the past summer I was doing a lot of my work at the local coffee shops. I am a huge fan of coffee shops as workspaces especially if you are a consultant. It is a semi-quiet environment, you can listen to your music, there is a constant stream of caffeine  and most importantly, no one [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on January 2nd, 2009

2009 is the year of Android and G1, at least that is my hope. There is a lot of potential in this product, but potential doesn’t get you success or superbowl rings, just ask Tony Romo, T.O. and the Dallas Cowboys. I found a post talking about a Top 10 G1 wishlist which covered the most [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 30th, 2008

Attack of the Show recently came out with a list of top 5 Android Apps. If you didn’t have a chance to catch it, it is available on Hulu.com and I have embedded it below.

The five apps mentioned are worthy of being on the top 5 list, but I suppose you have to take into [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 20th, 2008

I just read Jennifer Bruin’s blog post on an app for the G1 called Wikitude AR Travel Guide. The app employs augmented reality, AR. If you don’t know anything about AR, like me, reading the wikipedia entry is very helpful.  
After reading it, I can think of other ways to employ it for everyday use. [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on November 27th, 2008

Years ago companies like Palm, Microsoft, Nokia and others were trying to develop a smartphone that would take the phone from being purely a device on which to talk to becoming the traveling desktop. Billions of dollars were thrown at building, marketing and selling these gadgets to the mobile workforce and to a lesser extent [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on November 8th, 2008

Meebo comes to G1

I wrote a post earlier about the Google App Market on the G1 being one of it’s greatest features. It got even better this past week with the addition of the meebo application for G1. For those of you unfamilar with meebo, it is a web site that keeps you connected to [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on November 1st, 2008

Let me introduce you to my new best friend, the G1 from T-Mobile and Google. After playing with the G1 for the past few days, I can say that I am blown away by how well thought out the product is. Within 5 minutes I was up and running with my contacts, inbox and calendar [...]

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