November 3rd and 4th will be here before we know it, and with it will come the second annual Defrag conference. I had the pleasure of participating on a panel last year but I would be remiss in saying that simply attending was a fantastic experience. The discussion spanned a nice set of topics and the goal of the conference is to be probing into emerging topics in an intimate setting rather than covering the same topics that all of the mainstream conferences are covering.
Just by taking a look at this year’s agenda, it is set to not disappoint. Great speakers and intriguing topics end-to-end. Just by skimming through the topics slated, this year’s conference is really going to be probing into the future edges of some critical topics we are dealing with today such as identity, data portability, lifestream and next level discovery. The current state of topics is obviously touched on but the goal it to really probe, make assumption and set hypothesis on where we are going.
I’m happy to have an opportunity to participate again as a speaker in a session called “Around the Horn” moderated by Paul Kedrosky. My co-panelists will be John Kembel from HiveLive and Jeff Herman from Fuser. With the Around the Horn theme, who knows what topics we’ll be covering. Yes, be afraid, be very afraid.
NOTE: Defrag is still running a bonus upon bonus discount special for the rest of the week. You can take advantage of it by using code ‘lp1′ - that will get you an additional $100 off of current early bird prices.
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Got the iPhone last week, had to do it. Nice, shiny device….good. Stunningly clean interface….good. Embedded iPod….good. Enterprise Exchange with ‘push’ support…..good. And that is before I enter my vehicle.
Earlier this week, I was already impressed with Wordpress blogging capability from the iPhone. Today, I wanted to put the iPhone through a couple of test cases with the multimedia system in my car, particularly the bluetooth phone system and the auxiliary iPod connection. These are two things I did not think of regarding compatibility before getting the device so I was moderately concerned since my wife is already using my 80Gb iPod Classic. Anyway, I digress.
First test: Bluetooth pairing to be able to use the iPhone with the internal Bose system in the car. Worked flawlessly. In fact, better than the Blackberry Curve. With the Curve, only entries us to the letter ‘N’ would sync with the car’s directory service (was never able to fix this). With the iPhone, full directoy capability.
Second test: iPod auxiliary connection. Upon connecting, I was met with a message on the iPhone that said “This device is not compatible with this system.” uh oh Houston. Then a nice friendly message popped up and said “Would you like to switch to airplane mode?”. Why yes I would and then instant music and full access to playlists, etc. And it charges as well! So, the iPod works with the only downside being I have to choose between phone service or playing the iPod. Perhaps Apple will be able to lick this with a later version.
To close, one more point I would like to make since I’m on the topic of driving. You can type on the iPhone with one hand. I’ve heard many reports that compared to the Blackberry you can’t do it. With this, I disagree. In fact, I typed this entire blog post while driving! (just kidding) But I did type a quick Twitter message just to see if I could do it. And no, I won’t do it again because it is not safe, I know this. It’s okay though if you are at a traffic light (a long traffic light).
Take care…
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