Archive for February, 2008

Cross-border telephony

I’m tired of paying silly cellphone roaming charges when I travel south of the border.
I’m curious about the possibility of getting a US SIM card for my iPhone, and switching my “main” contact number to my GrandCentral number, which will then call various numbers (two cell numbers, landline, possibly softphone).
I used a European [...]

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Mozilla Messaging

Today we’ve announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I’ve been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it’s a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. We’ve put up the essential information about the organization on the website, but I have more room for [...]

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Email idea #435: find-the-questions

As my friend Simon Wex mentions in his latest post, I think there are interesting avenues that a desktop client can explore, an exploration which is harder to do in a web context. Simon being Simon, he even wrote some draft code to see if one idea we batted around (having an email client [...]

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Important “Little Black Books”

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of Thunderbird, and what areas we should invest in in addition to the obvious ones like long-term maintainability, user experience, and the like. One area which is growing in importance in my mind is what’s referred to as “contacts”. By that I don’t mean the [...]

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