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The 3G bands used by T-Mobile and AT&T are different and generally not supported on the same device. For example there was a T-Mobile version of the N1 and an AT&T version of the N…

The title says most of it, how do you find interesting companies which are cool with side-projects (open source or otherwise)?

Also, a minor point, the heading for the last graph talks about the increase in credit from '99, but the legend shows '02, so I'd be hesitant comparing those numbers to the rest.

I'm working on my "day" job. Ask this again on the weekend :p

I am not a lawyer, or an accountant, or anything like that. My understanding is that for federal Canadian corporations a certain percentage (I think 25%) must be Canadian residents…

I also greatly appreciate your interviews. Your mix of different business covered and the view points they bring is very educational.

Recurly claims to be PCI compliant on there web page [ http://recurly.com/features/ ]. Its possible they are on the list under another name, I'd give there support people a shout. …

Given that he is asking about recurly, chargify, etc. I'm assuming its because he wants to do reoccurring billing, for which PayPal/Google Checkout are less than awesome solutions …

What methods have you tried for selling to small/medium business? How have they worked out? What do you think of direct mail, on-line advertising, cold-calling, etc.?

Why are you doing DNS queries to determine if something is free? You can find registrars with APIs you can ping and check availability.

It would be strange if it was true. Unless things have changed in the past ~1 year, Microsoft does not encourage employees to get their non-employee friends to use the employee dis…

The so called anti-sec movement confuses me a lot. They seem to hate script kiddies, but these people are no better, if anything they are more dangerous because they have a false s…

I could really go for a sane caching load balancer. My experience with stuff like pound,squid and nginx so far leaves much to be desired (and chaining them isn't exactly desirable …

Which press release distribution services provide the best bang-for-buck for consumer focused techreleases? I'm based in Canada, but the only audience restrictions are english spea…

I'm currently trying to promote http://digg.com/security/Art_JavaScript_Privacy_Collage_of_sites_you_visit_NYT , its got about 3 hours left and I'm wondering what I should to do at…

Does anyone know if this will be available in unlocked/developer version similar to the G1?

But if it becomes normal for a mailman to do this, there is now an expected man-in-the-middle. Sure the mailman might be benign, but what about if there is another man-in-the-middl…

except that costs money

How is this different from YSlow?

so wait the only way to refer to it is by a CNAME? I kind of wanted to use it as a SMTP load balancer (as well as web), but oh well.

I think the solution is to not allow the domainbyproxy services anymore [like some cctlds have done]. Having valid whois contact information (especially abuse) is can be very usefu…

Maybe I'm a bit too cynical, I think the message is awesome, but what is his motivation?

I'm working on a project targeted towards SMB mostly, although it could go the enterprise route. How do you go about hiring sales people? Craigslist?

This is a total fluff piece. They talk about a phone which has been rejected as too dull, but dell has not even commented on making a phone, nor have any of the carriers commented …