So Telecom had their 3G network released for a while now and Vodafone have recently followed with theirs. Now there are a lot of good things that come with the 3G network, not all necessary features but all are cool!

Now like me you may have thought that a Smartphone does everything one might ever dream of doing (at least IMO it does everything I need) so I confidently went to Vodafone and asked someone if Smartphones are 3G enabled and she said no, then I was like I'm sure they are capable of it so will they be in the future and she denied saying that this wont be the case with the current models.

So, conclusion, there are things a smartphone can't do :( :(

Saw this in the DotNetJunkies newsletter today. I haven't played much with O/R Mappers myself but thought it may be of interest to some of you.

James Carpinter, the current Student Ambassador and my successor as a Student Ambassader, has now started blogging. He is currently looking for someone to replace him as a Student Ambassador as he is leaving university this year.

Are you a student at Canterbury who is interested in this then let him know or let Paul Lo the Academic Advisor at Microsoft know.

The program is really great and there is a lot you can get out from it.

Got any questions about the experience? ask me or ask James

Also, I took the Student Ambassador role one step further and was involved this year with the first Student Advisory Board for version two (which is now live) of theSpoke. There is a big chance they will be arranging a new board next year, so if you think this will be an interesting challenge, then stay tuned and keep an eye on Mario's Blog

Probably all of you know that stuff already but for those that dont. ASP.NET by default does not treat non MS browsers as uplevel browsers leading to ASP.NET controls being rendered incorrectly. Well the solution for that is to include browser caps in the .config files of the application.

Here is a great article that explains all about this, and here is a browserCap section already written to handle non MS browsers including many of the unfamiliar ones.

Came accross this document today. Provides a detailed history of MS since it started back in the late seventies.

I also found it interesting that MS is only about 1 month away from its 30th anniversary! They'll probably have a big celebration then...

Rod blogged asking about how startup programs slow down your machine when too many of them are there leading to your machine taking ages to start here.

I found the answer to how to solve this here

Read this on the xtra news today.

"Microsoft moved to build its presence in the booming Internet telephony market on Wednesday, purchasing Teleo Inc, a Californian company that lets users make calls from their computers to regular phones".

In the article it also says "Will Collins, global messenger product manager at Microsoft, said the company hoped to integrate Teleo's offerings into its products by the end of 2005. Microsoft may add "click-to-call" features to Outlook or Internet Explorer, so that users can automatically call a phone number by clicking on it, he said. "

Personally I think they might extend that to MSN Messenger too to compete with products like Skype...

See the full article here

Also, here's the Microsoft Press release for that.

Will be interesting to see what the outcome of that is.

Lukas Svoboda of Orbiz has been elected president of the NZ .NET user group community. It looks like we will be hearing more of this sometime soon. I only read the news on his blog here . But I guess this will probably come up on the mailing lists soon...

Congrats Lukas.