Comments on: Symbian appeals to Traveling Geeks: develop for our platform http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1583-symbian-appeals-to-traveling-geeks-develop-for-our-platform.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justin Hayward http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1583-symbian-appeals-to-traveling-geeks-develop-for-our-platform.html/comment-page-1#comment-137165 Justin Hayward Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:26:37 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1583-symbian-appeals-to-traveling-geeks-develop-for-our-platform.html#comment-137165 Hi Tim, Good to hear you met up with Digitrad. The point I guess about using a .tel as a digital identity is that it can be taken to any registrar that supports it, meaning you're not tied in to any one supplier, unlike those other companies you mentioned. It's not just public however; there's a free friending service (telfriends) which enables you to encrypt your information and only share it with people you want (and we're talking 1024-bit encryption, not just 'hiding' it). One final point. As the information is kept in the DNS and not stored in html format, it's called incredibly quickly to any device with a browser or running the free applications that support .tel (everything from Kiax soft phones through to our own software for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Outlook). So there's no legacy information left on web servers for those other companies to claim ownership of, so your contact information remains your own. It places a service over the DNS that can be used by anyone now to easily and quickly publish what they want to the web. Best regards, Justin Justin Hayward justin.tel Hi Tim,

Good to hear you met up with Digitrad. The point I guess about using a .tel as a digital identity is that it can be taken to any registrar that supports it, meaning you’re not tied in to any one supplier, unlike those other companies you mentioned. It’s not just public however; there’s a free friending service (telfriends) which enables you to encrypt your information and only share it with people you want (and we’re talking 1024-bit encryption, not just ‘hiding’ it).

One final point. As the information is kept in the DNS and not stored in html format, it’s called incredibly quickly to any device with a browser or running the free applications that support .tel (everything from Kiax soft phones through to our own software for the iPhone, BlackBerry and Outlook). So there’s no legacy information left on web servers for those other companies to claim ownership of, so your contact information remains your own. It places a service over the DNS that can be used by anyone now to easily and quickly publish what they want to the web.

Best regards,

Justin
Justin Hayward
justin.tel

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