Stories for Jun. 26, 2005

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John Battelle has a Scoop: Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google’s video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in […] Read more »

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Mike Nofs, Republican representative from Battle Creek, Michigan has been taking a lot of heat for thinking about introducing a legislation that would halt wireless access expansion true. In an op-ed in the Battle Creek Enquirer, he writes, that is not true. He points out that […] Read more »

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Computerworld says Enterasys is suing LAN switch rivals Extreme and Foundry over patents! They are popping up a bottle of bubbly in Cisco offices. “…are infringing on six Enterasys patents involving virtual LAN (VLAN) and multi-protocol routing technologies, as well as “several other networking technologies,” Enterasys […] Read more »

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Mark Evans reports from up North that RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are getting interested in buying a hockey team. You know them Canadians, they sure love their hockey. I wish they did something to promote baseball up there! The team which they might […] Read more »

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We all love our Macs, and most of the time, they love us back. But occasionally, programs start crashing, or the spinning-pinwheel-of-death becomes a common sight. In these situations, there are a few steps you can take to try and remedy the problem. Today, we will […] Read more »

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Chris Nolan, taking a little break from her political ruminations is predicting that geeks are going to win the war, but no thanks to cheesey PR efforts being undertaken by the tech PR corps. You can read the entire piece here at eWeek or just read […] Read more »

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OneNote is one of those programs that you just can’t live without and if you use several different PCs, say a Tablet PC and a desktop, keeping your OneNote notebook synchronized between them is a real concern. Chris Pratley of Microsoft knows the note-taking program better […] Read more »

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Hollywood and record industry may hate technology and do everything to avoid the future, but there are some start-ups that have figured out a way around these leeches. Genuine VC has a brilliant round-up of music start-ups playing sweet music of innovation. Rather Innovation @ Play. Read more »

Stories for Jun. 25, 2005

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For an industry used to head-to-head competiton, the lattest battle is for the telecom trade show crown. Now that SuperComm is done, the fight is between TelecomNEXT and Globalcomm. For now, GlobalComm is winning. Read more »

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EverNote Corporation recently announced the commercial release of EverNote™ 1.0 for Windows, a complete note management solution designed to give users a single place to capture, categorize and find all types of notes and content. EverNote innovates by storing content on an endless, virtual, time-stamped roll […] Read more »

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Camino is Firefox done right for Mac. The beat alpha version of 0.9 is a sizzler. It is brisk, clean and better than Firefox. Jonathan, thanks for the tip. Add this bit of spice, and go zoom! via Read more »

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MuniWireless reader in comments section posts: “The provider is Progress Telecom. The city has selected another vendor to provider a wider area of free WiFi coverage which should start within a matter of weeks following the approval by the Orlando city council of the new contract.” Read more »

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Reuters.com says sourcing are telling them that Motorola and Apple are working with Cingular and plan to rollout iTunes phone. I wrote about this a couple of days ago. via Read more »

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Former offices of IBM Corp. offices have been rewired for broadband and are at the epicenter of a “Digital Dutchess” initiative, which hopes to turn Dutchess County in Hundson Valley, NY into a tech hub. I often wonder, how many of these tech-hubs can we have […] Read more »

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I will be conducting a panel on search for blogs at the SDForum Vertical Search conference, to be held June 28th at Santa Clara’s (CA), Networking Center. The keynote speaker will be David Hills, the CEO of LookSmart. More details here. June 28, 4:00-4:45pm News / […] Read more »

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Owners of computers with integrated Intel wireless chip sets have complained of problems maintaining WiFi connections for a while and I have been following Rob Bushway’s problems with the wireless connectivity on his brand new Motion LE1600 Tablet PC.  Rob was able to fix his problem […] Read more »

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South East Asia region is the current leader in IPTV adoption, with seven out of 13 countries already having rolled out some sort of service including PCCW’s NOW, which is the largest IPTV deployment in the world, and accounts for one third of the total global […] Read more »

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Note:  I am re-posting this to accomplish two things- get my end notes from the Summit in text that is searchable so anyone looking for something here can find it, and to see what others think about inking posts in blogs.  Like many others I think […] Read more »

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Unstrung says NTTDoCoMo has conducted a successful trial of a 4G wireless technology that at present can do 1Gbps real-time packet transmission in the downlink at the moving speed of about 20km per hour. Of course in real life the speeds are going to be much […] Read more »

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Some media outlets have been receiving invitations from Apple for a July 7th event, which could features launch of iTunes 4.9 with podcasting support. New iPods? Perhaps? The details are sketchy. However, there are some who are arguing that we could see the launch of the […] Read more »

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O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has two articles up which I think should be required reading, especially with the ongoing iTunes buzz. One is on video playing in iTunes and other is audio gadgets. Read more »

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Do you remember, when you were a kid, about the rumors of an iTunes phone coming?

How about the mock ups, samples and photos smuggled out of shows and product launches?

Well, there’s even more evidence that Read more »

Stories for Jun. 24, 2005

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Attensa launches at Gnomedex, joining the ranks of many already forgotten names. Given that Newsgator does precisely the same thing, I am not even thinking about being impressed! Read more »

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This morning, I got involved in a Macs vs. PCs argument on a listserve I belong to on the topic of viruses and security. There had been an email on the listserve that was spam, and some of the email variations were infected with a virus. […] Read more »

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Desperately seeking growth, german incumbent Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online will cut prices on its DSL services by upto 63% in order to win back market share. Arcor, HanseNet, United Internet and Freenet.de are stealing customers by thousands from the German incumbent. “It’s time to show our competitors […] Read more »

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Silicon Valley start up Akimbo has started to deliver video blogs on its video-on-demand TV service. Consumers can find Rocketboom, FreshWave.TV, Clint Sharp’s Vlog, Steve Garfield’s Video Blog and “The Carol and Steve Show,” alongside programs from A&E, BBC, CNN, HGTV, Cartoon Network and others. Hey […] Read more »

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Ranjit offers some advice to Windows digital music lovers. “If you are like me and use both Windows Media Player and iTunes, and want to synchronize settings (Ratings, Playlists, Covers etc), you need Music Bridge.” via Read more »

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In a nutshell, the Sonos DMS is a series of Linux-powered wirelessly networked amplifiers on steroids. More! Read more »

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If you think the del.icio.us user interface sucks, (like I do), then you will truly get a kick out of this AJAX-based web UI. mmmmmm! good! link Read more »

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Et Tu Greg? Greg Maffei, had the world on a string as the CFO of Microsoft. And then he was overcome by the fumes, and decided that he wanted to be part of the optical boom. So on he went to 360Networks, one of the many […] Read more »

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They are sending a letter sent to Capitol Hill today, the groups urged Members of Congress to support legislation that will ensure that local governments are not prevented from providing broadband networks to their residents and businesses. Senator John McCain is leading the charge in Washington. […] Read more »

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Kevin and I mentioned the I/O Magic Gigabank portable hard drive on a recent techADDICTION Show and for those interested I4U has published a review of the little powerhouse. Read more »

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Microsoft has been trying hard to push its own digital video compression standard, Windows Media 9, but apparently MPEG4 compression codec is becoming quite popular with telecom operators who are rolling out IPTV networks. MPEG4 is said to be ideally suited for HDTV transmission running over […] Read more »

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You probably remember Think Secret, the Mac enthusiast site that Apple sued for soliciting secret information from Apple employees.  Well, they are back with a report that Mac software developers are already receiving Intel-based development systems from Apple and Think Secret has a lot of information […] Read more »

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