May, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2004

Broadband, keeps going and going

Broadband is on a steep growth curve, and that is good news for hardware makers! While most of the upside is not reflected in the stocks, there are signs that the demand for ‘broadband’ related gear is going to only increase. According to Q1 2004 market… Read More »

On June 9, all the pooh phahs from the Ultra Wide Band world are going to get together in Boston and are going to talk about everything concerning this new technology. Bunch of companies will be showing off their products, many of them at mostly… Read More »

 
 

How to get Word Pressed?

Ranjeet asked the question, why Word Press? Actually Pankaj did a nice round-up of my trials and tribulations. You can read it here. Anyway I can give you reasons – first of all I will always remember MT with certain fondness, and had… Read More »

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From the “Save me from myself” category (if I had one)- A 21 year old University of Kent ex-student is suing the university for kicking him out of school for plagiarizing his work. Michael Gunn readily admits he cheated but is suing because the… Read More »

We just had a fire in our oven. Not a little flameup- this was a full fledged fire that totally engulfed the oven and filled our entire house with smoke. We don’t even own a fire extinguisher and it was looking bleak until my… Read More »

Yet another Bluetooth rival

Bluetooth’s Newest Rival is a technology called, Near Field Communications (NFC) which is currently being used for e-payments and small-scale data transfers of up to 1 Mbit/sec over a few feet. Users touch two NFC devices to establish a link, which gets… Read More »

Open Casting Call…

24 hours into using WordPress, all I can say, I am impressed. But there seem to be a few pressing issues and I am issuing an open casting call for help. He/She who helps, will get a $25 shopping spree at Amazon.com. I can send you… Read More »

Blackberry for the classes

O’Grady’s PowerPage brings good news for all Mac users… finally. For the longest time, folks like me had looked jealously at the “crackberry” addicts as they tapped out emails on their devices, especially on the dreary and sad MUNI buses in San Francisco.… Read More »

Will Ethernet kill SANs?

Moore’s Claw is at work in the storage business. If you want to get a low down on the state of storage networks, and what’s wrong or right with them, check out Fazal Majid’s latest. As hard drives get denser, the cost of raw storage is… Read More »

from the heart- part 4

Having just heard I had not suffered a heart attack, a fact that seemed to surprise the doctors given the symptoms that brought me to the emergency room and my very high blood pressure, my wife Sheri and I were seeing the light at the… Read More »

The Word Press Switch

So after many little experiments and changes, GigaOM has been Word Pressed. I tried using Moveable Type 3.0 but somehow the bugs in the system never really went away. My switch is not as religious as some others such as Mark Pilgrim. I… Read More »

More Must Reads

The EZTag system used on the Houston tollways is a WiFi device that transmits your personal account information constantly and is received at the toll plazas every time you whiz past. Your EZTag account is then charged the toll automatically and you don’t have… Read More »

Cradle Technologies, a Silicon Valley start-up has been on my radar for a while, and many people have raved about its programable chip technology. Founder/CEO Artie Chang is a well known name in this part of the world, and is a serious chiphead. It has some… Read More »

This morning WSJ reported that News Corp is pulling the plug on its satellite-based Internet service. Hughes Electronics had embarked on an ambitious plan to deliver broadband to consumers and businesses using satellites made by Boeing. Seems News Corp executives have doubts about the financial… Read More »

Well looks like today it is going to be an overseas kind of a day. Softbank is buying Japan Telecom for $1.28 billion from Ripplewood Holdings, reports Bloomberg. This adds a potential 170,000 customers for its Yahoo Broadband service, even though the high-speed service is… Read More »

I am an independent consultant in the oil industry and I spend most of my days on the run, flitting from office to office, working on 4 or 5 projects in a typical day. I have built what I feel is a tight mobile tech… Read More »

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