Archive for May, 2004

Broadband, keeps going and going

Om Malik, Monday, May 31, 2004 at 9:05 AM PT Comments (0)

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 analysis by Synergy Research Group (SRG), the market for [...]

Coming Soon, lots of UWB devices

Om Malik, Monday, May 31, 2004 at 8:05 AM PT Comments (3)

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 development stage. Those in attendance will include Intel, Freescale Semiconductor [...]

How to get Word Pressed?

Om Malik, Monday, May 31, 2004 at 7:05 AM PT Comments (0)

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 it not been for recent server problems, I would have never [...]

Optional RSS feed

Om Malik, Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 10:05 PM PT Comments (1)

Some bloglines subscribers are having problems with the RSS feed. Here is an - optional URL

Yet another Bluetooth rival

Om Malik, Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:05 AM PT Comments (1)

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 round complex addressing problems. Putting devices close together is good [...]

Open Casting Call…

Om Malik, Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 8:05 AM PT Comments (0)

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 the requisite files if you are up for the [...]

Blackberry for the classes

Om Malik, Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 6:05 PM PT Comments (0)

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. Well no more, thanks to some enterprising Canadians.
Epicad, a wireless [...]

Will Ethernet kill SANs?

Om Malik, Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 6:05 PM PT Comments (1)

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 getting ridiculously cheap - well under a dollar per gigabye [...]

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