May, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2004

from the heart- part 1

One of the reasons I started this blog besides having a platform to talk about tech stuff and other things that interest, amuse, and infuriate me, was to use this opportunity to pass on things I’ve learned throughout my life. A blog is a… Read More »

With biometric fingerprint sensors becoming more commonplace than ever the security of this technology has been touted as unbeatable and very reliable. Enter Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, who has demonstrated how easily fooled these sensors can be. Using gelatine, a common ingredient in Gummi bears… Read More »

 
 

Optical camouflage

Need to sneak out of work early and don’t want the boss or co-workers to nail you? Out too late with your buds and don’t want the spouse to know when you came in? You need Optical Camouflage, a unique project in… Read More »

Almost every time I turn on the national news these days I get bombarded by some news piece decrying the ever increasing price of gasoline in the US. With unleaded gas prices topping $2/ gallon in many places the news media frenzy has gotten worse… Read More »

People’s PC

With the dot-com bubble a distant memory, recession-ravaged Silicon Valley insiders are wondering aloud about the next big thing. They haplessly sift the sands of social networks and they chase the chimera of wireless networks, but they ignore technology’s biggest opportunity that is staring them in… Read More »

Google “Verizon EVDO Houston”

This is the coolest thing for a blog just barely a week old. The first item returned by entering the search terms above is none other than jkOnTheRun! It returns the article posted earlier this week about the EVDO rollout later this year. Read More »

Weather, flights, and missed rehearsals

“We’re sorry your 7:35 flight to Minneapolis has been cancelled.” Never good words to hear, especially from the airline that is carrying you to your daughter’s wedding and if you don’t make it on this flight you will miss the rehearsal. Not an auspicious… Read More »

Keeping up with the G-Men

This comes from a reader: Yesterday Yahoo announced it would begin offering 100 megabytes of storage to its non-paying e-mail subscribers in a direct attack on Google’s fledgeling Gmail service which promises 1 gigabyte. Currently Yahoo e-mail only stores 4 megabytes for non-paying customers. This could… Read More »

Warner UK gets jiggy with the net

Variety is reporting on what I think is the first and perhaps the only smart move by record companies when it comes to their internet strategies. bq. Warner Music U.K. is scrapping promotional CDs of pre-release music in favor of Internet distribution. The company is using… Read More »

Smells like 1999

Last night I attended the Blogger relaunch party at SF’ 26Mix. It was a pretty cool bash – and I mean the food, the music and the locale were pretty trendy. What struck me was the names and faces from the past, those who… Read More »

Voom, is no V(r)oom

Voom, Cablevision’s HDTV satellite TV venture despite cool branding is having some image problems. NY Newsday reports that “.. launched its Voom nationwide satellite TV service in October, one in five customers who tried it have dropped it.” The problems might escalate as the company… Read More »

Chambers sees bright skies ahead

“Clearly, something fundamental has changed over the last three months. CEOS seem to have “taken their foot off the [spending] brake. It’s a pleasure for networking to be back,” said John Chambers during his keynote speech at NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas. Rest of the… Read More »

More Must Reads

Wall Street Journal reports on Intel’s changing chip strategy, but does not question the fact, that it will be for sometime there will be no new product. Paul Otellini, the heir apparent talks a good game, but does not address the basic question: where is… Read More »

I have a 40 gb iPOD which is just the sweetest mobile device ever made. iPODs just work the way they’re supposed to, when they’re supposed to, and they work in the way that just makes sense. Besides my massive CD collection that… Read More »

I am sure all of you are aware that XTen Networks, (which recently became the soft phone of choice for Vonage), has gone public. It is the way they have done it which is kind of murky, and amusing at the same time. So here… Read More »

In Garland, a Dallas suburb, nearly three dozen people, including 27 high school students, were arrested this week after being indicted in the March 3 brawl in Garland, a Dallas suburb. Several people were injured, including one person who suffered a broken arm.These were all gang… Read More »

Via, the Taiwanese chip maker has come up with a new mobile gaming console called, EVE. It features a 533 MHz Eden Procesor, 128 Meg Ram, 20 Gig Hard Drive, and S3 Unichrome Pro graphics chipset. There will be two USB 2.0 ports, six… Read More »

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