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 »
Archive for May 2004
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
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, 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 »
“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 »
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