July, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2004

I have 6 computers in my house all wirelessly connected via WiFi which makes for a nice simple network with one exception. Sharing printers is never clean as I have avoided putting a WiFi print server up due to the added expense and maintenance… Read More »

Pulled from FCC documents, now the primary source for leaked information for upcoming mobile devices. The label noted on the back of the device shows it to be device #GKRPPCE830W.Thanks to PocketPC Tools. Read More »

 
 

A5 ultra-portable

Advantage Six in the UK have made a prototype ultra-portable slate device available to OEMs and are looking for someone to produce this commercially. The A5 has a 8.4″ TFT screen that can display in both portrait and landscape orientations, and runs… Read More »

Ink Saver- get more bang for your buck

Inkjet printers have evolved over the last few years from cheaper (and inferior) alternatives to laser printers to the full-blown photo printers they are today. Anyone with a late model inkjet printer can attest to the print quality they get while printing normal documents.… Read More »

Not so fast Moto

Past few days, a blaze of publicity has surrounded Motorola. Even otherwise conservative Russell Beattie penned an ode to the new improved Motorola. Well, looks like all it not that great. I was browsing through a press release from IDCRead More »

Return of the Tote

The only good thing about using the mass transit, is that one gets to watch the masses, or the human species closely. Good place to pick up the vital market trends. San Francisco is a good test bed for what consumer technology could actually get better,… Read More »

The MuniWireless Evangelist

What Glenn Fleishman is to WiFi, my pal Esme is to Muni Wireless networks. She tracks the business of unwired communities and municipalities with the tenacity of a long distance runner. She is currently guest blogging at The Industry Standard Blog. Her piece,… Read More »

Where is the ease of use?

Most of you have heard me complain, bitch, moan and rant about how tech companies don’t make it easier on consumers when it comes to using technology. Apparently I am not alone. Peter Me writes in Shit is too hard to use, “I’m working on… Read More »

Cameraphone crap?

Okay make that twice I have used crap on the blog in one day. Hear me out though – I took a friend of mine’s photo with a Motorola V600 which is on loan from the company. I am using T-Mobile. I snapped the picture and… Read More »

07/30/2004 BlogBack

Chris thinksmusicplasma is very cool. Musicmobs is a nice way to see what is popular and what artists have related styles. If you use iTunes, it supports it well from what they say. IP Inferno says Transmeta is digging a big… Read More »

Holy Crapple!

Story Alert/Steal this Idea: One is a chance, two is a coincidence but three is a trend. It is official – the new IPod updater is killing IPods. First Fred, then me and now Jeff, all of us have had the same problem… Read More »

07/30/2004 The VoIP Daily

More Must Reads

It is like putting the cart in front of the horse, but nevertheless interesting early morning mental m****rbation. The company plans to raise about $1.5 billion in its public offering and a lot of it will have to be spent on datacenter, networking gear and bandwidth.… Read More »

Microsoft just wants to take on everyone – and that included Google. Well they have demoed their desktop search technology and have included it as part of their MSN ToolBar as well. It should come out soon… “soon” is quite flexible to be honest, but… Read More »

Red Herring has an interesting take on Blinkx and its 15-minutes of fame. They make a good point, but I still think blogs are an instant feedback loop for companies. This is real-time economy at work – producers and users are seperated by a… Read More »

Despite a three-year head start, satellite TV providers will lose their DVR edge over cable companies by 2006, according to Internet-Based Video Services, a new white paper from research firm Parks Associates. Although satellite companies began offering DVRs as early as 1999, they will not… Read More »

One of India’s fastest growing phone companies, Reliance Infocomm has hired former cops to recover money from their defaulting subscribers. The CDMA-based mobile carrier has been selling service at ridiculously low prices and has signed up the sort of people who would well, not get… Read More »

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