November, 2004 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for November 2004

Netscape still doesn’t get it?

Blake Ross, one of the main architects of the Firefox revolution in an open letter to Netscape, says that they still don’t get the broswer business. After releasing one swarthy and obese product after another, the company continues to make browser missteps, he writes. “You… Read More »

OWC offering old PowerMac’s for under $200

There’s a whole slew of PowerMac G3′s for sale on OWC’s website for under $200. There’s actually one for $89.99…good times my friend…good times. Read More »

 
 

BandmateLoops.com Releases More Fun Toys

Bandmatelooops.com has just released a couple of fun new toys for all you GarageBand users! The first is Bandmates Synth Player – Padtastik. Over 45 new synth loops for “the ultimate in sonic warmth.” The next is Bandmates Guitar Player – Acoustic Guitar. This… Read More »

If you have a notebook computer and want to get the benefits of a port replicator and complete 5.1 audio in one unit then you might be interested in Toshiba’s new… Read More »

Telecom: Party like its 2005

Business 2.0: Telecom executives have adopted a glass-half-full attitude these days. After three brutal years, 2004 proved to be a good-enough year, giving them hope that 2005 could actually be better. How can that be? Continue reading… Read More »

CELL technology exposed- move over Intel

IBM, Toshiba and Sony announced in 2001 a joint effort to develop a computing core that would allow for mass simultaneous task execution.  The three companies are spending billions to make this new computing platform a reality and today jointly announced their plans to bring this… Read More »

Nortel’s Mea Culpa

Mark Evans: You’ve got to hand it to Nortel CEO Bill Owens who said today he is embarassed by the company’s failure to get out its restated financial results. It’s healthy to see a CEO admit to being anything other than confident and/or arrogant. Read More »

I4U has published an overview of Sharp’s latest Linux PDA with a convertible form and based on their impressions I want one!  The Zaurus SL-C3000 is the first PDA with an integrated 4 GB hard drive, a clamshell design that converts to a slate, full… Read More »

Washington Times names iMac G5 computer of the year.

“IMac’s G5 top choice of year” from The Washington Times – “…It will cost close to $2,100 to get the supersized 20-inch model with extra RAM and a wireless keyboard and mouse. That’s a relatively high price in this age of far-less-expensive… Read More »

Falling over the (Reef)Edge

WiFi LAN business continues to go through a shakeout. It is particularly brutal in the wireless switch business where too many players are vying for a tiny market. Dell Oro Group estimates that the overall enterprise WLAN market in the third quarter of 2004 was… Read More »

R/C Bird- if you love it set it free

Something about R/C aircraft just gets people going. Man can’t fly so we transpose that long standing desire onto little aircraft that we can control as they soar… Read More »

Clever Cactus anyone

Folks, Clever Cactus, a company I have mentioned in the past is running out of cash. That is a shame. It is a worthy competitor to many of the P2P-sharing applications like Grouper. It is cross platform, and while has somewhat of a clunky interface, is… Read More »

More Must Reads

Okay what took them so long. Congratulations folks, and good luck beating rest of the Apple sites. Chris is making a spirited defense of ISync. Read More »

PCWorld.com: Intelsat Americas-7 satellitle has gone on a blink and has hit hard the subscribers of broadband services supplied by StarBand Communications, according to a statement posted on the company’s Web site. Meanwhile, the company is attempting to provide temporary dial-up service to customers affected,… Read More »

WirelessIQ: To paraphrase Mae West’s famous quip about a gun, “Is that a TV in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?” Seems like cell phone is becoming an unlikely savior for fast dying broadcast medium. Read More »

Merrill Lynch speculates at Apple introducing an entertainment server to the market, to possibly compete with current DVR’s and Media Center PC’s. “A 200GB Apple server at a reasonable price and possibly with PVR technology could be Apple’s next category killer,” the firm was reported… Read More »

Sometime early this morning, not sure precisely at what time…. I crossed the million page views a month threshold. I guess, it was a big enough surprise for me to see the email with the stats report. Could it be, that so many people actually find… Read More »

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