Archive for December 2004
Dear Readers,
Happy 2005. I hope the new year brings you all a lot of joy and happiness. I enjoyed writing for you in 2004, and perhaps I will try and do better in the new year. I appreciate your support and wanted to take a … Read More »
The normally blue California skies are under a gray pall of gloom, as cold winter rain beats steadily against my window. A rude reminder, perhaps that even heavens are crying at the tragedy that has left us, a wounded planet. A planet submerged in the tears … Read More »
Keith points out that the big stores which feature so prominently in the ads for all the so called VoIP services, like AT&T, Vonage and Packet 8 have nary a clue about selling the service.
when you see Voip Boxes on the shelves but do … Read More »
I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year from me to you. As you take the time to reflect back on the past year and look forward to the new, may you remember fondly those who have shown acts of kindness toward you, have … Read More »
Laptop computers have been available with specs that can enable them to be desktop replacements for a couple of years now. Even casual gamers can pick up a notebook with components that will handle most video intensive games on the market today without having to resort … Read More »
It has come to our attention that our RSS feeds are currently giving errors. We are taking a look into right now and things should be back to normal hopefully within the next couple of hours.
Edit: RSS Feed problem fixed. Thanks to those who reported the … Read More »
I would like to thank ABC News for naming me a Person of the Year. That’s right, ABC News ran a segment a few minutes ago on the nightly … Read More »
A little bird from down in Silicon Valley tells me that Plaxo might be getting a new top dog. The man tapped for the top job is said to be Benjamin Golub, senior vice president at Verisign, who is in charge of marketing and stuff. I … Read More »
Most web sites track a variety of statistics about the visitors that access the site and one of the most discussed statistics is browser share. Firefox has taken … Read More »
More Must Reads
By James Kendrick
Dec. 30, 2004, 8:17am PT
I am going to start a new feature for jkOnTheRun called Freeware of the Moment (OK, I am fickle) and from time to time I will post a short item on a free utility or program that I feel is worth far more than the price. … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 30, 2004, 8:03am PT
New Zealand is a cool place, nice scenery, great people, and a very tech-enabled society. And now it’s even better as they have a fruit ripeness sensor that tells shoppers how ripe the fruit … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 30, 2004, 7:56am PT
Imagine pulling out your cellphone and projecting photos onto the nearest wall. Or projecting the screen of your PDA as a hologram in the thin air. Scientists are now telling us this scenario is not only possible but likely in the near future. Cambridge University scientists … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 7:46am PT
It is hard for me to imagine that I am carrying around in my pocket a computer that is as powerful as my first generation Pentium powered AST desktop, I wrestled with back in 1995, typing out scintiallting stories about memory chip prices for Quick Nikkei … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 7:42am PT
The sharp increase in the number of radio standards that modern mobile phones have to support is proving to be a design nightmare for chip designers, and things are going to get increasingly complicated in the future, according to EE Times. Today’s phones need to … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 7:30am PT
The Broadband Daily: Most people are not very good in communicating experiences using written language. People are much better in capturing experiences using audio, video, and other sensory mechanisms. Phones allow audio and (now video) to capture experiences of a communicator and may help in … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 6:54am PT
Denver-based Qwest and Comcast are getting ready to battle over VoIP customers, according to The Denver Post. Qwest is going to roll out is VoIP service in its region of 14 states early next year, just in time to catch the first salvo from Comcast, … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 6:48am PT
There is a lot of people who don’t care much for the often snarky, and funny tone of Light Reading, the real insider publication for the networking business. Especially the marketing and PR folks or the chief executives who get skewered. I find a new reason … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 6:35am PT
With its rivals fighting tooth and nail over market share, competing essentially on price, and giving away some of the premium features, AT&T is taking another tact – it is going premium and is going to charge more for bonus features. For instance it is … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2004, 6:28am PT
Net2Phone is boosting the availability of local numbers as the company tries to get a further toehold in the VoIP market, which is expected to grow at a rapid clip in 2005. The company says it now offers local phone numbers in more than 80% … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2004, 7:58pm PT
Hewlett Packard has been trying to position itself as the digital photo/imaging company for years, and very successfully so. It has been a good corporate citizen and has helped many worthy causes. Now it has a chance to do something even bigger. How about Carly and … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2004, 6:09pm PT
“Yesterday a Muslim man came to me and asked, ‘Father, can I enter the church? Can I stay here?’ I told him that we are all God’s children. You are welcome to stay here. It is only because of my cassock that you can make out … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2004, 6:07pm PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2004, 2:41pm PT
InformationWeek reports that Airspan, which makes WiMAX gear has snapped up VoIP equipment maker, ArelNet for $8.7 million in a bid to go after the VoIP market. Now if this was to go public, well you can expect a lot of interest in this … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2004, 2:33pm PT
Call this a strange twist of fate. In a tragedy which has taken thousands of lives, the life line of new economy – the fiber cables have survived the worst tragedy in the history of South Asia. Light Reading reports that the telecom services, after … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Dec. 29, 2004, 11:37am PT
Rumor has it that we may be hearing about a $500 “headless” iMac at the MacWorld Expo in just a couple short weeks. It’s purpose would be to target all the windows users who are a part of the Halo Effect that’s … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2004, 10:31am PT
Every time I have been waiting for a shipment from UPS I have wondered why you cannot track through a RSS feed. This would make it simple to add to the feed reader and provide a status update upon demand. An enterprising .NET developer named Jason … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2004, 9:12am PT
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2004, 9:04am PT
Trevor of The Student Tablet PC has written an interesting article that discusses using Infopath with the Tablet PC in a real world application. Infopath is a Microsoft tool for deploying enterprise-wide forms for collecting standardized data. In his example Trevor shows how Infopath … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2004, 11:39pm PT
Think Secret, which has a Barry Bonds like record when it comes to reporting news about Apple, (it has gotten them sued you know by Apple!) is reporting that Apple will introduce a barebones iMAC powered by 1.25 GHz G4 processor on January 11, at … Read More »
By Josh Pigford
Dec. 28, 2004, 9:56pm PT
Wired posted quite the interesting article about 2 men who, for six months snuck into the Apple Headquarters to write a script. 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, for 6 months, Ron Avitzur snuck into his former employer’s offices to write a … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2004, 5:38pm PT
SBSH, the producers of the great Pocket PC program Pocket Breeze, have just released an enhanced calendar program for Windows Mobile based Smartphones. Papyrus looks really nice and the screenshots show it to be a useful calendar replacement. The release is a public beta so … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2004, 5:24pm PT
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2004, 3:39pm PT
Anyone who has read my published stuff for any length of time at all knows I am extremely passionate about mobile technology. I have been trying, using and lugging mobile devices around for more … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2004, 2:31pm PT
Audible announced today they are now supporting the Creative MuVo TX, MuVo TX FM, MuVo Micro, and MuVo Slim portable digital audio players. Owners of the Creative audio players can go to the Audible web site and download a firmware upgrade for the MuVo … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2004, 12:06pm PT
In a broadband enabled life, no piece of software is as crucial as a database – from our cell phone records, our blog entries, our address books, and of course all the information we need to store about our music collections, digital downloads and emails. In … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2004, 11:31am PT
Tablet PCs are perfect for viewing electronic magazines and I am always on the lookout for good alternatives for reading material. I stumbled upon Home Computer Magazine completely by accident and I have to recommend it as a good read. The magazine is already … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2004, 10:54am PT
Wall Street Journal’s Jesse Drucker has been all over the trend of wifi-enabling cities, and has done some seriously good reporting. Today Drucker talks about growing number of cities which are planning to roll out their own WiFi Clouds, including San Francisco, Cleveland, LA, Milwaukee … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2004, 10:51am PT
James Enck has posted a 5MB torrent file to Prodigem, shot on his SPV C500, and he calls this A Luddite idiot’s testimonial on Prodigem. So why should we be paying attention? Enck explains: “Dozens of cities and towns are rolling out Wi-Fi as a … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2004, 10:35am PT
Kaplan has long been known as the authority when it comes to preparing college-bound kids for the dreaded SAT/ACT tests. Recently they announced with Handmark the availability of Kaplan Mobile SAT/PSAT-ACT 2005. The program contains over 1200 questions and tips to help prepare for these … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2004, 10:05am PT
I get a lot of email from people wanting the ability to take notes that can be captured digitally into a computer. These requests are mostly from students who can see the benefits of a … Read More »
