January 12, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 12, 2005

Firefox watch

I have commented in the past on the rising popularity of the Firefox browser among the many visitors to jkOnTheRun and I have decided to create a historical picture by posting the browser share graph every week or so.  Here’s the graph of today’s visitors by… Read More »

A useful WiFi detector.

Seen the various WiFi detectors floating around the Expo floor? Intego has one, Marware has one, and other manufacturers are getting into the act. But they all seem to share one limitation: they don’t really show anything besides an open network’s signal… Read More »

 
 

Creative thinks the industry will laugh at Shuffle

Looks like Creative Technology thinks Apple’s new flash MP3 player is out dated and a joke. Sim Wong Hoo, Creative’s CEO, says that Shuffle is was “a big let down” to him. Creative has less than half of the market share that Apple has in… Read More »

JustOneMoreThing

I now present, for your reading delight, The Blog of Steve Jobs. It seems that he and I share some similar opinions about communism and the head of M$. EDIT: At the very bottom, it says, “a parody”. But I’m not sure…wouldn’t Steve have sued… Read More »

Say hello to Justin and Sarah

Old buddies Justin Hibbard and Sarah Lacy, now safely grinding way and turning out good journalism at Business Week are the new entrants to the blogworld. Welcome … Check out their Deal Flow blog right here. Justin and I used to work at the (real)… Read More »

Lots of folks are talking about “exploding TV” right behind Mac Mini and other problems Apple is having with bloggers. Jeff Jarvis, Fred Wilson and Chris Anderson are leading the conversation. I don’t agree – I think the difference has to be… Read More »

T-Mobile Finally Responds

T-Mobile has issued a press statement. Apparently they did the right thing. Our investigation revealed that this third party was able to view the name and social security number of 400 customers. These customers were notified in writing of this incident. Customer credit card information was… Read More »

Write, Read, Write

A week ago I wrote about Videora, then followed up with an e-interview with Sajeeth and today Wired has a story on Videora. Write, Read, Write… the new relationship between blogs and publishing world? Read More »

Spyware and malware (malicious software) are insidious problems to have as they can use your resources, network bandwidth and spy on your activities without you even being aware it’s happening.  Whenever I help a friend or family member with their computer I always find at least… Read More »

Jobs vs. Gates

In the past week or so, we have seen keynote speeches from both Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. Gates’s CES keynote was filled with negative comments, including his comparison of “free culture” advocates to communists. Job’s speech, on the other hand,… Read More »

Three Strikes & You ‘R Out

One day, three senior level resignations amazing…. TiVo’s Michael Ramsey is going to do big strategy stuff… Motorola COO Mike Zafirovski resigned for now Ed Zander is firmly entrenched at the top… and Alcatel CTO Niel Ransom has had it with french food and… Read More »

AireSpace sold for $450 million

The WLAN shakeout continues. Cisco just announced that it is buying AireSpace for about $450 million, in an attempt to fill a gaping hole in its WiFi product strategy. News.com had the story first. The Linksys could not really scale into the enterprise after… Read More »

More Must Reads

Reading (more and more all the time) about the Mac Mini, a thought just hit me. With all the new Mac users this machine will attract, these previous windows users will have one litte niggle to get used to right off the bat: There’s no eject button.… Read More »

Level 3 is cutting 12% of it workforce, a move it expects to save the company $60-to-$70 million a year. Why the cuts? Despite the promise of VoIP, CEO Jim Crowe says that the end demand from the customers of its wholesale customers is taking… Read More »

A computer hacker had access to all the Sidekick related boxes at T-Mobile according to Security Focus. Which means the not only had access to all the pictures (naked I presume) Paris Hilton was taking of herself, Snoop’s dirty laundry but also customer passwords and… Read More »

Wired’s got a cool article about the insanity the iPod Shuffle caused at the conclusion of Steve’s Keynote yesterday. …at the close of his Macworld keynote address at Moscone Center, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had said he’d “heard a rumor” that the iPod shuffle was… Read More »

Can you tell me what’s wrong with this picture? Ok, maybe it’s just my interpretation of this Ad image. But what is the girl looking at? There’s no screen on the iPod Shuffle. Plus, with only 5 buttons (which come in a… Read More »

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