February, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for February 2005

The first Tablet PC Show is out of post production and ready for download on The Podcast Network.  I’m really excited to be doing this podcast and promise you some exciting guests will be appearing on The Tablet PC Show and we’ll share a lot… Read More »

Dumb Telus & Blocked Ports

Update: Upon re-reading the story, I have corrections. They are blocking incoming ftp and IRC connections, and they are no explicitly blocking Bit Torrent and other P2P traffic, though they can. As Mike points out, they are letting you set up an FTP, email or… Read More »

 
 

US News & World Report says that Vonage is adding 10,000 new customers every week, and has a total of 450,000 customers. I guess, the big question is how many of them actually bail from the service, and how they are sliced and diced –… Read More »

Adventures in home working

Steve Richards has Adult Onset Stills Disease (AOSD), a chronic and debilitating disease similar to arthritis that intrudes on every aspect of the afflicted’s life.  An IT professional, Steve is in the fortunate position that allows him to work from home and still function in… Read More »

Reuters has a well reported, if slightly off target story on WiMAX. Even though tons of phone companies including Sprint and Qwest are trialing the emerging fixed wireless technologies, it is clear that the high cost of deployment and entrenched duopoly of cable and DSL… Read More »

Paris Hilton, the hacked socialite is getting some love – this time from Wall Street Journal and The New York Times – who have published remarkably similar stories in their Friday and Sunday editions. Gina Hoffman, Hilton’s spokeswoman told The Times: “She feels terrible… Read More »

No video iPod

Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer was interviewed recently by MacWorld and outlined his views on the personal media center market and video players in particular.   Oppenheimer admitted that while some consumers are interested in seeing Apple produce a personal video player there will be… Read More »

Tablet PC Talk reviews the Sahara i213

Chris de Herrera over at Tablet PC Talk has published a review of the Sahara i213 Tablet PC that covers the whole enchilada right down to the rubber bumpers.  I… Read More »

Bubble Burst Anniversary

Folks I am planning to do a special edition to mark the bursting of the bubble, which is coming up soon. I have teamed up with Carl Haacke, the author of Frenzy (Read his interview) and we will be writing special op-eds, about 600 words… Read More »

Chris Pirillo reports on the free satellite imaging program from NASA that has so many options built into the program that you can literally play with it for hours.  World Wind is described best on the web site: World Wind lets you zoom from satellite… Read More »

The Broadband Bits 02/26/2004

* VoIP Will Be Free, or so thinks VoIP Inc. CEO Steven Ivester, who claims that his company will make money because of telephony features and its unique position as a hardware maker and a wholesale provider. VoIP Inc, which till recently was traded on… Read More »

FCC is looking into scores of low-power television licenses that are not being used. There have been 4385 licenses issued so for for TV stations, 2034 are classified low power and only 1366 are operational. The spectrum could be used to offer wireless… Read More »

More Must Reads

More Broadband over powerline FUD, this time from the dubious and notorious New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based lobby and policy group. They have yet to show me anything I have not heard before. The believe that broadband over powerlines will be an… Read More »

I talk to Adam about his latest book, the role of AppleScript in Mac OS X and how he came up with the example scripts used in the book. Read More »

Uber-blogger in retirement, Andrew Sullivan in his latest column for The Times of London pens an ode to the church of Apple, and how iPod people have taken over the normally bustling, crazy and funky Manhattan. There were little white wires hanging down from their… Read More »

Recently I posted about iCal and Address Book, and my suspicion that they were a couple of unsung heroes amongst the OS X-included apps. As a follow-up, I’ll start with iCal and my findings after using it daily for a few weeks. My general… Read More »

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