Archive for February 2005
Earlier this week, I wrote about analysts discussing with Juniper its Shopping List. As expected CEO Scott Kirens did not say anything except this. “No, we don’t have all that we will need — although I’m not sure I would use the word ‘need.’ We … Read More »
Diabetics will tell you anything, ANYTHING that makes dealing with the chronic disease easier is a very good thing. Glucon, a developer of glucose monitoring devices, has been granted a patent for … Read More »
3WTel, an Irish-start-up started a call between US and Ireland early in the morning on Valentine’s Day. A call that lasted nearly 12 hours and 52 minutes. The call, the company claims is a a world record for the “Most Participated and Longest Free International VoIP … Read More »
Circuit City is now selling the iPod Shuffle online, with both the 512MB and 1GB versions of the Shuffle marked as immediately available.
Update: Spoke too soon. Both are now marked as “SOLD OUT”.
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Perhaps this is nothing new for you, the intelligent readership of The Apple Blog – but it was new to me…
Ted over at PowerSDK posts about the death of his wife’s iPod. Sure, we’ve all heard about these things before, that’s nothing new … Read More »
Business 2.0: As the 3G revolution picks up steam, wireless pioneer Qualcomm may be poised for market dominance that even Bill Gates would envy. In this article I have tried to highlight the role of QCom in the wireless food chain, and if all goes … Read More »
Good utilities that are self contained make the perfect tools for mobile computers. I love these little programs that often have no install routine and don’t write to the registry. A great place to find these programs is The Portable Freeware Collection, a site that … Read More »
Scott Hanselman has a great list of tools for your Tablet PC that every Tablet owner should have a look at. Some of the programs I have written about here on jkOnTheRun but there are also others worth checking out.
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Qwest Communications, is not going away lightly and has launched a renewed bid for MCI. This was expected – after all Qwest had offered $8 billion for MCI and still got spurned by the MCI management. According to informed sources, Qwest pretty much met all the … Read More »
More Must Reads
By James Kendrick
Feb. 17, 2005, 5:10pm PT
If you have teenagers with cell phones they are no doubt spending many, many hours a month texting their friends. An entire language used in texting has evolved known as leetspeak (l33t in texting language), short for elite speak, which kids are using for texting quickly … Read More »
By Josh Pigford
Feb. 17, 2005, 4:37pm PT
It’s that time of the year when we’re looking to increase the size of our staff by 2 (doesn’t every company have that?). We’re in need of 2 writers who have the skills to pay the bills. Also, if you’ve got sweet graphic design skills, we’ve … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 4:27pm PT
Silicon Valley venture fund Crescendo Ventures got a bit of bad news today – another one of their optical/telecom investments went poof …. in the air. Swedish optical component maker Optillion called it quits and filed for bankruptcy. During the boom times, this company had … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 4:11pm PT
I am dead tired. After coming from DEMO, all I have done is work, and pack. I am even dreaming of boxes and packing tape. Anyway today was the big moving day. The movers arrived promptly at 11.30 am, and since I was all packed and … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 1:59pm PT
French startup Musiwave announced a mobile streaming music platform “called Smart Radio” that will compliment the existing over the air download service its providing for operators like Vodafone and SFR. Musiwave claims its software will let users “seamlessly create their own personalized streaming music channels,” … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 1:57pm PT
VTech just introduced a new 2.4GHz cordless usb7100 phone that is a must have for all Skype fiends. It can be expanded up to four handsets. In addition to being a Skype Phone cordless phone technology, it does all the usual crap like caller … Read More »
By Rich Trouton
Feb. 17, 2005, 1:16pm PT
Recently, I was fortunate enough to get a Cingular-branded Treo 650 for my birthday. This was an upgrade from my Treo 270, and included a number of new features including Bluetooth and an SD slot for PalmOne peripherals and SD memory cards. Since I’m a geek, … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 12:00pm PT
Updated with Corrections Michael Moe of boutique investment research firm, ThinkEquity Research seems to have committed the first cardinal sin of our world – he did not give proper credit where it is due. In an article in The New York Times announcing his company’s weblog, … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 17, 2005, 11:21am PT
CNN has published an interview with the CEO of LM Ericsson who proclaims that 2005 will be the year of mobile broadband.
"We are about to start a whole new stage in mobile communications — Mobile Triple Play — enabled by mobile broadband," said Chief … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 17, 2005, 11:14am PT
Gear Live points to a great setup tip for Verizon Wireless customers which lets you use a proxy server to access the Internet from your Verizon phone without the $4.99 per month fee. There are complete setup instructions for a number of different phones … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Feb. 17, 2005, 9:38am PT
Seems that someone at Apple slipped-up and sent a periodic email to consumers in Great Britian, and it included the box art/logo for the upcoming Tiger release.
The inclusion was apparently a mistake, as subsequent emails featured different graphics, omitting the Tiger box.
Basically, it looks like the … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 9:37am PT
Every new technology goes through a phase, where the sheer newness makes early adopters like myself put-up with all sorts of bugs. Hey that’s all part of living on the bleeding edge – you will bleed a little. Actually first couple of million users will put … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 9:20am PT
In a few hours, Juniper Networks is going to kick off its analyst day, outlining its strategy for the future and how it plans to compete with Cisco Systems and newer Chinese rivals. But one question on everyone’s lips is going to be: who will … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 9:15am PT
Nokia is feeling might bullish about the whole 3G thing and expects 70 million 3G users by end of the year. My various estimates – read different market research firms – show about 55 million 3G uses at end of 2005. So Nokia knows something more … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 17, 2005, 8:42am PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 8:39am PT
If you live in the US or in the west, you think Google has all the answers. But in reality where most of the planet doesn’t speak english and the content is not digitized finding information is still a nightmare. The Broadband Blog’s Ramesh Jain … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 8:39am PT
India might be one of the hottest broadband and telecom destinations for equipment makers, but for its citizens the country is a frustrating ride on a dial-up roal to nowhere, says Broadband Blog’s Abishek Puri. “Internet services have so far still stuck in the dial … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 17, 2005, 8:37am PT
Mega has released an MP3 player with some cool features, including Bluetooth for using with your cell phone. The Mega Player 522BT is a flash memory based player that has an FM … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 17, 2005, 12:19am PT
Light Reading reports that a small consolidation in the VoIP business is going on right now, the latest deal being Finnish test vendor NetHawk Oyj’s purchase of Richardson, Texas-based ipNetFusion in a bid to boost its VOIP testing capabilities. The deal is being valued at … Read More »
By Twist
Feb. 16, 2005, 6:21pm PT
The awesome team from Panic have released version 3.0 of their award winning FTP client Transmit. Improvements include support for FTPS, column view, tabbed connection, a sidebar, better synchronization features, WebDAV support, and tons of others. I will be posting a more … Read More »
By Chris Holland
Feb. 16, 2005, 4:22pm PT
TiVo CEO, annoyed by “Windows nightmares”, switches to Mac, his IT department follows
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By Om Malik
Feb. 16, 2005, 3:46pm PT
Okay guys – if you are in the market for a DSL service, let me tell you which company to avoid: Speakeasy. Last year in a bid to help a small company and support competition in the broadband market, I signed up with Speakeasy. The … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 16, 2005, 2:40pm PT
By James Kendrick
Feb. 16, 2005, 2:31pm PT
Action Engine is a new service developed jointly by SmartVideo Technologies and the Action Engine folks that delivers mobile TV content to your Windows Mobile device. The service utilitizes a … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 16, 2005, 1:18pm PT
Have you ever wished that your keyboard could scan documents? Me too. Now our wishes have been granted by way of the KeyScan KS810. Scanning in color at a resolution of 600 … Read More »
By Twist
Feb. 16, 2005, 1:11pm PT
The Mac mini is everybodies favorite HTPC to be these days with numerous projects working on software for it. Well now someone has tossed together a great looking docking station concept for it. This is really cool but they missed a few things. Like … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 16, 2005, 12:45pm PT
Qwest just filed an 8-K with the Securities & Exchange Commission, a document that outlines its bid for MCI, and how much exactly it offered! So here are the facts:
Qwest offered $23 dollars a share to MCI share holders, with about $7.50 a share in … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 16, 2005, 11:42am PT
Sometimes, its not the deal, but how the deal is done which makes things fun to track. Looking for something to write about MCI-VZ deal, I stumbled upon this little nugget. Lawrence Babbio Jr, the vice chairman and president of Verizon seems to have known … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 16, 2005, 10:12am PT
Rob Bushway points out:
Bernd Helzer from Agilix is asking for feature request input into the next version of GoBinder – a fantastic application for Tablet PC notetaking for both the student and professional. As is typical for Agilix, they continue to reach out … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Feb. 16, 2005, 9:42am PT
Engadget is reporting about the new Mini Skirt Blue-glo from Plasticsmith.
It’s really cool looking. Of course first thought is, without a usb or firewire hub (or both) built in, it’s pretty useless. But hopefully that’s to come soon. Some … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Feb. 16, 2005, 9:37am PT
I know you are waiting all aflutter for the first techAddiction Show to get ready for your listening pleasure and Kevin and I are working hard to make that happen. In the meantime the techAddiction Show blog is now up on The Podcast Network site … Read More »
