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Archive for April 2005

Blimps and Broadband Politics

Sonia Arrison uses stratellites, you know those blimps that can beam broadband down to Planet Earth as an excuse to beat up on regulation minded California Public Utilities Commission. Clearly, she should beat up on the reactionary regulators and bureaucrats who don’t understand broadband. But… Read More »

Esme Vos thinks that by combining local search, Google AdSense and Google Maps, cities can build and offer wireless (WiFi) connectivity to residents. She writes, that this should give the business districts an incentive “to put up a mesh node on their premises to enable… Read More »

 
 

37Signals’ Backpack Tuesday

The very talented 37 Signals is all set to deliver its latest product Backpack on Tuesday. It will be free for some basic version but cost a bit for the premium packages ranging from only $5/month – $19/month. Much like their Basecamp product. So… Read More »

True Crime: Streets of L.A.

The Grand Theft Auto series of games for PS2 and PC were extremely popular, and heck, they still are, with more sequels and spinoffs than the “Law and Order” TV series. It figures that someone else would make something similar. In comes “True Crime:… Read More »

Podscope, the podcast search engine

With all the hoopla around podcasting, it was only a matter of time before someone came-up with a search engine for podcasts. Introducing Podscope (hat tip, Justin, who says the search engine rocks!) I agree, and approve. Clean, easy to use and a pretty… Read More »

Tiger Upgrade Notes

My Tiger upgrade went smoothly. I took some notes on my personal blog while adjusting to and playing with the new system. Feel free to gather your own upgrade notes in comments to this post! Read More »

Mobile professionals have so much invested in their Smartphones, PDAs, laptops and Tablet PCs that the devices can be a target for theft and the potential for the loss of a gadget while traveling is something to give one pause.  Take something that happened to me… Read More »

Skype comes to the Smartphone, sort of

Skype recently announced a version of the great VoIP app for the Windows Mobile Smartphone which is a natural platform for the program.  What better way to use your Smartphone than… Read More »

Marc gets a Treo

Marc Orchant of The Office Weblog and my podcast pal* has picked up a Treo 650 smartphone.  I am sure that Marc will love his Treo as it is a wonderful converged device that merges PDA and phone functions seamlessly.  I wonder if… Read More »

I have been behind my feed reading, and now just caught up in the news of Infinity Radio turning over one AM radio transmitter to pod-casters. Good move from Infinity, after all now they can create a 24-7 radio channel without really spending a… Read More »

Echostar adds VOOM Hi-Def channels

EchoStar is adding 10 high-definition channels it acquired as part of its VOOM buy to its DISH Network line-up, and the service is expected to go live May 1, 2005. The 10 VOOM HD networks will include RUSH HD, Gallery HD, Rave HD, Ultra HD, Equator… Read More »

iSync 2.0 problems anyone?

Update: Actually it is much simpler than I thought. Pair the phones and power down the phone, restart. ISync sends you a text message with a tiny agent that installs on your Nokia 6620 phone, and you are good to go. Same with s710a. Good luck… Read More »

More Must Reads

AOL, like Microsoft has finally woken up to the true potential of their IM clients, and is now going to rearchitect AIM client to adapt to new market realities. Focus will shift from text to multimedia messaging, including voice and video. AOL VoIP could be a… Read More »

VDSL, is going to become the buzzword in next six to 12 months. You can already find indications of that. SBC is telling folks at Light Reading that it is getting ready to roll out video over DSL to 18 million homes offering them between… Read More »

Chatsworth, California. — April. 4, 2005 – The UK based eXpansys Group today announced that they have acquired MobilePlanet Inc., the leading US multi-channel reseller of mobile computing and wireless products. MobilePlanet posted revenues of USD $21 million in 2004. The Acquisition will help to secure… Read More »

Microsoft is putting touchscreen support in Longhorn to give Tablet PCs a dual mode screen for inking.  Tablets running Longhorn will have both active digitizers and touchscreens to offer the best of both worlds.  Microsoft demonstrated a Fujitsu Tablet PC running Longhorn with added touchscreen support… Read More »

Lora Heiny was at the WinHEC demo and got to see some neat stuff along with the other attendees.  One device she has written about on her blog that has not gotten much mention anywhere (likely overshadowed by Bill Gates’ UMPC) was a working prototype of… Read More »

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