Archive for April, 2005

Blimps and Broadband Politics

Om Malik, Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 9:25 PM PT Comments (3)

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 to use vaporware technologies is just wrong and makes me [...]

Google ads + local search + maps = Free Citi WiFi Networks

Om Malik, Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 9:14 PM PT Comments (3)

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 a provider of free Wi-Fi access to create a Wi-Fi [...]

37Signals’ Backpack Tuesday

Om Malik, Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 6:40 PM PT Comments (6)

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 what is Backpack? Thus far they have tantalized the world with [...]

Podscope, the podcast search engine

Om Malik, Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 12:59 PM PT Comments (0)

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 nifty little application. They have a Word Press powered blog as [...]

Podcasting (AM) Radio … whatever

Om Malik, Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 8:50 AM PT Comments (4)

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 dime. Good move, because suddenly it gets Infinity a ton [...]

Echostar adds VOOM Hi-Def channels

Om Malik, Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 8:00 AM PT Comments (0)

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 HD, Monsters HD, Animania HD, Majestic HD, HD News [...]

iSync 2.0 problems anyone?

Om Malik, Friday, April 29, 2005 at 4:34 PM PT Comments (5)

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 guys
Just installed Tiger, and one of the things I [...]

AOL’s VoIP-Video Enabled IM

Om Malik, Friday, April 29, 2005 at 10:06 AM PT Comments (7)

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 nice plug-in here. Associated Press has details about this [...]

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