Baby Bells plans to offer IPTV in Texas had a bit of setback, when Texas State Senate rejected a proposed legislation that would have allowed Verizon and SBC to fast track their IPTV services by signing a single statewide video franchise agreement, instead of negotiating … Read More »
Archive for May 2005
If you are waiting for 3G from T-Mobile USA, well then you have a long wait ahead of you. The company is not likely to launch its services before 2007. “We plan to begin the 3G rollout in the second half of next year and the … Read More »
IPTV, clearly is the buzzword of the year, right along with VoIP, Skype and Podcasting. Read the newspapers and you can walk away convinced that it is just the messiah that is going to save Bells from their past, and propel them into the future. That … Read More »
An Israeli researcher, Dr. Meirav Taieb-Maimon has developed a system that allows folks to search and browse the Internet via voice interface – using only a microphone and speakers so that you can ‘ask’ the computer questions and ‘hear’ the answers. Now if you could remember … Read More »
CERN’s IT department bans Skype. This seems to be old stuff, for I remember writing about this last year. via Read More »
I haven’t posted my desktop on the HP yet so here’s what it looks like (today): Read More »
The ongoing convergence of wireless and wireline networks, through technologies like IMS is going to help Ericsson in a big way. (This convergence has been a bit of a slow starter thus far!) Swedish wireless giant is quite bullish about its prospects. Peter … Read More »
Yahoo Music service can be hacked by anyone to download all the music they want. Robert Chapin figured out how to do it. In a public press release he says, the flaw was discovered by his company, Chapin Information Services. CIS initially reported flaws during … Read More »
Thomas, a regular reader emailed me a story in Las Vegas Review Journal about the vulnerabilities of wifi networks. With help of an expert, the news daily picked up 150 networks, with nearly 40 of them unsecured, for anyone to tap into. “Wi-Fi signals … Read More »
The Tablet PC Show #10 (MP3 – 21.68 MB – 63min) LISTEN HERE Marc kicks off the show this week to a wide range of Tablet PC topics and even some pen gadgets hit the topic table. We give kudos to WNewquay and ramble all over … Read More »
In the past, I have argued that one of the main reasons, Apple’s music platform -iPod + iTunes + iTunes store – works is because it is quite simple. You know which specific device to buy, and you know all songs you purchase from the store … Read More »
The techADDICTION Show #010- 29th May 2005 (46min 22sec)MP3 – 15.9Mb Show #10 is chock full of insightful commentary from our intrepid co-hosts James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel and you don’t want to miss it. Interesting topics from podcasts in iTunes to practicing safe computing are … Read More »
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