May, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2005

Yahoo Music Match for Media Center Launched

Yahoo’s Musicmatch Radio and Music Store have now launched for Windows XP Media Center Edition and are available via Online Spotlight. via Read More »

IPTV, a Political HairBall

Over last few days, there has been an increase in the buzz about IPTV, and how Bells want to unseat cable operators from their perch. While it might happen, there seems to be more sound and fury than reality to it. The reasons are not technical … Read More »

 
 

Broadband in America: 05-23-2005

Norwegian Telenor buys $1 billion worth of broadband

Norwegian giant has spent $1 billion to buy two broadband operators – Sweden’s Bredbandsbolaget for $823 million (335,000 subscribers) and another $237 million on Danish broadband outfit Cybercity, which has about 90,000 customers. Looks like it is trying to become a major player in that region. … Read More »

Of BitTorrent Search & Possible Legal Problems

MPAA has been dying to come-up with ways to sue Bit Torrent, its creator and others involved in pushing the p-2-p envelope. Unfortunately they have not had a chance. TechDirt’s Mike Masnick thinks that by developing a search engine for torrents, Bram Cohen … Read More »

Apple and Intel

Apple and Intel sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Well, sort of. Read More »

Right now, if you need your VPN client to work, I’d recommend steering clear of Cisco’s recently-released 10.4 VPN client. When it works, it seems to work fine. When it’s not working, you have to uninstall and reinstall it to get it to work. However, if … Read More »

Jeffrey “Vonage” Citron, unplugged

Peter Rojas interviews Jeffrey Citron, and talks about everything under the sun including why the hell they are not pushing a Palm OS softphone client through. Good interview! Read More »

In-depth look at the Motion LE1600 Tablet PC

Motion Computing has always produced great Tablet PCs of the highest quality and the recent announcement of the newest model of the Motion line was met with excitement given the … Read More »

Intel Hyper-Threading A Security Hole

Hey why just blame Microsoft for security problems, when you have Intel being exposed for its own short comings. On the very day Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was considering using Intel chips, here comes a warning, almost like god was at work. Colin … Read More »

First look at the new Toshiba Libretto

I first mentioned the Toshiba Libretto U100 a while back when Toshiba announced they were bringing the ultra-portable back in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their first notebook.  The … Read More »

Why Google And Apple Should Blog

Dave Winer: Both Apple and Google will soon be under assault, it seems certain, by larger competitors who have let their people blog. To think they can afford not to be present in the arena of the present (not just the future any more) is the … Read More »

More Must Reads

Steve Jobs, speaking at the D: all things digital conference, said that the next version of iTunes will handle podcasts a la Doppler. Content providers will be able to register their content with the iTunes Music Store where users will be able to sign up to … Read More »

Techdirt: Hop On (which just dropped its dot com status) is offering a $39 WiFi phone. Of course, “offering” may be a bit confusing, because normally that means you can buy it — but it doesn’t seem to be possible to buy one yet. If you … Read More »

Washington Post takes a look at the slow rollout of broadband in the rural America. It is a story you may have read many times before, but Alicia Stahl, who lives on a farm in Hughesville puts it best: “It just drives you absolutely crazy… … Read More »

Even in New York, Esme is finding it hard to find WiFi in New York, especially in "the area around East 12th Street and University Place (where a lot of NYU students hang out). You’d think there would be lots of Wi-Fi service here, apart from … Read More »

USA Today has a long piece on the cat-fight between cable and phone operators, which apparently is getting ugly. How ugly? USA Today: Dorothy Attwood, senior vice president of planning and policy for SBC on how cable companies are using their franchisee relationships to lock … Read More »

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