Archive for June 2005
Nokia has been one of the few companies that has actually embraced open media in general and mobile blogging (photo blogging) in specific. A lot of credit for that goes to Christian Lindholm, the daddy of Nokia Lifeblog, a tiny application that lets you … Read More »
The industry specific trade shows, if you have attended one, are a love fest of the worst kind. Back slapping, plastered smiles and of course the bonhomie which ends the minute you walk out of the show floor. But since we are all grown up, we … Read More »
SBC’s new low $14.95 a month pricing for DSL service is the last nail in the coffin for dial-up, at least in those locales where high speed connections are available. (The offer is only available online.) FCC says that’s over 90% of the country, but … Read More »
You might have noticed that blogging has been slow. I am on a tight deadline for the magazine, so I will be remiss in blogging duties and posting is going to sporadic. Maybe this will help you catch up and clean up your feed reader a … Read More »
Joe Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest who is in all sorts of legal trouble with SEC says he did not do anything wrong, and the government is doing “enforcement by hindsight.” Not to be left behind, former CFO Robin Szeliga followed Nacchio’s actions. SEC had sued … Read More »
Matt Marshal is batting better thank the Yankees. He just hit one right out of the park and scooped everyone on this most interesting development: Citrix buying NetScaler for $326 million. NetScaler, is one of the many companies that are in the business of “
Robert Scoble alerts us: Speaking of news, tomorrow the Microsoft Office team will announce something pretty important tomorrow. It’ll be up on Slashdot for sure. Come over to Channel 9 after 9 p.m. pacific time tonight. We have an interview with the team about the news … Read More »
Open Source Region Stuttgart points us to a way to run (and test) Linux on your Windows PC without installing any to your computer. The "Start Linux" runs totally over the web in your browser and will even run on Firefox. Here’s the instructions from … Read More »
Robert Heiny is the patriarch of the First Family of the Tablet PC and he has an excellent blog, The Tablet PC Education Blog, that covers, umm, Tablet PCs in education. He has posted an amazing account of the First Family’s Treeing Walker Hound, … Read More »
Mike Beattie has a blog called debian/ rules where he posted a recent article describing how he installed Debian Linux on a new HP tc1100 Tablet PC. It took Mike a while but he claims to have all the hardware bits fully supported including the … Read More »
Intel has quietly added some type of DRM support into the Pentium D and 945 chipset combo that was recently released. Not surprisingly, the chipmaker is not elaborating on the details of this support and have made very few comments about it. Intel Australia’s Graham Tucker … Read More »
