Archive for July, 2005

Folks a few days ago I had asked for help on a GigaOm widget for Mac Dashboard. Anders just in a most generous gesture created one for me. So all my readers who have Tiger, hopefully this is worth downloading and installing on your dashboard. Here… Read More »

Given that their browser based search is still a bit of hit and a miss, it is tough to figure out how they improve the Technorati experience on the mobile phone. As I said in my previous post, Technorati optimized for Palm Treo (how of many… Read More »

David Beisel is quite impressed by Trip Hawkins’ portrayal of the mobile phone as a social computer. Hawkins’ who is the founder of Digital Chocolate, a mobile gaming company is of the Silicon Valley set that came of age in the PC era. He was part… Read More »

Akihabara News is pointing to a new all-in-one phone by Fujitsu. The Linux-based phone running on a 400 MHz chip has 128 megs of RAM, 64 megs of ROM, and 802.11b built right into it. The phone also has CF and SD card slots so you… Read More »

The Economist has a sort of ‘lay-of-the-land’ piece on incumbent phone companies and their IPTV strategy. It is a lot of what we all know, except packaged nicely for those who don’t follow the arcane happenings in the world of telecom. What I find amusing is… Read More »

Srijith says Google has locked down his GMail account for 24 hours. “Our system has detected abnormal usage of your Gmail account. As a result, we have temporarily disabled access to this account,” says Google’s email. Other folks have experienced this problem, but not me. Anyone… Read More »

Windows world is all tipsy topsy over the release of new Internet Explorer 7 Beta which has amazing ground breaking features as tabbed browsing. Apparently, it is/was breaking the Google toolbar and some of the Yahoo’s older toolbars. There is word of the Beta screwing up… Read More »

XTen Name Change Coming Soon

We all know and love the XTen Softphone. Well, we all might have to call it with some other name, because the company has been in a bit of legal tussle over the name with Xtend Communications Corp, a New York-based company. Xtend had filed a… Read More »

H-P to Apple, lets call this whole iPod thing off

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP will stop reselling iPod. It was a bad idea to begin with, and now its over. HP accounted for about 5% of total iPod sales. HP will still distribute the iTunes software on its computers. It was a… Read More »

Beautiful People, Not Smart Doesn’t Mean Smart

YPulse points to yet another social networking site, gasp…. for Beautiful People. Beautiful People got itself coverage in USA Today. Don’t bother visiting the site with any of these browsers – Safari, Camino and Firefox – i.e., the browsers of choice for the smart set. Message:… Read More »

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