July, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2005

Just Thinking…

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… Read More »

 
 

Slow Posting…. why?

Folks I am on multiple deadlines for the magazine this week so the posting has been slow. Perhaps it gives you all a chance to catch up on the reading… seriously, its been a rough week and I will likely be posting at crawl speed over… Read More »

Skype cuts SkypeOut prices

Skype says it is cutting prices on SkypeOut service. The service that allows Skype users to call PSTN is now going to cost 0.017 Euro per minute. Skype is trying to spin this, but price cut show that that the SkypeOut adoption is slower… Read More »

Washington Post reviews ThinkPad Tablet PC

The Washington Post took a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC and according to the reviewer "gets it right".  The reviewer likes the feel of the pen on the screen and the quality of the hinge swivel mechanism.  If you are interested in… Read More »

Jeff Kirvin “gets” it

I have been a long-time follower of Jeff Kirvin’s Writing on your Palm website because Jeff’s writings are usually right on the money where mobile technology and PDAs are concerned.  While a big fan of Palm devices Jeff has never hesitated to use other products… Read More »

France augments Livebox home service

France Telecom is making a concerted effort to converge home communications and entertainment services into the Livebox service that has been available to customers for some time.  They recently announced the addition of "Liveservices" which adds a WiFi-based cordless home phone to the internet, telephone and… Read More »

Blind video game wizard

The story of Brice Mellen of Lincoln Nebraska is one of the most amazing ones you will ever hear.  Brice has been blind since birth and has used his 17 years to learn to play video games.  Well, he doesn’t just play them, he is… Read More »

Pretec’s new 4 GB SD card

Pretec has introduced a new 4 GB SD card that is a high speed addition to the company’s growing line of memory cards.  The 4 GB card has access speeds up to… Read More »

Technorati quietly launches mobile site

The Technorati experience just got a little richer for those accessing the web from mobile devices with the introduction of Technorati Mobile.  The new mobile edition is formatted specifically for the small screens of handhelds and mobile phones and provides the same rich search capabilities… Read More »

As discussion has intensified over potential problems with the shuttle re-entry due to the foam problems I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed over NASA’s public grounding of the shuttles while Discovery is in space.  This is something that could surely have waited until the… Read More »

“The halo effect enabled them to go after PC users and sell them Apple products,” said Will Poole,, the Microsoft executive in charge of desktop operating system products. Read More »

More Must Reads

Huawei, might be becoming a fixture in telecom bids around the planet, but its low-cost products are finding few takers among the US telecoms, reports The Wall Street Journal. The company which is on a tight leash from its masters in China made all the… Read More »

Andy says “In marketing, it’s what makes you different that matters.” Andy is right, Michael Robertson should articulate why Gizmo is better! And it is – for many reasons. Open, elegant, simple to use, and it works with many different SIP networks. Read More »

Dan Gillmor discovered that Macromedia was putting stuff in the shopping basket which he did not order. They call it convenience, and it is everything but. I hope they fixed this glitch. One of Macromedia employees has been in touch and is working on getting… Read More »

Sonos might have set the bar for digital music systems for the home, but that doesn’t stop others from trying, and knocking it off its perch. The latest is San Francisco-based Olive Inc, which has just launched Symphony, a wireless music hub powered by IBM… Read More »

So what’s the big news about a new review of the several years old Sharp Zaurus SL-5500?  The SL-5500 is antiquated by today’s PDA standards and even Sharp has released a couple of later… Read More »

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