July, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2005

We’re the Tablet PC podcasters

I’m not going to step into the p****ng contest that Robert Scoble is having with Mac enthusiasts but as a result of that affair Marc Orchant and I are more famous than we were yesterday.  If only Scoble could remember our names .   :) You should … Read More »

What I Want From My Next Powerbook?

Now that Apple has decided to switch to Intel chips, I am pretty sure they will be working on a whole new line-up of Powerbooks. I have been wanting to upgrade for a while – that is about six months – but have seen no compelling … Read More »

 
 

Is George Gilder a futurist or a fool?

Mark Evans asks the question, wondering how his insights of death of TV and Hollywood, are rehashed views from the past. Gilder resurfaced at the AlwaysOn conference hoping to pull a Jason Giambi type combeack. (Paul has more, in his post, The … Read More »

Microsoft wants to patent smilies?

Instead of focusing on some real problems, now there is word that Microsoft is trying to patent smilies, or the emoticons. This has Mark Taylor, executive director of the Open Source Consortium in a tizzy. “We now appear to be living in a world … Read More »

One of my readers, Jonathan Hirshon, sent me this email after he accidentally right-clicked on a Flash ad that happened to sneak past his ad filter and grabbed its source URL… > After checking Macromedia’s online privacy manager on my iMac, I was horrified to learn … Read More »

I hate Outlook with the Energy Blue theme

I hate the garish Luna theme that Windows XP uses as standard so when the Energy Blue theme was released as part of the Experience Pack for the Tablet PC I jumped on it right away.  I love the Energy Blue theme, it looks elegant … Read More »

Winamp Creator unleashes NinJam

Justin Frankel, the programmer responsible for Winamp and Gnutella, has just introduced a new software, NinJam for both OS-X and Windows machines. Amazing use of broadband pipes – collapsing the distance, time and space for the most local of all activities – making music. > … … Read More »

UTOPIA seeks Qwest suit dismissal

Qwest earlier in the year had sued The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) saying that the agency was using its telephone poles without permission. That’s a lie, says UTOPIA, in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. After a careful look at their infrastructure, they figured out … Read More »

Scanning into OneNote

I oversee projects being conducted at various contractors and get a lot of one or two page handouts with maps or other information that I want to capture into my OneNote filing system.  Some people … Read More »

FOLLOW-UP: Call for Help: iPod [Color] & Camera Connector

Original Post/Problem here. Well good news! I finally figured out the trick. The solution is not as I would have expected from Apple – based on the way everything else syncs with the iPod – but that’s ok. “Think Different”, right? So after … Read More »

The Tablet PC Revolution

Martin Shoemaker is a UML instructor who also writes software for the Tablet PC.  He has written an excellent article for software developers who are curious about developing programs for the Tablet PC that describes just how easy it can be given the available tools.  … Read More »

Collaboration is the killer app for the Tablet PC

Paul Mooney thinks that collaboration is the killer app on a Tablet PC. A SharePoint Portal configured with Tablet friendly Web-parts and a wireless Wi-fi connection is the alignment that constitutes the sweet-spot for Tablet PC  adoption. I think Paul is on to something with this … Read More »

More Must Reads

Acer has been producing some nice notebooks and Tablet PCs and they have recently released the C310 Tablet PC.  The new Acer sports a 14.1" screen running at … Read More »

Silicon Valley has often been (incorrectly) compared with the epicenter of another boom, Detroit. The more apt comparison should be with Boeing’s super successful aircraft, the 747. Back in 1960s, the air travel industry went through its own boom, creating a demand for big airlines that … Read More »

James Enck dials into Telenor’s conference calls, gets the gory details and finds out, the Norwegian incumbent is getting onboard the VoIP train. Read More »

Erick Schonfeld writes on Business2Blog: Mo’ Money (for Google and Friends): The figure that caught my eye, though, was the $494 million that Google paid other Websites that displayed its paid-search ads. That brings the Google economy up to a $2 billion annual run-rate. You’ve … Read More »

Vienna is a newly announced news-reader for OS X. From the product page, it looks to have many of the same features as NetNewsWire or Newsfire, but Vienna is different in that it is totally free. Vienna is available for download as either a pre-compiled … Read More »

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