September, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for September 2005

Last few days, there has been frenzy of activity around laptop makers – Dell, HP, Sony and Panasonic – making noise about the fact that they are going to include 3G (EVDO/HSDPA) modems in future machines. It is a welcome development, but makes me wonder… Read More »

If you are looking for a EVDO card for Powerbook, I will recommend, Sierra Wireless Aircard 580, which after some hacking gives you better performance than any other PC card. However, it doesn’t work as well with Windows Laptops. It was giving me about 350… Read More »

 
 

Verso Technologies recently announced the first carrier grade Skype filtering technology.  This filter can also block P2P messaging, streaming media and instant messaging.  This filtering is done at the carrier level so filtered communications can be blocked at the provider level. “This is a first of kind… Read More »

New OneNote blog

Owen Braun of the OneNote development team is now blogging about the next version of OneNote.  His post A squadron of notebooks details the thought process used for adding multiple notebooks to OneNote and how they envision people might use them. Read More »

Tech S2 has launched CaseScribe for healthcare professionals that offers wireless dictation and transcription via Windows Mobile handhelds.  The service uses ScanSoft’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking to capture the dictation on Windows Mobile devices with wireless Internet access. The dictated information is uploaded to the application server… Read More »

Power has just come back on and I must say it’s been an emotional roller coaster having come from what was projected to hit us to what we actually experienced.  We have received virtually no rain except a few sprinkles, the wind is still occasionally gusting… Read More »

VoIP not ready for primetime?

No its not me who is saying this, but instead it is officials from Level 3, a company that has bet big on VoIP and is hoping for wholesale VoIP to rescue it from the low-margin life of a bandwidth wholesaler. Charles Meyers, group vice… Read More »

Get Music Online Legally

Daniel Punch has put together an article which points you to various places on the web, where you can get free and legal music either for downloads or streaming. He says while you can find a lot of music for downloads on an artist’s… Read More »

All pens to fly half-mast today

Rob Bushway has done what many Tablet owners fear– spilled coffee over his new Motion LE1600 Tablet PC, rendering it fully caffeinated but inoperable.  He’s going to return it to Motion for repair but will be attending the MVP Summit next week sans Tablet PC. … Read More »

Blogging Rita- part 11

Rita has moved inland. We all went to bed last night at 11 pm and all was well. We were awakened this morning at 5:20 am when the power loss alarm went off in the house.  No TV stations are live on the portable TV. EVDO… Read More »

Blogging Rita- part 10

The latest update by those who track hurricanes has moved the projected path of Hurricane Rita even further to the east.  This means my house is no longer in the predicted path of the eye of the storm.  We are now expecting roughly 80 mph winds… Read More »

Palm has announced the upcoming press conference that will no doubt announce the release of the Windows Mobile Treo.  How do we know that?  The press conference will include Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Denny Strigl, CEO of Verizon Wireless.  Looks… Read More »

More Must Reads

British broadband got a big boost today, when British Telecom decided to spin off its local loop operations, giving rivals a fighting chance, reports The Guardian. Annelise Berendt, a senior analyst with Ovum tells the news paper that OpenReach (BT’s spin-off) “sows the seeds of… Read More »

Palm is hosting a big event on Monday which will include Ed Colligan, Palm president and chief executive officer; Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect; and Denny Strigl, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless. Add those three names together and to me… Read More »

Finally there is confirmation of what I had earlier reportedBitTorrent , according to regulatory filing dated September 12, has raised $8.75 million in a Series A funding round led by DCM-Doll Capital Management. Money, I am sure will be used for… Read More »

And I’m the latest guest author for jkOnTheRun. The concise version: I’m a 30 year old guy that loves to code and is married with an eighteen month old baby girl who already has me wrapped around her finger.  My technical background began in linux and the… Read More »

The Tablet PC Education Blog recently mentioned Microsoft Student 2006 which is an excellent platform to aid students in handling their studies, homework and research.  Marc Orchant+’s son has been using Student for over a year and he has only great things to… Read More »

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