September, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for September 2005

GeekPod 100 update, new PSP 15 hour battery

The GeekPod 100 is an external battery for the iPod that not only delivers a whopping 100+ hours of batter life but also charges the iPod when connected.  My original post about the GeekPod was picked up by many websites which shows the interest iPod … Read More »

Skype’s Bad Connection At VoN

Well, Skype CEO and newly minted billionaire, Niklas Zennstrom just learnt the horrible truth about Skype – something we Skype users have known all along. It ain’t perfect. Apparently, he was muffled by a bad connection, when trying to Skype in his keynote speech over … Read More »

 
 

iTunes 5.0.1

Apple has released an update to iTunes that will supposedly fix stability issues that some users have been experiencing. This emergency bug fix update follows a recent trend in which Apple releases software that is seemingly not ready for release, such as in the case of … Read More »

“Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers”

How much innovation is there in Microsoft’s Windows Vista, due in Q4 2006, and how much of it is borrowed from that company from Cupertino? Read More »

Palm being sued over Treo

This just in…. things are getting decidedly bad in the Palm-land. Disgruntled users are suing the handheld/smart phone maker over all the technology related issues. According to the documents filed with the Superior Court of The State of California in the county of Santa Clara, the … Read More »

Black is the New Black

MobileTracker says T-Mobile plans to launch black Sidekick. Black iPod Nano, and before that, Black RAZR – looks like black is back, and is the new black! What next? Pink? Read More »

Is (Microsoft) Reorg Enough?

Microsoft, for all its faults, does one thing better than most other companies – looks itself in the mirror, doesn’t like what it sees and quickly tries to do a makeover. Today’s makeover is keeping in with that tradition. The tradition, that made Netscape public … Read More »

Tony Li, Found At Portola

Cisco’s uber geek, Tony Li, has landed at a new start-up called Portola, reuniting with his former comrade in arms, Vito Palermo. Two of them worked together in the router start-up, Procket Networks, which despite all the dollars in the world, did not make a dent … Read More »

Verizon, Dell, Lenovo and HP sitting in a tree

First Dell made an announcement they would be teaming up with Verizon Wireless to include EVDO capability in their notebook computers.  Then Levovo jumped into the fray followed shortly by HP.  All three companies will embed EVDO technology into their notebook lines to provide high-speed connectivity … Read More »

Opera is free, forever

The one day free Opera promotion a few weeks ago was so successful the company has released it for free.  The program now has all ads and banners removed from the browser and can be downloaded from the Opera site.  How are they going to … Read More »

Netvibes- cool personal start page

I was rambling around the Web today and came across a really cool site that lets you build a totally customizable start page.  Netvibes is very simple to configure and use and tracks your Gmail account, local weather, Web search (Google, Yahoo, MSN search, Wikipedia), … Read More »

ActiveWords InkPad 1.5 released

ActiveWords is one of those programs that you just can’t live without once you get it configured exactly like you want it.  The unique shortcut / launching / scripting program is hard to describe but easy to get hooked on.  I have been using a beta … Read More »

More Must Reads

Google seems to have developed a secure WiFi VPN software tool – Google Secure Access Client. The information can be found here. Google Rumors has all the details. To sum it up, what they are doing is giving away a VPN tool that takes … Read More »

My battle with cold/viral ailment continues, though I did make efforts to get out and about. Ended up visiting Yahoo for the Flickr Fiesta, but the trip has left me completely drained. I am skipping DEMOfall and VoN Boston as well. I apologize for the slow … Read More »

I came across a very interesting article on Wired that explains the general dismay people have with the seeming lack of randomness that results from random playlists. Dan Goodin (the writer) explains some of the lengths he’s gone to in order … Read More »

VITO Technology unveils its new voice management application for Pocket PC Novosibirsk, Russia, September 12 VITO Technology is pleased to announce its new product, VITO Voice2Go, that allows performing absolutely any actions on Pocket PC with voice only. Unlike some analogs that already exist … Read More »

Eric Mack has an excellent post on his blog he wrote in response to a question from a friend.  It has me really thinking so I thought I’d pose it to the readers here. If you are in a phone call and you need to make … Read More »

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