October, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2005

Akismet has caught 2000 spams so far

Akismet comment spam protection service has caught 2000 spams so far. The spam of the day: cingular ringtones. Read More »

Sonos is Better with a Cradle

Sonos Sound System did feel incomplete without a cradle/charger for the wonderful remote control. Now it seems the little music family is complete. I think the photo says it all! Check out my review of Sonos. Read More »

 
 

James Enck is One in a Million For those more in…

James Enck says his blog is worthless, while mine is $1.15 million in blog dollars. James, good buddy you are one in a million. Same holds true for Martin Geddes and Richard Stastny. In my books at least! Read More »

At Dell a faulty capacitor leaks $300 million

At Dell a faulty capacitor leaks $300 million. PC maker will take a $450 million charge to restructure consumer operations. The iPod curse in effect. Somewhere, Jeff Jarvis is uncorking Korbel! Read More »

Happy Diwali All

All my friends, we are celebrating the Indian festival of lights, aka Diwali. The official day of Diwali this year is November 1, which means my family has already started celebrating. It is the day I miss my family the most, and hope that some day… Read More »

Webster adds WiFi to the dictionary, defines it as “Wi-Fi used to certify the interoperability of wireless computer networking devices.” Read More »

FCC approves MCI-VZ, AT&T-SBC mergers

Are Bandwidth Mergers Enough?

Updated: For nearly two months I had been hearing chatter that WilTel was in play. I had heard that even Comcast was interesting in the company, and there was some talk of Level 3. Unfortunately, I could not pin this one down, and now feel bad… Read More »

Marc Orchant points out that the current version of 3M’s Post-It Note software now has pen input on Tablet PCs. You have to spring $25 for the professional version to get the ink capabilities but I found it useful enough to do so. It… Read More »

Blogging catfight

Ken Yarmosh, a paid consultant to Blogscient is upset that his client didn’t get a fair shake from Techcrunch because Mike is Gabe.memeorandum’s friend. Mike fires back. Will Scoble play daddy? Read More »

Pocket PC Addict for sale

It was with great sadness that I got this information from good friend Brad Isaac, owner of Pocket PC Addict. PPCA has long been one of my favorite Pocket PC enthusiast sites and I hope it will survive: Well, I’ve got a lot of mixed… Read More »

LG Electronics EVDO notebook

The first notebook computer with embedded EVDO connectivity is scheduled to appear next month in Korea. The X-note Express LW20-EV has been developed jointly by LG, Intel Korea and KTF. No word if this will be sold outside Korea. (AVing via Ubergizmo) Read More »

More Must Reads

For all its global assets, India was one of the countries that was conspicuously missing from Vodafone’s global footprint. World’s largest wireless operator changed all that, and bought a 10% stake in Bharti Telecom, one of the largest GSM operators in India. Vodafone paid $1.5… Read More »

Marc Orchant, Warner Crocker and I had a discussion on the current OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast that touched on how to choose the right type of Tablet PC for you. The expanding number and types of Tablet PCs available today makes the task… Read More »

Venkatesh is helping out over at the Broadband Wiki by mapping the data we are collecting to Google Maps. On his blog, he proposes a marriage of Google Maps with Google Talk. Consider hypothetical situation, whereby google release API similar to Google Maps, where by users… Read More »

Light Reading: Level 3, Cogent Kiss & Peer Up Read More »

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