Archive for December 2005
By all counts, this has been a phenomenal year, the one where broadband transformed from a fast pipe to a fully viable platform. A platform that if leveraged properly can become a new engine of innovation and growth. We saw the revolutionary impact of the fast … Read More »
Rob Bushway’s blog is now CutMeLoose- same good Tablet stuff, same good guy Rob. If you see a feed appear for CutMeLoose don’t panic- it’s Rob.
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Dirk van der Woude, my unofficial correspondent from Netherlands, just emailed me an interesting link from Planet.NL’s news service. Peter Olsthoorn, editor of the news service went to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (by some counts the world’s largest IX, last month they broke the 100 … Read More »
My buddy Kevin Tofel has updated himself and released version Kevin 2.0. The new version has the same mobile tech news but he’s revamped the site and even has a webcam running. He has also published a video review of the Sena … Read More »
Long-time listeners of my podcasts are familiar with the original Tablet PC Show which I did with co-host Marc Orchant for The Podcast Network (TPN) for some months. A couple of months ago Marc and I decided to take the show off TPN and and relaunch … Read More »
Update: I am with Mark Evans on the complexity of the blog systems. He and I are not alone. Paul Kedrosky is having problems as well. In my case, we had some problems which have resulted in comments from last two days to vanish! … Read More »
I first saw these pictures while at work. One of my co-workers is seriously into cars, and when he called me in to look at something, I wasn’t surprised to see a picture on his monitor of a heavy-duty looking contraption that I could only assume … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2005, 7:54am PT
Japan is enjoying a broadband boom, like never before. According to information released by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, there were 21.43 million broadband subscribers in Japan at the end of September 2005, up from 17.65 million at the end of September 2004. The … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 30, 2005, 7:49am PT
By James Kendrick
Dec. 30, 2005, 7:45am PT
BusinessWeek Online has gotten wind of a new ebook reader that Sony intends to unveil at CES in Las Vegas next week. Sony has indicated the new dedicated ebook reader is intended to do for ebook reading what the iPod has done for portable … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 30, 2005, 7:27am PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2005, 11:56pm PT
11.56PM: In case you were wondering, no I did not get lazy, or keel over. Instead, I was busy with the server transition. We have move to a better and cleaner “apartment” so to speak, thanks to our server land-lords, RackSpace, and hopefully have … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2005, 11:46pm PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2005, 2:45pm PT
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2005, 2:16pm PT
Tablet PC owners who come from the world of PDAs often lament the ability to hit a button and reference the PIM data immediately. While Standby and Hibernation speed up the process of firing up the Tablet and getting to Outlook it is still far … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 29, 2005, 9:31am PT
From scraper sites, to click fraud to trojan horses, looks like the most profitable money making mechanism, aka AdSense might be facing some tough times. Paul Kedrosky predicts that the situation will come to a head in 2006 sometime.
With some estimating that in certain categories … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2005, 8:54am PT
A Penn State researcher has shown a prototype glucose sensor that is very tiny and is inserted under the skin. The device registers the patient’s glucose level when an external unit passes a magnetic field over the spot of the inserted sensor. The external … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2005, 8:41am PT
Use Skype but don’t want to spring for paid extras just to get voicemail? Those media streaming folks at Orb have launched V4S (voicemail for Skype, get it?) that allows you to send voice messages to any email or Skype contact, and retrieve your … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 29, 2005, 8:33am PT
ThinkPad manufacturer Lenovo is reportedly developing a Windows Mobile smarphone. PhoneDaily (Chinese site) reports that the Lenovo ET980 will support GPRS, play MP3 files and be equipped with a MiniSD slot. They also report the Lenovo smartphone will sport a 4 megapixel camera. … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2005, 10:59am PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2005, 10:32am PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2005, 10:19am PT
I had a little outage this morning, because of database corruption issues. It took a little while to fix, but I want to thank each one of you who sent in suggestions, and thoughts. Gregg, Mike Stickel, Ari, Vinny, and scores of others … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2005, 9:09am PT
Fujitsu Stylistic 1000- 8 inch pen computer circa 1996
Ultra-portable computers and mini-Tablet PCs are big right now with many prospective users clamoring for a little computer that can be carried almost anywhere for “on the run” use. Not many people remember the very first computer that … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 28, 2005, 8:39am PT
IBM officially retired OS/2 Warp from their product line last week which closes the book on what was the most advanced operating system when it was released in the early 1990′s. I was a long-time OS/2 user and its object-oriented desktop was incredibly powerful and … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 28, 2005, 12:05am PT
With SBC gulping AT&T without as much as a gulp, one could feel a tad sorry for some of the executives from the “old” Ma Bell who were shown the door by King Ed The First. For example, David Dorman, the former CEO of AT&T, … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 11:28pm PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 11:18pm PT
Quanta and Asustek will be the main manufacturers of Apple’s Intel based laptops, according to a news report in EMSnow. Apparently, the big ramp on production is likely to come sometime in the first quarter of 2006.
Quanta and Asustek are the main ODM notebook partners … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 8:25pm PT
By Nick Santilli
Dec. 27, 2005, 5:27pm PT
OK TAB Readers/Mac Aficionados, I need your wisdom. I’m gonna plunk a few precious dollars down on a Blog editing client/tool. You know, like Ecto or MarsEdit.
So gimme your thoughts on which you like best (I like reasons too … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 27, 2005, 4:05pm PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 1:16pm PT
I am publishing a broadband events calendar, and you can subscribe it at this location, or check out the calendar page. if you would like your even to be included in this calendar, send me a ical/vcal file with event name, date, url, and … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 12:20pm PT
If you have never heard of a company called Rates Technology, then you soon will. It seems like this is going to be the new new NTP, only instead of wireless email, it will be the patent “big stick” when it comes to VoIP. The … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 11:33am PT
By James Kendrick
Dec. 27, 2005, 9:41am PT
This holiday season I decided to do something long overdue and I signed up for Sirius satellite radio service. I did my research about the receivers available and compared both Sirius and XM Radio’s programming and decided to go with Sirius, mainly to listen to … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2005, 1:04am PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2005, 7:42pm PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2005, 6:25pm PT
A lot of us have bookmarked links, hoping to use them at some later stage. Except we forget. Del.icio.us kicked it off, and now many new bookmarking based services are cropping up that do that and more. For instance, Clipmarks. Here is another one, Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 26, 2005, 1:30pm PT
Pete Wright has a post about an interesting electronic ebook reader from Philips called the Iliad. Philips has taken an interesting approach with the Iliad in that is is similar in form to a slate Tablet PC. It looks like the screen … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 26, 2005, 1:21pm PT
One thing I love about Linux users is how devoted they are to the platform and how dedicated they are to making the OS work with every device they encounter. QDevBlog is trying to get KDE working on an unkown Tablet PC and almost … Read More »
