December, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for December 2005

Camino Update Released

Camino Browser version 1.0b2, the latest edition, is up for grabs and has some security fixes. It uses the same code-base as Firefox 1.5, so you are getting Mac Style Mozilla goodness. Read More »

Towards Nearly Free Voice

Rupert Murdoch says voice will soon be free, and so does eBay’s Meg Whitman. And even if you laugh of these non-telecom types procrastinations prognostications as wisdom of the novice, there are signs that they may not be that off the mark. Especially if… Read More »

 
 

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Lenovo developing Windows Mobile Smartphone

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 »

Eric Mack has been on his paperless challenge for weeks now and he has posed an interesting question on his blog- Is it legal to scan your books to read on a Tablet PC?. This seems a simple question on the surface but he points… Read More »

A Very Brief Outage

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 »

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 »

IBM retires OS/2

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 »

More Must Reads

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 »

If you have seen those annoying IBM ThinkPad ads on television, then you kinda have a clue about biometrics, which is a way to authenticate a user using finger prints. But that’s so 1990s! Apparently, that security technique can be hacked (literally) and that… Read More »

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 »

Earlier this week, Niall and I got together to record the latest edition of Om & Niall Pod Sessions. There has been an increase in the focus on two-tier Internet, and network neutrality has become one of the hot button issues, we are likely to… Read More »

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 »

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