December, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for December 2005

MobileTechRoundup Podcast #17

Head over to the podcast web site to listen directly or, CONTACT US: E-mail us or leave us a voicemail on our SkypeLine! SUBSCRIBE: Use this RSS feed with your favorite podcatcher or click this link to add us to iTunes! Read More »

Broadband Events Calendar

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 »

 
 

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 »

The Blog Plagiarism post has resulted in a wide ranging conversation – and well, now I can point to two that make a lot of sense and bring up different issues. Mike over at Techdirt thinks me flipping out is a pointless. Its a… Read More »

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 »

Remember the post about Amsterdam building their own fiber to the home network. Well, the city elders have approved the network unanimously. The network’s first phase – 40,000 homes & businesses – could get underway as early as late spring. According to sources, the two… Read More »

Full Feeds versus Excerpts

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 »

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 »

My future brother-in-law now has, thanks to Christmas, two new iPods where he had none before. One is a 512 meg Shuffle and the other is a 20 gig 4th generation HP iPod, and he needs to manage them both from the same computer (currently an… Read More »

What’s a Tablet KDE?

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 »

One Remote Fits All

Florida-based OpenPeak is about to introduce a brand new remote (most likely at CES) that can do it all. According to their PR firm, “Simple Remote, is part movie/IM command screen, part electronic program guide, part VoIP phone, and an all-in-one remote that controls appliances,… Read More »

More Must Reads

From Apple’s Java Developer site: “Mac OS X is the only mass-market operating system that comes complete with a fully configured and ready-to-use Java Development Kit. Professional Java developers are increasingly turning to the feature-rich Mac OS X as the operating system of choice for cross-platform… Read More »

Elan Digital Systems is releasing a USB adapter specifically designed to accept Wireless PCMCIA cards for portable devices that have no PCMCIA slots. The U132 will ship in February and allows users to connect 3G PCMCIA cards to Wndows XP devices with a USB… Read More »

Jeff Jarvis: Old girlfriends and stray dogs are more loyal than Yahoo. Read More »

KBCafe Blog Awards… time to cast your vote now! Read More »

What can Apple fans expect in 2006 from the company they so love? Les Posen, a good pal of ours and a fellow Mac addict thinks that as broadband becomes even more pervasive, people will struggle even more to keep their windows PCs battle-ready. The… Read More »

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