January, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2006

Google’s VoIP Plan (Beta Of Course)

While I was busy chasing down stories about Google’s earnings, finishing up my story for the magazine, the blogbees were doing their thing, trying to make sense of disparate bits of information, and assembling them into a honey pot about Google’s VoIP plans. Atleast the … Read More »

Freeware of the Moment- RoboForm

Today’s Freeware of the Moment is a utility that is always running on my Tablet PC. RoboForm fills in web forms and passwords with the click of the pen (or mouse) and learns as it goes so you can easily log into secure sites … Read More »

 
 

G-Oh-Oh-G

Google is off nearly $65 in after hours trading…. Bloomberg’s report had my head spinning, so instead I opted to read The Street.com. the search giant put its non-GAAP earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31 at $1.54 a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call … Read More »

Vodafone’s German Broadband Plans

Vodafone’s German fixed mobile subsidiary Arcor is getting serious about offering broadband and competing with the existing players. A few days ago the company announced that it would launch ADSL2 services on February 1, 2005 in 300 cities across the country. Arcor has 1.1 mln … Read More »

VoIP, Not Just For Cheap Calls

There are three billion phones on the planet – two billion fixed phones and another billion mobile. The percentage of those utilizing Voice-over-IP technology is so small that it doesn’t show up on the radar. In-Stat research estimates that there were a total of … Read More »

Syncing Nokia Phone + Yahoo PIM + iSync

In his latest infinite-loop entry, Om Malik tells us how he managed to sync his Nokia Phone with Yahoo and iSync. Yahoo doesn’t provide facilities for synchronizing your Mac to their service. They use Intellisync, and that’s Windows-only, as far as i can tell. … Read More »

Google Goes P2P?

John Battelle says Google is going P2P via ShareLive which used to be a file sharing site. Read More »

CoPilot live 6 GPS for the Treo 700w

On the MobileTechRoundup Podcast that will be released shortly I mentioned my search for a GPS solution for the Palm Treo 700w. Dave Ciccone pointed out that ALK Technologies has just announced the availability of the CoPilot live 6 solution for the … Read More »

Paperless Challenge Podcast Part 2 is available

Eric Mack has released the second podcast in a series covering his paperless challenge on his Tecra M4 Tablet PC. Tracy Hooten of The Student Tablet PC blog joins Eric again to discuss the best practices and challenges they faced trying to go completely … Read More »

What’s Microsoft afraid of?

Nicholas Carr: Could it be that what Microsoft really fears is that the adoption of ODF [Open Document Format] won’t be a failure but a success? Read More »

Hungary mobile penetration is 92.4%

TeleGeography Research says that Hungary now has 9.32 million and the mobile penetration has reached 92.4%, making it one of the more mature markets in Europe. Read More »

Google Is Sellout.com

Andy Kessler writes in today’s The Wall Street Journal that like all cool rockstars, selling out has basically cost Google its core audience but that might not be all. Google could have kept their cool and trusted image if they’d just worked with someone else … Read More »

More Must Reads

Sling Media has raised $46.6 Million in funding from Goldman, Sachs & Co., John Malone’s Liberty Media Corporation and Echostar Communications and original investors, DCM – Doll Capital Management, Mobius Venture Capital and Hearst Corporation. The company had raised around $15 million in previous … Read More »

Microsoft has cranked the customer empathy up a couple of notches with the We Share Your Pain (WeSYP) program. Take a look at this short video (spoof) and you’ll see what I mean. (via The Secret Life of an MS Author) Read More »

If you are like me, then syncing your iCal and Address Book with Yahoo’s web-based PIM has been virtually impossible. Given Yahoo’s long standing apathy for MacOS had sent many of us into the warm, comfortable embrace of Apple’s own .Mac service. Of course, a cuddle … Read More »

If you are looking to fund some Web 2.0 companies and are currently seeking inspiration, this is a great resource. … via who else but, the blog king of comedy, Joseph Weisenthal. Read More »

Paul Kedrosky: Mikey Don’t Blog… he just make money! Lot of money. Read More »

I just connected my iPod to load a bunch of new songs and video content from my PowerBook and noticed something that probably should be changed in a future iTunes update. The status message of the upload read “Updating songs on iPod” yet it was in the … Read More »

Google released a new toolbar, and thanks to Niall Kennedy, you can add GigaOM directly into the Google toolbar for Internet Explorer. All you have to do is click here. That’s it – you are done! Niall says that by installing this button, … Read More »

The great thing about World Economic Summit at Davos is that as a CEO you can say just about anything, after all it is about the grand vision and the perfect future. Never mind reality! Today, there is big hoopla over Microsoft’s grand … Read More »

Rockford, home to more than 150,000 people in the third largest city in Illinois  is planning to build out its own muni wireless networks. The community will be using services of Airpath Wireless, and ROC-net Services, a Northern Illinois-based regional co-operative of local … Read More »

I tried launching Textmate from Quicksilver just now, but acted too quickly and Textpander‘s Preference Pane popped open instead. A Happy mistake though, as it alerted me that version 1.2.2 is now available. And for all you new Core Duo owners, … Read More »

A man was arrested in Virginia for stealing $22,000 of toilet paper. He was tracked down by the GPS fleet tracking system installed in the truck. “The trailer had a GPS tracker on it and when the trailer began moving it started and tracked it to … Read More »

Time Warner warms up to P2P in Germany. It is working on a new service called In2Phone In2Movies with Bertelsmann, and will sell movies and television shows via P2P – In-Stat says that “About 80% of both planned and current cellular subscribers would consider … Read More »

Juniper Networks, has been in a gravity defying mode for so long, that any disappointment is magnified. Juniper recently fell marginally short of its financial targets, but it was its less than sunny outlook for the future that prompted a severe sell off in the … Read More »

IT Facts » 810K broadband subscribers in Argentina Read More »

IT Facts: 412,860 DSL subscribers in Hungary. Read More »

AnchorFree is letting MySpace-rs know where they can find free Wi-Fi service in Bay Area. Given the deals MySpace is making, it seems to be the new AOL. In a good sort of a way ;-) Read More »

Head over to the show web site to listen directly (21.4 MB, 62 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick are back with a vengeance with this special show.  Joining us on the … Read More »

Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures has started blogging. Read More »

Breaking: Heavy.com, a New York-based online broadband content community is close to announcing a new round of funding, sources say. The new funding round is likely to bring in around around $10 million. Polaris Ventures is said to be reading the round. I have … Read More »

Silicon Valley Network, a coalition of business, education and local government officials are planning a massive wireless network that would span from East Palo Alto to Santa Cruz. The SVN is looking to issue an RFP in April 2006, according to a press release … Read More »

I know, I am woefully behind on listening to podcasts and I just listened to Josh Bancroft’s show recorded earlier this year about his ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC that he recently received. His friend Brian drops by his cube at work and the recorded … Read More »

Uber Tablet is a new blog by Hugo Ortega that promises to chronicle his adventures with the Tablet PC. Hugo is in Sydney Australia and was introduced to the Tablet PC by fellow Aussie and Tablet PC MVP Dr. Neil Roodyn. I … Read More »

Mobile TV services have been gathering steam and mobile viewers can get ready for a rash of new TV services from major US phone carriers. While the exisiting services like MobiTV and Verizon’s VCast have already launched the consumer has been restricted to just a few … Read More »

If you are in the healthcare industry and looking for good information about how to incorporate the Tablet PC into the workflow look no further than the Medical Tablet PC web site. This site has tons of information about hardware and software available to … Read More »

Niklas so wants to be Bill…. I wonder how he is taking the smack down from Bill Zennstrom, who recently sold his Skype Internet phone service to Ebay for $2.6 billion, says that Skype has been in business for 3-1/2 years… and in that time has … Read More »

Strategy Analytics says a whopping 810 Million Mobile Phones were shipped worldwide in 2005; fourth quarter alone accounted for 245 million units. 2006 will see 930 million mobile phones shipped worldwide, and a billion in 2007. Read More »

I’ve had the conversation a few times already.  I’m sure many of you have as well.  “Do I get a first revision Intel Mac, or do I wait until the hype dies, and bugs are worked out of the hardware/software?” A day or so after The Keynote … Read More »

Greg Isaacs, who runs eBay’s developer program sent me an email this morning with this most interesting link. “One (loose) predictor of who may win the Super Bowl could be the value of Seahawks versus Steelers merchandize on eBay,” he writes. Mpire, one of eBay’s … Read More »

Girls of You Tube, and now Girls of MySpace! (Not Good for Office Link!) Read More »

CLICK HERE to head over to the MoTR site and listen directly.MoTR 21 is 37:05 minutes long and is a 25.5 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by … Read More »

My younger sister is in the market for a new computer, and like seemingly everyone else these days, she’s looking for a Mac. So as a good big brother, I’m helping her figure out what to get. While pricing out the new Intel iMac and MacBook … Read More »

Tablet PC MVP Tracy Hooten is giving OneNote “one more shot” this semester. It seems she has been having problems with the GoBinder beta she’s been using and she keeps hearing all this good stuff about OneNote so she’s giving it a whirl. … Read More »

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