February, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for February 2006

What’s A Hot Zone in Spanish?

A six year old spanish wireless company, AWA is planning to set-up a massive wireless network in Spain. The company will install 12,000 access points, out of which 4,500 will be installed in gas stations. Other access points will be fired-up in in approximately 40 shopping … Read More »

Ultramobile Lifestyle PCs announced by Microsoft

Rob Bushway is attending the Partner briefing hosted by Microsoft, a meeting where MS is sharing information about upcoming products in the Mobile PC (and Tablet PC) arena with OEM partners and developers. There is exciting news coming out of this meeting about “Mobile Lifestyle PCs” … Read More »

 
 

Like Cars, Warships Have iDocks Too

British Navy just launched its latest destroyer class ship, HMS Daring. The $800 million 150 meter ship that has been fitted with a state of the art anti-air missile system, but its most amazing feature might be an iPod charger. Mess decks are replaced by … Read More »

CMOTECH Korea only USB EVDO modem

Akihabara News brings word of a new EVDO modem the size of a USB key that will be released in Korea. The CCU-550 is a much nicer form factor than the Elan USB adapter for 3G cards. Let’s hope this card … Read More »

Orb releases file and server browser in a new beta

Orb is a great way to stream audio and video files from your home PC to almost any mobile device you have. The service is just great as it analyzes the bandwidth and video capability of the mobile device and optimizes the stream so … Read More »

Windows 98 available on PowerBooks at Best Buy

It would seem, atleast according to the picture above, that Best Buy is now distributing PowerBooks with Windows 98 preinstalled. It says on the product description page that Tiger is preinstalled…but I think that’s just a typo. I’ve been waiting for Windows 98 to be available on … Read More »

Verizon to block using the Treo 700w as a modem?

I first mentioned the utility PDAnet a few weeks ago as a great way to use the Palm Treo 700w as an EVDO modem for your laptop or Tablet PC. The $30 utility enables Dial-up Networking (DUN) on the 700w getting around the Verizon practice … Read More »

Jim Forbes, Formerly of DEMO blogs

My good buddy, Jim Forbes, formerly of DEMO and now in semi-retirement is blogging his thoughts on his new weblog: . He loves his new ThinkPad X41. Read More »

Time Warner VoIP and Broadband Rocking

Time Warner (which owns Business 2.0, my employer) is still be trying to stabilize the AOL-ship, as indicated by the fourth quarter 2005 earnings report. But the good news for the company comes from its broadband and VoIP business. For starters, the company added 265,000 broadband … Read More »

Silicon Valley Shrugs Off Google Hiccup

Silicon Valley is leaving knee jerk reactions to Google’s lukewarm quarter to the Wall Street crowd. That was the finding of my reporting yesterday after the search giant reported its earnings. I filed this report for CNN Money, that went live this morning. … Read More »

MobileTechRoundup Podcast #22 is live!

Head over to the MoTR website and listen directly.MoTR 22 is 33:29 minutes long and is a 23 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion, additional … Read More »

Does Netflix Still Dream of Downloads?

Niall sent me links to couple of very interesting job postings on Netflix’s job board. They are here, here and here, and both make me wonder about DVD-by-Mail company’s plans. I get a sneaky feeling that it could be building out … Read More »

More Must Reads

Forget all the scandals, podfathers and all the congressional aides. Here is a positive story about Wikipedia, which tells you that the online “user generated” encyclopedia is already mainstream. A friend of mine, Shripriya was visiting her family in (south of) India recently, and was … Read More »

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