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Archive for March 2006

jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #13- Office 2007 on a Tablet PC

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Dial Meez To Pimp Your Virtual Self

With the virtual worlds breaking out, social networks gaining in popularity, just like blogs and IM, Sean Ryan, a former Real Networks executive, is convinced that there is a money making opportunity when it comes to 3D avatars. Perhaps that explains why he just launched … Read More »

 
 

HDTV Gone Wireless

Chipmaker Metalink which makes VDSL chips will show-off a new chip, WLANPlus that is based on emerging 802.11n standard at The National Show (NCTA), in Atlanta next week. The new chip will allow HDTV streaming wirelessly, the company claims. Several other companies are … Read More »

Is TEO 3.0 coming?

From Tablet Enhancements for Outlook developer Josh Einstein: Got a surprise for you tomorrow. I’m just too physically exhausted to write about it now. Josh has been working hard on TEO 3.0 for a good while and has added some amazing functionality to the Tablet PC … Read More »

New wide-screen Tablet PC coming?

Eric Mack posts that he will soon be evaluating a brand new wide-screen Tablet PC from a major OEM that no one seems to know anything about. He mentions that everyone will be surprised at just who the OEM is and speculation is high … Read More »

Facebook: $750 million or $2 Billion

A few days ago there was a lot of chatter over Business Week story that Facebook was on the block, as long as the buyer was ready to pony up $2 billion. I suggested that the founders of the company should have been prudent and taken … Read More »

Get TalQing with GTalk

One of the biggest short comings of Google Talk was that you could not use it to make phone calls to plain old phones. You could do that from Yahoo IM, AOL IM, MSN IM and of course from Skype. But now Fremont, California-based Vozin … Read More »

A Quick 30Boxes Update

Its been a while since I wrote about 30 Boxes (read my review) and a lot has happened with one of my favorite online calendar apps. Narendra Rocherolle got married. The threat of Google Calendar became very real. 30 Boxes had a little … Read More »

Cool.Prepaid: Shaken & Stirred

A couple of days we pointed out that things weren’t going too well at Cool.Prepaid, an MVNO that wanted to do the impossible – marry high end Motorola phones will low end prices – there has been a management shakeout. CEO Marvin Jemal is out … Read More »

Eric Mack solves his battery life problem

Eric Mack is the most persistent and clever person I know. When he has a problem he does not rest until he comes up with a viable solution. Eric is using a Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC and the M4 is not, how can we put … Read More »

Vonage, Selling Itself?

It has been almost two months since Vonage filed its S-1 indicating that it was interested in going public and raising around $250 million from the public markets. And it has been two months since it updated that document, which to Wall Street insiders means … Read More »

What is rumored to be the next generation ThinkPad Tablet PC, the X60 with a dual core processor, has appeared on French retailer Graphiland’s web site. The x60 appears to be similar to the currently available X41t with the addition of the core duo processor, … Read More »

More Must Reads

The sleuthing of Hugo Ortega gave us all a glimmer of hope that Toshiba was secretly working on an Origami device and the reaction of consumers was very positive. A lot of people have said that they would feel better about the Origami if one of … Read More »

No longer spooked by Microsoft, startup investors are backing desktop-software startups again — but this time, the desktop’s on the Web. You can read rest of my story on Business 2.0/CNN Money website. The new wave of investment is driven by the convergence of three major … Read More »

Max Skibinsky knows javascript. He knows it so well, that he was working on applications in what he “double-channel javascript.” Thank god, that didn’t catch on and instead we ended up with a more friendly Ajax acronym. Anyway the end result is pretty much the … Read More »

Sramana Mitra introduced me to Keyur Patel, indicating that we would have a lot to talk about, especially in the light of my the then recent story for Business 2.0, The Rise of the Instant Company. We met for a quick drink at the … Read More »

A good GPS navigation unit is one of the most useful items you can put in an automobile. About the only way I can think of to make them more useful is to implement full voice activation. Speak your commands and presto, … Read More »

Get ready for another SF Techsession, tonight at the Westin. St. Francis in downtown San Francisco. The theme this month is online communities and interaction. Making 15-minute presentations are Skobee, Vast, Songbird, and Mozes. Click here to add the event to your iCal. Raj … Read More »

I told you car modders were hot to get Origamis installed into their cars. A new website, OrigamiCar, is soon to release software designed to control your car audio system from a UMPC/ Origami. I hope they add voice control to this, it … Read More »

While geeks everywhere were sleeping all snug in their beds two of the longest running mobile technology websites were feverishly rolling their two sites into one. Brighthand and BargainPDA have long been great resources for mobile device enthusiasts and they promise to continue doing … Read More »

Rumors have been swirling for a few weeks that Microsoft is secretly working on an iPod killer. I have heard rumors that described everything from an iPod-like audio player to a cellphone with audio capabilities, a la the ROKR. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told … Read More »

Hong Kong Broadband Network, a division of Citi Telecom of Hong Kong has launched a free legal movie download platform. This service allows any user in Hong Kong, irrespective of their Internet Service Provider, to legally download five exciting movies for free. Here is the … Read More »

MVNOs are the new Macarena – before you learnt the steps, the damn thing was over. Especially, when you look at new comer, cool.Prepaid, a mobile virtual service that wanted to marry high-end Motorola phones like the RAZR with low-end monthly plans. That’s a match … Read More »

The notorious DrunkenBatman has found a pretty big bug in OS X. Granted, it won’t affect your everyday work (unless you somehow find these kinds of files), but basically, the image on the linked page will crash any app that uses the image processing API in … Read More »

CLICK HERE to go get the show.MoTR 35 is 33:58 minutes long and is a 23.4 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion, additional mixing by James Kendrick. HOSTS: … Read More »

I know Microsoft has stated that they are aiming Origami devices at the consumer space but there is still considerable discussion about how the UMPC would work for business users.  Rich Schulthess is a listener of my podcasts and left Marc and I a comment about … Read More »

Facebook, the college social networking site, and a phenom I wrote about for Business 2.0 is apparently on the block. Business Week reports that the company is looking to get close to $2 billion, and had passed on a $750 million offer. Well, I … Read More »

Talk about a really bad rumor! This site is reporting on a new iPhone, talking with supreme confidence that it has details of the “new iPhone.” Of course you know its not true, because they are trying to pass off the image that appeared on the … Read More »

I first wrote about my "smallest desktop" almost a year and a half ago and the amazing thing is it hasn’t changed much: The Sony U71 is still a good workhorse for me and … Read More »

In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage says Chuck Haas, the co-founder and chief executive officer of MetroFi, a Mountain View, Calif.,-based start-up that is rolling out metro wireless networks. He thinks most metros and suburban areas … Read More »

Readers here shouldn’t be surprised about the broadband miracle in France, for we have written about it again and again and again. But it is good to see the Wall Street Journal write about how France went from a laggard to a … Read More »

The TabletKiosk V-700 UMPC is no more.  Don’t fret, it has been officially named the eo and pre-orders starting at $899 are being taken now at the TabletKiosk web site for … Read More »

You’ve no doubt heard of Woot!, the web site that sells one product per day at super discounted prices.  You have to get in early because quantities are limited for a lot of their deals but you can pick up some real bargains there.  Soon … Read More »

The incumbents world wide are facing a difficult time, according to research firms, Gartner and In-Stat. They are caught between a rock and a hard place. A whole generation is leaving behind wireline voice and switching to a wireless only lifestyle. On the other … Read More »

Marc Orchant and I discussed the benefits Office 2007 brings to the Tablet PC in the latest OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast and mentioned Darren Strange’s video demo of the integration between Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007.  Darren has released another "blogcast" that … Read More »

BostonPocketPC sat down with Otto Berkes, general manager of the Mobile Platforms Division at Microsoft and driver of the Origami project, and asked him some questions about the direction the Origami is headed.  Of particular interest was this quote by Otto: We absolutely plan to work … Read More »

I finally had some time over the weekend to catch up on some interesting blog posts that I had tagged for later reading and am I glad I did.  Tablet PC MVP Tracy Hooten of The Student Tablet PC has been brainstorming about what she feels … Read More »

UMPC Buzz is always johnny on the spot with UMPC news and sightings and today they point to a video recorded during Mix06 that gives a good overview of the Founder MiniNote UMPC. The video shows attendees interacting with the Origami device totally by using … Read More »

James Enck, while visiting San Francisco, was unabashedly enthusiastic about many European countries moving aggressively towards what he thinks is a “municipal fiber revolution.” Ireland, for example is building 120 metro area networks (aka rings around the cities, not last mile connections), while France has … Read More »

Earlier today, when I asked a smart attorney about the Skype-Streamcast fracas, aka the RICO suit, he said that most civil (RICO) suits are about three things – money, money, and money. Well he was right, and now that Andy has finally gotten hold of … Read More »

The $34 billion merger of Lucent and Alcatel, if approved, will unleash a wave of mergers in the telecom equipment sector. Will Cisco merge with Motorola? What will happen to a host of smaller companies? This and more issues are covered in my story,  … Read More »

GO HERE to listen (18.2 MB, 53 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and I are back with this week’s stroll down Tablet Lane.  Listener John Lange let us know that the Fujitsu P1510D is now … Read More »

Looks like we all went trigger happy this week – in the blogging sense of course. Earlier this past week, there was word that nearly 60% of the Microsoft Vista was going to be rewritten, a move that caused a big furor. Now, if you stopped … Read More »

Andy Abramson just scored a big scoop. He has discovered that Kazaa, Skype, its co-founders Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and several related parties have been sued for RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) violations by their rival StreamCast Networks, a company that made Morpheus … Read More »

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