March, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2006

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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 »

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 »

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