March, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2006

SF Techsessions Tonight

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 »

 
 

Brighthand merges with BargainPDA

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 »

Of Free Movies & Broadband

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 »

Cool.Prepaid or Uncool.UnPaid

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 »

Don’t click this link…

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 »

MobileTechRoundup Podcast #35

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 »

Really Bad Apple Phone Rumor

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 »

More Must Reads

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 »

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