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Archive for March 2006

MSN-TV to launch in-vehicle service over EVDO

CNET has a video overview of the upcoming MSN-TV in-car service that will debut around July 2006. The initial service will use EVDO via Verizon and will place an EVDO junction box in the car that creates a mobile hotspot that will provide complete … Read More »

Spb AirIslands released for the Palm Treo 700w

Spb Softwarehouse has announced the release of a new version of the interesting Windows Mobile game, Spb AirIslands. The new version adds specific support for square screens including the Treo 700w. AirIslands is a lot of fun to play, I’ve been playing it for a … Read More »

 
 

Talking Netvibes

Web 2.0 which I define as ability to do a lot more with a lot less inside of a web browser – and the ensuing funding madness has finally started to go global – albeit very slowly. Netvibes, a Paris-based start-up last week raised a … Read More »

Ah, the memories.

Mac OS X is five years old this month, and Apple’s gone through five revisions to this OS (counting the Public Beta) with a sixth on the way. Remember when the latest and greatest OS from Apple had a desktop that looked like this? I remember … Read More »

Hugo closer to verify a Toshiba UMPC is in the works

Hugo Ortega is a man on a mission, no, obsessed with getting Toshiba Australia to admit there is an Origami device in the works. Here’s his latest recount of the continued efforts to track down some confirmation. Related posts: Finally, we can call them Origamis; … Read More »

Finally, we can call them Origamis

I am not the only blogger that is struggling with each post about the Ultra-Mobile PC/ UMPC/ Origami. We have to mention all three of these names to make sure everyone knows what we are talking about. Not anymore, thanks to Bill Gates. Bill was interviewed … Read More »

Video- playing with the TabletKiosk Origami/ UMPC

Lora Heiny of What Is New has published a short video of her niece having fun with a TabletKiosk Origami/ UMPC. The video shows the TK up close and personal and provides some insights from someone who has used it for a bit. … Read More »

The New Office Space Goes Global

A few weeks ago we carried a piece called, the New Office Space – a round up of cafes in San Francisco where Baristas brew a mean cuppa joe, and WiFi is free. This heady mix results in great ideas and cool products. Ask Kevin … Read More »

Telecom Gear Mergers Ahead

With the telecom service providers contracting faster than a bride’s waist in weeks leading up to a wedding, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Lucent and Alcatel are entertaining thoughts of a $33 billion merger, that would combine two of the biggest equipment … Read More »

Portals Or Bloatals?

Another week, another Podsession. This week, Niall and I ask the dreaded question: Are portals back in fashion? After all, despite what you may say, the launch of Google Finance, is the latest of many steps the search company has taken towards a full blown … Read More »

Linux based PC for $146

A Chinese company, YellowSheepRiver, has released the Municator, a $146 Linux based computer roughly the size of a VHS cassette, if you remember those. The system will connect to both monitors and TVs and sports a 400/ 800 MHz Godson processor, a 40 GB hard … Read More »

Mobber, New Chatter for Blogs

A few months after we saw the launch of 3Bubbles, here comes a new chat tool for blogs, Mobber. Essentially you create a profile, upload a little photo, and if you show up at a site that has Mobber-code (tiny bit of Javascript really) embedded, … Read More »

More Must Reads

MobileTechRoundup co-host Dave Ciccone has been singing the praises of the Windows Mobile beta version of the SlingPlayer Mobile and I see today it is available for download. The program is free for registered Slingbox customers and those who register by April 26th, after … Read More »

Everyone somehow has this belief that they can overtake MySpace. And everyone including senior executives are suffering from equal if not grander delusions that they can bury iPod. Nokia executives are pouting and pointing out that stand alone Mp3 players – lets face it, there … Read More »

When Carl Icahn was needlessly hounding the Time Warner management (my employers), I urged caution and asked them to stay the course. A few weeks ago, a chart in The Economist showed that despite a checkered past, there is web life in this conglomerate called … Read More »

Our good buddy, Michael “disruption is my middle name” Robertson is at it again. After taking on Vonage and Skype with SIPphone and Gizmo Project, he is now going after Microsoft’s cash-cow application, Microsoft Word, using a new online word processor called ajaxWrite. As … Read More »

Niall dropped off his TiVo for me to play around with, and I hooked up the Sling Media’s Sling Box, to get going on the place shifting bandwagon. With the baseball season around the corner, and I already having decided to pre-order the Yankees games, … Read More »

Hugo Ortega needs to get a life- he just keeps digging and digging and generally running amuck in the Tabletscape. This time he noticed in the April issue of APC Magazine, an Aussie publication, an interview with Matt Codrington who is Toshiba Australia’s … Read More »

Unwired cities movement continues – Earthlink says it is going to unwire the City of Milpitas. The Wi-Fi mesh network will cover about 6.5 square miles, and will basically be like most other muni networks. While businesses and consumers will pay some amount of money to … Read More »

Rakesh Mathur is someone I have known from a bubble ago. He dropped me a note today saying that he has moved back to Silicon Valley from Seattle. (That perhaps explains the torrential rains, which have followed Rakesh to the Bay Area.) He is one of … Read More »

Sierra Wireless has announced the AirCard 595 which brings EVDO Release A support. Release A will be the next network upgrade for both Sprint and Verizon EVDO. Release A offers a theoretical 3.1 megabits download and 1.8 megabits of upload speed. Sierra is … Read More »

Skylook is the utility that brings Skype right into Outlook where all your contacts reside and the new version just released adds tons of new functionality. This is shaping up to be a great Skype tool for Outlook users, even adding the ability to … Read More »

Motorola unveiled a new PDA phone in Japan that looks so sweet I hope it makes it to the US. The A1200 is a Linux-based PDA phone with a 2.4″ touch screen, 128 MB of memory, Intel Xscale PXA270 CPU and a 2 MP camera … Read More »

Kevin Tofel has gone where no one has gone before and recorded a video demo of Microsoft Voice Command. Voice Command is a utility for Windows Mobile devices that provides the ability to control the Pocket PC using voice. Kevin does a quick run-through of … Read More »

CLICK HERE to go get the file.MoTR 34 is 34:00 minutes long and is a 23.4 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion, additional mixing by … Read More »

I had reported earlier that the new and improved (hopefully) Yahoo Messenger Beta (code named Postman) was going to hit the web this week. This is a Windows PC only release and is still a beta version of the IM+VoIP client … Read More »

REDMOND, Wash. — March 21, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that Windows Vista™, the next generation of the Windows® client operating system, is on target to go into broad consumer beta to approximately 2 million users in the second quarter of 2006. Microsoft is … Read More »

Update: Mike asks, why didn’t Microsoft simply offer free upgrades to users who would buy computers in the holiday season, instead of announcing delays? My theory is that they are not too confident that they can actually ship the product and get all the kinks … Read More »

Program allows DyKnow to ready its software for Microsoft’s new ultra-mobile PC INDIANAPOLIS (March 21, 2006) — DyKnow, a leader in interactive education technology, announces Microsoft has selected the company as one of 10 independent software vendors (ISV) to participate in the Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) ISV … Read More »

I know, I haven’t released the next Quicksilver video, but [hopefully] in short order, it’ll be here. But for now, check out Flicksilvr. It’s a great plugin that allows you to tag and upload one or many picture files from anywhere on your … Read More »

Update: I am going to be on CNBC’s On The Money show to discuss Google Finance @ 7pm EST/ 4pm PST along with Paul Kedrosky and David Vise. The much awaited launch of Google Finance service finally happened – in beta of course. And in … Read More »

Update: Yup, my little birdies were spot on with the DT-Microsoft information. The very same cities where Alcatel is selling gear, Microsoft is doing IPTV. Press Release is here! With TelecomNEXT, the newest telecom trade show going great guns in Las Vegas, the news … Read More »

Darren Strange has produced a great video overview of OneNote 2007 that highlights the interaction between this new version and the other applications in the Office 2007 family. Of particular note to me is the ability to have notes become tasks in Outlook, and … Read More »

Microsoft MVP Darryl Burling has posted a prediction that the high-end PDA will disappear in the next few years with the release of the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC). The UMPC will probably mean that the larger form factor Pocket PC’s will dissapear over time. This of course … Read More »

While walking the floor at the Spring VoN in San Jose last week, I heard rumblings that Veraz Networks, a telecom software company [softswitches, media gateways and digital compression products... that sort of stuff] might be headed towards an IPO later this year. The company has … Read More »

With MPAA cracking down on Usenet services, it is no surprise one of the bigger ones, GUBA is trying to go legit. The San Francisco-based start-up which lets you download videos from Usenet groups via a web interface, today introduced a new video upload … Read More »

As the final seconds of the last second-round game ticked off the clock Sunday night, Larry Kramer talked about the network’s massive ad-sup… Read More »

We have Google Envy… we have iPod envy… and we have MySpace envy. Barring Skype sales to eBay, MySpace has been the only really big ticket exit in the tech-land for a while, and its $500 million plus price tag has $-signs dancing in people’s eyes. … Read More »

If everyone is doing 2.0, why not Firefox 2.0. Hell they have a more legitimate reason to use 2.0 than anyone else. The internets are buzzing with news that Mozilla folks have released an early alpha of Firefox 2.0. Actually that is not … Read More »

Go get it here (19.4 MB, 58 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and I take a different tack with this show and address some very thoughtful questions from listener Rob Halligan.  Rob wants to know … Read More »

For some odd reason, this one simply slipped under the radar. Sequoia Capital has invested in JaJah, an Austrian-VoIP start-up that wants to be what else: a Skype-killer. (Not that Skype needs any help – not when their client sucks up 95% of the CPU power … Read More »

Special Report by Jackson West Another year and another great time in Austin was had at South by Southwest Interactive. While I haven’t seen the numbers, it seemed to be an even bigger crowd than last year. This was the first official ‘Web 2.0′ … Read More »

You be the judge. I ran across a news item that shows the president of Vodafone shaking the hand with a Softbank executive to symbolize the sealing of the $15 billion dollar buyout of Vodafone. My reaction to the picture was immediate, I … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 33 is 34:41 minutes long and is a 23.8 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta … Read More »

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