Yahoo, which has already released a new version of its Communicator (Instant Messaging) product overseas, plans to launch a similar client next week, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The new release of the IM client has a brand new voice core, and it … Read More »
Archive for March 2006
I am all about working without compromise while on the road and to do that you must be confident you have sufficient power to last you all day. I heard about the MFuel Power Banks from the Daily GizWiz podcast and visited … Read More »
Good buddy Marc Orchant reports on a rumored simultaneous launch for Vista and Office 2007 later this year. I have to agree with Marc, users making the double upgrade may be biting off more than they (or their systems) can chew. There are … Read More »
AcroDesign Technologies Launches New AudioBay, Introducing Podcasting to the Pocket PC AudioBay offers a complete podcasting solution for Pocket PCs—from recording to hosting Colchester, VT, USA (March 16, 2006) — AcroDesign Technologies today released the AudioBay Podcasting application for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. AudioBay provides everything needed to … Read More »
Earthlink is adding eight more cities where it will now sell line-powered voice and 8 megabits per second DSL connections. Good news for Covad, as well. EarthLink has agreed to provide Covad with $50 million in debt and equity financing to fund additional network … Read More »
Mark Sue, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets has put together a great overview of the state of the fiber to the home market, and has thrown in a nice update on the IPTV deployments as well. In his estimate, there are about 6 million fiber-connected … Read More »
Frankly, I am not a big fan of working inside a browser! It is a painful process, which is not a seamless experience, and is risky. At any moment, you could lose all your information. I like using Performancing or WordPress’ editing window, but mostly … Read More »
Google general counsel Andrew Mclaughlin in a Light Reading story about the FCC forgot a four letter word called “tact.” “The FCC sucks,” Mclaughlin says. “Why would you want the FCC to get involved in anything? Its track record is pretty bad when it comes to … Read More »
Apparently, it is raining cash in Silicon Valley. John Battelle and the FM crew raised more cash from JP Morgan Partners, now knows as Panorama Capital. They are also investors in Vyatta, an open source router company I wrote about a few days ago, and recently … Read More »
A lot, apparently. Kevin, Dave and I (OK, mostly me) had fun on the last MobileTechRoundup podcast and started pronouncing the UMPC acronym “umpsie”. That particular pronunciation is not sitting too well with Warner and Layne and in Warner’s case is … Read More »
White Electronic Designs Corporation (WEDC) is offering the Motion LS800 Tablet PC with a touch screen. File this in the “why would anyone do that” category since the LS800 is one of the nicest small Tablet PCs around. Here’s what the WEDC web … Read More »
More Must Reads
Universal Mac OS X 10.4.x?
Even though it looks like Apple won’t be making a Universal Mac OS X (one version of OS X for both Intel and Power PC Macs, instead of the specific Intel and Power PC builds currently available) until 10.5 comes out, it looks like it’s possible … Read More »