BellSouth will launch its fixed wireless broadband service in five new cities in the third quarter of 2006. The service will be available in some select parts of Melbourne, Fla.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Greenville, Miss.; Charleston, S.C.; and Albany, Ga. The service will have a downstream… Read More »
Archive for June 2006
When I was young, I woke up two days before Christmas very early in the morning. I heard some ruckus in the garage, and I went to investigate. To my surprise, my father was struggling with my Christmas presents in the car. Two days before Santa… Read More »
We met Joey at the MobileTechRoundup meet up last week and while we’re not claiming any mobile device influence, Joey just informed me that he nabbed a Samsung Q1. From my initial impressions, Joey is definitely in the power user class: last week he showed… Read More »
Good news from the World Wide Web Consortium, or WC3, today: they have a press release on their new "Mobile Web Best Practices" document. Best practices aren’t standards or protocols that must be followed, but at least they’re taking a step in the… Read More »
One of the oldest games is now available for your UMPC or Tablet PC and I have to tell you, it’s addicting! jkOTR reader and blogger in his own right, Frank (aka: CTitanic), developed this game specifically for the UMPC-sized screens and it fully supports… Read More »
Parkers in Vancouver can now pay the parking meter with their cell phone. No more fishing coins out of the car seat or stuffing more money into the meter than you… Read More »
Jezlyn over at Late to the Party is trying everything possible to help her decide on a new mobile device. Will it be a Toshiba Tablet PC? How… Read More »
Phil Crosby and Michael Quinn are working on an add-in for Microsoft Word (2003 & 2007) that extends the ink functionality of those programs on a Tablet PC. They have posted a video of Ink for Word that shows some of the things you can… Read More »
First Connexion from Boeing said they might call it quits and stop providing in-flight Internet access and now comes word that Verizon will be exiting the in-flight phone business by the end of the year. Pretty soon you’ll be begging to use your cell… Read More »
Comcast Interactive, a division of Comcast, has snapped up ThePlatform, a digital media services company based in Seattle, according to sources close to the company. While I was typing this up, PaidContent published the details of the deal. The purchase price is pegged at between $70… Read More »
I’m a bag whore. I’ve got piles of them laying around my basement. I’d buy one, use it, figure out what I didn’t like about it, and I’d move on to the next one. This went on for many years – drove my… Read More »
If you don’t want to download the public beta of Office 2007, there’s another option: you can run the Office Test-Drive over your web browser. This is a… Read More »