Forbes has put together a list of most wired cities in the US, which puts Atlanta at #1, San Francisco somewhere down there, and San Jose nowhere. Don’t ask! In response, we checked with WiFi directory service, JiWire and found that San Francisco … Read More »
Archive for August 2006
Less than a month after European Union ordered German incumbent telecom operator, Deutsche Telekom to share its fiber/VDSL network with rivals, the company announced that it was slashing prices by 30% in what can easily be viewed as a bid to hang onto … Read More »
I need to go lie down now. (via Gizmodo) Read More »
As a UMPC owner and a die-hard eBook and digital magazine reader, I was thrilled to hear about the Times Reader application announced in April. The app for XP and Vista looks to bring the truest reader experience to the computer screen out of … Read More »
One of the most common questions I get via e-mail is: "how can I use a web-based mapping program like Google Maps on my PDA or Smartphone?" Like many other web services Google Maps doesn’t play nicely with Pocket IE or IE Mobile on a Windows … Read More »
YouTube just flexed its social networking muscles by adding restricted college-specific video-sharing areas. The site has long had many of the features of a social network (personal profiles, friending, et cetera), but so much of its utility is in showing videos to everybody and anybody. … Read More »
Chris, Jack and Steve have a great podcast interview on episode number eight of Mobility Guys. Tyler Welch, a Microsoft MVP lead, answers questions on the Microsoft MVP program, which I found to be extremely interesting. The conversation turns towards DRM as Tyler’s … Read More »
Yes, we all know that the Vista speech recognition demo bombed on stage last month. So what? How many people use speech recognition for computing on stage in front of a large audience? I don’t and when I use Vista’s speech capabilities with the … Read More »
Just another use of a UMPC along with Microsoft OneNote; seasoned OneNote’rs might skip this, but I like sharing different uses of the application, especially with a UMPC since it can basically … Read More »
Remember Limelight Networks, the content delivery network, which recently raised $130 million, and has made headlines for being the infrastructure provider to hot Web 2.0 start-ups such as You Tube? Well the company is looking for a new chief executive, according to some documents. The … Read More »
Yahoo has launched Yahoo! Go, a Windows Mobile version of their communications bundle that includes email, IM, photo, contacts and calendar functions. The mobile service was launched in January for the Symbian platform, and now Windows Mobile users can tap into it too as the … Read More »
That’s the story over at Carrypad, which is based on a Pocket-Lint article “announcing” the Asus R2H. We saw the official Asus press release a few days ago, but saw no indication of price. Allegedly, the R2H will cost 799 pounds in … Read More »
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