September, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for September 2006

Last few days there has been a lot of talk about Rebtel, Jajah, and a whole slew of VoIP companies which are essentially, as Andy calls them “minute stealers.” Jajah, which has introduced a mobile version of its call back service, well, at least that is… Read More »

Tablet PC Webinar on October 11th

Allegiance Technology Partners is sponsoring a "Tablet PC Q&A" webinar on Wednesday, October 11th at 2 p.m. EST. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Tablet PC computing platform whether you have experience with tablets or you’ve never used one and… Read More »

 
 

What an exciting time in the development of CPUs. Think about it: we’ve seen 64-bit computing support, multiple cores on a single chip and we’re now going to see even more advances. Intel shared some of the future at the Intel Developer Forum and… Read More »

The official new Slingbox Family

As a follow up to information shared yesterday at Mobius, Sling Media formally introduced the new Slingbox family this morning. All of the official deets are in the press release after the jump so check it out. If you’re like me and want… Read More »

India’s Telecom Policy Flip Flop

What does the Indian government really want? First, last year, it hikes the limit of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian telecom companies to 74 percent from 49 percent. Then several government agencies bung a spanner — no, make that several spanners — into the works,… Read More »

Mobius Report- Photos of the new Slingboxes

Kevin Tofel was kind enough to post the breaking information about the next generation Slingboxes that I shot to him during the Mobius Conference yesterday so we could get the information to you right away.  Unfortunately I didn’t have time to get him photos of… Read More »

If you were wondering just how big a geek MobileTechRoundup co-host Matt Miller really is I can offer you conclusive proof quantifying that fact.  Yesterday during the Mobius presentations all attendees were given Vista RC1 on DVD and Matt, who brought his MacBook Pro, didn’t… Read More »

Windows Mobile enthusiasts are all too aware how long it has been since Microsoft has released any free PowerToys for the platform and I’m happy to report from Mobius that they will be bringing out a few new ones in the future.  The first PowerToy we… Read More »

Shameless Plug: Brand new Mac mini for sale

A while back my wife and I won a Mac mini and it just came in this past Monday. Unfortunately for us, we had already purchased a Mac mini right before we won this one, so now we’ve got this brand spankin’ new Intel Mac mini… Read More »

Mobile ESPN, UnMobile Soon?

Mobile ESPN, the much touted but lightly used MVNO is about to go through a major upheaval, report Rafat Ali & Staci Kramer over at PaidContent. They say that the MVNO could either be sold or shut down before the end of Disney’s fiscal year.… Read More »

Do they want their FiOS TV

Verizon, for the first time gave a clear outline of its FiOS (fiber to the home) plans, telling investors that the company’s big fiber network upgrade is going to cost a total of $18 billion, At present the cost to pass a home is… Read More »

As Dick Parsons, the CEO of Time-Warner recently reflected, Murdoch’s acquisition of MySpace “appears to have been a masterstroke”. Well… good to know that he is taking a similar positive view of the deal as me. My positive outlook reflected my high… Read More »

More Must Reads

While at Mobius, James shot me some info to pass along. Brian Jacquet from Sling Media shared information about the rumored new Slingbox line from Sling Media. The rumors should become fact… Read More »

eBay, apparently is looking to get out of China, long after the so called “giant opportunity” became a thorn in auction company’s side. There was that pesky user rebellion. Just wondering how much did the China plan cost the company? They had acquired EachNet Read More »

Barry Doyle has a listing of three recommended Tablet PC books, two of which can be had for less than a Grande Latte at Starbucks! "Tablet PCs for Dummies" and "Tablet PC Quick… Read More »

Yahoo has bought Jumpcut, a Flash-based online video editing site, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced this morning. With the purchase, Yahoo gains another key buzzword for its web 2.0 acquisition porfolio: mashups. This was a small purchase, and it’s interesting that didn’t… Read More »

When iTunes 7 was released, it brought not only a lot of new features and interface changes, but a lot of bugginess. Many users have complained loudly, even taking New York Times columnist David Pogue to task. Apple today released iTunes 7.0.1, which is available via… Read More »

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