September, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for September 2006

In the wake of all the confidential personal data losses due to disappearing laptops in the hands of government agencies an audit has been conducted to determine how wide-spread the problem is and to determine how best to strengthen procedures to prevent the compromise of confidential… Read More »

Cingular is really raising the bar with the HSDPA rollout, with the latest stop on the 3G tour being Indianapolis, Indiana. This brings the high speed wireless availability to 35 million people in 52 areas overall for Cingular’s BroadbandConnect service. Since James and I are… Read More »

 
 

ITtoolbox becomes a real community

I have been blogging for ITtoolbox for well over a year now and I am remiss in not mentioning the wealth of information the ITtoolbox site contains.  My blog on the… Read More »

Another satisfied UMPC customer

Darth has picked up a TabletKiosk eo V7110 and so far he’s loving it.  It’s his first foray into the Tablet PC space and here’s what he thinks of the handwriting recognition and the TIP: Using the tablet PC text entering tools in Microsoft Office is… Read More »

Flash In The VoIP Pan

Adobe Systems, the San Jose, California-based software giant, has been the real catalyst for the ongoing online video boom, thanks to the near ubiquitous Flash software that plays back everything from stupid pet tricks to the amazing theatrics of LonelyGirl15. YouTube and hundreds of online video… Read More »

Kevin and I have talked about Orb for a long time but recently it seems all the talk has shifted to using SlingPlayer with a Slingbox to place-shift video to mobile devices.  That method works well but Orb is still a great… Read More »

Tired of trying to read your smartphone or handheld screen in full sunlight only to wish it was 12 hours later and dark? I can’t stand that washed out… Read More »

TextExpander by Smile On My Mac

In what is probably my favorite gauge of a great application, TextExpander fades into the background and just works. Smile On My Mac purchased the previously-known Textpander (which we’ve covered here and here) from developer Peter Maurer this past year. If… Read More »

Radar Addiction

I try not to get too giddy about startup reviews, but I’m addicted to a camera phone photo sharing service called Radar, by a San Francisco-based company called Tiny Pictures. I’m more addicted than when I first joined MySpace a few… Read More »

DVD BurnAway: PC not included (or needed)

Give your tired overworked PC a break, would you? You don’t need it to read memory cards just so you can burn DVDs of your digital domain: just drop $370 on the DVD BurnAway and it will get the dirty burning job done for… Read More »

So it was six months ago, more or less, when the Digital Kitchen video of the Origami concept device surfaced. What’s happened in the time since? What have consumers and OEMs learned? Does the product meet the expectations of the concept? There are so many… Read More »

Another day in Silly-con valley. WSJ reports Yahoo is looking at Facebook, for somewhere around $1 billion. Yahoo-Facebook reports and rumors have been circling for a while now. The other Web 2.0 darling, YouTube is also for sale, for $1.5 billion.… Read More »

More Must Reads

Folks, I know a lot of people wanted to get forums to disucss, post and share resources, and I am pleased to announce that we have started working on that. Hopefully by end of the month we would have everything set-up, and the final product would… Read More »

Morten Lund, the guy who was the earliest backers of Skype is at it again. He has financed Zecco, a start-up that will allow consumers to trade stocks for zero commissions, versus $10 to $20 that many online brokers charge today. Other investors in… Read More »

A big debate over the idea of video on cell phones, is whether or not the consumer will want to watch TV-style broadcast channels. We can envision checking in on the Yankees (or at least Om would) or some other live sports match, but not so… Read More »

Information about an innovative new device has been leaking out a few drabs at a time and the latest is that the S-XGen is a Windows Mobile device with a lot of connectivity options.  What is getting people’s attention though is that keyboard that unfolds… Read More »

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