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When I first interviewed Freescale about its plans for the wireless technology Ultra Wide Band (UWB) in early 2005, I believed it when the company said that the industry would likely ship its first UWB products by the end of that year. Most of us did. Now it’s the end of 2006 and a few [...]

Grouptivity is a free web application that promises to take the hassle out of online planning and group email decision making. And it gets half-a-thumbs up from Web Worker Daily.

Google posted to its official blog to better explain its year-end Zeitgest search list. The description originally given when the list was released last week was irresponsibly sloppy, leading many to label it as the search engine’s most popular searches of the year.
The ranking was actually compiled using a combination of growth and traffic, [...]

Over on NewTeeVee, we check in with the gang at Dabble and find out about a new business model they’ll be rolling out in January. It’s fun to spend time with startups over the holidays, when most everyone else we’d try to call is enjoying some time off.

Update:If you are ready to give up your desktop clients and are considering switching to all-Google all-the-time, as one of us has done, be warned that the future is not simple and fraught with risk. An increasing number of GMail subscribers are complaining that their emails, accounts and archives are simply vanishing.
For nearly 10 days, [...]

Ma Bell has been working hard this season, rushing to roll out U-Verse and meet its promise of 11 markets before 2007. After launching UVerse in three cities yesterday, the company added four more cities to the list including Indianapolis.
With recent deployments, AT&T is hoping to give the perception that it is making progress. But [...]