April, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2007

The touch interface is clearly gaining momentum: we’ve got touch-enabled Tablet PCs, UMPCs, PDAs, smartphones and other small handhelds. Palm rejection is a staple in the latest Fujitsu P1610 devices … Read More »

Web-Based Task Management in Your Own Space

There are lots and lots of good reasons to use pen & paper to keep track of lists and tasks. Not for me. I had surgery on my dominant wrist in 1989, and as a result my handwriting looks like scribbles after just a … Read More »

 
 

I remember last summer when EverNote announced that their software would be pre-loaded on Lexar USB drives; if you want to add a portable version of this popular application to a … Read More »

Last week I met Yuri Baranovsky, the co-writer, director, and star of an internet sitcom called Break a Leg. The show, a dead-pan comedy featuring warring guilds, a meta-TV show, and a bunch of goofballs, is a poor man’s Arrested Development, and I say that … Read More »

I haven’t seen an official announcement but GigaOm points out Grand Central’s new mobile support. By ‘mobile support’ I don’t mean support for routing calls to your mobile phone; you could … Read More »

Wireless Startups Searching for VC Dollars

It’s funny, usually the press materials at conferences are full of easily ignored sponsor pages and a real waste of trees. But the handouts at the DowJones VentureWire “Wireless Innovations Conference” had some juicy listings, parsing out the 60 participating startups by “financing plans,” “amount raised,” … Read More »

Kevin and I are very happy to announce our 6 millionth page view was served up this week, making jkOnTheRun one of the biggest (and best, but that’s just our opinion) mobile technology blogs on the Internets.  In celebration of this momentous event, we are kicking … Read More »

With all the how-will-they-make-money questions surrounding the online video sharing site businesses, there is a bit of good news from the infrastructure end: New and cheaper ways of streaming video are arriving on the scene, which may help trim the bandwidth costs for all the YouTube … Read More »

For Mac users some backup options

Online storage options for Windows XP users are dime a dozen. Many of the popular ones don’t love the MAC as much. However, today Mozy launched the mac version of its product which according to Web Worker Daily is pretty good, and can compete … Read More »

Knowing when to whack it

When do you know it is time to whack an idea that is not working? Entrepreneur’s Dilemma! My latest on Found+READ Read More »

Brando’s wireless roll-able keyboard

While I’m still very content with my ThinkOutside Bluetooth keyboard for my mobile office, some fashionistas might desire something even bluer. Is this wireless, roll-able keyboard from Brando blue enough? For $29, … Read More »

Options for Backing Up Your Files

Are you backing up your desktop data regularly? It’s one of those important but not urgent tasks that many web workers postpone. Fortunately, a variety of solutions ranging from remote to local to hybrid make it easier than ever to backup your files. Backup provider Mozy … Read More »

More Must Reads

You can tell Steve spent a fair amount of time on this: he’s put together a UMPC Buyers Guide for 2007 that’s filled with information, good questions to ask yourself … Read More »

We thought Qualcomm might be finally embracing WiMAX, given its recent purchase of TeleCIS’ mobile WiMAX assets. Not so much. Len Lauer, Qualcomm’s Executive Vice President and Group president, gave WiMAX the smackdown at the Wireless Innovations conference on Wednesday. Lauer said WiMAX is more … Read More »

Thanks to a Technorati RSS feed, I caught this post from Fanatical (Fanatic-Al) that shows off some cutting-edge mobile tech….from 1994! Pictured above is a small, 386-based Toshiba … Read More »

The contest to win a free license of Snapter was a very successful one and we are happy to announce the 4 winners of a full license of the digital camera scanning software.  Here are the winners who need to email me and provide the … Read More »

The hype machine is in full swing if the recent interest in new media by big business is any indication. At the Milken Institute conference Wednesday, Forbes managing editor Dennis Kneale moderated a discussion with News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, … Read More »

Slow down. You’re talking too fast for your videoconferencing tools to keep up. Meeting quality when you fire up your webcam to talk to your colleagues is getting better by the minute, but the network is not quite up to shoving all those bits around in … Read More »

The Sopranos are the sole reason I have hung on to my Comcast cable television account. I’ve been waiting for the final curtain to fall on the epic series before I pull the plug on television – for good. Now, three episodes into the final season, … Read More »

I don’t know how he finds all of these UMPC videos but jkkmobile is scraping these all over the web.  His latest posting is a video of an interview with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer showing off the upcoming HTC Shift.  This UMPC is looking more and … Read More »

How do you get users to watch your web show? One way to do it is bribery. A new quiz vlog from the creators of online comedy show Can We Do That? called “3V” asks users to watch an episode, and then … Read More »

Thursday will mark a red-letter day for Apple: For the first time its stock will rise above $100 a share, a tenfold increase in a little more than three years. Think about that: If Google had risen that much since its IPO, it would be trading … Read More »

I consider myself pretty savvy on the Mac. But as the saying goes, you learn something new every day, right? Enter OS X Hacker. A Trackpad setting in the System Preferences that I never paid any attention to before. Hold down your control … Read More »

 It looks like our favorite computer hardware maker is hiring a “Sr. Manager, Web 2.0 Development“. Would could Apple possibly be up to? Myspace comes to iTunes? Facebook on your iPhone? iPhoto to make better friends with Flickr? iMovie goes YouTube? Very interesting. Let the speculation … Read More »

In a rare late-night version of its monthly open meeting, the FCC Wednesday punted on making any first drafts of important rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auctions, instead pushing back some of the more-controversial elements to allow for more public comment as well … Read More »

All Things D, a tech commentary site from long-time Wall Street Journal writers Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, is now live. Owned by Dow Jones, the project is an online extension of the pair’s annual D: All Things Digital conference. Swisher will be reprising her … Read More »

Did you ever wish you could delete all your email without responding? Maybe you can. It’s called email bankruptcy. You realize you are never going to dig yourself out from under the pile of email in your inbox so you just declare that you won’t. You … Read More »

It’s not officially announced yet but one-number provider Grand Central now has support for mobile devices, allowing Grand Central users to see their in-box, set preferences, etc., as long as your mobile device supports an Internet browser. Read More »

Thanks to jkOTR reader, Hector, we got a peek at what appears to be the official and forthcoming Sprint 6800 PDF spec sheet. The most important tidbit about availability isn’t there, but mid-May … Read More »

With screencasts seeming to be all the rage – and having done a handful myself – I thought it might be useful to run down some of the high points of putting together a screencast that conveys a point in a clean and concise manner. … Read More »

Eddie at GBM provides a great overview of Pen Flicks in Vista. If you haven’t tried Flicks or you think I’m talking about obscene gestures with a Tablet PC pen … Read More »

Naval Ravikant, who in his past life co-founded Epinions and Vast, has started HitForge, a San Francisco-based outfit that is a unique twist on the incubator model. HitForge is an entrepreneur cooperative composed of independent small teams, where people can apply with their ideas, join … Read More »

There was little surprise in the “formal” announcement of John McCain’s 2008 Presidential bid today, but unfortunately for the online video world the only place to see the Senator’s video launch (so far) is on his eponymous website, John McCain 2008. While there’s plenty … Read More »

It was three years ago – June 17, 2004, I first met with Blinkx, a toddler of a start-up, showing off a tiny little downloadable software that added context to search – be it on your desktop or on the web. To say the least, … Read More »

Mobile might be the next frontier according to corporate leaders like Google CEO Eric Schmidt, but the market needs innovation to push the mobile web, and mobile services to the next level. At the Wireless Innovations conference in Redwood City on Wednesday, it was … Read More »

With potentially half a billion dollars at stake, networks and web destinations are hard-selling advertisers on their digital campaigns. Product Placement Surge: How do you earn advertising dollars in a world where consumers are skipping the ads, downloading shows, and otherwise avoiding 30-second spots? Product … Read More »

TUAW posted a neat link about combining Quicksilver and YubNub for extremely customizable searches. I briefly played with this and found it to be pretty cool actually. Having not previously heard of YubNub, this was a learning experience for me. The highlight … Read More »

With the FCC set to issue the first set of rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, there was plently of interest in today’s open meeting. However, the monthly FCC gathering, scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. East Coast time, has yet … Read More »

In the past few years we’ve gone from slim-pickin’s to a plethora of 3G modems for the mobile broadband experience. Today’s entry comes to us by way of AT&T: … Read More »

Web workers have different styles when it comes to maintaining our professional networks. Some people rely on a small, tight-knit group of like-minded contacts, adding new ones slowly and cautiously. Others focus on collecting additional contacts as rapidly as they can — keeping an eye on … Read More »

We already knew it was coming but today, Verizon Wireless makes it official. As early as May 14th, the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone becomes available. The … Read More »

The much talked about Apple TV has been around for a while and is being carried by major retailers, and has been hacked over and over again. After catching yet another Apple TV review, I put together this list (with explanations) of stuff I … Read More »

Given the success of YCombinator, it is no surprise that many are trying to replicate Paul Graham’s idea, the latest being YEurope (including the Y), hoping to further accelerate the innovation cycle across the pond. A few months ago, I asked a mildly bemused Paul … Read More »

With a reprieve from the courts, what’s Vonage’s first public step in its patent battle against Verizon? Hire more lawyers? Partner with other patent holders? Nah — instead, Vonage went and bought some newspaper ads, and built a net-neutrality style “grassroots” website designed … Read More »

blinkx looks to be the first of this crop of online video startups to go public, albeit in strange fashion. The video search company, which as we have written had an unclear relationship with Autonomy, the publicly held British provider of some of its … Read More »

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