Back in early 2007, I hooked up with T-Mobile solely to get the Dash handset. I thoroughly enjoyed that device and I think HTC gave it an awesome update in the Snap. Now I feel the lure of a second T-Mo affair pulling… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
Updated throughout with confirmation, comment from Time Warner: Time Warner Cable, which last month announced plans to expand its metered broadband trials to four more cities, today backed away from its controversial efforts to price broadband based on consumption, including in the city of Rochester,… Read More »
It’s a bright day for lighting startup Luxim Corp. The Sequoia Capital-backed company has just announced $12 million in Series C funds to help it expand and ramp up production of its energy efficient, solid-state plasma lighting — bringing its total venture investment to some… Read More »
I first met Linda Broughton — head of NTI Leeds, part of Leeds Met University — in May 2007, at a meeting on the use of open-source software in the public sector where I planted the seed of an idea to develop a… Read More »
Here’s a piece on IDC’s PC Tracker numbers for the first quarter of the year. They’re quite revealing when you look at them soberly. The first thing you have to do, as I’ve argued before, is pull Apple out of the “PC” mix, so Apple… Read More »
Database virtualization proprietor Xeround said yesterday that it received a Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Award for “Best Operational Support System” based on its deployment at T-Mobile. Both companies have been mum on the details of the deployment (trust me, I… Read More »
I often wonder why we don’t see UMPCs with an embedded operating system. File the Samwell SR569 under “better late than never” because it’s a new, rugged device that can indeed have the OS embedded. It runs Microsoft Windows XPe (or XP Tablet Edition)… Read More »
The predominant way to experience YouTube is and always will be through a computer screen. But the company’s grab bag of offline events — the CNN-YouTube debates, YouTube Live, and last night’s YouTube Symphony Orchestra — are nonetheless worthwhile. We couldn’t make it to… Read More »
Are Nintendo and Sony “freaking out” over the iPhone? (TheAppleBlog) Motorola tries to recapture past glory with AURA (jkOnTheRun) NBC serves up more than a billion full-episode streams NewTeeVee) Phone companies heart the smart grid (Earth2Tech) Bluetooth 3.0 is only days away (WebWorkerDaily) Read More »
A month after Cisco unveiled its Unified Computing System, it has finally released pricing, processing power and memory details. The bottom line is this: the performance of the servers and overall system seem to be in line with competing products from HP and IBM built… Read More »
http://www.youtube.com/v/lUUxGvDqok4&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 One of the aspects of mobile technology I love to most see are those that help folks with an impairment of some type. And in this case, “seeing is believing.” Check the video demonstration of iVisit’s SeeScan demo application running on an HTC handheld… Read More »
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