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Retro Phone, Future Skype

click to zoomHulger (formerly known as Pokia), a London-based company has just announced a new P-PHONE. The clunky old fashioned handset that is going to remind you of Ma Bell now comes with an adapter and a Y-CABLE which can simply be plugged … Read More »

Best free portable Windows applications

People are getting more mobile than ever and software that can install on a USB flash drive or iPod is gaining in popularity. Where can you go for a comprehensive list of software you can download to build that flash drive just like you like it?  Read More »

 
 

For Skype, Tense Moments, New Deals

With the big three – Yahoo, Microsoft and Google - making their respective moves into the Voice-over-IM space, it is very likely that folks over at Skype are feeling the heat. Recent moves indicate, that company is slowly coming to terms with the harsh reality … Read More »

Epson’s cool prototype mini LED projector

Epson has developed a prototype mini-projector using an LED light source that fits in the palm of the hand and weighs only 500 grams.  LED projectors have been touted as the next big thing in tiny projectors due to the brightness possible using the light source.  … Read More »

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet gets FCC approval

Mike Cane informed me the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet has received FCC approval which is a prerequisite for sale in the US.  The Nokia 770 is one of the most innovative mobile devices to come out in recent memory and this from a cell phone … Read More »

AudioBlog goes to Japan, gets VC funding

Given the high interest in podcasting, why doesn’t it surprise me that makers of AudioBlog, one of the podcasting playas’ is getting investment dollars from venture capital arm of Trans Cosmos of Japan. Earlier this summer Pod Show raised about $8.5 million from … Read More »

Writely So

Thin client has a new best friend – the Writely! This is to Microsoft Word what Yahoo Oddpost was to Outlook. An online collaborative wordprocessing tool, that is amazingly brisk, clean and has the crispness that will make ya’ll love it. Here is the link! Read More »

Fred Wilson Is Thinking about a Downturn

Fred Wilson is feeling blue and worrying about downturns What if that capital supply tightens? What if we have a recession in 2006 like many economists are now predicting? Read More »

Network Magic 2.0 beta is available

I first mentioned Network Magic a while back and it generated a lot of interest since it makes it very simple to interact with your entire network using a graphical interface.  I just got word from Pure Networks that a version 2.0 beta is … Read More »

Microsoft says it bought Teleo

Today might be a good day to yell “touchdown.” Two months ago, I had reported that Microsoft had been eyeing Teleo, a small San Francisco-based VoIP provider. Now finally, there is a confirmation via C/Net News.com. “We’ve been making a lot of investments in voice, … Read More »

The Glass Mouse That Roared

The fine folks at IOGear sent me a test unit of their new five button mouse, The USB Laser Mouse, promising me that it would be a fantastic experience, especially if you are using a PC laptop. They said you could program the five buttons … Read More »

P2P, the only killer broadband application

Napster, the first easy-to-share P2P file sharing network, was all the rage in the late 1990s before the record industry cracked down and drove it into bankruptcy. While the morality of Napster system is still topic of big debate, it role in the proliferation of broadband … Read More »

More Must Reads

I am an early adopter – be it a new phone, a new music player or a new operating system – I am first in line to snap up that gizmo. It was this lust for new that prompted me to switch to Apple Tiger almost … Read More »

The New York Times has finally discovered MySpace.com. “I’d say, as far as a cultural phenomenon, MySpace is as important, if not more important, than MTV.” Oh didn’t Robert Young say that, like a month ago? Still a pretty interesting look at how … Read More »

With all the news about convergence between wireline and wireless networks, we are eagerly awaiting a “converged future.” Carlo Longino says, “I’d love to be able to get the rates of my Vonage connection, particularly on international calls, on my mobile phone from any … Read More »

Internet has a deflationary effect on every industry it touches, whether it be financial services, travel, printing & publishing, media & entertainment, or telephony. Google’s strategic plan it seems is to obviously leverage deflation to its own advantage. Free, is the only model that works against … Read More »

Just to keep all of ya updated, it has been a really hectic week, and tomorrow is shaping up to be equally rough. I am going to be in a blog-slow mode as I have to spend my cycles finishing up lots of work for the … Read More »

Japanese electronics OEM Thanko has introduced the Thanko USB Radio in Japan which looks pretty cool.  The USB Radio draws all its power from the USB bus and is slightly bigger than a key chain flash drive.  Why would you want a radio on your … Read More »

Lora Heiny has some additional information about the mobile vision laid out during the IDF keynote speech (webcast replay here) by Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini.  Otellini demonstrated (20 minute mark in the webcast) a portable computer with a 5” screen that displays in either … Read More »

Wall Street Journal catches on to the trend that voice is being embedded in everything – from video games to instant messenger. This is only the start. Our friend Andy pretty much announced his engagement in the pages of WSJ. Read More »

Multiple sources including The Daily Deal and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that Vonage is about to file for an initial public offering and is hoping to raise between $400 and $600 million. The Daily Deal has the scoop. According to sources, it’s possible that … Read More »

Intel CEO Paul Otellini has pledged to have WindowsVista running on handhelds by the end of the decade.  Otellini says that a new generation of devices he calls handtops (I hate that term) are possible due to Intel’s performance per watt initiative. (via MicrosoftNewsTracker) Read More »

First there was the Internet search, then the desktop search, and now it is time for what my Business 2.0 colleague Erick Schonfeld calls, “group search.” Following up on my little scooplet on Grouper-Ask Jeeves alliance, he talked to Grouper president Dave Samuel and … Read More »

Mini Review: Just had a nice chat with Jon Gales using the iChat client, and it worked perfectly. The quality of sound was great and had no feedback or anything of the sort using Powerbook’s built in Mic and speakers. Anyone have screen shots of the … Read More »

So finally we have a winner in the Sextel deal – Motorola, which is getting about $780 million for its stake in Nextel, as per SEC filings. That works out to approximately 69.3 million shares in Sprint Nextel, as well as $46.3 million in cash, … Read More »

In the current Tablet PC Show podcast Eric Rice mentioned the USB gooseneck microphone he uses for recording podcasts and I’ve already gotten several requests for more information.  The microphone is from DVForge and is the MicFlex, a USB microphone that draws all power from … Read More »

Craig Pringle is a lucky dude.  He’s been playing with the new 8.4” Motion LS800 Tablet PC and he’s written a review with lots of pics of this little beauty.  He’s got one size comparison shot that is very revealing as it compares the LS800 … Read More »

For nearly a year Palm’s Treo 650 has been the must have smart-phone for the digerati in Silicon Valley. But that reign at top is about to come to an end, thanks to Hewlett Packard’s Mobile Messenger, HW 6500, a elegantly utilitarian device that has all … Read More »

Melodeo does MobCasting. Russ says a phone is enough to hold a day’s worth of podcasts, and soon you could hear it over the air when 3G arrives. Read More »

Ross says my post about Foo-Bar thing got Slashdotted and is “perpetuating the myth of conflict.” Actually, it was the News.com piece and Tim O’Reilly’s comment – Bozo Filter bit - that got Slashdotted. Just pointing it out…. Read More »

I want to try out a Windows Mobile RSS reader and blog tool – recommendations? If you want me to test it out, please send me a link for download as well. Read More »

Another online television effort. Spare content though. Read More »

Verizon has been adding a lot of phones to its list of EVDO capable cell phones and the latest sounds like a winner.  The Motorola E815 sports 1xRTT, EVDO, Bluetooth and a camera into a sleek attractive package.  PC Magazine has published a complete … Read More »

Toshiba has announced production deliveries of their first 1.8 inch hard drive using perpendicular recording technology that packs 40 GB of storage on a single platter drive.  They also stated a dual-platter model will ship later this quarter with 80 GB of storage capacity.  Perpendicular recording … Read More »

Philadelphia is inching towards realizing its WiFi dream, a dream that is shared by other cities like San Francisco. Today the word has come that Hewlett Packard and Earthlink are two companies that have been shortlisted for building out a Philadelphia-wide WiFi network, beating … Read More »

The ZyXEL AG-225H WiFi Finder has a name much larger than the device but it’s fitting since the device does so much.  Finding WiFi hotspots is just the beginning when you are using the WiFi Finder because it is also a full featured access point … Read More »

Zotob virus, which affected folks over at CNN is taking its toll on broadband service providers, according to Radialpoint, a Montreal-based security company. The broadband providers are seeing a sharp increased in the “support call volume compared to other recent virus outbreaks.” These could be classified … Read More »

Not sure what people read on their phones, but Carlo has some suggestions. Hey thanks for including me in the list. Read More »

The Bay Area housing market is all set to “kick-it-up-a-notch” as many newly minted Google millionaires are going to go shopping for palazzos. TheStalwart has details on the insider selling. For those of you who missed out on the Google IPO, here is your … Read More »

Cleveland just announced its city-wide Wi-Fi network, dubbed “Digital Communities.” Cleveland has teamed up with Intel, Cisco, Accela and others in an effort to narrow the city’s digital divide and boost social and economic development. In the early phase, Cleveland’s mobile inspection teams (such as … Read More »

New York Bodegas to announce a Latino music digital download service…. Indian corner shops now offering one song and two Samosas for a $1….. given the current state of madness around digital music, I would not be surprised to see those headlines hit my RSS … Read More »

Peer to peer networking is normally associated with illegal music and movie downloads. Napster and Kazaa are largely responsible for that image, as was AudioGalaxy. Now, the creator of Audiogalaxy, Michael Merhej, is going legit and has developed a new application that puts power of … Read More »

Treyspan Inc. will deploy and operate a citywide wireless system that will provide residents and visitors with access to the Internet for a subscription fee. More Read More »

Feedster has just announced Feedster 500 list. Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster writes, “We used the algorithm that we thought best for this first-pass at the Feedster Top 500 blogs list. It is a ranking of the blogs with the most inbound links over … Read More »

+ Sprint EVDO in Bay Area is partially working, perhaps beating out the good ole Verizon which is likely to power it up in the Bay Area in the third week of September 2005. + Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to shed light on San Francisco’s free … Read More »

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