If you have a USB stick MP3 player like the Creative Muvo line of players then listen up. Our Freeware of the Moment today is Podcatcher on a Stick, a program that installs directly to your USB stick player and turns it into a simple podcatcher […] Read more »
Greg Hughes has something a lot of people would kill for- the Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC. He is testing and evaluating the sweet ThinkPad that adds inking and has posted about his first day with the X41. Read his initial thoughts on his blog and […] Read more »
Microsoft Research has brought Outlook Mobile Manager (OMM) back from the dead. The original version kind of disappeared a couple of years ago but this new version 2.0 could actually be useful for Outlook users. OMM prioritizes messages and reminders (both task and calendar) and sends […] Read more »
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Just a quick heads-up in case you haven’t noticed yourself… If you’re running the Saft plugin for Safari, it WILL break Safari following the update to 10.4.2. Opening Safari will pop up a window telling you that Saft isn’t supported in the current Safari version and […] Read more »
On Jetblue we watch satellite TV. On Singapore Airlines they watch IPTV thanks to Connexion powered WiFi networks. According to Connexion director of wireless channel Adla Hendry half of all Wi-Fi-enabled devices on Wi-Fi enabled planes are logging to the internet. At present 60 planes owned […] Read more »
Russell points to Wikipedia’s list of top ten mobile companies in the world. (These numbers don’t match the data from ITU (thanks Robert) which puts companies like TeliaSonera at #10 spot with 22.5 million subscribers. Also missing America Movil with 60 million subscribers.) Not many surprises […] Read more »
Terminals, network PCs, thin clients…. have now been re-branded asblade desktops Somewhere Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy are gulping Johnny Walker Blue Label, wondering, what they did wrong? Read more »
Times Argus says nearly 75% of Vermont has access to broadband, and the state is going for 100% availability before the end of the decade. Perhaps now we can replace South Korea with Vermont in our broadband laments. On a serious note, this proves if the […] Read more »
Simply Hired and bunch of other small search engines came-up with the idea of scraping employee ads from company websites, and started aggregating them on their “vertical search” engine site, along with listings from other “job sites.” Now comes news that Yahoo’s Hot Jobs will do […] Read more »
If you read the press release, nothing much. For $7.95 a month, you get unlimited Skype usage at any Boingo hotspot, even if you are not at Boingo member. It doesn’t mean you get free WiFi, you just get to use Skype, as some have misreported. […] Read more »
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Broadband Reports says Sun Rocket is suffering an outage. Others like Vonage and Broadvoice have had similar problems before. Read more »
10.4.2 Mac OS X Update is out. Check the Apple Menu –> Software Update … Update Info Security Updates Info Does anybody have upgrade thoughts/notes/caveats/warnings to share? I’ll try to install it later tonight. The mention of Dashboard widgets management enhancement caught my attention. Read more »
Infonetics Research says service providers invested $1.73 billion in next gen voice equipment worldwide in 2004, and expects the worldwide spending to grow to $5.8 billion by 2008. Nearly half of the incumbents including three-of-four RBOCs have plans to boost spending on VoIP. Read more »
Mary McDowell, who runs Nokia’s Enterprise Solutions business says Nokia doesn’t need to buy RIM, thank you very much. It can do quite well on its own and build a blackberry killer all by itself. Funny how everyone talks about building a Blackberry killer – Microsoft, […] Read more »
AT&T CallVantage and Verizon Voicewing are two the big guys now rolling out e911. That’s a good thing for consumers, but Andy points out, AT&T is being low key whole VZ is making lots of noise. Read more »
Order copious amounts of pizza and coke from Papa John, and you might get a free BlackBerry 7100g. Oh by the way you have to commit for a two month voice and data plan. I don’t see the synergies, but since everything wireless is hot, why […] Read more »
In the OneNote podcasts presented by Amy and Wendy Mack they hinted at how useful web cams would be for recording video for inclusion in their notes. A message to their father, Eric- Logitech has the perfect solution with the BuddyCam 2-pack which comes complete with […] Read more »
If you are a big fan of Trillian and Skype, well here is a plug-in. Terrible website, but try out the software anyway. download. via Read more »
During California Gold Rush, the most money was made by folks who were selling picks and shovels, not the speculators. The same holds true for Silicon Valley. Back in the go-go 1990s, it was the Cisco-Sun-Oracle-EMC team that walked away with most of the money. History […] Read more »
News.DesignTechnica is running a story about Aeon Digital announcing a new DVR on its front page, datelined July 11, 2005. The story by Geoff Duncan, in the words of Yogi Berra, was like deja vu all over again, because I read the same news back in […] Read more »
Light Reading reports that Covad is going to launch its commercial fixed wireless service sometime in the first quarter of 2006. I am not sure I believe that timeline. In October 2004, the company told me at Web 2.0 conference that it was going to be […] Read more »
I spent about an hour tonight listening to two podcasts recorded by Eric Mack and I am just blown away by what I’ve heard. Eric’s 12 year old daughters (I think they are both 12), Amy and Wendy, decided to learn to use OneNote recently while […] Read more »
TABers get in on a weird but interesting (and tangentially Mac-related) social blogging experiment. Read more »
I saw this up on CNN today: Man charged with stealing Wi-Fi signal This had to happen eventually. I was particularly struck by this part of the story: Innocuous use of other people’s unsecured Wi-Fi networks is common. But experts say that illegal use often goes […] Read more »
Livecom, is the new VoIP offering from France Telecom, and takes its inspiration (sarcasm!) from Skype. Features include IP-based videotelephony, voice calls, and messaging for free among users of Livecom and pre-paid services for calls to traditional landlines. They must be worried about loss of business […] Read more »
Good Technology is having a really good day. The company signed Sprint as a partner for its Goodlink service, right on the heels of a deal with Cingular. In addition they bought assets of JP Mobile, one of the pioneers in the mobile mail space. I […] Read more »
Umair Haque: “Jeff, thanks for putting your money where you mouth is. I guess now I know how much you really mean all that wonderful Media 2.0 stuff about openness and transparency and empowerment. You mean it sometimes – when it’s easy and convenient. Not when […] Read more »
Parliant’s PhoneValet Podcast allows you to make podcasts of audio of telephone interviews, much like Skype’s voice recording feature. This comes with some bonus tools. Read more »
Chris Lanier has put together a nice little list of plugins to make podcasts work with Windows Media Player (on Windows) via Read more »
Victoria’s Secret called the Pink Panty Poker Party where you can play strip poker online with supermodels. To hell with those playing for big bucks in Vegas! via Read more »
Gizmo Project, the SIP-based Skype competitor is creating a lot of buzz. Yahoo is making (VoIP) noise with Dialpad, and soon Microsoft will have something in the market as well. Perhaps that is why it is opportune time for Earthlink to throw it hat in the […] Read more »
Now that EVDO is here, and Cingular UMTS is nowhere to be found, why doesn’t it surprise me that SBC is making a big push on WiFi. San Antonio Business Journal reports that the largest Baby Bell will roll-out of a WiFi broadband wireless network in […] Read more »
Way back end of last year I mentioned an interesting service called Amabuddy that lets you get a price check and reviews for books and CDs by entering the UPC or ISBN number on your cell phone. The only drawback I found with Amabuddy was the […] Read more »
As I said earlier, the affiliates could put a financial crimp on the Sextel deal. Now the news that Sprint is buying US Unwired for $1.3 billion. I wonder how the other affiliates will react. And does this mean the Nextel Partners gets bought for $5 […] Read more »
IDT, the former parent of Net2Phone, is trying to buyback the wholesale VoIP services company for $130 million ($1.70 a share). Net2Phone says no way we are going to sell out at that price, but IDT is not taking no for an answer. Much like an […] Read more »
Loren Heiny (of the First Family of the Tablet PC) has picked up EVDO and is sampling the wireless good life. I am sure he will find it very exciting to maintain high speed connections everywhere he goes. Well, assuming he doesn’t leave the Verizon coverage […] Read more »
This question has been kicking around for a while and Palm / PalmSource/ PalmOne/ Palm hasn’t done anything to really stop the doomsaying. Jeff Kirvin has been a long-time Palm enthusiast who has written a series of posts on his forum about "The Once and Future […] Read more »
Consumer Affairs’ James Hood laments’ that broadband “options are Slim for Those without DSL or Cable,” especially in rural areas. He makes good points, and figures out that despite the big company spin, rural America desperately wants broadband. Amen to that! Read more »
Back in 2000, Sun Microsystems and other technology leaders happily jumped on stage with Enron executives to proclaim a brave new fiber world. IBM, and others are doing the same with BPL. According to NYTimes, IBM has established a partnership with CenterPoint Energy, a utlity based […] Read more »
Storage is such a dirty word in Silicon Valley. Everyone looks down on the disk drive makers with such scorn, and derision. Disk drive makers have such a thankless job – double the disk drive capacity in nine months, i.e. at a pace that is twice […] Read more »
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