The techADDICTION Show #21 (MP3 – 17.2MB – 50min) LISTEN HERE What a great show as Kevin and I had an Apple session with discussion of Apple’s recent announcements of the nano, RoKR phone, and Harry Potter comes to iTunes. If you can afford it, that […] Read more »
VoIP Weblog has discovered that the free VoIP call service AdCalls is a bit of a bad call. “AdCalls end-user license agreement forces you to give permission for them to market their service.” Not to mention an idea most likely to well… Read more »
While Nokia has no immediate plans for an iTunes-compatible device, it is in talks with Apple, says IDG’s Playlist magazine.” Carlo has some thoughts about this. I think it would be a nice marriage – Nokia’s elegant phones and iTunes. Unlike ROKR, the bastard love child […] Read more »
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Earlier this week, there was news about Seattle transit system adding WiFi to its buses. Apparently, the system is powered by Junxion-routers that take EVDO WAN access and share it via the WiFi. Seattle is the latest to use Junxion, which is also the “wifi inside” […] Read more »
Search SIG is having its inaugural session “Audio Search and Directories” this coming Wednesday. Bradley Horowitz, who leads Media Search at Yahoo!, is the latest addition to the “Podside Chat”. Others who will be there – Ev “Odeo” Williams, Eric “Audioblog.com” Rice, David “Loomia” Marks and […] Read more »
There are a lot of portable USB hard drives on the market but the Fastora ExBoot has one big advantage. You can back up your notebook or Tablet PC to the 40 GB ExBoot and if your internal hard drive fails you can set the external […] Read more »
Having used a Bluetooth portable mouse for some time I can tell you it’s nice to carry a mobile mouse around without any receiver to keep track of. Logitech has recently announced their portable mouse that connects via Bluetooth and it looks pretty sweet. The V270 […] Read more »
My wife called me yesterday morning all upset. On her way to work someone in an older car slammed into her car from the rear and then took off, leaving us in the unenviable position of having to deal with the damage using our own insurance. […] Read more »
Frankly, I am no big fan of Reed Hundt, former FCC commish who I think was one of the many so called smart people responsible for the late 1990s telecom mess. But I find hard to argue with him, when he says that our emergency communications […] Read more »
Looks like MPAA and RIAA are realizing that they are fighting a losing battle when it comes to peer to peer downloads, and are looking to embrace the technologies. The have joined the Internet2, a networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, in […] Read more »
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Greg Leonhard, one smart cookie when it comes to matters of digitial music, argues that the music industry better pay attention to Culture of Participation and why blogs, photo-sharing, ringtone-mixers, and social networking can teach them a thing or two about their own future. Excellent essay, […] Read more »
Given that Skype is being coupled with everyone from Yahoo to EBay, VoIP analyst Jon Arnold says, Why Not Apple, or what he defines as “Skapple.” With all that’s going on, here’s the one that makes some sense to me – Skype and Apple. I haven’t […] Read more »
So after getting over my initial reaction that the black iPod Nano is the official iPod of Pirates, Ninjas, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I realized a few things about Apple’s big releases: iPod stuff I’m going to hold out until the black look is applied […] Read more »
Okay vanity takes over – Business Week is having best of the web poll and I am against some heavy hitters in the tech-sites @ Work Category. I mean up against News.com, Slashdot, Digg, and O’Reilly Radar. Not even have a prayer, but hopefully all of […] Read more »
For those of you not within reach of an Apple Store, or haven’t found someone who’s gotten a nano yet, here are all the pictures on Flickr tagged with ipodnano. There are a few that do a great job of showing just how small it really […] Read more »
John Gruber (Daring Fireball) has a bust-your-gut funny piece about the new UI for iTunes 5. It’s set in the form of cell phone conversations between Brushed Metal & his agent, with a cameo from Aqua. A snippet: Brushed Metal: What’s this guy’s name? Mike: (laughs) […] Read more »
The mouse is beautiful object, and aside from the rollerball in the middle, you would be hard pressed to idenfity this as anything other than a single button mouse in the style of all single button mice before it. Read more »
The fledgling VoIP technology is not ready for prime time as yet. The proof of this came today when dozens of Sun Rocket, a Vienna, VA-based VoIP service provider reported extended outages, and expressed their dismay. This is not the first time VoIP users have had […] Read more »
I have been using the MindManager Viewer beta with no problems but apparently some users reported some minor bugs that Mindjet has now fixed. The new version of the viewer is available on this web page. Read more »
When reading this piece in the Wall Street Journal about the Konfabulator, I wondered if Apple fails the community test, as out lined by Robert Young earlier this week. Imitation, as far as Mr. Rose is concerned, had nothing to do with flattery in this case. […] Read more »
Acquisition is in the air with the announcement that Access Co., Ltd., a Japanese company, has acquired PalmSource for over $320 million. Access is the company behind the Netfront browser technology and apparently they wish to broaden their reach in the OS segment. PalmSource has been […] Read more »
One of the distinctive qualities of the Web 2.0 companies has been their reliance on community mostly and early adopters. Flickr is a good example. This two-way interaction between the start-up and the users provided the bedrock for a ground breaking service. Google Maps, is another […] Read more »
Google just announced that Vinton (Vint) Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a “founding father” of the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist. This is their continuing bid to acquire the best brains in the world. Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the […] Read more »
A Reuters item today reports that eBay is reportedly in talks to buy Skype. Talks are in a sensitive stage and could fall apart at any time, with eBay looking to purchase the VoIP giant for a price between $2 and $3 billion. Neither company will […] Read more »
A while back I wrote about the remote possibility that with Tiger, Apple was taking a new direction in design, and moving toward black products. Of course it was just a random thought, but quite a few readers got in on the comments. Well today, I’ll […] Read more »
Pocket PC users who interface with Microsoft Exchange are all too familiar with the inability to look up names in the Exchange address list meaning you can’t send them email nor invite them to meetings. Not anymore. Microsoft has a free tool that is intended for […] Read more »
Tracy Hooten has written another good article explaining how she has configured GoBinder to make all the textbooks she has scanned into the program easily available for use in the classroom. Tracy routinely scans her textbooks into GoBinder for easy searching, annotating and reference and students […] Read more »
Toshiba is showing a new portable LED projector at the IFA 2005 in Berlin that weighs just 565 grams and conects via USB. Video resolution of the unnamed projector is SVGA (800×600) with a battery life of 2 hours. Estimated price when it ships by year […] Read more »
Another day, another Skype rumor. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Skype is in talks with eBay, but from the article it seems, these are just talks. Yahoo, Google, NewsCorp… so now eBay. Who’s left? Microsoft? I am not sure what to make of the […] Read more »
Loren Heiny is teasing us again with his latest progress report of Ink Gestures in Word. Loren shows us a couple of new features he’s added and the coolest one for me is the select function that lets you draw brackets around text in Word you […] Read more »
Unless you’ve been on some other planet, you’ll be aware that Apple are tranistioning to Intel-based chips. The majority of the applications supplied are Universal; everything from Safari to Mail to Address Book is Universal.
Two oddities however standout – iTunes 4.9 (as was supplied) and DVD Player are both PowerPC only. These run absolutely fine through Rosetta, I’ve not experienced any problems at all with these apps. In fact, iTunes under Rosetta is noticeably faster (up to twice as fast) when ripping (partly due, I realize, to the fact that QuickTime is a Universal component) than my 1GHz 17″ PowerBook. Read more »
US consumers maynot have ample bandwidth, but from the looks of it, when it comes to sheer capacity, US is still the bandwidth big-daddy. This data collected by Telegeography says it all. Of course, it doesn’t mean anything to consumers who are thirsty for bandwidth! That’s […] Read more »
Buffalo Inc. of Japan is more known for its wifi devices and network-storage boxes. (LinkStation rocks!) And now it seems they might be diversifying into media center business. They have licensed technology from Mediabolic, a San Francisco-based start-up that makes middleware for connected home entertainment devices. […] Read more »
Dell’Oro Group says Fujitsu is the top vendor in the North American optical equipment market for the third quarter in a row with a 22.8% of the $638.5M 2Q05 market. Fujitsu was also named the top vendor in the North American SONET/SDH market with a 37.0% […] Read more »
Sony, the original portable device maker, is struggling to find relevance in the digital music revolution. The company has clearly hit the panic button, what with pesky Apple’s iPod coming into its backyard and selling over 5 million songs within days. That must have hurt the […] Read more »
In case you were missing Deadwood and The Sopranos, the ongoing saga of Microsoft and Google should help over come the withdrawls. Read more »
John Paczkowski must be the funniest man in SV. The San Jose Mercury News’ online columnist is hilarious. He wields an acid dipped pen, and if there ever was a Page Six for the silly-con valley, he would be editor for life. Just read his headlines! Read more »
Palace coup at Broadvoice, a VoIP upstart tells me that trouble lies ahead for bit players in this business. Sources tell Andy that “the parent company’s Chairman and Epstein may also not have been seeing eye to eye the last few months.” Read more »
I have written about Zoto in the past. The online photo sharing and storing service is a prototypical Web 2.0 company, and it has released a plug-in for integrating photos from their service on your WordPress blog. You can download it here. Check them out, and […] Read more »
Scott Rafer has left Feedster. Here are the details. New money from Mitsui, new deal with AOL and well everything well for them means time to grow up. Good Luck Scott! Read more »
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