FT has a piece about how Verizon wants to change some terms of its proposed $8.5 billion deal with MCI. It doesn’t want to “be subject to corporate governance principles which would mean Verizon CEO/Chairman Ivan Seidenberg could not keep both gigs. That’s fine but this […] Read more »
No seriously…. As Labor Day approaches, a new survey from Harris Interactive finds that two-thirds (66%) of US adults have taken or will take a vacation this summer … will pay extra for a hotel room with fat pipe …. people you are supposed to be […] 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 notebook […] Read more »
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Tracy Hooten of The Student Tablet PC blog has ordered a Toshiba M200 Tablet PC and has posted on Tablet PC Buzz that according to the Toshiba web site is now shipping with a wide-angle display. The wide-angle coupled with the 1400×1050 resolution will make this […] Read more »
CompUSA is running a good deal on the Toshiba R15–S822 Tablet PC. The R15 is listed at only $1400 (after $200 mail-in rebate) which is a great deal compared to other sites. This is the same Tablet PC Eric Rice discussed on the Tablet PC Show. […] 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 portrait or […] Read more »
+ Mark Evans: Given VCs love liqudity events such as IPOs, you have wonder whether Vonage and CEO Jeff Citron made a strategic mistake by waiting too long to do an IPO. My take is Vonage wanted to be acquired rather than go through the IPO […] Read more »
Mike and the gang, figure out how in a Sk(h)ype world, a million is really a billion. 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 »
Finally, Global IP Sound has issued a press release confirming that Google Talk is using its codec. Read more »
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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 »
Last Sunday night I crashed my powerbook. Before all the mac haters jump and say “HAH!”, sit back down. In the 3 years I’ve had my powerbook, I’ve crashed it twice – both were my own fault. Hacking things I shouldn’t have been… So back to […] Read more »
I just recently extended my external Hard Drive capacity by 250 gigabytes. It cost me $130. Try to beat that deal with a Lacie or something similar. The key – and this is really a note for relative newbies out there – is to buy an […] Read more »
Guess what is the fastest growing extreme sport in Silicon Valley – grousing about Google. The New York Times story mentions how they are sucking about all the talent from the market, causing hike in salaries and well soon inflate the Silicon Valley housing prices even […] Read more »
My Tablet PC (HP tc1100) has been running slower and slower of late. You know, the typical windows XP creeping crud that makes the PC take longer and longer to do anything. This happens often on my computers because I am continually installing software for evaluation. […] 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 got the […] Read more »
Google has decided to enter the IM and VoIP market with a new service called Google Talk. Based on the open standard Jabber protocol for instant messaging, with audio chat thrown in for good measure, Google Talk is a full-fledged IM client. Unfortunately, the current client […] 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 »
You don’t begin to think about how popular iTunes is until you see just how many people have taken it up for casual use. After I connected to the dorm network when I moved into my new school (transferring from one to another), I was poking […] Read more »
I have seen this on several Apple blogs recently. Apple has a job posting calling for a Handwriting Recognition Engineer. The wording of the solicitation is very interesting indeed: Title: Handwriting Recognition Engineer Req. ID: 2379263Location: Santa Clara Valley, California Country: United StatesReq Date: 11-Aug-2005 Are […] Read more »
Red is always ferreting out cool tools and his list of 20 Skype tools is excellent for anyone who uses the VoIP program. He’s got brief descriptions and links to all the tools which run the gamut from hardware to software utilities to make the Skype […] Read more »
Ovum’s Future View Daily is off the mark when it comes to Google buying Skype. Andy gives his reasons, and here is what I think, and what Mark Evans has to say on the matter. Someone close to the company recently told me – Google is […] Read more »
Thanks Andy for the link. Read more »
CNET has published the rarest of beasts, a hardware review that gets it right all the way through. The review of the Toshiba Tecra M4 covers all the basics, specs, configuration, ports and screen, and they also do a very good job describing the shortcomings of […] Read more »
Today is the the day when first wireless phone call was made in India, and since then 60 million or so have joined the mobile masses. By end of the decade, this number will double to 125 million. Life without wires does change cultures. Gaurav Bhatnagar […] Read more »
Long time readers are aware of my skepticism about broadband over powerline technologies. I am not sure sending broadband over electric cables is a workable idea, despite what our FCC commissioners say. So perhaps it is encouraging to see that energy industry insiders are preaching caution, […] Read more »
Lots of talk about Google introducing an instant messaging client, using the Jabber technology. I think this will be a voice enabled IM product, which will be released in order to match the “talk” features of Yahoo and MSN. Google Rumors reports that the talk.google.com domain […] Read more »
Yahoo, perhaps is one of the few companies in Silicon Valley that understand the long term importance of teaming up with Baby Bells. It has a close personal relationship with SBC, and now it is trying to make magic with the second largest phone company in […] Read more »
The New York Times has a lengthy piece on Google, its desktop search efforts and what it might do with $4 billion and change it plans to raise in a secondary offering. The article, is an interesting look into Google’s plans, but here is how it […] Read more »
Google Desktop Search version 2 is out. I have downloaded and installed the software, and after a day of working with it, I can safely say impressive. It does a pretty good job of indexing everything on the PCs (Mac users still out of luck, but […] 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, in […] Read more »
TechNewsWorld has published an article today that shows how many computing tech writers just don’t get it. The article is worth reading as it covers the evolution of mobile computing devices from the Apple Newton to the Tablet PC of today. The author makes some good […] 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 the […] Read more »
Just found the list of publications and blogs MSN Newsbot crawls. Are you on this list? (Thanks Jeff) 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 with […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #21 (MP3 – 19.6MB – 57min)LISTEN HERE Hosts: Marc Orchant and James Kendrick If you have followed audioblogging and videoblogging for any length of time you are familiar with the work of Eric Rice. He is the founder of Audioblog and he’s been […] Read more »
Dell’Oro Group says things are getting better in the optical business. The second quarter 2005 saw sequential growth, and global revenues were up 10% sequentially in the second quarter to $2.1 billion, a 28% increase from a year earlier. In North America, the market grew 19% […] Read more »
Enjoy it while it lasts, Apple, because the same record executives whose nasty nose candy habits you saved will shank you soon. Record company executives say Apple is inflexible. Ask the consumer, they got no problems with iTunes. Its just that Apple is not willing to […] Read more »
We here at The Apple Blog are once again in need of more writers. You MUST have previous writing experience and be able to show examples of it. Writings about anything technology related will probably make you way cooler than anybody else…so show those off. This […] Read more »
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