Dwight Silverman of TechlLog (Houston Chronicle) points to an IDC study that indicates that people who have home offices want notebook computers. He goes on to recount how his self-employed wife wanted to consolidate all her computing needs and opted for a notebook computer to handle […] Read more »
During the bubble entrepreneurs raised venture capital, now they play poker to keep the lights on. C/Net News.com picks up the story of “instant companies” and their alternative-to-VC funding ways to keep the business going. They pin the story on ClearContext, and how the founders are […] Read more »
Microsoft has picked Aruba Networks to replace 5000 access points on various Microsoft campuses around the world, reports News.com. The deployment will be in 60 countries, 277 buildings and will have 25,000 simultaneous users. Financially how big the deal is hard to say. But the more […] Read more »
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Skype has become the darling of the media and blogosphere, and whatever modicum of skepticism that was there about its claims has vanished into thin air. Most are impressed by 41 million users (though no one can substantiate the number). Except one man – Aswath Rao […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #12 (MP3 – 18.8MB – 54min 45sec) LISTEN HERE The Tablet PC Show #12 takes a different turn with the absence of co-host Marc Orchant who is off gallivanting across the country on a vacation while I remain behind to toil away […] Read more »
It was my first WWDC ever. Rich was there too! I finally got around to learn a lot about Dashboard Widgets and Webkit. Apple Engineers are a passionate, dedicated and relentlessly-working bunch. If you’re into helping out the open-source community for the Greater Good, you might […] Read more »
This morning, if you are old fashioned enough to buy newspapers, you might have across some weekend inserts from major retailers, and somewhere inside you will find an offer too good to pass up, that is if you were planning to sign-up for Vonage and were […] Read more »
Apple’s OS-X for x86 is running out in the wilds, though I have not been able to spot it. Engadget says that this works on any generic PC, and the iApps are running smoothly. Engadget found it on MacDailyNews, which in turn found on this site, […] Read more »
Given all the sound-and-fury around the much speculated Skype-Yahoo mash-up, the big question that needs serious pondering is Yahoos voice gameplan. Reuters has an overview of Yahoos voice plans, and how they fit in with their partners, like British Telecom, SBC and other incumbent phone companies. […] Read more »
Business Week’s Robert Hof has penned a fantastic piece on how the consumers are revolutionizing the way technology works. (Read, Power of Us) He looks at the amazing rise of Skype, Bit Torrent, Blogs and what not, and sums it up as a new tech-order. Ironically, […] Read more »
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A few days ago I mentioned that Nokia might be on a comeback trail, thanks to a good mix of low-end and super premium phones, which do away with odd designs that plagued Nokia product line for nearly two years. The new line-up has a certain […] Read more »
I decided to create a mind map of a typical work day for the next Tablet PC Show (also an upcoming jkOTR article). Yikes! Mind map using MindManager, of course. Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #12 (MP3 – 18.8MB – 53min) LISTEN HERE Tech talk, mergers, and hybrids, oh my! Follow Kevin and me as we take another trip through the world of gadgets and you will almost hear the silence of Kevin’s hybrid engine. Should Yahoo buy […] Read more »
MacDailyNews is reporting that the leaked copies of OS X Tiger for x86 will indeed run on standard PC hardware. This is not surprising, considering that this is a very early release, and Apple has no plans to make a profit off of this version. In […] Read more »
RIAA has been gunning for online pirates and fileswappers for a long time, but now it seems to have gone analog and is targeting record stores. Pitchfork reports that RIAA recently raided Mondo Kim, one of the leading indie-music/video stores in New York City, for “allegedly […] Read more »
The new Motion LE1600 is no question a sweet slate. Light and thin yet with all the features and ports a body could want (including DVI) . The specs are so good that several Tablet MVPs are now anxiously awaiting delivery of the new slate. Finding […] Read more »
From Sidekick to a Crackberry! What next? Her relationship and engagement is for real? via Read more »
It’s a flashback to 1995. Macs were still using Power PC in the far future. I was still using Windows at home of all things. And TopXNotes must have been created around this time. It has all the classic signs of.. well.. clasic-isms. Now to be […] Read more »
Microsoft has quietly released a beta version of a new graphics program, code named Acrylic. The program is available for download and I have been playing with it for a few days. It’s a little rough around the edges as you would expect for an early […] Read more »
Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Or that seems to be the logic behind today’s news announcement that Nokia will work with Intel to promote WiMAX, the much marketed but still not for sale technology. Nokia is in mortal combat with Qualcomm which is using […] Read more »
These are indeed the early days, but Yahoo, Google and countless others are gearing up for battle. Their goal? To become the search tzar of choice for the world’s nearly 2 billion phone users. Can’t find your way out of a paper bag? Yahoo offers driving […] Read more »
Qwest, after losing the battle for MCI is not averse to being taken out itself. “We’re looking at every opportunity as we look at the consolidation that is going on in our industry… And that’s all I’d better say about that,” Qwest chairman and CEO Richard […] Read more »
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick in Canada is home to 80,000 residents. One of the coldest outposts up north, it is also a connected municipality, which is soon going to be enveloped in a wireless (WiFi) cloud, thanks to e-Novations Comnet, a telecom coop. The city […] Read more »
Industry watchers have announced that notebook computers have outsold desktops for the first time. This is not surprising as notebook computers have gotten comparable features as their larger counterparts. Throw in the facts that wireless networks have spread like wildfire and that notebooks now cost much […] Read more »
China has become the #1 DSL nation on the planet, with close to 20 million lines, zooming ahead of USA, Japan and South Korea, according to data collected by Point Topic. At the end of first quarter 2005 there were 107.3 million DSL lines, up 37 […] Read more »
Many folks in Lafayette, Louisiana would disagree with me, but BellSouth, to me seems like a bell operating company with a clear and coherent plan for the IP revolution. They are making evolutionary moves, without risking mega billions of dollars. BellSouth chairman and CEO Duane Ackerman […] Read more »
It is too early to tell, what is going on, but there seems to be rumors floating that Skype and Yahoo are in close contact, and perhaps cooking up a commercial partnership. The reports are based on a post on Jean-Michel’s blog. It might be too […] Read more »
Karsten Schneider wants a Tablet PC but he wants to see one in the flesh before making his decision. Yesterday he went to ITEC Seattle with the goal of seeing Tablets being demoed at the exhibit. He has blogged about what he found there (and didn’t) […] Read more »
Seagate has announced a number of new hard drives and the one that should have the greatest impact for mobile devices is the ST1. This drive is a one inch drive that has a storage capacity of 8 GB, making it a great storage solution for […] Read more »
Google-aires Larry Page & Sergey Brin are so yesterday. Its time to meet the newest billionaires – Anurag Dikshit and his college pal Vikrant Bhargava and their business partner, porn princess, Ruth Parasol. They are the trio behind PartyGaming, an online poker/gambling company based in Gibraltar […] Read more »
Craig McCaw’s Clearwire Corp has bought spectrum from CT Communications, a Concord, NC-based company for about $16 million. CT owns a small phone company, Concord Telephone, and had been granted the licenses for these frequencies and started a subsidiary called WaveTel in 2001. The business was […] Read more »
This is slightly Off Topic, but a good little read. You’ll see the relevance at the end. It’s a comment from Slashdot, on the post titled, “Nerds Make Better Lovers”. You can read the comment at Slashdot, here, or below, as I’ve copied and pasted it. […] Read more »
The newest version of the MSN Desktop Search now provides a toolbar that allows tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer version 6. Tabbed browsing means you can have multiple web pages open at the same time and switch among them by clicking the tabs. It’s not as […] Read more »
Comparing the Sony U750 with the HP tc1100 I have been talking about a mini-tablet for quite some time and the notion of a small tablet stoked a lot of people’s imaginations when Bill Gates demonstrated the Haiku mockup at WinHEC earlier this year. A lot […] Read more »
TiVoToGo is the company’s service that lets you download your recorded TiVo programs to mobile devices and a recent announcement says that now includes Windows Mobile devices, such as Portable Media Centers, Pocket PCs and Smartphones. TiVoToGo lets you fill your portable device up with video […] Read more »
Looks like we are smack in the middle of a session border control buying frenzy. And the prices are falling! Ditech Communications paid about $20 million and acquired Jasomi Networks. In comparison, Kagoor Networks was snapped up by Juniper for around $67 million. Under the terms […] Read more »
Interoute, a European data network operator has just launched a new metro ethernet network that runs at 10 gigabits per second, and connects Europe’s 61 major commercial centers. Interoute’s multipoint Ethernet service is supposed to cut costs for enterprise customers, perhaps by as much as 35%. […] Read more »
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new way of mixing images and video feeds from mobile cameras in the field to provide remote viewers with a virtual window into a physical environment. Dubbed ‘Reality Flythrough,’ the application constructs a 3D […] Read more »
Software Update will give you the lowdown, but for those as yet unaware, Security Update 2005-006 is now available for your enjoyment, incorporating fixes relating to: AFP (AppleTalk File Sharing) Server – buffer overflow; ACL-related issues Bluetooth – insufficient input checking – wrongly able to access […] Read more »
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