Stories for Aug. 4, 2005

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Its been more than a year since i first heard about Prof. Negroponte’s fabledHundred-Dollar Laptop. Launched with much fanfare, we still have heard plans, but not seen this computer. In his column over on the MIT Technology Review, Jason Pontin asks, “Can a $100 computer be […] Read more »

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Apple finally gave in and decided that it was time to do a multi-button mouse. And called it the Mighty Mouse. But they could not do just any mouse, and had to make it cool, and different. After all its not easy to charge people $50 […] Read more »

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Erik interviews Cullen Jennings, Distinguished Engineer in the Voice Technology Group at Cisco, has some great insight into what just took place at the 63rd IETF Meeting in Paris. They are talking about a whole bunch of issues including P2P SIP versus Skype. I just downloaded […] Read more »

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The techADDICTION Show #18 (MP3 – 16.2MB – 47min) LISTEN HERE It’s show #18 and Kevin and James are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! This show is ranting and raving about problems with devices, poor customer support and a good example […] Read more »

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Back in June, I wrote that Apple was supposed to be bringing iTMS to Japan in August, but soon updated that post to note that according to an article in the Register, it was all rubbish. Apple Japan’s home page today Well it seems that it […] Read more »

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Vonage, one of the VoIP’s early revolutionaries, has benefitted from the blog world. In the early days, much before they had mega-millions to burn, it was the early adopter blogger community that embraced Vonage. Today, when their system experienced a massive failure, there was little or […] Read more »

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Anderson’s house of accounting horrors has decided to settle the lawsuit brought by investors in its role over the collapse of Global Crossing for $25 million. Earlier, Citigroup settled its share of the lawsuit for $75 million. WebCPA reports that the deal was reached yesterday. Funny […] Read more »

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It should come as no surprise – they partnered with TowerStream – that Vonage is focusing on VoIP for business. The company is beta testing a product called Vonage Business Plus, because they see a big opportunity here. I am not sure – given the large […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 3, 2005

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Yahoo has Audio Search, Google and MSN don’t. Its more like comparison shopping engine for music. Good thing – they also have iTunes in their results. I threw some obscure artists at it, and well the results were pretty good. The tiny two minute review says […] Read more »

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Rafat Ali says “Amazon.com will be launching a digital music service soon, according to a job posting it has submitted on our Digital Media Jobs Blog. It is looking for a content acquisition manager for the service.” iTunes, beware! Read more »

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$200 million in debt, converts and equity to keep the service rolling. Rags writes, “Acquiring subs without pre-existing distribution is expensive.” Read more »

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Well you gotta iPod Your Baby then! Too funny. I think I’ve gotta have another kid just so I can get one of these things! At the very least, I know what I’m getting friends for their baby showers from here on out… sorry, went through […] Read more »

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Yup, folks its the same old story again. Speakeasy just continues to haunt me. I cancelled my service with them eons ago. But over last two months they have billed me for the service package. I have no idea, why. But they have. It was only […] Read more »

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Steve Rubel and Dwight Silverman are pushing the “ten blogs I would take to a desert island” meme. Going to desert island is for wimps. Vacations interfere with life. So instead of doing desert island thing, I am going to list the ten blogs I must […] Read more »

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Rob Chambers is working on the speech recognition in WindowsVista and his blog post contains some information that makes me smile.  Really, really big smile.    According to Rob the next version of Windows will merge the two current modes of speech recognition, command and dictation, […] Read more »

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Update: 4.35 pst: Many users are still experiencing outages and problems. A couple have posted in the comments section. ALERT: Apparently people can hear the dialtone, but calls don’t go through. Voicemails are offline, and other such issues as well. Most people on the Vonage Forums […] Read more »

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If you are always walking out of the restaurant and leaving your expensive phone or PDA behind then the Freedom Keepsafe is just the thing for you.  The Keepsafe is a security proximeter that emits a loud beep when you get 10 – 20 feet (configurable) […] Read more »

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Tom’s Hardware has taken a look at the DocuPen R700 mobile scanner that is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest scanner in the world. The pen scanner has 2 MB of on-board memory and uses USB to transfer scanned pages to […] Read more »

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The new PowerToy that Marc Orchant told us about on the last Tablet PC Show is now available for download from Microsoft. SyncToy is a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows XP that provides is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do […] Read more »

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It should come as no surprise to anyone that MCI and AT&T loathe each other. Infact, had it not been for MCI, we would be living in a world where AT&T would still be around, and we all be using ISDN. Maybe. Of course, the phone […] Read more »

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Its been all quiet on the mobile front. After a flury of mega-billion dollar mergers – Cingular gulping AT&T Wireless, Sprint swallowing Nextel and Alltel taking over Western Wireless – the industry went into a self imposed digestive phase. The prices stabalized, and a general peace […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 2, 2005

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Bloggers are rejoicing over the one-second-a-new-blog mantra. Lets not be too quick to celebrate. I see it as more proof that spammers are gaming the revolution. Read more »

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Talk about being a very good day. Looks like Baby Bells will no longer have to share their wireline networks with other competitors, much like their cable industry peers. The Wall Street Journal reports that FCC could announce rule changes “as early as tomorrow, making it […] Read more »

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Tom Evslin tells a story about the transformation of VSNL from a state owned levithian to a nimble free market global giant. He went to India five years ago to drum up business for his baby, ITXC, which was bought by Teleglobe. And then Teleglobe got […] Read more »

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Skype related gear keeps on coming. Here are some of the new entrants into the market – a USB-connected handset/dongle and a Wireless Skype phone. Read more »

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Erick Schonfeld: Google Maps are yet another example of the growing culture of participation. But how are Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft planning to make money from maps? Read more »

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BellSouth was the only Bell company that had a less than attractive DSL quarter in the Q2 2005. Which sort of explains why they are making a big push – via advertising – and cutting prices on its DSL packages. Its entry level offering is DSL […] Read more »

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Many notebook computers and Tablet PCs are currently shipping with the Intel ProSet wireless chipset that is designed to work closely with the Pentium M and provide good power management features to help conserve battery life for these mobile devices.  The Intel ProSet 2200BG is the […] Read more »

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Converge Digest reports that Cox Communications will launch its VoIP-based Digital Telephone service in five more markets this year: Las Vegas; Macon, Georgia; Central Florida; Gulf Coast, Florida; and Topeka, Kansas. Read more »

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Wow – this came out of Left Field. Apple released the Mighty Mouse today. In typical Apple style, it looks really sleek. But will the features perform as well? Hopefully someone will soon get their hands on one and let us know. Meanwhile, here’s the lowdown. […] Read more »

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Every year the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest solicits the worst opening lines for a novel in salute to the phrase made famous by Snoopy- "it was a dark and stormy night".  Writers submit their entries from all over the globe and each year the "best" are chosen […] Read more »

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Our old pal Andy Abramson has been a changed man lately. After swearing undying loyalty to a PC he switched to a Mac. I knew he was in love, and it clearly was a moment of weakness, so I pitched him on the benefits of a […] Read more »

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The MSDN site has a good overview of what WindowsVista will bring to mobile devices that is quite interesting.  The Go Mobile page has an overview of the innovations being incorporated to make mobile devices work better for the end user.  There is information covering Auxiliary […] Read more »

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