Stories for Aug. 8, 2005

Nominees have just been finalized in Pocket PC magazine’s Best Software Awards – the most comprehensive awards for Pocket PC and Smartphone software – now in its fifth year. Judges are now evaluating and voting for best 2005 software. New Products Editor, Diane Dumas, and the […] Read more »

WiFiber company GigaBeam has teamed up WiFi Projects of Ireland and will be introducing its ultra high frequency technology in Ireland. Read more »

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David Isenberg is a worried man. And scared. I am amazed at how FCC has lost its charter of putting citizens first, and become a political pawn. Read more »

So now we know what happens when Jeff Nolan gets mad. Interesting post about retrofitting slideware with all the requsite buzzwords, and how after many many years, people still don’t have a clue about Moore’s Law. Read more »

eWeek is reporting that Fujitsu officials have stated a version of the LifeBook P1510 announced today will be available with the Windows XP Pro Tablet Edition by the end of the year.  This would almost be perfect except for the lack of the PC Card slot, […] Read more »

Skype users have been clamoring for a Skype client on Symbian based 3G and WiFi phones for a while, and looks like their wishes might come true. Global IP Sound, which makes the codec that powers the Skype client, has announced VoiceEngine Mobile for Symbian OS, […] Read more »

The news of the US release of the Fujitsu LifeBook P1510 ultra-portable with a convertible touch screen has spread like wildfire across the web and the flames are fanned by a review of the nice device published by PC Magazine.  They gave it a good rating […] Read more »

Gadgets web site Pocket-lint (great name) has published a review of the HP tc4200 Tablet PC.  The tc4200 is HP’s latest convertible model with a 12.1 inch screen.  They state in the review that HP is the largest seller of Tablet PCs worldwide which I have […] Read more »

Fujitsu US has announced today the availability in the US of the LifeBook P1500D touch screen ultra-portable with the 8.9” screen.  The P1500D is the same device I previously reported as the P1510 that was being released today in Korea.  The P1500 is summed up in […] Read more »

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Not having learned the lessons from Slate and MSNBC, Microsoft is once again flirting with content. This time, by launching a blog media network. Essentially what it is doing is taking a page from Jason and Nick’s playbook, and copying it. Unfortunately, at first blush, this […] Read more »

Time Warner Cable, is putting 75 channels on the web for its broadband subscribers, as part of a trial, currently underway in San Diego with 9000 households participating. Real Networks is providing the streaming technology. The company will offer it for free to those who subscribe […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 7, 2005

Update: WallStreet Journal has a big front page story about tinkering by the incumbents. Remember my piece, the VoIP End Run. Oh its coming… how is this for a start. Verizon’s Fiber to the Home service, dubbed FIOS is slowly coming online, but some users are […] Read more »

Thanks to that pesky strike situation. Mark Evans says, “For all the noise Microsoft is making about IP-TV, it’s telling that there hasn’t been a commercial launch yet. Swisscom has delayed its service, Telus has backed away from Microsoft, and there are rumors BellSouth is thinking […] Read more »

Marc Orchant was away but guest co-host Greg Hughes graciously stepped in and we have an action packed show. Greg fills us in on the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet PC that he’s been lucky enough to use for the past month so anyone interested in this fine […] Read more »

Warner Crocker has a keen sense of satire and in this post pokes fun at the NCAA for their efforts to forbid some college sports team mascots.  Hilarious stuff.  Go Northwestern Nibs! Read more »

Daily Wireless points to a report in Times of India about a project to get Bangalore unwired using combination of WiFi and WiMAX. Intel has released a white paper on “unwiring Bangalore” that talks about the current net access situation in the city, possible usage models, […] Read more »

Speaking at Always On conference, George Gilder, the fallen pundit, used his mumbling style and big words, to paint his vision for the future of TV. TV must die, he said. Mark Evans, correctly said it was “far from novel or insightful.” Given Gilder’s track record […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 6, 2005

Last evening I went to see GoingDotCom -the Musical. The producers call it a “loving look back at a bygone era.” It was the last public performance of the show which well made fun of the whole dotcom madness. How appropriate, because we are enterting a […] Read more »

<Shameless plug mode on>  Uber-geek Greg Hughes is going to guest co-host the next Tablet PC Show since Marc Orchant is traveling and won’t be available to do the show with me.  Greg is well known to most everybody so you know how excited I am […] Read more »

As you might have noticed that I am inching ever closer to the 5000 post milestone. I want you to guess and figure out when this is likely to happen. If you guess correctly, then I will buy you dinner. If I am in your city, […] Read more »

Danny Sullivan, the search engine guru, and editor of Search Engine Watch, sent me an email after he read my Technorati Tag Spam post. I thought he made some prescient comments, and here is an excerpt. > Yep, of course tags are going to be spammed. […] Read more »

In response to my previous post on the reasons why Gizmondo and Tapwave failed, Andy Kessler, author of many fine books such as Running with the Bulls and more recently, How We Got Here, emailed and pointed out that the reason why most video game consoles […] Read more »

The Microsoft team working on the Tablet PC has started a blog and it looks to be a good source of continuing information about the development of the Tablet PC.  One of the first posts is of particular interest to me as it mentions that one […] Read more »

I first mentioned Scott Thigpen and his Artsy Fartsy Weblog a few weeks ago because Scott is using his Toshiba M200 Tablet PC to produce the great sketches he has available on his blog.  He has gotten some good feedback from other artists who currently use […] Read more »

He is planning to create a competitor to MTV. Much like Viacom’s CBS decided to use the broadband web to bypass cable and compete against the 24-hour news networks like CNN and FoxNews. Guest Post by Robert Young There has been much speculation and analyses as […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 5, 2005

No surprise here, but FCC finally made the move to put independent DSL providers off life support. Bloomberg has more. Read more »

Jason Calcanis: offers $50,000 in advertising or $10,000 in cash if you can come-up with a “real” Top 500 blogs list. So does that mean, on Weblogs Inc, if you buy $50,000 worth of inventory, you only pay $10,000. (just kidding!) One request: put the money […] Read more »

You can get your latest news two ways. First option would be read it in Business 2.0, or wait for three months for New York Times to come-up with the same news. Michael Copeland had written this piece about “non IPO IPOs” back in May, and […] Read more »

Colin Walker of Random Elements has continued his account of installing and running WindowsVista on a Tablet PC.  He has recently added a couple of additional installments since I mentioned his first one and he is getting into the meat of the Tablet PC interface under […] Read more »

Today is techADDICTION co-host Kevin Tofel’s birthday so join me in sending him a giant raspberry!  Just remember Kevin, you’re not getting older, you’re….   oh who am I kidding.  You’re getting really old.  Have a good one dude.  Read more »

Sony Ericsson is all set to introduce location-aware phones. I has written last year that by end of 2005, location aware services could start to get traction. Might be off by a few months, but looks like it is finally starting to happen. Read more »

I am a firm believer in the concept of open platforms, open standards, and commodity hardware, when mixed together can lead to interesting things. This concept of “insta-company” which I wrote about long before it became fashionable first played out in the data centers, and then […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 4, 2005

Now that Lafayette has approved its own fiber plan, it seems BellSouth, the incumbent, is blaming the Lafayette Utilities for cutting its cables. This is the second time in two weeks this has happened. Lafayette Pro Fiber blog says, “We go for years without cuts like […] Read more »

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 »

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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