Stories for Jun. 22, 2005

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Sky is still giving interviews by the dozen. Andy thinks “that there is more to this than just 3G EvDO based wireless coming down the pike.” Read more »

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Yahoo and Google might be in a mortal combat with each other, but from the looks of it, Google is getting all set to take on sBay. (Charlene Li of Forrester explains it here!) There is that much talked about Google’s Pay Pal killer. (Silicon Beat […] Read more »

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I have been following Rob Bushway’s journey with his new Motion LE1600 Tablet PC with great interest as it appears Motion has raised the bar for slates with this new device.  Rob has spent some time with his LE1600 now and has published a great review […] Read more »

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GreenHouse has announced the July availability of their Pocket Speakers in Japan.  Not much is known about these speakers outside of the small dimensions and the 3 watt total output.  But they look cool. (via Akihabara News) Read more »

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The ThunderHawk browser has long been my favorite web browser for the Pocket PC as it provides the most "full desktop-like" browsing experience on the small screens of the Windows Mobile devices.  Bitstream has announced a new version 2.1 that offers full Java capabilities making the […] Read more »

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Things are not looking good in VoIP land, and some of the marginal players are feeling the pressure of resurgent cable operators, and scorch earth tactics of Vonage. Presence of natural born channels AOL and Yahoo is giving some people a pause. e911 is proving to […] Read more »

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Rob Glaser was busy building bowling alleys and buying shiny baubles when he should have been obsessing over his company, Real, which started out as the king of streaming media, but lost its way and handed over the lead to the likes of Microsoft and lately […] Read more »

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Microsoft’s IPTV effort has received another set-back. A few weeks after Swisscom, an early Microsoft IPTV adopter delayed its IPTV plans because of technical issues, Australian incumbent, Telstra announced that it was not going to be taking part in trials with Microsoft. Australian telecom giant, Telstra […] Read more »

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Stories for Jun. 21, 2005

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Jeff says Dell is a lemon. Silicon.com says Apple is a lemon. So much for technological progress. Funny thing – we go ape-shit when tires blow up, but don’t sue the tech companies. Wake up consumers! Read more »

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Folks, some good news to share. Always On Network and Technorati have just released their AO/Technorati Open Media 100 and I am on the list in the “Practitioners” category. It gives me a tingle for if you look at all the heavy weights in the list. […] Read more »

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The New York Times has a piece on small businesses off-shoring. Great idea–so great, in fact, that we did it as our cover last month. Maybe the NYT ought to outsource originality! Read more »

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It started with low-awareness deals like 3Com’s partnership with Huawei. Then came the big whopper of a deal – Lenovo Group snapping up IBM’s PC business for $ 1.75 billion. Today comes news that Chinese appliance maker Haier is looking to make a bid for Maytag […] Read more »

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Jack St. Clair Kilby, retired TI engineer and inventor of the integrated circuit, died yesterday in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81. Mr. Kilby invented the first monolithic integrated circuit, which laid the foundation for the field of modern microelectronics, moving the […] Read more »

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And that’s wonderful news for Cisco and Juniper, the current #1 and #2. Things are getting hot in the edge routers! Read more »

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the artists formally known as the telecom consulting and M&A practice of RHK Inc. Read more »

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Today I am off to the Handango Partner Summit in Miami which I expect will be a lot of fun. It’s a good opportunity to see what Handango is up to and also get to meet some of the Microsoft Tablet team.   I intend to keep […] Read more »

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Quick call 911 for Ali Diab, Sr Director Yahoo Local Search Products is no longer with Yahoo it seems. Not sure where he’s gone (yet). He has been one of those much respected search guys who “got it.” Yahoo Search blog had a couple of interviews […] Read more »

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Now that most media has run of most of the nice things to say about iPod, it is perhaps time to bring down the iconic music player a notch or two from its perch at the top of digital music totem pole. Or so goes the […] Read more »

Stories for Jun. 20, 2005

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Good question, no good answers really! Read more »

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First the Cox family, now the Dolans. What next? Roberts? Malone? Thank god the Rigas are not on the loose! Read more »

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Hollywood Reporter says that according to Entertainment Media Research around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally via the Internet and the percentage will soon pass the 40% who have pirated music. Proof, that when given an option, consumers always do the right thing. And […] Read more »

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So for one day I leave the calculator in the bag, and try to be a nice guy … not forever, but just for one day. And guess what happens. I get spanked! Aswath Rao, does what I should have in the first place, and figures […] Read more »

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This just in! John Rigas and his son Tim Rigas will spend 15 and 20 years respectively behind bars, and that just could be the kind of news that would make Bernie Ebbers quaking in his boots. He is expected to be sentenced on July 13, […] Read more »

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Sony BMG is now introducing music CDs that have copy-protection, and will only rip to windows media. One more testament to Sony’s ongoing cluelessness about everything. The gaming division hates Microsoft. Music business hands over the keys to the kingdom to the enemy. They rule out […] Read more »

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Jon Gales just pinged me and alerted me to a developing story involving Sprint and NFL. Apparently two organizations are close to signing a $200 million five year sponsorship deal. The promotional aspects aside, it seems Sprint will be able to show NFL clips on its […] Read more »

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DMNews.com has put together an interesting list of things we probably did not know about VoIP. For instance, in April 2005, there were 1,229,411 searches for VoIP on Yahoo Search. Or that at present, there are seven companies paying around $4 per click for the term […] Read more »

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First, President Bush was seen sporting an iPod on his bike, now Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II is using one. Reportedly, the 79-year-old sovereign has bought a six-gigabyte silver model for 169 pounds (255 euros, 310 dollars). Queen Elizabeth’s second son Prince Andrew, fourth in […] Read more »

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Neowin.net says Microsoft is testing an update for its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and will release it by August 2005. Its likely to include support for the Xbox 360, Native digital cable, content Protection, improved burning (DRM, network, Hi-def, DVD-RAM) and a whole bunch […] Read more »

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The Tablet PC Show #13 (MP3 – 20.6MB – 59min 54sec)LISTEN HERE This Tablet PC Show, recorded on Father’s Day, is lucky show #13. Why is this lucky? The triumphant return of host Marc Orchant gives us a good excuse to catch up on events over […] Read more »

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Cory Doctorow is definitely one of the better known contemporary sci-fi writers publishing today.  This is no doubt due to a few things: his insistence on making all of his novels available for free electronic consumption, his involvement with BoingBoing, and his well documented work with […] Read more »

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