Rob Bushway pointed us to the official ThinkPad Tablet web video that is up on the ThinkPad site. I just watched it and the coolest thing is the X4 dock. With an optical drive in the dock bay you can use the included InterVideo CD/ DVD […] Read more »
In 2003, it was Citibank’s much vaunted funnies that made us all sit up and worry about the perils of identity theft. The funnies got us taking all sorts of precautions, but even we could not have been prepared for this one: today UPS lost personal […] Read more »
There are now 64,799 WiFi hotspots in 99 countries around the world, according to recent data released by JiWire. via Business 2.0 Read more »
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With Steve Jobs confirming today that Apple will switch from the IBM PowerPC to the Intel microprocessor over the next two years die-hard Apple fans are crying foul. It’s almost as if Jobs has betrayed the faithful and it’s pretty amusing to watch the reaction across […] Read more »
So Apple are moving to Intel x86 chips. I’m still rather reeling from the news. Being generally of a more cynical bent, I was inclined to go along with John Gruber’s various debunkings of the hype that so often precedes a WWDC. Shurely shome mishtake, I […] Read more »
Memina (a Samsung spin-off) is all set to release a new 2GB POCKET ROCKET — a top-of-the-line USB Flash drive with up to 18 MB/s transfer rate, a “no-lose” swivel cap. That’s about twice as fast as a CD player, and can store one hour of […] Read more »
BellSouth has just announced that it will start selling a new high-speed broadband service in the fourth quarter of 2005 that will deliver residential and business customers downstream connection speeds of up to 6Mbps. Thanks to ADSL2, the Bells are upping the bandwidth ante as well! Read more »
VoIP has the mindshare if not the market share. Asian hardware makers are planning to change all that with a whole slew of low cost easy to use offerings that marry VoIP services to cordless phones, some with colorful LCD screens, that run-off WiFi networks. At […] Read more »
When it comes to Windows Mobile fanatics you won’t find anyone more fanatical than the "Pocket PC Pastor", Dale Coffing of mobilepassion. Dale has been using, writing about, and evangelizing the Windows Mobile platform longer than just about anyone on the planet but like any true […] Read more »
Peter Glaskowsky, analyst for The Envisioneering Group on Apple’s switch to Intel’s x86: “It’s a bunch of bull.” Oops! Read more »
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Okay, as I wrote yesterday, the big switch to x86 is totally about the laptops. News.com in its report writes, As for why Apple was making the shift, Jobs pointed both to past problems and to the PowerPC road map, which he said won’t deliver enough […] Read more »
Transmeta’s influence may continue if the company manages to roll out a product based on its LongRun2 technology – Business 2.0 Read more »
Microsoft is pushing “push email” and will release a service pack for MS Mobile 5.0 to work better with MS Exchange Server. Yup, everyone and their mother wants to take a piece of RIM! Read more »
As most of you probably noticed, the TAB server just about grinded to a halt. We had so many people all on the WWDC Live Coverage page all hitting “Refresh” over and over that it sent our server load through the roof. Shame on us for […] Read more »
I have been contacted by a listener who is interested in how Tablets can be leveraged in the field by photographers. It seems to me that Tablet PCs would be perfect as a photographer’s tool in the field and also a capable photo editing station due […] Read more »
We should all eat humble pie – Apple really are moving to Intel. Read more »
Nebraska says to hell with municipal broadband, Maine says not so fast, and passes law expressly allowing it Read more »
Jason Calacanis: Apple’s gonna make their OS free, or at least a free light version of the OS. Make the OS free, convert 2-10% of the desktops out there to Mac and make it back on value added services like iTunes, software, and .Mac storage/email. I […] Read more »
i’m painstakingly dialed-up via my bluetooth cellphone over my earthlink dialup account, so i’m looking at bandwidth below 14.4. so be patient :) Rich and I are sitting next to eachother. He’s got spare batteries. He’s cool like that. Ok here we go: 10:02AM – music […] Read more »
Business 2.0 Blog: Earthlink founder Sky Dayton told Business 2.0, “Dial-up is incredibly profitable. Dial-up’s got a much longer tail than people think.” Somehow I don’t think it going to be like that for a while. Especially when SBC sells barebones DSL $4-a-month cheaper than dial-up […] Read more »
I am currently blogging at Business 2.0 blog as well. My colleague Erick Schonfeld is off on vacation for two weeks, so I will be filling in. Please stop by and check-out the lastest posts there. My first one is IntAPP (Intel+Apple). Read more »
Hey TAB readers. We’re still working on details to bring you up-to-the-minute live coverage from WWDC. In the meantime, we’ll have an iChat session open for any interested parties. So in iChat, you can go to FileGo To Chat and then enter TheAppleBlog and you’re in! […] Read more »
Just look around the Internet and it is quickly apparent how big a deal it is when the first ThinkPad Tablet PC is announced. The corporate world has been asking for one for some time and it is with great excitement this announcement today is being […] Read more »
Microsoft Answers Call From Businesses With Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 New features in Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 deliver complete mobile messaging solution, draw industry support. ORLANDO, Fla. — June 6, 2005 — Today at Microsoft® Tech•Ed 2005, Microsoft […] Read more »
The rumors of a IBM Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet PC can now be put to bed with the announcement of the X41. The X41 is the long awaited entry of IBM Lenovo into the Tablet PC market and the specs coupled with the ThinkPad brand should put […] Read more »
Sorry about the confusion, the Keynote is indeed at 10am Pacific Time. I had it previously written for 2pm Pacific Time. That got corrected too. hoi. It’s late. Must sleep. I hope Rich will be more lucid than I am haha. Read more »
There’s wisdom—and diversity—in crowds. For evidence, look no further than Mercora’s IM Radio platform. With an estimated nearly 2 million users, and something in the neighborhood of 30+ million tracks—spanning everything from garage and grime to adult contemporary and bluegrass—Mercora’s 10-month-old P2P client is one of […] Read more »
Earthlink, keeping up with times, and running out of options is transforming itself into a virtual phone company. It has already announced plans to team up with SK Telecom of Korea to start a mobile MVNO focussed on high end of the wireless market. Now it […] Read more »
The lower price points (and lower speeds) of the DSL offerings from Bells have started to increase the footprint of broadband households, according to new research report prepared by Leichtman Research Group (LRG.) Average household income of broadband subscribers has fallen by 10% this year to […] Read more »
Sramana Mitra: America in general and Silicon Valley in particular used to be on the ball. It used to operate at Silicon speed, work really hard, and produce extremely interesting innovations. A hungry, driven work-ethic permeated the culture. Today, along with outsourcing and off-shoring, that superb […] Read more »
At least two of us from The Apple Blog will be attending the conference and the Keynote by Steve Jobs at 2pm Pacific Time Monday. It is unclear at this time whether there’ll be any reliable WiFi access during the keynote itself. Even if there is, everybody will be on it trying to do exactly what we’ll be doing. We’ve got quite a few contingency plans in place so we’re reasonably optimistic. Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #11 (MP3 – 19.5MB – 56min 42sec) LISTEN HERE Marc Orchant is traveling this week and couldn’t do the show with me but have no fear he will be back soon. Today’s show is a special one as I welcome two attorneys […] Read more »
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The 411-directory assistance company, Metro One Telecommunications has finally dialed 411, and brought in investment bonk-ers to help the Oregon-based company get out of its current dire straits. And this means selling out the company to anyone who would buy them. The company has been under […] Read more »
WNewquay, Tablet PC MVP and very insightful individual, has explained in his very easy to read way about the benefits that students can reap with the Tablet PC. If you are a student or a parent about to send your young adult off to college in […] Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #011 (MP3 – 16.7MB – 48min 42sec) LISTEN HERE Welcome to techADDICTION Show #11 where the tech talk flies fast and furious. Find out if Bluetooth is safe, how many gadgets can you put in your pants, how to get HDTV to go, […] Read more »
We have been following as Eric Mack has blogged about his new Toshiba Tecra M4 since he received it and have gathered a lot of good information about the newest Toshiba Tablet PC. I have also been waiting for other reviews of the M4 to start […] Read more »
On the heels of confirmed rumors about Apple looking to Intel to power its future systems, Om Malik just posted a thought-provoking article on what could be Apple’s next moves, potential implications for Microsoft and the rest of the industry, all put in perspective of the deep dark mysteries that shroud Steve Jobs, the master puppeteer pulling the industry’s strategic strings. Read more »
Confirmed at WWDC today. What’s even more crazy, Steve wasn’t wearing jeans. or the turtle neck? He is finally growing up? So perhaps hell is freezing over! Some men dream the future. He built it. Steve Jobs, the maverick who has architected one of the greatest […] Read more »
The jkOnTheRun forums are being moved to a new server and are temporarily down. I hope they will be back up in a day or two. Thanks. Read more »
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