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 »
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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 »
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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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A whole bunch of people in Europe are tinkering with WIGWAM, delicious acronym for wireless gigabit with advanced multimedia support. Rolls right off the tongue doesn’t it! Backers include Alcatel, Diamler Chrysler, Infineon, Nokia, Siemens, Phillips… Europeans Read more »
Take a 1000 songs, make a playlist, and put it on shuffle and broadcast it over the air. Canadians figured this one out three years ago, called it Jack, for the radio station of the same name, which is now huge. via Rags who does a […] Read more »
Sierra Wireless is pulling the plug on VoQ smartphone. Why am I not surprised? And why did it take so long? So long VoQ! Read more »
Lora Heiny has posted a lot of really good photos of the Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC. Do NOT miss these pics. There’s also great shots of the new Motion LE1600 among other things. Read more »
My wife Sheri and her friend SuZan have been blogging for a few weeks about, you know, women stuff. Coping with men (that’s easy), work issues, kid issues, stuff like that. Yesterday SuZan took delivery of her very own Dell Axim X50v and she is blogging […] Read more »
It’s no Zaurus but the Magpie is an interesting PDA that offers VoIP with noise and echo cancellation using the built-in microphone. The Linux-based Magpie uses a Samsung CPU with 64 MB of user memory and 64 MB of flash. It’s got an SD slot and […] Read more »
The Sharp Zaurus line of Linux-based PDAs are some of the best around and I really liked the clamshell form of the SL-C3000 I recently reviewed . Sharp has released the next version of the "little laptop", the SL-C3100 and it looks another winner. The sleek […] Read more »
As you may or may not know, Texas legislature failed to pass a bill that would have banned municipal networks. Bill Gurley, highlights that incumbents had 160 lobbyists in Texas, one per district really, trying to get municipal networks banned. He lauds the organization of the […] Read more »
If you believe in the dictum, that all mysteries are solved by following the money, then the latest financial update from Texas Instruments bodes well for the whole digital life ecosystem. The company today raised its revenue targets, up from $3-to-$3.24 billion to $3.12 to $3.24 […] Read more »
I have often lamented the omnipresent broadband connections, the blinking email icon, the RSS aggregator’s annoying ping, and labeled it the Internet anxiety disorder. Tom Standage, a dear friend, and author of A History of the World in Six Glasses goes a little further and points […] Read more »
BellSouth tips its toes in pre-WiMAX fixed wireless, will launch trials in Athens, Georgia, later this summer using gear from Navini Networks. More details at Daily Wireless. Mike thinks this is old wine in an old bottle with a new label: WiMAX. Read more »
I might be the master of Bluff, but I will never claim I have mastered the bluff. In other words, I love playing poker, expect I don’t obsesses about it. Jason is starting Poker Player bloc, while Nick already has OddJack. (Gentlemen, the poker related keywords […] Read more »
Long-time readers of jkOnTheRun have seen me mention how much I love writing about mobile technology. I have said in the past that my ultimate goal was to move full-time into writing for various organizations, and I am happy to announce my first paid writing gig. […] Read more »
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Apple’s move from PowerPC CPUs to Intel x86 ones, so in the interests of clarification: Mac OS X will run on my Dell No, it won’t. Somehow Apple will make sure that the operating system that makes the Mac special […] Read more »
This is just too funny – a company that depends on AOL for a significant portion of its revenues is now bigger than AOL’s parent Time Warner, at least in market valuation terms. John Battelle wonders how TW people feel about it. I don’t know about […] Read more »
Live Music Search, from Mercora that lets users find and listen to live music broadcasts. via Read more »
Russ Crupnick, president of the NPD Group’s Music and Movies division “One of the music industry’s questions has been when will paid download stores compete head-to-head with free P2P download services. That question has now been answered. iTunes is more popular than nearly any P2P service, […] Read more »
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