Stories for Aug. 7, 2005

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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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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