Colin Walker is attempting to install the WindowsVista (Longhorn) beta on a Tablet PC. He is chronicling his experience on his blog Random Elements for anyone interested in how that goes. I don’t think he will have a good experience with this but it will be […] Read more »
In a move sure to appeal to security conscious mobile professionals Atmel introduced the FingerGear, a flash memory drive that has a fingerprint sensor to protect the stored data. Swiping your finger across the sensor authenticates you as an authorized user and permits access to the […] Read more »
The fire department in Danville, Illinois has received seven Panasonic Toughbook Tablet PCs to allow quicker access to important information at the scene of disasters. Firefighters can get information on hazardous materials to make rapid decisions affecting how a fire is attacked. The Tablets are augmented […] Read more »
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Tags are the new black. Everyone seems to be doing it. People are investing in them, companies are promoting them. They even have their own event,Tag Tuesday. So when I finally got around to upgrading Ecto to its latest release, I was pleasantly surprised by how […] Read more »
Last year when I was visiting India, I meet with some of the officials of Indian version of FCC, TRAI. They pointed to the FCC definition of broadband as the one they were going to adopt for India as well. I argued with them, passionately trying […] Read more »
Business Week reports: Europeans are signing up for broadband in ever increasing numbers. PricewaterhouseCoopers figures European clients will spend $24 billion this year alone for zippy cable and DSL connections, rising to $42 billion by 2008. The penetration rates in Europe are going through the roof, […] Read more »
Vonage is announcing an enterprise class service in collaboration with TowerStream, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston. Towerstream has about 1000 customers, mostly in retail, legal and financial sectors. From Vonage’s perspective, this is the route the company needs to take since […] Read more »
Jeff Nolan lists ten reasons why he doesn’t agree with my previous post about mobile phone as a computer. He hasn’t found a phone he loves. Not sure about his requirements, but plenty of people who love their 6600/6682, RAZR and what not. Text messaging issues? […] Read more »
Google in past few weeks has gone down while S&P has gone up. The stalwart counts off the reasons Read more »
Ian Betteridge: “… lots of people didn’t spot that Robert wasn’t denying the story’s validity. I dislike the way that a lot of people have simply decided to call Andrew a liar while assuming Robert is telling the truth. Robert, at the end of the day, […] Read more »
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Chicago Tribune says, “Napster Inc, the file-sharing company with the groovy name and a checkered past, may be legitimate now, but that’s no guarantee of long-term success. The company has been burning through a lot of cash, though it expects to be profitable in a couple […] Read more »
Halley ponders about why there are so “few women on the Technorati Top 100 list and why that it’s not really something worth caring about.” Jeff Jarvis responds, “”It’s not about lists. It’s about links!” Amen to that! Read more »
Earlier this month Essar Group snapped up ailing BPL for $1 billion. Today, Tata-Birla combo bought out Cingular’s 33% stake in Idea Cellular for $400 million. Idea is India’s fifth largest mobile service provider with a subscriber base of 5.7 million. That puts the value at […] Read more »
I wrote about this back in March. Its coming sometime this week along with a partner. Read more »
Spymac: Apple finds ways to mask its performance woes by tacking on an array of previous Build-to-Order options without raising the price. Read more »
Fred’s post today about blogging, tagging and subscribing reminded me to ask this question. If I am publishing on the web, i.e. blogging, I am putting content on the web. Which means, I am finding information on Google, when I search for it. GASP, even the […] Read more »
Yahoo has hired Elizabeth Osder, to work at Yahoo Media Group and divison VP Scott Moore tells Staci Kramer that Osder’s hiring is “a clear indicator of our intention to go deep in social media and user-generated content.” I could not find Osder’s blog, which incidentally […] Read more »
Seems like the market obsession for consumer VoIP is giving way for a “hosted VoIP” craze. StarVox, which bills itself as a next generation ASP has just started offering VoIP services such as IP Centrex, VoIP VPNs, VoIP trunking and unified communications. They are going to […] Read more »
Tablet PC owners who wish to get started with the speech recognition integrated into the platform should read Jeff Van West’s great article, How to Use Speech Recognition Profiles and Dictionaries with a Tablet PC. Jeff covers all the basics, including how to get started with […] Read more »
Copernic has released version 1.6 of their Desktop Search program and Firefox users will be quite happy. They have added native Firefox support for the Search program bringing it up to par with the Internet Explorer support. There is also an improvement for mobile users on […] Read more »
BellSouth has launched a pre-WiMAX service in Georgia, becoming the first major (regional bell) phone company to launch a fixed wireless service. 384 kbps down and 128 kbps up “Wireless Lite” package costs $30, while Wireless Ultra (1.5 mbps down/ 256 kbps up) costs $40 a […] Read more »
The sad truth of VoIP today – unless you are dialing a lot of long distance to other countries, VoIP services are not worth the effort. The New York Times has the details, though somehow I find the assertions of Vince Vittore, executive editor of Telephony […] Read more »
Donald Trump move over, for these guys have got some serious tales which scream “You’re fired” louder than him. By the way does anyone else think this is a better PR move than hiring an agency and having them make the calls. Fired Google blogger, Mark […] Read more »
Ever since I started using Mac portables, I have been using Raging Menace Software’s SideTrack. Just in case you are unfamiliar with this program, SideTrack is a replacement driver for the track-pad on either iBooks or PowerBooks which allows much greater control over what you can […] Read more »
Like all true mobile professionals (read– geeks) that rely on mobile technology to aid us in our mobile lifestyles, I am in a never-ending quest for the perfect gadget bag. I have tried so many bags I have a whole closet full of discarded bags that […] Read more »
Folks a few days ago I had asked for help on a GigaOm widget for Mac Dashboard. Anders just in a most generous gesture created one for me. So all my readers who have Tiger, hopefully this is worth downloading and installing on your dashboard. Here […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #18 (MP3 – 19.0MB – 55min)LISTEN HERE Join Marc and I for Tablet PC Show #18 where you’ll find some fun and hopefully interesting talk about all things Tablet PC. We examine the social factors that sometimes become a barrier to adoption […] Read more »
Building cool and functional paper airplanes was never my forte but this site makes it easy for anyone to make a great one. Labelled the “DC3″ of paper airplanes the site offers step by step instructions for turning a sheet of ordinary paper into a cool […] Read more »
Given that their browser based search is still a bit of hit and a miss, it is tough to figure out how they improve the Technorati experience on the mobile phone. As I said in my previous post, Technorati optimized for Palm Treo (how of many […] Read more »
David Beisel is quite impressed by Trip Hawkins’ portrayal of the mobile phone as a social computer. Hawkins’ who is the founder of Digital Chocolate, a mobile gaming company is of the Silicon Valley set that came of age in the PC era. He was part […] Read more »
Akihabara News is pointing to a new all-in-one phone by Fujitsu. The Linux-based phone running on a 400 MHz chip has 128 megs of RAM, 64 megs of ROM, and 802.11b built right into it. The phone also has CF and SD card slots so you […] Read more »
The Economist has a sort of ‘lay-of-the-land’ piece on incumbent phone companies and their IPTV strategy. It is a lot of what we all know, except packaged nicely for those who don’t follow the arcane happenings in the world of telecom. What I find amusing is […] Read more »
Srijith says Google has locked down his GMail account for 24 hours. “Our system has detected abnormal usage of your Gmail account. As a result, we have temporarily disabled access to this account,” says Google’s email. Other folks have experienced this problem, but not me. Anyone […] Read more »
Skype now allows users to make calls to toll-free numbers in several countries free of charge, even if you don’t have SkypeOut. You can now call the following countries using toll-free numbers: France: +33 800, +33 805, +33 809 Poland: +48 800 UK: +44 500, +44 […] Read more »
Unless you are as old as some of us around you may not remember that IBM introduced a pen-enabled ThinkPad in 1993. The ThinkPad 750P was ahead of its time with no real OS support to take good advantage of the pen capability, and since the […] Read more »
Join me today in wishing Tablet PC Show co-host Marc Orchant a very happy birthday! It is a very special day for Marc as he can now get that big discount at Denny’s! :) Read more »
There is little doubt the Motion LE1600 Tablet PC is one of the most capable slate Tablets available today and anyone who has followed Tablet MVP Rob Bushway’s journey with his LE1600 can see how great the device is. Rob has chronicled his experience with the […] Read more »
I am testing the BlogJet program for creating blog posts offline for upload at a later time. BlogJet looks really nice since it works with just about every blogging service out there (TypePad included) and most importantly lets me include graphic smileys! I have used […] Read more »
Windows world is all tipsy topsy over the release of new Internet Explorer 7 Beta which has amazing ground breaking features as tabbed browsing. Apparently, it is/was breaking the Google toolbar and some of the Yahoo’s older toolbars. There is word of the Beta screwing up […] Read more »
We all know and love the XTen Softphone. Well, we all might have to call it with some other name, because the company has been in a bit of legal tussle over the name with Xtend Communications Corp, a New York-based company. Xtend had filed a […] Read more »
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