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 »
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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 »
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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 »
Cogent Communications, most known for their cheap metro ethernet services, nose dived today, down $11.59 a share or 53.39%. Not sure what’s the reason behind this. Cannot say if it has anything to do with their decision to sell more stock, and raise an additional $75 […] Read more »
I for one am an advocate of “getting away” every now and then. I like to take the occasional vacation and “do without” for a few days. No cell phone, no PDA, and yes…no Apple. I frequently find myself in technology-overkill trying to stay up on […] Read more »
Business 2.0: Video game industry knows that its always competing with Hollywood, and is always looking for ways to make their games more engrossing, at least visually. What they have not been able to do is capture the emotional drama of a Hollywood block buster. Thanks […] Read more »
Business 2.0: Austin Powers will be proud. London is once again a hot destination, and its got nothing to do with Beatles, ColdPlay or even Rolling Stones. Its all about wireless and wifi. Its all about connectivity. That’s why nearly 120 companies from the Bay Area […] Read more »
A survey conducted by security company netZentry, shows that nearly 32% of companies surveyed have experienced a DDoS or DoS attack, and 55% of respondents have experienced a Worm or inside-out attack in the last 2 years. The study indicates that DoS and DDoS security incidents […] Read more »
Obviously, the Mac web is in an indescribable daze, and doesn’t know how to react to the announcement that Apple is switching platforms. What if I just say, right now, “Sweet! Windows is gonna die!” Is it obvious to you now – and made more clear […] Read more »
In yesterday’s write-up,I included Apple’s decription of Rosetta that contained the following section: Rosetta does not run the following: * Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9 * Code written specifically for AltiVec * Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane * Applications […] Read more »
I’ve just got to vent a little bit here. The ‘Intel Announcement’ has Mac loyalists, analysts, bloggers, etc, etc, all in a tizzy – and why exactly?? Let’s take a look at what this means on a basic level… I understand there will be growing pains. […] Read more »
I have written about small desktop setups using gadgets and external keyboards and it is amazing how productive you can be with such a configuration. Pocket PC Addict member sracer believes so too and he has written a nice piece about using an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone […] Read more »
Just found this on the Fujitsu online store web site and got such a kick out of it I had to post it here: Read more »
Siemens is selling its loss-making mobile phone unit to Taiwanese technology firm BenQ. Engadget reported the possibility of this deal a couple of days ago. (Press Release here) Read more »
Following on from an earlier post, it seems that Japan’s record companies’ phobia of digital music distribution (by foreign companies) has been overcome. Mostly, anyway. The Nikkei Shinbun is reporting that Apple is to launch its iTunes Music Store in Japan in early August, providing tracks […] Read more »
I love Onfolio and have written so in glowing terms. The content management and capture tool has revolutionized the way I work the web and makes it easy to capture snippets of information that I need to keep for future writings. I have recommended Onfolio to […] Read more »
Conventional wisdom, even among telecom cognoscenti is that Skype has become so big, that it can be declared a platform. Who can argue? After a shinny pretty face, a Mac-like ease of use and millions of users, when married to superb voice quality, it is hard […] Read more »
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, however crappy it was, it worked well for the Bells. It allowed them to sell long distance services, a hardball business that was only IXCs to lose. Still doing their thing, the bells slowly saw off the competition from CLECs (many […] Read more »
NJ Star Ledger is trying to humanize the Verizon FIOS and has a nice profile of Marilyn O’Connell, a 21-year telecom veteran who is now senior VP for Verizon’s broadband efforts. She is helping VZ overcome its video misadventures of the past, leading into the fiber […] Read more »
Steve Jobs, known for his suprises, dropped the Mother of All Surprises at the WWDC Keynote this morning: Macs will be running on Intel processors by WWDC 2007. In fact, he had a few running on Intel machines this morning for his demos, with more showing […] Read more »
Cox Communications, despite its recent outage is trying hard to up the speed ante and starting this month will start offering its customers two tier plans – one running at more modest 5 megabits per second, and another premium service running at top speeds of 15 […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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