Stories for Aug. 3, 2005

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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 »

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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 »

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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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Rob Chambers is working on the speech recognition in WindowsVista and his blog post contains some information that makes me smile.  Really, really big smile.    According to Rob the next version of Windows will merge the two current modes of speech recognition, command and dictation, […] Read more »

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Update: 4.35 pst: Many users are still experiencing outages and problems. A couple have posted in the comments section. ALERT: Apparently people can hear the dialtone, but calls don’t go through. Voicemails are offline, and other such issues as well. Most people on the Vonage Forums […] Read more »

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If you are always walking out of the restaurant and leaving your expensive phone or PDA behind then the Freedom Keepsafe is just the thing for you.  The Keepsafe is a security proximeter that emits a loud beep when you get 10 – 20 feet (configurable) […] Read more »

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Tom’s Hardware has taken a look at the DocuPen R700 mobile scanner that is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest scanner in the world. The pen scanner has 2 MB of on-board memory and uses USB to transfer scanned pages to […] Read more »

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The new PowerToy that Marc Orchant told us about on the last Tablet PC Show is now available for download from Microsoft. SyncToy is a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows XP that provides is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do […] Read more »

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It should come as no surprise to anyone that MCI and AT&T loathe each other. Infact, had it not been for MCI, we would be living in a world where AT&T would still be around, and we all be using ISDN. Maybe. Of course, the phone […] Read more »

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Its been all quiet on the mobile front. After a flury of mega-billion dollar mergers – Cingular gulping AT&T Wireless, Sprint swallowing Nextel and Alltel taking over Western Wireless – the industry went into a self imposed digestive phase. The prices stabalized, and a general peace […] Read more »

Stories for Aug. 2, 2005

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Bloggers are rejoicing over the one-second-a-new-blog mantra. Lets not be too quick to celebrate. I see it as more proof that spammers are gaming the revolution. Read more »

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Talk about being a very good day. Looks like Baby Bells will no longer have to share their wireline networks with other competitors, much like their cable industry peers. The Wall Street Journal reports that FCC could announce rule changes “as early as tomorrow, making it […] Read more »

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Tom Evslin tells a story about the transformation of VSNL from a state owned levithian to a nimble free market global giant. He went to India five years ago to drum up business for his baby, ITXC, which was bought by Teleglobe. And then Teleglobe got […] Read more »

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Skype related gear keeps on coming. Here are some of the new entrants into the market – a USB-connected handset/dongle and a Wireless Skype phone. Read more »

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Erick Schonfeld: Google Maps are yet another example of the growing culture of participation. But how are Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft planning to make money from maps? Read more »

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BellSouth was the only Bell company that had a less than attractive DSL quarter in the Q2 2005. Which sort of explains why they are making a big push – via advertising – and cutting prices on its DSL packages. Its entry level offering is DSL […] Read more »

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Many notebook computers and Tablet PCs are currently shipping with the Intel ProSet wireless chipset that is designed to work closely with the Pentium M and provide good power management features to help conserve battery life for these mobile devices.  The Intel ProSet 2200BG is the […] Read more »

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Converge Digest reports that Cox Communications will launch its VoIP-based Digital Telephone service in five more markets this year: Las Vegas; Macon, Georgia; Central Florida; Gulf Coast, Florida; and Topeka, Kansas. Read more »

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Wow – this came out of Left Field. Apple released the Mighty Mouse today. In typical Apple style, it looks really sleek. But will the features perform as well? Hopefully someone will soon get their hands on one and let us know. Meanwhile, here’s the lowdown. […] Read more »

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Every year the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest solicits the worst opening lines for a novel in salute to the phrase made famous by Snoopy- "it was a dark and stormy night".  Writers submit their entries from all over the globe and each year the "best" are chosen […] Read more »

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Our old pal Andy Abramson has been a changed man lately. After swearing undying loyalty to a PC he switched to a Mac. I knew he was in love, and it clearly was a moment of weakness, so I pitched him on the benefits of a […] Read more »

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The MSDN site has a good overview of what WindowsVista will bring to mobile devices that is quite interesting.  The Go Mobile page has an overview of the innovations being incorporated to make mobile devices work better for the end user.  There is information covering Auxiliary […] Read more »

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Warner Crocker points to a whiteboard application for the Tablet PC that lets you make any document a background so you can ink and sketch to your heart’s delight over the original.  From the InkyBoard web site: InkyBoard is a simple application for the Tablet PC […] Read more »

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One of the most popular links on Digg is this link to a PC World article with instructions for reinstalling Windows without losing your data.  No Windows user relishes the reinstallation procedure but given the nature of the beast it is something that is necessary to […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Stories for Aug. 1, 2005

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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 »

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Google in past few weeks has gone down while S&P has gone up. The stalwart counts off the reasons Read more »

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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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