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 »
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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 »
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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 »
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP will stop reselling iPod. It was a bad idea to begin with, and now its over. HP accounted for about 5% of total iPod sales. HP will still distribute the iTunes software on its computers. It was a […] Read more »
iTunes 4.9 has changed my life. (Okay, not my ENTIRE life, but a large part of it). I’m totally digging these podcast things, and iTunes makes it easy and simple to download new episodes and sync them with my iPod. However, there are a few issues […] Read more »
I wonder what OS X will be offering at the end of 2006… Read more »
YPulse points to yet another social networking site, gasp…. for Beautiful People. Beautiful People got itself coverage in USA Today. Don’t bother visiting the site with any of these browsers – Safari, Camino and Firefox – i.e., the browsers of choice for the smart set. Message: […] Read more »
Folks I am on multiple deadlines for the magazine this week so the posting has been slow. Perhaps it gives you all a chance to catch up on the reading… seriously, its been a rough week and I will likely be posting at crawl speed over […] Read more »
Skype says it is cutting prices on SkypeOut service. The service that allows Skype users to call PSTN is now going to cost 0.017 Euro per minute. Skype is trying to spin this, but price cut show that that the SkypeOut adoption is slower than what […] Read more »
The Washington Post took a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC and according to the reviewer "gets it right". The reviewer likes the feel of the pen on the screen and the quality of the hinge swivel mechanism. If you are interested in another […] Read more »
I have been a long-time follower of Jeff Kirvin’s Writing on your Palm website because Jeff’s writings are usually right on the money where mobile technology and PDAs are concerned. While a big fan of Palm devices Jeff has never hesitated to use other products like […] Read more »
France Telecom is making a concerted effort to converge home communications and entertainment services into the Livebox service that has been available to customers for some time. They recently announced the addition of "Liveservices" which adds a WiFi-based cordless home phone to the internet, telephone and […] Read more »
The story of Brice Mellen of Lincoln Nebraska is one of the most amazing ones you will ever hear. Brice has been blind since birth and has used his 17 years to learn to play video games. Well, he doesn’t just play them, he is regularly […] Read more »
Pretec has introduced a new 4 GB SD card that is a high speed addition to the company’s growing line of memory cards. The 4 GB card has access speeds up to 20 MB per second making it one of the fastest cards on the market. […] Read more »
The Technorati experience just got a little richer for those accessing the web from mobile devices with the introduction of Technorati Mobile. The new mobile edition is formatted specifically for the small screens of handhelds and mobile phones and provides the same rich search capabilities of […] Read more »
As discussion has intensified over potential problems with the shuttle re-entry due to the foam problems I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed over NASA’s public grounding of the shuttles while Discovery is in space. This is something that could surely have waited until the […] Read more »
“The halo effect enabled them to go after PC users and sell them Apple products,” said Will Poole,, the Microsoft executive in charge of desktop operating system products. Read more »
Huawei, might be becoming a fixture in telecom bids around the planet, but its low-cost products are finding few takers among the US telecoms, reports The Wall Street Journal. The company which is on a tight leash from its masters in China made all the classic […] Read more »
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