South Florida Sun-Sentinel says, ‘Taxpayer-funded Internet access seen as a boon for economic growth.” And that is why the tiny communities of Boynton Beach, Coral Gables, Delray Beach, Hollywood, Miami Beach, Pembroke Pines, West Palm Beach and Wilton Manors are building wireless Internet networks. Broward, Palm […] Read more »
And about 103 million Internet users , according to a report by the China Internet Network Information Center. ABout 53 million of those are on broadband. China ranks second to the U.S. in both Internet user numbers and broadband user numbers. That’s just big! Read more »
The Boston Globe reports on yet another tiny town building its own wireless network at a cost of between $120-to- $160,000. Read more »
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Yahoo has bought, Pixoria, the company behind Konfabulator, the widget application. Widgets are small web-apps that run on your desktop and retrieve information from the Internet. These tiny apps basically use all the web technologies. Pixoria used to make widgets for the Mac, but had to […] Read more »
Dave’s iPAQ is the best resource for iPAQ related information and one of their members is using a Spectec MiniSD WiFi card in the HP hw6500. The hw6500 is a sweet Pocket PC Phone Edition but it lacks integrated WiFi but as this article shows it […] Read more »
Frequent jkOnTheRun poster Craig Pringle has recently received from his employer (can I work there?) an HP tc1100 Tablet PC and is going through the process we all do with a new device. He is blogging his set up experience on his blog and listing in […] Read more »
Om outpost in the South Indian resort town of Goa. Look it up, when you are there. Photo was sent by Duff. Read more »
All of you know I have been going through hard drives like nobody’s business. With nearly a terabyte of storage floating around my apartment, I was surprised that I would need more. Anyway I got hold of IOGEAR’s new 320 GB ION TriSelect external drive, which […] Read more »
So by now everyone knows about Google’s Magic Bus, which ferries folks over from the Glen Park BART station to Googleplex. Now there is word that even Yahoo is going to start a shuttle service from San Francisco to its headquarters down in the Valley. I […] Read more »
I’m not going to step into the p****ng contest that Robert Scoble is having with Mac enthusiasts but as a result of that affair Marc Orchant and I are more famous than we were yesterday. If only Scoble could remember our names . :) You should […] Read more »
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Now that Apple has decided to switch to Intel chips, I am pretty sure they will be working on a whole new line-up of Powerbooks. I have been wanting to upgrade for a while – that is about six months – but have seen no compelling […] Read more »
Mark Evans asks the question, wondering how his insights of death of TV and Hollywood, are rehashed views from the past. Gilder resurfaced at the AlwaysOn conference hoping to pull a Jason Giambi type combeack. (Paul has more, in his post, The Madness of King George.) […] Read more »
Instead of focusing on some real problems, now there is word that Microsoft is trying to patent smilies, or the emoticons. This has Mark Taylor, executive director of the Open Source Consortium in a tizzy. “We now appear to be living in a world where even […] Read more »
One of my readers, Jonathan Hirshon, sent me this email after he accidentally right-clicked on a Flash ad that happened to sneak past his ad filter and grabbed its source URL… > After checking Macromedia’s online privacy manager on my iMac, I was horrified to learn […] Read more »
I hate the garish Luna theme that Windows XP uses as standard so when the Energy Blue theme was released as part of the Experience Pack for the Tablet PC I jumped on it right away. I love the Energy Blue theme, it looks elegant and […] Read more »
Justin Frankel, the programmer responsible for Winamp and Gnutella, has just introduced a new software, NinJam for both OS-X and Windows machines. Amazing use of broadband pipes – collapsing the distance, time and space for the most local of all activities – making music. > … […] Read more »
Qwest earlier in the year had sued The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) saying that the agency was using its telephone poles without permission. That’s a lie, says UTOPIA, in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. After a careful look at their infrastructure, they figured out that […] Read more »
I oversee projects being conducted at various contractors and get a lot of one or two page handouts with maps or other information that I want to capture into my OneNote filing system. Some people just don’t do digital files so I get stuck with paper […] Read more »
Original Post/Problem here. Well good news! I finally figured out the trick. The solution is not as I would have expected from Apple – based on the way everything else syncs with the iPod – but that’s ok. “Think Different”, right? So after you’ve downloaded photos […] Read more »
Martin Shoemaker is a UML instructor who also writes software for the Tablet PC. He has written an excellent article for software developers who are curious about developing programs for the Tablet PC that describes just how easy it can be given the available tools. This […] Read more »
Paul Mooney thinks that collaboration is the killer app on a Tablet PC. A SharePoint Portal configured with Tablet friendly Web-parts and a wireless Wi-fi connection is the alignment that constitutes the sweet-spot for Tablet PC adoption. I think Paul is on to something with this […] Read more »
Acer has been producing some nice notebooks and Tablet PCs and they have recently released the C310 Tablet PC. The new Acer sports a 14.1" screen running at XGA (1024 x 768) so everything on the screen will be nice and big. Huge, actually. May be […] Read more »
Silicon Valley has often been (incorrectly) compared with the epicenter of another boom, Detroit. The more apt comparison should be with Boeing’s super successful aircraft, the 747. Back in 1960s, the air travel industry went through its own boom, creating a demand for big airlines that […] Read more »
James Enck dials into Telenor’s conference calls, gets the gory details and finds out, the Norwegian incumbent is getting onboard the VoIP train. Read more »
Erick Schonfeld writes on Business2Blog: Mo’ Money (for Google and Friends): The figure that caught my eye, though, was the $494 million that Google paid other Websites that displayed its paid-search ads. That brings the Google economy up to a $2 billion annual run-rate. You’ve got […] Read more »
Vienna is a newly announced news-reader for OS X. From the product page, it looks to have many of the same features as NetNewsWire or Newsfire, but Vienna is different in that it is totally free. Vienna is available for download as either a pre-compiled version, […] Read more »
Finnish broadband equipment maker Teleste CEO Jukka Rinnevaara says his company has developed ethernet to the home technology that can boost cable broadband speeds to the home to 100 megabits per second. Teleste has a trial underway with Dutch cable TV service provider Essent but triple […] Read more »
San Diego Gas & Electric announced that it will soon begin experiments in transmitting broadband digital data over its power lines. More Read more »
Monroeville, a suburb of Pittsburgh will soon get a taste of broadband over powerline. Duquesne Broadband, a joint venture of DQE Communications and BPL Global will start trials soon. DQE Communications is a subsidiary of Duquesne Light. Amperion will provide wireless transmitter while rest of the […] Read more »
Cisco systems has snapped up Danish-start-up Kiss Technology for $61 million, and will merge it with its Linksys business unit. Kiss which makes DVD players, LCD TVs and DVRs, has impressed many with its sleek designs and elegant interfaces, something Cisco needs badly. I think this […] Read more »
Microsoft announced the official name of the next version of the Windows operating system, WindowsVista. Here’s the video of the announcement: Watch the WindowsVista naming announcement. Read more »
Nottes Korea has published information about a new mini-notebook PC from Fujitsu that looks very close to an ideal form, if only it had an active digitizer and the Tablet OS. Fujitsu has snuck up on everyone who follows mobile gadgets with the announcement of the […] Read more »
You can buy the Nokia 6682 directly from Nokia. Someone asked me about this handset, earlier today. We all know how carriers in the US drag their feet, and most of us have to resort to import websites and pay a premium for the phone we […] Read more »
I recently stumbled upon this great piece by John R. Chang on using a GSM Phone as a Bluetooth Modem on Mac OS X. Read more »
The Global IP Alliance has launched public access to the Global IP Policy Matrix and a Global IP Alliance’s wiki that follow IP technology and regulation across the planet. Read more »
Google might have missed the target..…It appears they earned 1.19 Vs. an estimate of $1.22…. and stock is off $23 in after hours trading…. Read more »
Scoble says “Google has set the high-water PR bar” when it comes to Google maps. Not So! People love this stuff, and simply write about it on their blogs. And I think Microsoft people shouldn’t point fingers, especially given Microsoft’s own spin machine. Read more »
CNET News.com has often been in trouble with the bloggers. If you read this line, you know why. “Skype’s annual revenue has not been disclosed, but analysts suggest that it could be in the $6 billion to $10 billion range.” Did no one even question this […] Read more »
Ron points to some analysis by Mark Evans and all recent Vonage gossip believes that Vonage could acquire Vocaltec and thus use the reverse merger process to take Vonage public. The only problem is that since Vocaltec trades on US exchanges, Vonage CEO Jeff Citron could […] Read more »
Do you have a color iPod? How about the optional Camera Connector? Well then maybe you can help me out. Did Apple really drop the ball this badly? Sorry, I’ll let everyone in on the problem here. You see, I just recently got myself a shiny […] Read more »
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