Even in New York, Esme is finding it hard to find WiFi in New York, especially in "the area around East 12th Street and University Place (where a lot of NYU students hang out). You’d think there would be lots of Wi-Fi service here, apart from […] Read more »
USA Today has a long piece on the cat-fight between cable and phone operators, which apparently is getting ugly. How ugly? USA Today: Dorothy Attwood, senior vice president of planning and policy for SBC on how cable companies are using their franchisee relationships to lock out […] Read more »
Spain one of the broadband laggards in Europe, will see faster adoption, mostly because of increased competition, and falling prices, according to a Forrester Research report. The Spanish broadband market grew quickly during the past two years — by 202% in 2003 and by 64% in […] Read more »
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Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. It plays the songs that people want to hear and it transforms car radio into an interactive medium. Source code here! via unmediated Read more »
Current 1.5 is a piece of software from Near Time, that is combination blogging-rss reader plus note taker is not talked about as much amongst the web users, but it has consistently impressed me. I am still baffled by its user interface, but like the features […] Read more »
FCC finally came down on VSPs and made e911 mandatory, giving them 120 days. The decision, at least to me was expected. For a while I have been saying if you are going to be like PSTN, then you have to meet the PSTN standards. Consumers […] Read more »
If you can’t beat them, might as well join them. After a stunning loss of credibility, not to mention dollars, Marconi has teamed up with Huawei. As you might remember, Marconi was left out of the British Telecom 21CN network business. The two companies have signed […] Read more »
Steve Gillmor and I discuss our visit to Google, and what we thought of the event, Google’s new products and other random observations. I had not gone into the technology details and kept my post, a tad breezy, because I hoped that this podcast would make […] Read more »
Quite some time ago I tried to use MindManager on the Sony U ultra-portable computer and had some trouble that I thought was due to the touch screen on the Sony U. MindManager has been totally Tablet-enabled and I was eager to give it a go […] Read more »
Cry wolf or cry Extreme. Wall Street is once again fanning the flames and talking up the possibility of Juniper picking up Extreme Networks. With Extreme’s market cap down to $560 million, this is now officially cheap enough. Read more »
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I have to admit I don’t write a lot about Palm PDAs which is more a function of not using them than thinking there is anything wrong with the Palm OS. I used a Palm XV years ago and it was a solid performing PDA and […] Read more »
Indian politicians, regardless of their party affiliation, want overseas companies to set up shop, and manufacture hardware and chips in their country. Never mind the fact that the infrastructure to support a chip fab is no there, the ports cannot handle the rigors of International trade […] Read more »
I have mentioned The Vermont Slate in the past which is the work of Mark Payton of the Vermont Academy. They have a comprehensive program that is putting Tablet PCs in the hands of their students and more importantly giving them the skill sets needed to […] Read more »
Call it the fine art of corporate damage control. Now Motorola CEO Ed Zander is saying that carriers love the iTunes phone, and there was no pushback from the operators because the device cuts them out of mobile music revenue stream. “I don’t know where these […] Read more »
Syracuse, more known for their fine university and equally fine basketball team had come to a conclusion – it is going to become a broadband destination, at least for those who want to use the city as a base for developing broadband applications. The city based […] Read more »
Yet another incident of a major broadband provider suffering an outage. 2 million Cox customers had no broadband access on Friday. “We’re still investigating the root cause of the problem,” Bobby Amirshahi, a Cox spokesman, told Internetnews.com. We all know about the infamous Comcast outage from […] Read more »
Glenn Fleishman says that the city of Brandon in Vermont is planning to build a village-wide Wi-Fi. City will put up the antennas, and a local company with fiber will be the wholesale ISP. TelJet has its own fiber across 18 Vermont towns, and will attempt […] Read more »
When I first read about the Minox DM1 I asked myself if there is anything the little camera couldn’t do. I still can’t think of anything else I would want in a digital camera given everything Minox has crammed into the tiny gadget. Take the 3.2 […] Read more »
German High Court has ruled that ISPs don’t have to give out their customer’s information as record labels wage a war on piracy and illegal file sharing. ISPs cannot be forced to reveal the identities of those involved in file sharing. However, this could be a […] Read more »
I knew I was a bit of a trend setter, but had no idea that I would have an impact so soon. A few months after I moved to San Francisco, now comes the news that Scotland’s Curry King, Charan Gill is opening a new luxury […] Read more »
Microsoft is running a OneNote PowerToy competition so if you are thinking about writing a cool add-on for the great note-taking program now would be a good time to do it. Microsoft is awarding five Toshiba Portege M 200 Tablet PCs to the entrants that submit […] Read more »
If AOL-Time Warner merger was an absolute top for the bubble, then Time Warner’s decision to sell AOL is an absolute bottom for the “Internet Stocks?” I think so – but do you? via Read more »
From the Houston Chronicle on May 19, on posted results of the TAKS test, a state-mandated standards test that gauges how well children have learned the course material in every subject: Some of the biggest declines were in math and science, subjects failed by roughly a […] Read more »
Good buddy and co-host of techADDICTION Kevin Tofel was recently interviewed for a podcast in Philadelphia, Phillyfeed. It’s a great interview and if you listen very carefully to the entire interview you will hear exactly how old I am. Good job, Kevin! Read more »
Forget Vonage, the first VoIP IPO is actually going to be CBeyond, an enterprise VoIP service provider targeting the small and medium sized businesses. Good time to sell out, for this one is not long for the world given the looming competition from incumbents and do-it-yourself […] Read more »
Remember my story, The New Road to Riches, from last October. Well, more and more are converting to that religion. Gluecode CEO Winston Damarillo sells his open source venture to IBM, takes the money, runs and starts yet another open source company, Simula Labs. Call it […] Read more »
XTen CEO on his blog is wondering if it was time to develop a softphone client for Sony PSP. “Since we can browse the web on this thing, and it has a USB port, Wi-Fi and a TCP stack you would think we should be able […] Read more »
Remember all those things RIAA used to say about music piracy and Napster. Well, do a “find-replace” with MPAA and BitTorrent, and you get the same hysterical statements. MPAA president Dan Glickman says, “We must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.” […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #9 – 21 May 2005 (45 min)MP3 – 16.2MB Eric Mack opened his brand new Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC yesterday and shared his experience on his blog with pictures and audio recordings that chronicled his delight during the process. One of […] Read more »
Latin American nations are finding unique uses for WiFi including building a Wi-Fi-linked e-payments network in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Quite clever actually since it cuts down merchants’ long-distance phone charges, and speeds up transactions. In Chilean pueblo of Cora Cora, 7000 residents can now connect to the […] Read more »
The good news is that Sun Rocket doesn’t have to spend any more money on e911, because they pre-built it into their infrastructure and offer it free as part of their plans, unlike others who charge extra for it. The bad news is that at $199, […] Read more »
Skype-sters are blogging to their hearts’ content, and can now respond to my criticism in real time. Hey guys, thanks for including me in your b-roll. They have the story so far…. The damn feeds are not working? Anyone guess what blog CMS they are using? Read more »
The second most connected society on the planet, Japan has 3.35 million bloggers, a number that is going to double in the next two years, and blog-based markets will grow about 40 times in value by the end of March 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Internal […] Read more »
MC Brown seemed to ignite the wrath of a number of our readers, but I wish to offer the dissenting opinion: yes, Tiger will be very useful. Maybe it’s not so exciting for your average user, but the potential for the future should make them leap […] Read more »
James Kozlowski, a former Qwest Communications accountant facing civil fraud charges and one of the seven former Qwest guys to be named in a lawsuit filed by SEC says that got all the advise from independent auditors when it came to recording fiber-optic capacity swaps.The total […] Read more »
Comcast, which has had its shares of glitches if offline for many users. One of regular readers, Gary Lerhaupt reports, “Comcast’s internet has been down this afternoon for the last hours. At least in Mountain View, that is.” San Francisco, however seems to be doing fine. […] Read more »
Oh so catty! “But a funny thing happened today. Not only are they inching ever more down the slippery slope to portaldom, they’ve decided that we at Yahoo have really been on the right track all along! There’s a radical idea! A customized home page with […] Read more »
Pixoria has released a major new upgrade to the cool widget program Konfabulator. Version 2 has a new Java engine and new widgets that look even better if you can believe that. The upgrade is free to registered users of the older version and if you […] Read more »
Jeff Jarvis: I just quit my job at Advance.net to do lots of new things — a damned career smorgasbord — all related to changing news and to citizens’ media Jeff is now going to be doing what he was supposed to do, but did not […] Read more »
Industry Standard reports that SK Telecom’s social network Cyworld has 12 million subscribers — nearly a quarter of South Korea’s population — with up to 17 million unique visitors a month. Some users spend as much as 10 hours on the network, and are buying and […] Read more »
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