Stories for Jul. 25, 2005

First bloggers wanted to be put on the same playing field as mainstream media. Sure, good idea. But now complaining about PR pitches, embargoes and all that stuff – welcome to the level playing field – and get used to it. I get pitched 50 times […] Read more »

I knew I had made the right choice, but I agree – image management and multimedia features need a facelift. Congrats Matt, Ryan and rest of the WordPress developers. Read more »

I noticed the other day that Apple has released an update for the iMac G5 which regulates the sleep light so that it does not shine as brightly at night as it does during the day. Now, I don’t have an iMac, but I do have […] Read more »

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“Does anyone besides me see the massive potential in the upcoming Sony PSP Web Browser?,” says Russell Beattie. He thinks its a great tablet platform, and who needs video iPod. The problem is going to be the storage – memory stick is a proprietary money fleecing […] Read more »

So by now you’ve all heard, right? Yahoo! bought Konfabulator. They’ll be offering it for free (refunds to those who paid for Version 2.0) to anyone who wants it. And yes, OS X development has been confirmed to continue. So what’s the angle here? Yahoo is […] Read more »

The luddites are blaming all problems on WiFi these days. First it was the guy who was arrested for “possessing equipment for fraudulent use of a communications service,” and now some student has been arrested for “breaking into his school’s network to change his grades” and […] Read more »

I already mentioned the free Education Pack Microsoft released today but Josh Einstein points us to a very good video demo that shows off the Tablet PC and the Education Pack for students.  Best demo of the Tablet for students I have seen yet. Read more »

TeleRead is a great source for ebook information and I check their site often since I read everything electronically on my Tablet PC.  They point out in a recent article that some ebook readers allow configuration for double columns which makes reading on a large screen […] Read more »

After buying Tyco’s global fiber optic network, VSNL, a division of Tata Teleservices is snapping up Teleglobe, a Bermuda based company that does most of its business out of Canada. It is a player in the VoIP space. TeleGlobe acquired IXTC earlier. VSNL is paying $239 […] Read more »

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I have written about a bunch of products that come in a stick form, after all what is more mobile than something the size of a stick?  The Computer-On-a-Stick from Fingergear carries the tradition forward by putting an onboard operating system and a full suite of […] Read more »

Road warriors, or those I prefer to call "mobile professionals", who need a good external battery pack fix to provide some long hours of battery power should have a look at the Tekkeon MyPower ALL battery pack.  The MyPower ALL uses a Lithium Polymer battery that […] Read more »

Everyone is talking about the Yahoo acquisition of Pixoria, the company who has given us Konfabulator.  Yahoo is now distributing Konfabulator for free so everyone should go get it now.  The entire Konfabulator Widgets library has already appeared on the Yahoo Widgets site.  Free is always […] Read more »

Following on the heels of the successful Experience Pack, Microsoft today released the Education Pack which is a collection of programs aimed at students and educators, although many Tablet PC owners will find some of the utilities quite useful.  The Education Pack consists of the following […] Read more »

Akimbo, which has desperately trying to woo consumers to buy its download-and-watch box, made its first sensible move: it announced a new system that allows cable operators to offer the long tail (read indie) video over their own networks.) Akimbo’s Queue-and-View client-server system for DVR-enabled cable […] Read more »

Real men use Nextel for a phone service, while 18-year-old boys love Sprint, according to M:Metrics, a San Francisco research firm. In other words, SexTel, is the perfect name for the new combined service. All they need to do is replace the black coat guy with […] Read more »

This is for those of you who have your own web sites and would like to make it much easier to view on mobile devices like phones, smartphones and PDAs.  Mike Davidson has written a very nice article that web site developers should read that shows […] Read more »

Reason is a complete music creation and mixing application that uses realistic looking components that can be controlled just like the real world equivalents.  There are sliders, knobs, wires and other switches that can be combined in any way the user wants to control their custom […] Read more »

The Tablet PC Show #17 (MP3 – 19.5MB – 56min)LISTEN HERE Marc Orchant and I sat down to produce another show for your listening pleasure and had a blast. In this episode we ripped on Robert Scoble a little and relished in our new title of […] Read more »

Looks like the price declines in the bandwidth market might actually be slowing to a crawl. In recent days, I have heard anecdotal evidence that some routes like NY-Boston and NY-San Francisco might be filling up, and as a result the price for bandwidth is not […] Read more »

EVDO – Next Generation doesn’t sound sexy. That perhaps that explains why KDDI is staying away from the EVDO mumbo-jumbo, and is calling its post 3g network, The Ultra 3G. (No relation to Ali-G!) The Japanese giant along with rest of the CDMA faithful hopes to […] Read more »

AT&T’s business has been contracting for a long time, but if you read Ma Bell’s latest earnings release, you can see where the company is headed – IP services. The IP&E-services revenue grew 9.5 percent over the prior-year second quarter. This is the business that includes […] Read more »

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 »

Stories for Jul. 24, 2005

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 »

Stories for Jul. 23, 2005

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 »

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 »

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