Business 2.0: Austin Powers will be proud. London is once again a hot destination, and its got nothing to do with Beatles, ColdPlay or even Rolling Stones. Its all about wireless and wifi. Its all about connectivity. That’s why nearly 120 companies from the Bay Area […] Read more »
A survey conducted by security company netZentry, shows that nearly 32% of companies surveyed have experienced a DDoS or DoS attack, and 55% of respondents have experienced a Worm or inside-out attack in the last 2 years. The study indicates that DoS and DDoS security incidents […] Read more »
Obviously, the Mac web is in an indescribable daze, and doesn’t know how to react to the announcement that Apple is switching platforms. What if I just say, right now, “Sweet! Windows is gonna die!” Is it obvious to you now – and made more clear […] Read more »
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In yesterday’s write-up,I included Apple’s decription of Rosetta that contained the following section: Rosetta does not run the following: * Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9 * Code written specifically for AltiVec * Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane * Applications […] Read more »
I’ve just got to vent a little bit here. The ‘Intel Announcement’ has Mac loyalists, analysts, bloggers, etc, etc, all in a tizzy – and why exactly?? Let’s take a look at what this means on a basic level… I understand there will be growing pains. […] Read more »
I have written about small desktop setups using gadgets and external keyboards and it is amazing how productive you can be with such a configuration. Pocket PC Addict member sracer believes so too and he has written a nice piece about using an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone […] Read more »
Just found this on the Fujitsu online store web site and got such a kick out of it I had to post it here: Read more »
Siemens is selling its loss-making mobile phone unit to Taiwanese technology firm BenQ. Engadget reported the possibility of this deal a couple of days ago. (Press Release here) Read more »
Following on from an earlier post, it seems that Japan’s record companies’ phobia of digital music distribution (by foreign companies) has been overcome. Mostly, anyway. The Nikkei Shinbun is reporting that Apple is to launch its iTunes Music Store in Japan in early August, providing tracks […] Read more »
I love Onfolio and have written so in glowing terms. The content management and capture tool has revolutionized the way I work the web and makes it easy to capture snippets of information that I need to keep for future writings. I have recommended Onfolio to […] Read more »
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Conventional wisdom, even among telecom cognoscenti is that Skype has become so big, that it can be declared a platform. Who can argue? After a shinny pretty face, a Mac-like ease of use and millions of users, when married to superb voice quality, it is hard […] Read more »
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, however crappy it was, it worked well for the Bells. It allowed them to sell long distance services, a hardball business that was only IXCs to lose. Still doing their thing, the bells slowly saw off the competition from CLECs (many […] Read more »
NJ Star Ledger is trying to humanize the Verizon FIOS and has a nice profile of Marilyn O’Connell, a 21-year telecom veteran who is now senior VP for Verizon’s broadband efforts. She is helping VZ overcome its video misadventures of the past, leading into the fiber […] Read more »
Steve Jobs, known for his suprises, dropped the Mother of All Surprises at the WWDC Keynote this morning: Macs will be running on Intel processors by WWDC 2007. In fact, he had a few running on Intel machines this morning for his demos, with more showing […] Read more »
Cox Communications, despite its recent outage is trying hard to up the speed ante and starting this month will start offering its customers two tier plans – one running at more modest 5 megabits per second, and another premium service running at top speeds of 15 […] Read more »
Rob Bushway pointed us to the official ThinkPad Tablet web video that is up on the ThinkPad site. I just watched it and the coolest thing is the X4 dock. With an optical drive in the dock bay you can use the included InterVideo CD/ DVD […] Read more »
In 2003, it was Citibank’s much vaunted funnies that made us all sit up and worry about the perils of identity theft. The funnies got us taking all sorts of precautions, but even we could not have been prepared for this one: today UPS lost personal […] Read more »
There are now 64,799 WiFi hotspots in 99 countries around the world, according to recent data released by JiWire. via Business 2.0 Read more »
With Steve Jobs confirming today that Apple will switch from the IBM PowerPC to the Intel microprocessor over the next two years die-hard Apple fans are crying foul. It’s almost as if Jobs has betrayed the faithful and it’s pretty amusing to watch the reaction across […] Read more »
So Apple are moving to Intel x86 chips. I’m still rather reeling from the news. Being generally of a more cynical bent, I was inclined to go along with John Gruber’s various debunkings of the hype that so often precedes a WWDC. Shurely shome mishtake, I […] Read more »
Memina (a Samsung spin-off) is all set to release a new 2GB POCKET ROCKET — a top-of-the-line USB Flash drive with up to 18 MB/s transfer rate, a “no-lose” swivel cap. That’s about twice as fast as a CD player, and can store one hour of […] Read more »
BellSouth has just announced that it will start selling a new high-speed broadband service in the fourth quarter of 2005 that will deliver residential and business customers downstream connection speeds of up to 6Mbps. Thanks to ADSL2, the Bells are upping the bandwidth ante as well! Read more »
VoIP has the mindshare if not the market share. Asian hardware makers are planning to change all that with a whole slew of low cost easy to use offerings that marry VoIP services to cordless phones, some with colorful LCD screens, that run-off WiFi networks. At […] Read more »
When it comes to Windows Mobile fanatics you won’t find anyone more fanatical than the "Pocket PC Pastor", Dale Coffing of mobilepassion. Dale has been using, writing about, and evangelizing the Windows Mobile platform longer than just about anyone on the planet but like any true […] Read more »
Peter Glaskowsky, analyst for The Envisioneering Group on Apple’s switch to Intel’s x86: “It’s a bunch of bull.” Oops! Read more »
Okay, as I wrote yesterday, the big switch to x86 is totally about the laptops. News.com in its report writes, As for why Apple was making the shift, Jobs pointed both to past problems and to the PowerPC road map, which he said won’t deliver enough […] Read more »
Transmeta’s influence may continue if the company manages to roll out a product based on its LongRun2 technology – Business 2.0 Read more »
Microsoft is pushing “push email” and will release a service pack for MS Mobile 5.0 to work better with MS Exchange Server. Yup, everyone and their mother wants to take a piece of RIM! Read more »
As most of you probably noticed, the TAB server just about grinded to a halt. We had so many people all on the WWDC Live Coverage page all hitting “Refresh” over and over that it sent our server load through the roof. Shame on us for […] Read more »
I have been contacted by a listener who is interested in how Tablets can be leveraged in the field by photographers. It seems to me that Tablet PCs would be perfect as a photographer’s tool in the field and also a capable photo editing station due […] Read more »
We should all eat humble pie – Apple really are moving to Intel. Read more »
Nebraska says to hell with municipal broadband, Maine says not so fast, and passes law expressly allowing it Read more »
Jason Calacanis: Apple’s gonna make their OS free, or at least a free light version of the OS. Make the OS free, convert 2-10% of the desktops out there to Mac and make it back on value added services like iTunes, software, and .Mac storage/email. I […] Read more »
i’m painstakingly dialed-up via my bluetooth cellphone over my earthlink dialup account, so i’m looking at bandwidth below 14.4. so be patient :) Rich and I are sitting next to eachother. He’s got spare batteries. He’s cool like that. Ok here we go: 10:02AM – music […] Read more »
Business 2.0 Blog: Earthlink founder Sky Dayton told Business 2.0, “Dial-up is incredibly profitable. Dial-up’s got a much longer tail than people think.” Somehow I don’t think it going to be like that for a while. Especially when SBC sells barebones DSL $4-a-month cheaper than dial-up […] Read more »
I am currently blogging at Business 2.0 blog as well. My colleague Erick Schonfeld is off on vacation for two weeks, so I will be filling in. Please stop by and check-out the lastest posts there. My first one is IntAPP (Intel+Apple). Read more »
Hey TAB readers. We’re still working on details to bring you up-to-the-minute live coverage from WWDC. In the meantime, we’ll have an iChat session open for any interested parties. So in iChat, you can go to FileGo To Chat and then enter TheAppleBlog and you’re in! […] Read more »
Just look around the Internet and it is quickly apparent how big a deal it is when the first ThinkPad Tablet PC is announced. The corporate world has been asking for one for some time and it is with great excitement this announcement today is being […] Read more »
Microsoft Answers Call From Businesses With Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 New features in Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 deliver complete mobile messaging solution, draw industry support. ORLANDO, Fla. — June 6, 2005 — Today at Microsoft® Tech•Ed 2005, Microsoft […] Read more »
The rumors of a IBM Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet PC can now be put to bed with the announcement of the X41. The X41 is the long awaited entry of IBM Lenovo into the Tablet PC market and the specs coupled with the ThinkPad brand should put […] Read more »
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