One thing I am asked frequently is to recommend a good portable webcam. While I don’t use one myself I have heard very good things from those who use the Logitech QuickCam. Designed to be used with notebook computers or Tablet PCs, the QuickCam clips onto […] Read more »
Lets face it Sun can do only one thing right: make big boxes. But that doesn’t prevent them from trying different things. Now they are buying Storage Tek for $4.1 billion, hoping that they can take on EMC and IBM. I wonder why they even bother. […] Read more »
Business 2.0: In their quest for the next big thing, Verizon Wireless and its carrier cronies have zeroed in on mobile video as their savior-of-the-day. Matt Maier says it’s not ready for prime time–and won’t be anytime soon. Need proof? Spend five minutes trying to watch […] Read more »
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Microsoft announced the adoption of the open standard XML as the default file format for Office 12. Since there are already hundreds of news items about this I’m just providing a link to many of them: Office 12 XML news Read more »
The NYSE network between the members and NYSE went down due to “error message propagating” and overwhelming the routers. Both primary and backup routers went down. As one very wise man writes, “I guess Einstein principle of insanity applies to router designs; inevitably, the conditions that […] Read more »
Company formerly known as Sorrent is now Glu Mobile. It is leaving me sniffling a little. The name change reflect company’s aspirations as a mobile entertainment brand, rather than focusing solely on game publishing. (Glu Mobile is one shitty name, if you ask me. Sorrent had […] Read more »
Looks like Feedster has finally found the funding it needs to grow bigger. The investment was led by Selby Venture Partners, a leading early-stage venture firm in Silicon Valley, with additional funds from existing investors Omidyar Network, members of the New York Angels, and prominent angel […] Read more »
Comcast is betting that VoIP phones, which it describes as digital phone service is going to become its next profitable business venture. The company promises to be in 20 markets by end of 2005, and offer this service in all of its markets by 2006, Comcast […] Read more »
This item from Digitimes is very interesting: Read more »
Nokia has been one of the few companies that has actually embraced open media in general and mobile blogging (photo blogging) in specific. A lot of credit for that goes to Christian Lindholm, the daddy of Nokia Lifeblog, a tiny application that lets you post photos […] Read more »
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The industry specific trade shows, if you have attended one, are a love fest of the worst kind. Back slapping, plastered smiles and of course the bonhomie which ends the minute you walk out of the show floor. But since we are all grown up, we […] Read more »
SBC’s new low $14.95 a month pricing for DSL service is the last nail in the coffin for dial-up, at least in those locales where high speed connections are available. (The offer is only available online.) FCC says that’s over 90% of the country, but then […] Read more »
You might have noticed that blogging has been slow. I am on a tight deadline for the magazine, so I will be remiss in blogging duties and posting is going to sporadic. Maybe this will help you catch up and clean up your feed reader a […] Read more »
Joe Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest who is in all sorts of legal trouble with SEC says he did not do anything wrong, and the government is doing “enforcement by hindsight.” Not to be left behind, former CFO Robin Szeliga followed Nacchio’s actions. SEC had sued […] Read more »
Matt Marshal is batting better thank the Yankees. He just hit one right out of the park and scooped everyone on this most interesting development: Citrix buying NetScaler for $326 million. NetScaler, is one of the many companies that are in the business of “web acceleration” […] Read more »
Robert Scoble alerts us: Speaking of news, tomorrow the Microsoft Office team will announce something pretty important tomorrow. It’ll be up on Slashdot for sure. Come over to Channel 9 after 9 p.m. pacific time tonight. We have an interview with the team about the news […] Read more »
Open Source Region Stuttgart points us to a way to run (and test) Linux on your Windows PC without installing any to your computer. The "Start Linux" runs totally over the web in your browser and will even run on Firefox. Here’s the instructions from Open […] Read more »
Robert Heiny is the patriarch of the First Family of the Tablet PC and he has an excellent blog, The Tablet PC Education Blog, that covers, umm, Tablet PCs in education. He has posted an amazing account of the First Family’s Treeing Walker Hound, AJ, that […] Read more »
Mike Beattie has a blog called debian/ rules where he posted a recent article describing how he installed Debian Linux on a new HP tc1100 Tablet PC. It took Mike a while but he claims to have all the hardware bits fully supported including the Wacom […] Read more »
Intel has quietly added some type of DRM support into the Pentium D and 945 chipset combo that was recently released. Not surprisingly, the chipmaker is not elaborating on the details of this support and have made very few comments about it. Intel Australia’s Graham Tucker […] Read more »
Close on the heels of my post from yesterday, The Register investigates and finds more trouble in Microsoft’s IPTV strategy, and puts the blame on its software innards. The Register points out that the cost to telecom operators would be twin fold: the delay in networks, […] Read more »
SBC and Verizon may have received a little setback in their IPTV efforts from the Texas legislature but they are not giving up, and are now preparing for a fight with the cities, according to Austin American-Statesman. They will start offering the services to the consumers, […] Read more »
Earlier this week, I had a chance to attend the Under The Radar event, a fashion show of sorts of new companies currently seeking funding. I would not like to go into the specifics of which companies impressed the most, but instead I would like to […] Read more »
Engadget just got a tip that Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL might be in merger talks. Haven’t been able to confirm this yet, so take it as a rumor for now, but we just got a tip that Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL have been in merger talks […] Read more »
TeleGeography says that there will be 4.1 million VoIP subscribers by end of 2005 and these subscribers will spend around $1 billion on their VoIP home services. U.S. residential subscriber totals have jumped from 150,000 at the end of 2003 to well over 2 million as […] Read more »
Vonage chief executive Jeffrey Citron told Reuters that his closely held firm currently has more than 700,000 subscribers, and was adding about 15,000 a week. The company added 249,000 subscribers in the first quarter, up from 114,000 in the fourth quarter, but Citron said growth might […] Read more »
First Telmex now Telefonica. Regular reader, Leo emailed me a link to story which basically says that Telefonica Chile has been sued for blocking VoIP to their clients. The most amazing thing is that they’re not blocking it by being the ISP, they are blocking it […] Read more »
The HTC Universal is shaping up to be a fine Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition and ePrice has some nice photos of the "mini-laptop" on their site. The Universal is expected to ship with the new Windows Mobile 5.0, UMTS/ WCDMA, VGA screen, camera, a […] Read more »
Slashdot reports the availability of the first video plugin to be released to work with Skype for providing video calls over the popular VoIP service. Dialcom’s video4skype ( clever, huh?) is available for free to be downloaded from their web site. Dialcom states they are working […] Read more »
Intel and AOpen have produced their answer to the Mac Mini… Read more »
The Microsoft Office suite is chock full of advanced features and it is easy to miss many of the things you can do with all of the programs. There are so many options, toolbar features and productivity enhancers that it is very difficult to get your […] Read more »
Acer has announced their newest Tablet PC, the C310. It definitely sounds like OEM market research is telling these companies that bigger is better. The new Acer has some really solid specs: Intel® Centrino™ mobile technologies Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730/740/750/760/770 Intel® 915GM Express chipset (UMA […] Read more »
Itronix has long produced some of the best rugged notebooks and Tablets that stand up to the rigors of heavy use in the field. They have just announced the new Duo-Touch Tablet PC which comes with a host of features for field usage. The most interesting […] Read more »
I try to write most of my productivity articles by explaining how I have set up for a particular task, or how I do something in the real world. This type of article allows readers to see how I go about a given task and from […] Read more »
Do you have a Tablet PC and would like to tell the world about it on your very own blog? Or do you have your eye on a Tablet and looking for another good source of information about them? The first family of the Tablet PC […] Read more »
If you read the news reports you would think that harried consumers sick and tired of malicious spyware and all the other online crud normally blamed on Internet Explorer would be switching allegiances in large numbers. That percentage seems to be around 11%, according to research […] Read more »
I found this on Computer Geeks- refurbished Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for $164.50! The SL-5500 is the Linux based PDA from Sharp that has a sliding QWERTY keyboard for maximum portable use. This is an excellent price for anyone wanting to play with the Zaurus line without […] Read more »
Forgotten processor manufacturer Via has announced the C7 "Esther" processor designed for mobile devices. Via hopes the C7 will bridge the gap between their earlier offerings and the Pentium M while offering OEMs a cheaper alternative to the Pentium M. The C7 sports a proprietary front-side […] Read more »
Looking for a good way to bring HDTV to your portable computer? The FusionHDTV DVB-T USB converter fits in your hand and requires no external power adapter, drawing all its power from the USB bus on the computer. Using the FusionHDTV you can record HDTV directly […] Read more »
Business 2.0 Hugh Panero, XM Satellite Radio CEO on rival Sirius Satellite Radio and its chief executive Mel Karmazin. “There’s a difference between press attention, which is what they have, and momentum, which is what we’ve got. He used to tell everyone that satellite radio was […] Read more »
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