Way back end of last year I mentioned an interesting service called Amabuddy that lets you get a price check and reviews for books and CDs by entering the UPC or ISBN number on your cell phone. The only drawback I found with Amabuddy was the […] Read more »
As I said earlier, the affiliates could put a financial crimp on the Sextel deal. Now the news that Sprint is buying US Unwired for $1.3 billion. I wonder how the other affiliates will react. And does this mean the Nextel Partners gets bought for $5 […] Read more »
IDT, the former parent of Net2Phone, is trying to buyback the wholesale VoIP services company for $130 million ($1.70 a share). Net2Phone says no way we are going to sell out at that price, but IDT is not taking no for an answer. Much like an […] Read more »
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Loren Heiny (of the First Family of the Tablet PC) has picked up EVDO and is sampling the wireless good life. I am sure he will find it very exciting to maintain high speed connections everywhere he goes. Well, assuming he doesn’t leave the Verizon coverage […] Read more »
This question has been kicking around for a while and Palm / PalmSource/ PalmOne/ Palm hasn’t done anything to really stop the doomsaying. Jeff Kirvin has been a long-time Palm enthusiast who has written a series of posts on his forum about "The Once and Future […] Read more »
Consumer Affairs’ James Hood laments’ that broadband “options are Slim for Those without DSL or Cable,” especially in rural areas. He makes good points, and figures out that despite the big company spin, rural America desperately wants broadband. Amen to that! Read more »
Back in 2000, Sun Microsystems and other technology leaders happily jumped on stage with Enron executives to proclaim a brave new fiber world. IBM, and others are doing the same with BPL. According to NYTimes, IBM has established a partnership with CenterPoint Energy, a utlity based […] Read more »
Storage is such a dirty word in Silicon Valley. Everyone looks down on the disk drive makers with such scorn, and derision. Disk drive makers have such a thankless job – double the disk drive capacity in nine months, i.e. at a pace that is twice […] Read more »
Tom Hanks, is a mighty fine actor, who does such a spectacular job of playing the every-man, that one can forgive him for occasional lapse of judgement, like The Terminal. One of the most improbable yarns, Hanks plays a visitor from the Balkans who is denied […] Read more »
National Post writer Mark Evans asks the important question: how is making money off the blogs. He quotes me as saying, I am not, certainly not enough to retire and move to the French Rivera, though it does support my fondness for expensive Dunhill’s nicely. Evans […] Read more »
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Skype has started offering a sort of discount on its SkypeOut service. The company is calling this promotion, Free SkypeOut Days, and part of the deal is you get 10 minutes of credits for SkypeOut calls every day. Given the terms and conditions, the free minute […] Read more »
Cafe.com, a LA-based wholesale wireless hotspot provider for establishments like Denny’s and Radisson Hotel chain ran afoul of domain hijackers yesterday. According to an email sent to its subscribers, at approximately 2am Sunday morning, the cafe.com domain name was hijacked by an offshore hacking operation. “This […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #16 (MP3 – 21.9MB – 62min)LISTEN HERE Join me as I spend another lovely morning chatting with co-host Marc Orchant about a wide range of topics, some of them even related to the Tablet PC. You never know what you’ll hear us […] Read more »
I was recently in the market for a new LCD display to go along with my PowerBook. After searching around, I came across an amazing deal on a 17 inch Dell UltraSharp display. For $200 shipped, I could have a display for $50 less than I […] Read more »
Chris Holland has figured out a way to make his Mac his “phone” by marrying IConnectHere.com, SJPhone, and a bluetooth headset. Thankfully SIP is playing the priest. “…used my Calling Card’s ID number and PIN as my SIP username and password. Lo and behold, SJPhone was […] Read more »
Joseph Weisenthal poses the big question – when will these two e-tail companies hook up? Netflix recently filed an executive severance and retention plan with the SEC. “Companies, presumably, don’t make such filings for nothing, it’s certainly possibly that a buyout is in the works,” he […] Read more »
Daily Wireless has a great post about how companies big and small are positioning themselves to become big players in the – Mobile WiMax chip market. Unstrung has a report as well. The companies include PicoChip, which recently raised a ton of money, and Beeceem, which […] Read more »
The ever vigilant Dave Methvin, Chief Techology Officer, PC Pitstop has discovered that 180 Solutions might be using BitTorrent to spread their evil spyware/adware seed. Folks at Vital Security have confirmed the findings as well with images. According to his investigations, the nefarious stuff comes packaged […] Read more »
ATI’s recent troubles make it ripe for a takeover. AMD and Intel are interested in the company, so are TI and Broadcom. I suspect, Qualcomm will get in on the action since they are closely working with ATI on mobile graphic chips, and would not like […] Read more »
Robert “Microsoft” Scoble is talking about RSS Spam. Finally, the RSS godfathers are paying attention to something that has been annoying me for months now. Read more »
Wired magazine teams up with Tony Soprano for future growth opportunities. via Read more »
Andrew Odlyzko of the University of Minnesota dropped by at my office recently, and we covered a lot of topics, many I have not been able to write. Some of those points are in this talk he gave at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (video) and […] Read more »
Alltel will have to sell some assets in rural Arkansas, Kansas, and Nebraska in order to get an approval from US Department of Justice for its $6 billion acquisition of Western Wireless. DoJ is worried about lack of competition in rural markets. Read more »
Now that Oracle has snapped up Profitlogic, a software company targeting the retail vertical, Sramana Mitra thinks Oracle should target Manhattan Associates, which she describes as a “well-run company hadquartered in Atlanta, GA, (that) specializes in Warehouse Management systems.” Sort of extending the retail vertical. Makes […] Read more »
Konfabulator is the great utility that lets you put widgets of all shapes and kinds on your desktop. There are widgets available to do just about everything, from battery and memory monitors to traffic cams you put on your desktop. I just found a simple widget […] Read more »
This morning I chatted with my Grand-Ma’ (Mamie) who lives in France for about 50 minutes. It cost me around $2. Little did she know, our crystal-clear conversation was happening while I was doing the dishes, through a Motorola HS810 bluetooth headset connected to the powerbook […] Read more »
Podcasting is exploding and the race has been on for a few months to discover a viable business model to exploit the new medium. It seems a lot of people can’t stand to see something explode in popularity without cashing in but no model has successfully […] Read more »
A lot of people are looking into adding ink posting for blogs so bloggers can post articles directly in ink. This is good for a couple of reasons, it adds another benefit to Tablet PC users and it is very personal (and cool). One of the […] Read more »
When you think of Alienware you think of super fast gaming notebook computers. You also think about how you can afford one, as they tend to run on the pricey side due to the top of the line components they cram in their notebooks. Recently Alienware […] Read more »
In response to my post questioning the unbridled optimism around the “Muni WiFi” projects, and Jupiter Research report questioning the economic viability of the Municipal WiFi networks, long time reader Chris Holland posted this comment which offers an analysis of Hermosa Beach, California’s municipality wifi network […] Read more »
Mobile Virtual Network Operators are quite fashionable these days, but eventually they will prove to a train wreck. How crazy it is? Forbes.com published a seriously speculative and flimsy piece about Apple building its own MVNO. It got Slashdotted, despite the fact there were no facts […] Read more »
It might be too early to call it a turnaround, but looks like Transmeta’s decision to abandon the chip selling business in favor of licensing its technologies to all comers is finally paying off. Seven years into existence it realized, you really cannot compete with Chipzilla. […] Read more »
The Lenovo X41 Tablet PC is the convertible many people have been waiting for and since its release a lot of first looks have appeared on the web. It is clear from these early reviews that the X41 is a true Thinkpad in every way making […] Read more »
Robert Scoble recommends memeorandum for following big news stories such as the tragedy in London. The news aggregator pulls together mainstream media news items along with blog articles and the combination of the two types of information provides very good coverage of big stories. Highly recommended. […] Read more »
Just found this on the Download Squad- yesterday Google added currency conversion to its integrated calculator. This is just too cool and totally useful. Read more »
The Tablet PC community is buzzing about the new 8 inch Motion LS800 Tablet PC and rightly so. The mini-Tablet PC is hopefully the first of many such devices to hit the market and it is apparent many consumers have an interest in a small Tablet […] Read more »
Wall Street Journal is at the annual aging lions of media summit in Sun Valley where the content kings laughed and smirked at the silicon Valley upstarts. “What people watch is fast losing ground to how those people watch it,” The Journal says. In other words […] Read more »
Microsoft’s blizzard of publicity not withstanding, smaller players are trying to get a foothold in the fast growing IPTV market. UTStarcom, the Sino-American telecom equipment maker is going to power the IPTV efforts of Softbank (Yahoo) Broadband of Japan as well. UTStarcom says the new BBTV […] Read more »
Folks over at Light Reading conducted a poll on what will Cisco nibble on from the massive buffet of start-ups. Nearly 17% think that storage would be the key focus, while another 13% believe that Cisco could go out and buy some VoIP related company – […] Read more »
Bill McFarland, CTO of wireless LAN chipmaker Atheros Communications tells Unstrung: The new 802.11n standard could offer far greater data rates of “Up to 600 Mbit/s.” Cisco’s new chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo in an interview with me predicted a gigabit/second wirelessly by end of the […] Read more »
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