Stories for May. 24, 2005

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Russell Beattie: Someday, someone will allow me to sync my phones easily. I swear. I’ve only been waiting three years for it, right? I agree, iSync is one whacked out product, more temperamental than Jobs hiz-self! Read more »

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Martin is on the same page as me, whew it was getting lonely out there. As far as the consumer is concerned the “looks like a duck, quacks like a duck” test is really simple. Can I plug my standard POTS phone into it? If so, […] Read more »

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Its like sibling rivalry, Silicon Valley edition. Palm One, which was once Palm is paying $30 million to Palm Source, to buy back the exclusive rights to the name PALM. Not that it has anything to do with the fact that Palm One is responsive for […] Read more »

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Alereon, which is developing the Ultrawideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) markets, today showed off a fully integrated prototype running at 480Mbps. The demonstration at the Wireless USB Developers Conference included a WUSB Media Access Controller (MAC) from Intel, and a WUSB physical layer (PHY) from […] Read more »

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Business 2.0: Imagine plunking down $100,000 and walking away with your very own supercomputer. The low-cost computing revolution means you can now get that result with a handful of off-the-shelf components. By lashing a cluster of 32 blade servers together with an inexpensive switch, any business […] Read more »

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Believe it or not, Bluetooth is not dead. Instead it is thriving, despite all the negative karma around the short-range wireless technology. According to Bluetooth SIG, 5 million products with built-in Bluetooth are shipping every week. Nice PR touch: At this pace, if you were to […] Read more »

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The Samsung Nexio XP30 is an innovative device in the handheld arena that has a beautiful 5" screen and runs on Windows CE .NET 4.2.  The XP30 is intended to be a web-browsing mobile workhorse and while a tad large it comes with a lot of […] Read more »

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Samsung Electronics plans to begin production in August on hard drive replacements based on flash memory chips.  Flash memory based storage has a number of advantages over traditional hard drives, lower weight, lower power comsumption and higher data transfer rates being chief among them.  The only […] Read more »

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Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT) has announced an embedded 802.11g radio for mobile devices.  The "world’s lowest power WiFi Radio" is aimed at handheld devices, multimedia cell phones and digital cameras. (press release) Read more »

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Reliable source Rob Bushway reported recently a trusted source has claimed the existence of an Apple Tablet prototype and furthermore that he/she spent some hands-on time on the device.  Here’s what Rob’s source reported: …And it exists, honest, seen a prototype. Instant On,ASUS-Tatung whiteish looking, running […] Read more »

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woot! has a great deal today for anyone looking for a good deal ($799.99) on a projector for watching movies at home.  These sell out fast so better hurry.  The InFocus ScreenPlay 4805 projects up to a 76" screen and has some great features: Condition: Recertified […] Read more »

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I have often used Kinoma Producer 3 for converting video for playback on a Palm device, but now I am told that they have started to support Sony PSP. In other words, you can take your Alias shows and put them on your PlayStation Portable, in […] Read more »

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Houston Chronicle: For SBC, offering naked DSL goes against the grain of its triple play “bundling” strategy, which is to sell packages of voice, video and data services at discounted prices. But competitive pressures from Qwest, the first to announce naked DSL service, and Verizon, which […] Read more »

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Cox Communications is all set to launch its VoIP service in the Las Vegas area, according to local daily, The Las Vegas Review & Journal. The service will be offered in a yet-to-be selected area of northwestern Las Vegas in October, Cox Vice President Steve Schorr […] Read more »

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Roadcasting, he cool software that lets you create ad-hoc networks while in a car has caught the attention of blogsphere yesterday. Think of it as pirate radio-meets-smart mobs at 60 miles per hour. The software can easily be used to create hyper local networks, and with […] Read more »

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In response to my piece yesterday about End of VoIP as we know it, Aswath sent me an email and pointed out that there is more than what meets the eye. He is withholding judgement, up until a full ruling, not a press release is released […] Read more »

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The Pondering Primate believes that 4INFO is better than Google SMS when it comes to getting information via SMS. I concur. Have been using them for a few days now, and they simply rock. Better results, and more depth. 4INFO is here . via Read more »

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Like a man in love, I just cannot get enough of Bit Torrent. So I have been finding all these great articles about the file sharing software and the open media revolution it has unleashed. For instance here is this piece by Clarence Ladson, a college […] Read more »

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Wachovia analyst Jim Boyle came out with a research report that says that terrestrial HD radio and satellite radio will both have 39 million listeners by 2012. Harry Helms thinks “this analysis is badly flawed in multiple ways,” because Boyle is taking the digital cable TV/satellite […] Read more »

Stories for May. 23, 2005

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McLeodUSA pleads with its lenders, please don’t break my knees, I will pay you back by July 21st. They had an agreement with lenders to waive payment on about $18 million dollars until today. Bankruptcy #2 is only a matter of time. via Read more »

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Over last few days, there has been an increase in the buzz about IPTV, and how Bells want to unseat cable operators from their perch. While it might happen, there seems to be more sound and fury than reality to it. The reasons are not technical […] Read more »

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Cities are hamstrung by nonexistent federal broadband policy 8 Mbps DSL in Maine Grand Rapids, MI prepares to launch wireless broadband system, more information here Dubuque, IA considers municipal cable and phone system via Baller Herbst Law Group Read more »

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Norwegian giant has spent $1 billion to buy two broadband operators – Sweden’s Bredbandsbolaget for $823 million (335,000 subscribers) and another $237 million on Danish broadband outfit Cybercity, which has about 90,000 customers. Looks like it is trying to become a major player in that region. […] Read more »

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MPAA has been dying to come-up with ways to sue Bit Torrent, its creator and others involved in pushing the p-2-p envelope. Unfortunately they have not had a chance. TechDirt’s Mike Masnick thinks that by developing a search engine for torrents, Bram Cohen and company could […] Read more »

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Apple and Intel sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Well, sort of. Read more »

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Right now, if you need your VPN client to work, I’d recommend steering clear of Cisco’s recently-released 10.4 VPN client. When it works, it seems to work fine. When it’s not working, you have to uninstall and reinstall it to get it to work. However, if […] Read more »

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Peter Rojas interviews Jeffrey Citron, and talks about everything under the sun including why the hell they are not pushing a Palm OS softphone client through. Good interview! Read more »

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Motion Computing has always produced great Tablet PCs of the highest quality and the recent announcement of the newest model of the Motion line was met with excitement given the specifications of the Tablet.  The LE1600 is quite simply a sweet Tablet PC and the good […] Read more »

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Hey why just blame Microsoft for security problems, when you have Intel being exposed for its own short comings. On the very day Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was considering using Intel chips, here comes a warning, almost like god was at work. Colin Pervcial, […] Read more »

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I first mentioned the Toshiba Libretto U100 a while back when Toshiba announced they were bringing the ultra-portable back in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their first notebook.  The Libretto was the first ultra-portable that provided a full notebook computer in a tiny form factor.  […] Read more »

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Dave Winer: Both Apple and Google will soon be under assault, it seems certain, by larger competitors who have let their people blog. To think they can afford not to be present in the arena of the present (not just the future any more) is the […] Read more »

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Steve Jobs, speaking at the D: all things digital conference, said that the next version of iTunes will handle podcasts a la Doppler. Content providers will be able to register their content with the iTunes Music Store where users will be able to sign up to […] Read more »

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Techdirt: Hop On (which just dropped its dot com status) is offering a $39 WiFi phone. Of course, “offering” may be a bit confusing, because normally that means you can buy it — but it doesn’t seem to be possible to buy one yet. If you […] Read more »

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Washington Post takes a look at the slow rollout of broadband in the rural America. It is a story you may have read many times before, but Alicia Stahl, who lives on a farm in Hughesville puts it best: “It just drives you absolutely crazy… That’s […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 »

Stories for May. 22, 2005

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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 »

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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 »

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