Good buddy and co-host of techADDICTION Kevin Tofel was recently interviewed for a podcast in Philadelphia, Phillyfeed. It’s a great interview and if you listen very carefully to the entire interview you will hear exactly how old I am. Good job, Kevin! Read more »
Forget Vonage, the first VoIP IPO is actually going to be CBeyond, an enterprise VoIP service provider targeting the small and medium sized businesses. Good time to sell out, for this one is not long for the world given the looming competition from incumbents and do-it-yourself […] Read more »
Remember my story, The New Road to Riches, from last October. Well, more and more are converting to that religion. Gluecode CEO Winston Damarillo sells his open source venture to IBM, takes the money, runs and starts yet another open source company, Simula Labs. Call it […] Read more »
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XTen CEO on his blog is wondering if it was time to develop a softphone client for Sony PSP. “Since we can browse the web on this thing, and it has a USB port, Wi-Fi and a TCP stack you would think we should be able […] Read more »
Remember all those things RIAA used to say about music piracy and Napster. Well, do a “find-replace” with MPAA and BitTorrent, and you get the same hysterical statements. MPAA president Dan Glickman says, “We must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.” […] Read more »
The Tablet PC Show #9 – 21 May 2005 (45 min)MP3 – 16.2MB Eric Mack opened his brand new Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC yesterday and shared his experience on his blog with pictures and audio recordings that chronicled his delight during the process. One of […] Read more »
Latin American nations are finding unique uses for WiFi including building a Wi-Fi-linked e-payments network in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Quite clever actually since it cuts down merchants’ long-distance phone charges, and speeds up transactions. In Chilean pueblo of Cora Cora, 7000 residents can now connect to the […] Read more »
The good news is that Sun Rocket doesn’t have to spend any more money on e911, because they pre-built it into their infrastructure and offer it free as part of their plans, unlike others who charge extra for it. The bad news is that at $199, […] Read more »
Skype-sters are blogging to their hearts’ content, and can now respond to my criticism in real time. Hey guys, thanks for including me in your b-roll. They have the story so far…. The damn feeds are not working? Anyone guess what blog CMS they are using? Read more »
The second most connected society on the planet, Japan has 3.35 million bloggers, a number that is going to double in the next two years, and blog-based markets will grow about 40 times in value by the end of March 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Internal […] Read more »
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MC Brown seemed to ignite the wrath of a number of our readers, but I wish to offer the dissenting opinion: yes, Tiger will be very useful. Maybe it’s not so exciting for your average user, but the potential for the future should make them leap […] Read more »
James Kozlowski, a former Qwest Communications accountant facing civil fraud charges and one of the seven former Qwest guys to be named in a lawsuit filed by SEC says that got all the advise from independent auditors when it came to recording fiber-optic capacity swaps.The total […] Read more »
Comcast, which has had its shares of glitches if offline for many users. One of regular readers, Gary Lerhaupt reports, “Comcast’s internet has been down this afternoon for the last hours. At least in Mountain View, that is.” San Francisco, however seems to be doing fine. […] Read more »
Oh so catty! “But a funny thing happened today. Not only are they inching ever more down the slippery slope to portaldom, they’ve decided that we at Yahoo have really been on the right track all along! There’s a radical idea! A customized home page with […] Read more »
Pixoria has released a major new upgrade to the cool widget program Konfabulator. Version 2 has a new Java engine and new widgets that look even better if you can believe that. The upgrade is free to registered users of the older version and if you […] Read more »
Jeff Jarvis: I just quit my job at Advance.net to do lots of new things — a damned career smorgasbord — all related to changing news and to citizens’ media Jeff is now going to be doing what he was supposed to do, but did not […] Read more »
Industry Standard reports that SK Telecom’s social network Cyworld has 12 million subscribers — nearly a quarter of South Korea’s population — with up to 17 million unique visitors a month. Some users spend as much as 10 hours on the network, and are buying and […] Read more »
The Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is already making the rounds on torrent networks, and it makes you wonder how it is going to impact the network infrastructure. Especially the corporate networks. Forget the legal action from MPAA, it is the clogging […] Read more »
I just ran across this cool camera hack that details how to get great color from your digital camera using coffee filters. Here’s how to do it: Switch to manual focus Hold a small stack of three (or so) coffee filters in front of your lens; […] Read more »
CMR Fuel Cells, a Cambridge-based company, is claiming a major advance in fuel cell technology that could see laptop battery-sized fuel cells replacing current batteries soon. The company is claiming the new fuel cell design is one-tenth the size of previous designs while lasting four times […] Read more »
Eric Mack opened his brand new Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC yesterday and shared his experience on his blog with pictures and audio recordings that chronicled his delight during the process. One of his podcast clips even has yours truly as I Skyped him to see […] Read more »
We all know how well cable operators are doing in the VoIP space, and how effective they have been in stealing business from bells, but it wasn’t up until a recent report from Pike & Fisher’s Broadband Daily, did I realize their dominant market position. Here […] Read more »
Contrary to popular belief and deep discounts by Bell operators in the US on their DSL services, it is cable modem broadband that is seeing faster price declines, according to Point Topic. Taking a more global look at the pricing trends of 34 of the largest […] Read more »
If you are looking for technical observations, look elsewhere. If you want to hear a pod cast about the day, check out The Gillmor Daily. This one has just my pure, unscientific observations; think of them as musings of an over caffeinated mind…. Om The Google […] Read more »
Nick Aster: Skype dials through ok, but when it comes time to use their dial-pad to enter the conference code, it fails to work about 50% of the time. Sometimes it’s a total loss, as in the 20+ times I tried to get it to work […] Read more »
Flickr is making money off Google AdSense even though it is a Yahoo company. There are Adsense text ads appearing on your photo albums etc. Is this coopetition they always talk about? Making your enemy pay your bills – priceless! Read more »
Mobileplaya writes, “Playlists are the new currency for music exchange. They make it easy to discover, share, and recommend new tunes.” Especially on the mobile platforms. “Enter XSPF (sounds like: SPIFF), which stands for XML Shareable Playlist Format. XSPF will make it possible for Napster, Yahoo, […] Read more »
I have a silly grin on my face as I have been watching, reading and listening to Eric Mack open his Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC and in a fashion typical for Eric he is blogging and podcasting the event. Marc Orchant and I will hook […] Read more »
It will be an alternative view to the classic Google page, and it will include adding, weather, feeds, news and all sorts of stuff. In other words, its like My Google. The whole thing basically comes down to this – despite its technology pretensions, the company […] Read more »
Google executives are on stage talking about how they want to work with developers and help extend Google Maps. Instead of unofficial hacks, they want to make it more formal, so the developers can monetize their efforts. There seems to be a lot of effort behind […] Read more »
Somehow everyone at GooglePlex, including senior management is totally obsessed with Star Wars. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s VP of Product management is totally quoting Obi Wan Kenobi! “There is no such thing as luck.” Since I have never been a Star Wars fan, I am missing the […] Read more »
Paris Hilton is Europe chatting up a storm with RAZR. Ashlee gabs on Sidekick, and so does Jake while Lindsay, keeping in with her personality cannot decide between Sidekick and her phat black razr. via Read more »
Tiger is out, but does all the hype match up to reality? Read more »
Just when you thought it could not be done, well I have proved myself wrong. I crashed and trashed Symbian-based Nokia 6620 smart phone. I see a white screen of death. Here is what happened – I popped out the MMC card, put it into a […] Read more »
Following their success in DSL, wireless and other telecom equipment markets, Chinese telecom vendors – ZTE, Huawei and UTStarcom – are now going after the IPTV market. Their pitch, says Light Reading, is “integrated hardware, software, and integration solutions for carriers deploying IPTV. That pitch is […] Read more »
Totally off-topic but one of my very favorite foods is the lowly hamburger. I could live on just hamburgers if left to my own devices. I just found a blog all about the culinary delight, A Hamburger Today, and I will be visiting often. Lots of […] Read more »
I am at Google attending the Google Factory Tour. Just as an aside, while we get the lowdown on Google, in past six years the google index has grown by 250 times from about 30 million pages to 8 billion pages, and has added more than […] Read more »
I have written about sharing monitors among different computers so the user can take a screen that is not being used at the moment and make it available to the active computer. But what about keyboards and mice? Synergy is a free (GPL) program that not […] Read more »
My beautiful wife Sheri and her friend SuZan have launched a new blog for women (although they tell me they will let men visit, too) called Celebrating Women…for the Real World. Their blog is aimed at women looking for information (or commiseration) on dealing with situations […] Read more »
I was pretty excited to hear about Truphone, a Symbian application that would allow you to make VoIP phone calls using Bluetooth. It makes a lot of sense, and when Engadget hit me with this news, it was like…. finally! This news has been all over […] Read more »
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