Gracenote, the CDDB people in are now offering a feature that allows people to create instant playlists using voice commands. Commands such as “play Trip-Hop” or “more like this.” Pretty cool. Earlier this year they had announced a partnership with ScanSoft, and I guess it. via Read more »
Tropos signed up Tulsa Metronet as its 200th customer. The network will cover 72 square miles in the Tulsa metro region.The network will soon start selling $24.99 a month wifi service that will be powered by Tropos’ MetroMesh products. Read more »
The number of U.S. consumers and businesses that subscribe to high-speed Internet service, or broadband, jumped 34 percent in 2004 to almost 38 million lines, according to FCC data. Read more »
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Sprint launched its EVDO service, soon after Verizon upped the total number of EVDO-enabled cities to 50. Sprint says about 150 million people in at least 60 metropolitan areas across the nation by early 2006 will have access to its service. For now, if you read […] Read more »
JiWire, the total number of WiFi hotspots has climbed to 68,644 in 101 countries. 6100 are free. Rest you have to pay for! Read more »
In case you were wondering why the posting has been non-existent today, just wanted to let you know that I am feeling a bit shocked and mentally worn out by this morning’s terrorist attacks in London. In the light of that tragedy, everything seems so trivial, […] Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #15 (MP3 – 21.5MB – 62min) LISTEN HERE Kevin and I used a completely different audio setup to record this show to go along with a different format to the show. Nothing like shaking it all up at once. This week we open […] Read more »
Google is rolling out the Toolbar for Firefox today and users all over the world rejoiced. And it was good. (It’s not available yet as of the time of this writing). Read more »
We knew it was happening today and thanks to Rob Bushway we know it is official- Motion Computing has released the LS800. The LS800 is a full slate Tablet PC, think LE1600, with an 8.4" screen. This just might be the mini-Tablet PC I have been […] Read more »
If you follow the blogs, it would seem that VoIP is the magic potion that can make you live till you’re 125. Well unfortunately that is not the case, and I think it is time to take stock, sort of a reality check. Not trying to […] Read more »
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Away from the hubbub of the blogs and general fascination with the new Disney MVNO, there is some legal trouble brewing that could possibly derail the Sprint-Nextel union, or at the very least put an economic crimp in their future plans. Nextel has been sued by […] Read more »
Jay Horwitz, Senior Analyst at JupiterResearch is using pretty much the same words as I did yesterday, in his recent report – “Because the benefits of municipal wireless networks are inherently difficult to measure, and because it is too early to look at outcomes, examining breakeven […] Read more »
In our first installment of our weekly “Download This App” we bring you an app that makes Dashboard what it should have been from the start. Mesa Dynamic’s Amnesty allows you to run widgets as if they were their own stand alone app. Why is this […] Read more »
Now that Apple’s iTunes has added podcasting support, and it is getting noticed on Wall Street, it is about time someone came out with a market research report, however over-exuberant it might seem. The Diffusion Group emailed a press release this morning and were quick to […] Read more »
Ad-people can even make “Diesel” cute and cuddly! And no I am not talking about Shaq! Read more »
Opera is a solid web browser and a great mobile platform program. The company keeps adding good features with each release and Gear Live is reporting that the next Technical Preview just out includes BitTorrent protocol support. It makes so much sense to handle BitTorrent directly […] Read more »
Of course, you can try out the Yahoo! SMS search product now (just text 92466!) Also enjoy my piece on the coming mobile search wars. I think Yahoo is going to kick some serious ass in wireless. Mobile Tracker adds Yahoo SMS search is available for […] Read more »
iUpload is going to integrate Google Maps with its blogging software. The post – title, summary, image, comments, etc., are over-laid on top of a Google Map. I guess it would be fantastic to see GeoURL being added to the mix. That would be a great […] Read more »
I was on NPR this morning chatting about recent reports that DT was looking to sell T-Mobile USA. It ran pretty early in the morning, so here is a link to the audio-piece. (Real Audio is needed!) Read more »
Unstrung reports that TGnSync and wWise, the two warring 802.11n tribes are going to smoke a peace pipe, and will likely announce a unified standard by November. TGn is backed by Intel, while TI is pushing wWise. Have you noticed how Intel is trying to push […] Read more »
Channel 9 has posted a video interview of Chris Pratley and Owen Braun, the two wizards behind Microsoft OneNote. The interview gives a fascinating look into the process of brainstorming a new product and working it through production. Highly recommended if you are a OneNote fan. Read more »
Dell and Napster were quick to put out a press release extolling how the two great companies will work together to offer legit music services to universities. Scanned the press release, and two words: what crap. > Starting this fall, Dell will sell subscriptions to Napster’s […] Read more »
Lots of noise about how chinese companies are snapping up businesses in the US. But it doesn’t have to be one way street. San Jose-based NeoPhotonics says it has bought Chinese optical components supplier Photon Technology for an undisclosed sum. more Read more »
If you have kids who are preparing to go to college, make sure you are able to convince them that being a lawyer is a very profitable profession. Especially if specialize in intellectual property and all that stuff that logical humans don’t understand and the lawyers […] Read more »
Opera Watch is reporting that the next generation of desktop browser software will have built in bit torrent support. They will make the official announcement tomorrow. That would be a good reason to switch to Opera, right? Read more »
I have written about Outlook Skype in the past which integrates Skype calling with Outlook. I have known for weeks that the Skype people noticed how useful this third party application was and they apparently bought it up from the developer for a future release. Marc […] Read more »
Reuters is reporting today that South Korean electronics company LG Electronics has licensed the PalmSource software for "its most advanced cellphones". Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more »
Cooking in my house is nothing if not adventurous. No, I don’t mean trying out new and exotic dishes, I’m talking about smoke and fire and fear running rampant. You may think I’m exaggerating but if you remember this from last year you see that I’m […] Read more »
CNN has posted an atricle about Steve Jobs calling the father of a boy who was stabbed when some other kids told him to hand over his iPod. After killing him, they took tennis shoes, cell phone, and the iPod. Jobs talked with the father on […] Read more »
One of the most curious moves made by any networking company was Alcatel’s decision to abandon its IPTV middleware software in favor of Microsoft’s IPTV software, that may or may not work and is till in the distant future. Alcatel had carved up a nice little […] Read more »
Heard it on the grapevine … Round Two, started by ex-Firefox peeps is going in for an extreme makeover… i.e. they are soon changing names to something like Flock… I kinda like the geekiness of Round Two. Read more »
John Battelle pointed me to this piece by Seth Goldstein, who in previous life ran an Internet consultancy and then a research firm. (… explains, the length of the piece….) Hate to say this, but to paraphrase John Doerr, seldom has been so much written about […] Read more »
Internet growth and usage has reached a point where gains are incremental, and some argue that the medium has entered a new phase of maturity. I am not sure what to make of this analysis, except for one thing – the Internet in US finally has […] Read more »
Woven Systems, a stealth mode company started by Caspian alumni is cooking up a massively scaleable 10-Gbit/s switch to compete with InfiniBand. This is focused on the data centers, a market that has been energized by Cisco’s acqusition of TopSpin. I think the market for these […] Read more »
Yeah we like to beat up on incumbents, but broken promises and terrible service are not just their domain. Pesky upstarts make up for lower costs by well, ignoring the customers. Just ask those who switched to Bulldog in UK. Read more »
But eventually it will all work out … maybe Fool.com warns, “Fact is, WiMAX could and may be the next “big” thing. The fact also remains that Alvarion is still a small fish next to a much bigger fish.” Read more »
The memory leak that forced users to reboot often to free up memory has been plugged with a hotfix released by Microsoft. I have been using it for a while and it works great so all Tablet 2005 owners should install it ASAP. Read more »
The conversation that Marc Orchant and I had with Josh Einstein on the current Tablet PC Show got me to thinking, which is always dangerous. Things happen when I get to thinking, sometimes good, sometimes not, but always interesting. Josh spent a lot of time talking […] Read more »
Addicted to RSS? Litefeeds will send everything to any wireless device – Blackberry, Pocket PC, Palm, Java Phone.. you need to download the application. The site is slow and quirky. Read more »
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