We all know despite everything, TheFaceBook.com, one of the hottest social networking service well has a “booty call” element to it. So throwing convention, and all the politeness out of the window, some University of Chicago students have gone ahead and created well, TheAssBook.net. And as […] Read more »
Brits were the first ones to experiment with the virtual mobile operator business model, successfully I might add. Their continental counterparts were quick to embrace Skype, and now I see another broadband innovation comes from the old continent: virtual broadband operators. Apparently, Chelsea FC, one of […] Read more »
I was recording the latest Tablet PC Show with Marc Orchant this morning and he jogged my memory about a great article (often quoted) – The Tyranny of Email. The article by Ole Eichhorn addresses the pitfalls of handling email that most people fall into that […] Read more »
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America Online is launching a traditional phone service in UK and Europe, taking on British Telecom. Given their history of experimenting with new offerings overseas, should be expect a similar launch in the US? Hmmmm! (via) Read more »
Dave Matthews’ is a musician I don’t care much about. I especially don’t care for his new album, Stand Up, that is said to be crashing Windows PCs. The CD forces you to install some software, and if you refuse and eject the CD, the next […] Read more »
Tragic tales of Lagos, promises of glory and fortune, now have a new voice. via Read more »
Some sleuthing shows that it does… One of the most amazing aspects of Skype has been this unshakeable belief that the company does not have any network infrastructure, barring a few directory servers and other more web-related boxes. In the early days Vonage offered same arguments […] Read more »
I have mentioned the 43 Folders wiki before and if you haven’t visited it already for great life hacks (and more) then you are missing a growing collection of tips that can make your life a little better. Take the coffee hacks page for example. Many […] Read more »
Brad Isaac believes in setting goals and then defining what is needed to achieve them. He also believes in using a fun and easy tool that makes it a snap to define your objectives and the tasks you need to complete to meet your goals. He […] Read more »
Bangkok Post reports that Thai company, Shin Satellite will launch iPSTAR, the world’s largest broadband satellite, via Ariane satellite launch base in French Guiana in less than two weeks, pending last minute tests. The track record of this project hasn’t been too good, and there have […] Read more »
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Nearly half of US adults are using broadband at home … this astounding finding was reported in Information Week, which cites a Harris Interactive survey …. “The number of online adults as of April reached 163 million, a 4 percent increase over eight month ag o…. […] Read more »
Paul Allen, has never been able to match the success of his early years – Microsoft to be more precise – ever since he parted company with Bill Gates. His peter-pan like life, has been quirky, and cause of much speculation. In the boom-boom nineties, he […] Read more »
“In their own investor-presentation slides, they say things like, ‘We only want to serve the better homes’ ….. I think ultimately, legislators and regulators are going to decide, Is it fiber-to-the-home or fiber to the rich?,” Brian Roberts, CEO, Comcast, on Bells IPTV programs in Multichannel […] Read more »
By way of follow up to my earlier post, the news comes that the District Court of Florida has sided with Apple in TigerDirect’s suit against the company for use of the name ‘Tiger’ to market the latest iteration of the Mac OS X operating system. […] Read more »
A couple semesters ago, I took a college Visual Basic class. It wasn’t bad – your typical programming course, and I’ve had my fair share of those. I liked VB.Net, because it was easy, and had a nice, clean object-oriented syntax. Basically, you type stuff to […] Read more »
Broadband Reports …99% are ignoring the pink elephant in the room: the fact you can go to a site like Torrentspy or ISOHunt, plug in a band name and download an entire album – replete with cover-art – a month before official release – for free. […] Read more »
The technology world changed forever, and if you read between the lines, Cringley is saying: PC is dead, long live the network. This one should be on your must read list this weekend. Read more »
I’ve installed 10.4 on both my work desktop (regular 10.4) and my home server (10.4 Server), and have had them both running for the past week. I also upgraded my laptop, and wound up going back to 10.3.9. Here are my impressions and what I learned […] Read more »
Yahoo, apparently invited some bloggers to show off the next refresh of their Yahoo messenger software which apparently has better VoIP capabilities. Andy was there, I wasn’t but I can guess, that it will support SIP. Guaranteed that they will not support PSTN connections, lest they […] Read more »
Raise your hand if you watched MTV last night at 7:30 to catch the XBOX 360 unveiling. I Tivo’d it and watched it later on. Wow. This is looking ridiculously incredible. Some quick specs go like this: IBM PowerPC based CPU with three cores at 3.2 […] Read more »
Lisa Gade of MobileTechReviews has taken a long hands-on look at the Fujitsu Lifebook T4010 Tablet PC and has published a thorough review of the convertible. The T4010 has a fast processor, big hard drive and a 12.1" screen. How does the Fujitsu stand up? Internal […] Read more »
The Huffington Post has become home for all sorts of drivel, including this garbage from Maxim UK editor Greg Gutfeld. Read more »
MPAA targets six Bittorrent TV Sites, in a bit to lose a handful of remaining viewers they have for their lousy shows. ShunTV, Zonatracker, Btefnet, Scifi-Classics, CDDVDHeaven and Bragginrights have been sued. via Read more »
Now that I have been using the HP tc1100 for a few days I thought it time to share the details about the Tablet configuration I opted for and also some key accessories that I have incorporated into my daily work routine. The tc1100 is extremely […] Read more »
If you happen to have a PC with no hard disk activity light you often are wondering what might be happening on your system, especially if your hard drive is very quiet. The lack of an indicator light is the only beef I have with the […] Read more »
Dell just came out with its fiscal first quarter 2006 results. One word: spectacular. Sales of $13.39 billion, and a net profit of $934 million (37 cents a share.) Dell’s gross margin was huge $2.491 billion. Dell results show that you need to be massive in […] Read more »
I finally got a chance to play around with Yahoo Music, and after reflecting on this for a while, I have come to few conclusions. This clearly is bad news for others who are playing in the subscription space, and it is not going to have […] Read more »
Incumbent telecoms will be watched like a hawk, lest they try and use predatory pricing to lock out upstarts in the VoIP market place. Bell Canada and Telus are clearly upset, but CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen told Globe & Technology, “This is precisely the moment when […] Read more »
Its all about the ATAs really. UTStarcom is actually announcing a brand new line of VoIP products for residential and enterprise markets. eLec is buying some of it as well. What will happen to other equipment vendors, now that the Asian vendors are getting serious about […] Read more »
James Enck on why things are getting really ugly at Deutsche Telekom. He describes that things are “messy, confusing, and not terribly inspiring. Management were frank in admitting that DSL unbundlers are pressurizing the voice market, as I expected already. Sipgate’s 100k, plus maybe 300 – […] Read more »
LCD-TVs are hot. And while you would expect the usual suspects like Toshiba and Sony to be in the top three of these cutting edge products, the market reality is quite different. Topping the charts with the latest market share, according to iSuppli in Q4 2004 […] Read more »
In the words of great Yogi Berra (Happy 80th Yogi), it ain’t over till its over. Looks like MCI shareholders owning at least 20 percent of the company plan to withhold votes for directors at next week’s annual meeting to protest the board’s decision to accept […] Read more »
Rafat’s mega-empire grows. He has launched ContentSutra a blog for digital media professionals in U.S., Europe and around the world, looking to expand, invest, or better understand the Indian market. Don’t worry – this a workspace friendly site. via PaidContent.org Read more »
Acq-hire – fits nice with my theme of micro-start-ups, that are built, and then flipped. via Read more »
Now this might come as a surprise to many, but the number of communities with fiber-to-the-home has gone up sharply in past 15 months or so, according to a study by TIA. I am going call these fiberhoods. Research results released today show that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) […] Read more »
Steve Richards was a man on a mission- his daughter has a medical condition that makes her hands cold, stiff and generally makes it hard for her to haul her books around the school. Steve knew that a Tablet PC with scanned textbooks would make it […] Read more »
For starters, guys I would like to say, that I am not making this up. A San Diego-start-up, Nethercomm Corp., which has no trial partners or no known venture capital backers, is promising that it can deliver up to 10 gigabits per second broadband using natural […] Read more »
Rejoice people, for now you can get a one megabit down/256 kbps up service from MetroFi’s in 75% of Cupertino, California – world famous for being home to Apple Computer. Read more »
Thanks to Wavelength, which is selling a $34.95 a month package, with speeds of upto 1.5 megabits per second. The real reason the service was launched is because Greene County school system gave out “2,000 laptop computers into the hands of students through the Apple iBook […] Read more »
I am sitting in a Chinese restaurant near my house, having just finished a very nice rendition of General Tso’s Chicken, and rocking along with email and web work at over 500 kbps. No, the restaurant doesn’t have WiFi, there’s not even a network showing up […] Read more »
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