Stories for Jun. 28, 2005

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Oddpost, the company Yahoo bought for about $30 million for is DHTML goodness is finally baring its teeth as the new Yahoo Mail. I can finally get mine to work on a Mac and on a Firefox. I wrote about these guys in Business 2.0 as […] Read more »

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Its like Toblerone except bigger. Engadget reported, that it was going to be available at CompUSA. Adding a little bit more to the store-story – its going to be at Best Buy as well. What I wrote about them in the past is here. Read more »

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Mark Cuban on Grokster decision: In the business world, one way to evaluate the financial importance of news is by watching to see how Wall Street responds to it….There wasnt a Kaboom, there wasnt a whisper in the market. In other words, no one cared. The […] Read more »

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Stories for Jun. 27, 2005

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Given that a lot of people have expressed shock, awe and outrage at the US Supreme Court Decision in the MGM versus Grokster, I decided perhaps it should be a good idea to plough through the 55-page tome. There is a lot of hand-wringing using all […] Read more »

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VoIP bloggers are all abuzz about something called JaJah. Its is supposed to be a Skype Killer – except it doesn’t look like it can kill anything. Skype Journal is showing some skepticism – but I think its like April Fool’s Joke in June! There is […] Read more »

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The MGM vs Grokster, might as well be Sony versus Sony. MGM is owned by Sony. Grokster argued that it was not doing anything wrong, and cited the Sony Beta Max fair use ruling! So in a sense it was Sony (and its acolytes) were arguing […] Read more »

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Minneapolis’ request for proposals to build a WiFi network has attracted more than 20 applications. If this model works, then municipalities have a better and low risk way of realizing their broadband dreams. “They have an RFP that is very conceptual rather than very specific. It’s […] Read more »

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Macs, as we all know, are the best thing for video editing. But what about TV watching and TiVo-like tasks? Before I used a Mac, my Windows computer had an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro PCI video card with 8MB of VRAM. (Remember when that was something cool?) […] Read more »

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Telia, the Swedish telecom incumbent says to hell with minute rate plans and has started to offer fixed price service to all its customer. For $10 a month, you can sign-up for a service that will allow you to make phone calls at 8 cents a […] Read more »

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Cablevision is all set to launch a 50 megabits/second service to its customers in Oyster Bay, New York. The company is using Narad Networks’ Narad Broadband Access Network technology which can deliver upto 100 megabit/s speeds on HFC networks. I have written about Narad in the […] Read more »

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Playlist says “feedback in the BadApple forums indicates that the plug-in is anything but good” Read more »

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LoJack, the car-theft prevention technology is coming to a laptop near you. Absolute Software has licnesed the brand name LoJack and will release a software product called LoJack for laptops. Basically what it does is embed a special agent in a computer’s BIOS and when that […] Read more »

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US Supreme Court, continuing to hit the little guys hard, has decided that“Grokster and StreamCast Networks can be held liable for copyright infringements committed by users of their peer-to-peer file-sharing software. “ “One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe […] Read more »

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Josh Einstein, the talented individual who has given the Tablet Enhancements for Outlook (TEO) to the ink gifted just let me know his next version of TEO will support Skype!  I’m a big Skype user and this is great news indeed.  Josh has blogged about what […] Read more »

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The folks at SoundSpectrum wanted us to take a look at their G-Force product for them, so I was the one who got to play with it. I always enjoy a new software app or utility that can do something different, so this interested me. G-Force […] Read more »

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Breaking: Cable operators, finally got their wish – they won the Brand-X case, reports Bloomberg. The US Supreme court told Comcast, Time Warner and others that they did not have to open their lines to rivals like Earthlink. This is reversal of an earlier ruling by […] Read more »

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Metalink, which till recently has been making broadband/DSL chipsets has decided to expand its product offering with a WLANPlus chipset. The company describes it as the first Real-MIMO-based (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) wireless chipset designed for delivering data throughput of more than 240 megabits per second (Mbps) over […] Read more »

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The voice engine behind Skype, Global IP Sound sold 3.5 million shares and raised $6.38 million for its Asian expansion efforts. The company also said that Logitech, Net2Phone, WebEx and Teleo will begin deploying GIPS enabled products later this year. Symbian-based VoIP clients are on their […] Read more »

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If the notion of inking commands in an ink box and having text inserted or macros executed appeals to you then PhatWare’s PenCommander may be the tool for you.  Pen Commander has over 50 pre-defined scripts that can be invoked by inking certain keywords or if […] Read more »

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Fondling the Nokia 770 Internet Tabletby Mike Cane Text and photos Copyright © Mike Cane 2005All Rights Reserved. During the recent LinuxWorld Expo in New York City, Nokia surprised everyone by announcing the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. The net was filled with reports about it and […] Read more »

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Of all technology sectors, there is none which has suffered more during the big bust than telecom. The news of telecom start-ups fizzling out continues even today, but there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel. Phone companies, cellular operators and broadband […] Read more »

Stories for Jun. 26, 2005

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John Battelle has a Scoop: Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google’s video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in […] Read more »

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Mike Nofs, Republican representative from Battle Creek, Michigan has been taking a lot of heat for thinking about introducing a legislation that would halt wireless access expansion true. In an op-ed in the Battle Creek Enquirer, he writes, that is not true. He points out that […] Read more »

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Computerworld says Enterasys is suing LAN switch rivals Extreme and Foundry over patents! They are popping up a bottle of bubbly in Cisco offices. “…are infringing on six Enterasys patents involving virtual LAN (VLAN) and multi-protocol routing technologies, as well as “several other networking technologies,” Enterasys […] Read more »

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Mark Evans reports from up North that RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are getting interested in buying a hockey team. You know them Canadians, they sure love their hockey. I wish they did something to promote baseball up there! The team which they might […] Read more »

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We all love our Macs, and most of the time, they love us back. But occasionally, programs start crashing, or the spinning-pinwheel-of-death becomes a common sight. In these situations, there are a few steps you can take to try and remedy the problem. Today, we will […] Read more »

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Chris Nolan, taking a little break from her political ruminations is predicting that geeks are going to win the war, but no thanks to cheesey PR efforts being undertaken by the tech PR corps. You can read the entire piece here at eWeek or just read […] Read more »

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OneNote is one of those programs that you just can’t live without and if you use several different PCs, say a Tablet PC and a desktop, keeping your OneNote notebook synchronized between them is a real concern. Chris Pratley of Microsoft knows the note-taking program better […] Read more »

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Hollywood and record industry may hate technology and do everything to avoid the future, but there are some start-ups that have figured out a way around these leeches. Genuine VC has a brilliant round-up of music start-ups playing sweet music of innovation. Rather Innovation @ Play. Read more »

Stories for Jun. 25, 2005

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For an industry used to head-to-head competiton, the lattest battle is for the telecom trade show crown. Now that SuperComm is done, the fight is between TelecomNEXT and Globalcomm. For now, GlobalComm is winning. Read more »

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EverNote Corporation recently announced the commercial release of EverNote™ 1.0 for Windows, a complete note management solution designed to give users a single place to capture, categorize and find all types of notes and content. EverNote innovates by storing content on an endless, virtual, time-stamped roll […] Read more »

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Camino is Firefox done right for Mac. The beat alpha version of 0.9 is a sizzler. It is brisk, clean and better than Firefox. Jonathan, thanks for the tip. Add this bit of spice, and go zoom! via Read more »

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MuniWireless reader in comments section posts: “The provider is Progress Telecom. The city has selected another vendor to provider a wider area of free WiFi coverage which should start within a matter of weeks following the approval by the Orlando city council of the new contract.” Read more »

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Reuters.com says sourcing are telling them that Motorola and Apple are working with Cingular and plan to rollout iTunes phone. I wrote about this a couple of days ago. via Read more »

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