More fixed wireless news. TowerStream has turned on its wireless broadband service in San Francisco Bay Area. TowerStream has established a Point of Presence (PoP) on top of San Francisco’s Clay Jones building, the highest point on Nob Hill, capable of delivering reliable broadband to organizations […] Read more »
“You can always tell whether you’re on a Mac or on a PC…Just stick your applications in there and see whether they’ll run.” Bill Gates in a chat with Dawn Chmieleski, of San Jose Mercury News. How about if we change it to: “You can always […] Read more »
Red of The Red Ferret Journal found a cool Java bandwidth speed test that shows your internet upload and download speeds graphically and gives you some indication about how good your connection really is. The graph is updated even when the test is running which is […] Read more »
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MiniMage has a nice blog that discusses all sorts of IT topics and she gives particular attention in her posts about her Tablet PC and how it helps her in her work. There is a great post on her blog about using Agilix GoBinder in her […] Read more »
Engadget recently got to sit down with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and talk about a number of topics. The interview was run on Engadget in two parts but for Tablet PC owners Part Two, which covered some Tablet PC ground, was the one we were waiting for. […] Read more »
Independent broadband ISP Speakeasy has just launched a pre-WiMAX service in Seattle, and will offer it as a complement to its DSL packages. The company has placed its transmission set-up at Seattle’s Space Needle. Speakeasy is taking orders but service goes commercial next month. More details […] Read more »
On a recent Tablet PC Show co-host Marc Orchant shared a trick he uses to keep his Tablet PC working in emergencies. He discussed using Knoppix Live, a flavor of Linux designed to run directly from CD, to access his Tablet PC in the event some […] Read more »
If you are a student who doesn’t happen to be using OneNote on a notebook computer or a Tablet PC then you might find Lecture Recorder to be just what you are looking for. Lecture Recorder makes it easy to record lectures (or meetings) using any […] Read more »
The demand for broadband is running high all across the planet. Australia carrier Optus just reported its first quarter broadband sales – the company now has a total of 350,000 internet broadband subscribers, up 63,000 from the 4th quarter 2004. Optus’ rival, Telstra has 500,000 subscribers. […] Read more »
University of Michigan has developed Mates, a location based social networking program, that creates buddy lists on your IM based purely on people in your immediate vicinity. Leveraging wireless networks, it can find people in your classrooms, neighborhoods or even in case of Silicon Valley, in […] Read more »
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Technology Futurist: Huawei was picked for areas that have already been commoditized due to very high competitive pressures. These low-margin LOBs include broadband access and optical networking (as in the 21 CN case). However, other areas such as softswitching, network intelligence and routing are apparently safe […] Read more »
Qwest, like a jilted lover is acting like all is fine. We all know its not. They are hurting at their very public rejection by an aging diva (MCI) whose jowls have had more botox injections than entire Hollywood star corps. During the course of a […] Read more »
You have to love the Indian ministers and politicians – they can be completely delusional without any artificial mind altering drugs. Dayanidhi Maran, the IT & Communications minister dreams of rolling out cheap broadband to the masses, and wants to grow the broadband user base from […] Read more »
Being of South Asian persuasion (not to mention a big fan of The Lion King) I am a believer in the whole circle of life thing – what is new today will be old tomorrow. It is certainly true in case of the ever evolving world […] Read more »
Griffin Technology have been a long term manufacturer of iPod accessories. They rose to fame through the iTrip radio transmitter, and have been increasing their product line-up ever since. They recently adopted the ‘Made for iPod’ branding, working with Apple to create certified accessories. My first […] Read more »
The Feature: “Experiments in ‘interactive TV’ have gone on for many years, with many failed results — as it became clear that the definition of interactive TV was limited by a broadcast mindset. It looks like people pushing mobile TV may simply be repeating the mistakes […] Read more »
Thanks to Aswath, I discovered a neat hack that allows the enterprising sorts to display Caller ID information on their television screens using open source PVR software called, MythTV. Connect the PC modem to the ATA and you can pick up the incoming caller ID. More […] Read more »
Vonage, in trouble with Texas and Michigan state attorneys is trying its best to fix the e911 problem. It signed an agreement with Verizon to offer an enhanced 9-1-1 service to its customers in the Verizon service area. Verizon is the first ILEC to work closely […] Read more »
Macromedia, which has thus far made its fortunes by hawking software tools to the creative set is desperately looking for a telecom makeover. It is pushing its Flash technology, into the mobile domain. Flash Lite has impressed the likes of Russell Beattie. “We’re focused on developing […] Read more »
Even as the speculation around Vonage IPO continues, an enterprising Vonage customer (Matthew Brown 100253XXXX) is trying to sell http://www.vonageIPO.com on Ebay. His reserve is $998. You can bid for the domain if interested. Read more »
Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard takes a bat to Steve Jobs, and writes a scathing editorial about Steve’s bullying ways. Or as they say, this is going to make as much impact as raindrops falling on an elephant’s back. Wall Street Journal: “Steve Jobs and other great […] Read more »
Ken Norton, Yahoo’s senior director of product management at Yahoo! Inc., and co-founder of Grand Central Communications, one of my favorite companies, is jumping ship to JotSpot. Reason? In his own words: “I wanted a place where things get done with small teams of hungry, dedicated […] Read more »
I’m always looking for free ebooks and just ran across a nice one- How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets by Andy Kessler. How We Got Here takes a funny look at the evolution of both Silicon Valley and Wall Street […] Read more »
Kevin Tofel emailed me a link to EVDOinfo that gives the specs for a USB modem that has EVDO capability. We talked about my desire for an EVDO modem on the last techADDICTION Show and at first blush the Samba 3G USB EVDO modem looks promising. […] Read more »
Support for RSS in Firefox, then Safari, are mostly encouraging developments to slowly further bring RSS into the mainstream. Both browsers are implementing the concept of “Live Bookmarks”. Bookmarking a site now offers us the ability to not only save its location, but also become aware of its changes and store its updates on our own computer for future consumption. The question remains whether or not said content will actually be consumed by the end-user. Read more »
I had a little chat with a very smart man today – so smart that it would be easy to call him the guru of open source software. We talked about the Sirrus, and Adam Curry’s podcast-meets-broadcast show plans. He agreed, what is being offered is […] Read more »
Optimism, and certain amount of exuberance have returned to the technology land, not necessarily a bad thing, given the five-year tech drought, which left many if not all despondent. It is perhaps an opportune moment for all of us to remind ourselves of the lessons of […] Read more »
Market research firm In-Stat adds a dose of reality to the whole VoIP madness – they predict that that the mass migration to VoIP will happen pretty much in the 2010-2014 time frame. In-Stat believes that 2005-2009 is the consumer and small business VoIP ramp-up period. […] Read more »
Qwest says it is no longer interested in MCI, and has decided that it is going to go its own merry way. It fought hard, and it fought long, but in the end it was like that relationship where a man is obsessed with the damsel, […] Read more »
AT&T has entered the increasingly crowded IP-Centrex business this morning with its AT&T Voice DNA(SM) service. Interestingly, AT&T’s corporate parent SBC has been selling its own IP-Centrex offering for a few months now. The company says the service will have “all of the standard features of […] Read more »
A special show with a special guest, Marc Orchant and I had the pleasure to sit down (in three time zones) with a member of the First Family of the Tablet PC, Lora Heiny. Lora is well known to most everyone involved in the Tablet PC […] Read more »
TabletPC Corner is a French website that is dedicated to covering all things Tablet PC. They just published the most exhaustive review I have ever seen of the Fujitsu Stylistic ST5022 Tablet PC. The review is in French so you might want to translate the page […] Read more »
The New York Times reports that Verizon has offered $26 a share, up from its previous offer of $23.10 a share. Qwest has offered to pay $9.8 billion, or $30 a share, for MCI. MCI believes that Verizon deal is better, and is going with that. […] Read more »
In shadows I see shapes, shapes of the future Last week, many probably did not notice, or did not care that British Telecom, a company as old as Ma Bell announced list of vendors who would supply gear for its ambitious all IP network, the BT […] Read more »
With Mac Tiger OS-X hogging all the headlines, why should Microsoft be left behind. There is news that Microsoft might release an Windows XP Service Pack 3 before Longhorn. Steve Ballmer hinted at this at a conference in Sweden last week. He was one of the […] Read more »
Continuing the theme from my previous post about why podcasts represent free and cheap content for commercial radio entities, now news that satellite radio company, Sirius Satellite Radio will broadcast podcasts and will be hosted by former MTV veejay Adam Curry on its channel 148, a […] Read more »
The way things stand, looks like Verizon is going to pass on MCI, and has let a key deadline pass without as much as peep. That means, now if MCI board decides to go with Qwest, Verizon is going to be $250 million richer. Elsewhere, Qwest […] Read more »
We have heard a lot of speculation about Vonage IPO sometime this year, but what I am hearing is that the company is out raising another big round of funding, perhaps a mezzanine round before it goes public. The rumors of this have been floating for […] Read more »
802.11b Networking News reports that Los Angeles mayor has just released a report that makes suggestions for filling out broadband gaps in the City of Angels. It mostly evenhandedly lays out the scope of the problem, looks into what approaches might be taken to solve it […] Read more »
Andy pointed me to this story over at UnStrung. Qualcomm which has traditionally shunned the whole WiFI thing has joined the TGn Sync group working on developing the new 108-Mbit/s high-speed WiFi standard, 802.11n. Paul Jacobs, the new big Q in a conference call said, “The […] Read more »
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