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 »
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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 »
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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 »
More trouble for Vonage? Looks like Michigan state Attorney General Mike Cox is threatening to go after the company for “allegedly misleading consumers about the company’s 911 service.” His complaint is the same as Texas – Vonage is not making it clear to the customers that […] Read more »
Jeff points to a a PowerPoint by Doc on why blogs are not content but are speech. I agree! This slide sums it all up, though I disagree with assertion that we all are journalists. Opinions don’t make you a journalist … it makes you a […] Read more »
There is a school of thought which believes that Skype’s value added services, SkypeIn, SkypeOut and Skype Voice Mail could become a major nightmare for Vonage. Allan Tumolillo, COO of Probe Financial Associates is one such person and he believes that, “Skype now has a product […] Read more »
You know you are in a bubble when Ferrari opens a new dealership in Redwood City. There is nothing like a $200,000 Ferrari to go with your freshly minted dollars, the dollars you just generated by flipping your latest start-up to say a Yahoo, Google or […] Read more »
Geeks.com has a refurbished Averatec AV3500T60-01R on sale for only $879! The C3500 uses an Athlon XP-M 2200 processor and is a first generation Tablet PC meaning it does not have Tablet Edition 2005 installed on it. The Averatec has decent hardware specs and comes with […] Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #008- 1st May 2005 (56min)MP3 – 19.7MB Kevin and I are happy to bring you this edition of the techADDICTION Show and feel this is our best show yet. Well, to tell you the truth our contract with The Podcast Network states we […] Read more »
Sonia Arrison uses stratellites, you know those blimps that can beam broadband down to Planet Earth as an excuse to beat up on regulation minded California Public Utilities Commission. Clearly, she should beat up on the reactionary regulators and bureaucrats who don’t understand broadband. But to […] Read more »
Esme Vos thinks that by combining local search, Google AdSense and Google Maps, cities can build and offer wireless (WiFi) connectivity to residents. She writes, that this should give the business districts an incentive “to put up a mesh node on their premises to enable a […] Read more »
The very talented 37 Signals is all set to deliver its latest product Backpack on Tuesday. It will be free for some basic version but cost a bit for the premium packages ranging from only $5/month – $19/month. Much like their Basecamp product. So what is […] Read more »
The Grand Theft Auto series of games for PS2 and PC were extremely popular, and heck, they still are, with more sequels and spinoffs than the “Law and Order” TV series. It figures that someone else would make something similar. In comes “True Crime: Streets of […] Read more »
With all the hoopla around podcasting, it was only a matter of time before someone came-up with a search engine for podcasts. Introducing Podscope (hat tip, Justin, who says the search engine rocks!) I agree, and approve. Clean, easy to use and a pretty nifty little […] Read more »
My Tiger upgrade went smoothly. I took some notes on my personal blog while adjusting to and playing with the new system.
Feel free to gather your own upgrade notes in comments to this post! Read more »
Mobile professionals have so much invested in their Smartphones, PDAs, laptops and Tablet PCs that the devices can be a target for theft and the potential for the loss of a gadget while traveling is something to give one pause. Take something that happened to me […] Read more »
Skype recently announced a version of the great VoIP app for the Windows Mobile Smartphone which is a natural platform for the program. What better way to use your Smartphone than use Skype when possible for free calling? The answer is, unfortunately, not Skype as this […] Read more »
Marc Orchant of The Office Weblog and my podcast pal* has picked up a Treo 650 smartphone. I am sure that Marc will love his Treo as it is a wonderful converged device that merges PDA and phone functions seamlessly. I wonder if he’s going to […] Read more »
I have been behind my feed reading, and now just caught up in the news of Infinity Radio turning over one AM radio transmitter to pod-casters. Good move from Infinity, after all now they can create a 24-7 radio channel without really spending a dime. Good […] Read more »
EchoStar is adding 10 high-definition channels it acquired as part of its VOOM buy to its DISH Network line-up, and the service is expected to go live May 1, 2005. The 10 VOOM HD networks will include RUSH HD, Gallery HD, Rave HD, Ultra HD, Equator […] Read more »
Update: Actually it is much simpler than I thought. Pair the phones and power down the phone, restart. ISync sends you a text message with a tiny agent that installs on your Nokia 6620 phone, and you are good to go. Same with s710a. Good luck […] Read more »
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