Lot of talk about India and China in the papers. US VCs and technology companies cannot stop raving about China. A little reality check! The divergent paths Bombay Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange have taken. An old editor of mine used to say – pay […] Read more »
Gear Live is always finding cool stuff and these chainless bicycles from Dynamic Bicycles are just awesome. The bikes utilize a driveshaft system that is totally enclosed in the tubes of the bike and the gears are all in the hub. Since there is no chain […] Read more »
Global Crossing has settled a three-year investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the communication company’s business practices and those of its top three executives. SEC has issued a cease-and-desist order against Global Crossing and three executives: former CEO Thomas Case, former accounting officer Joseph […] Read more »
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Time Warner had 220,000 VoIP customers at end of 2004, and is adding 10,000 every week. Cablevision is adding 7000 a day. Others like Cox have achieved nearly 40% penetration in original test markets like Omaha and Orange County. The trends are that these companies will […] Read more »
This week’s Tablet PC Show has Marc and I discussing recovery techniques, snow in Albuquerque, scanning documents with your camera phone and a cartoon monkey. We always have a lot of fun recording these shows and hope everyone enjoys this one. The great music we have […] Read more »
Most notebooks and Tablet PCs produced today are more than capable enough to be used as complete desktop replacements. The availability of USB and firewire peripherals makes it a snap to add additional hardware functionality and still maintain a mobile form factor. Many people add external […] Read more »
Mike Hall points us to an article on MobileTechReview, the first in a promised series, written by a long-time Palm user who has recently switched to a Pocket PC. It is an interesting read as he makes a detailed comparison of the features of the two […] Read more »
New Scientist is reporting that a number of research organizations are working on methods for detecting speech without the use of microphones. Very interesting technology and worth a read if you’re interested in speech recognition like me. One system, being developed for DARPA by Rick Brown […] Read more »
Rob Bushway points us to the blog of Jason Hamilton who recently got a HP TC1100 Tablet PC. He is of course loving the fine computer and has posted his first impressions. Boy I want one of these babies, really bad! Look at his photo and […] Read more »
Toshiba was showing off its upcoming Tablet PC at FOSE in Washington DC this month. The Tecra M4 looks to be a large screen Tablet PC and while full details are not released at this time techsage has spoken to Toshiba and mentions these features: 14.1" […] Read more »
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Almost three years ago Microsoft touted a mechanism for bringing magazine type content to PCs, especially Tablet PCs. I have not heard anything about this service since. Anybody know what happened to it? Here’s a screen clip from one of the original articles that mentioned it […] Read more »
Ask engadget is a feature the mega-blog runs occasionally where readers can ask questions they’d like to open up for comment to the general readership. The questions currently being posed is "Is it time to buy a Tablet PC?". Head over and add your comments to […] Read more »
Global IP Sound (GIPS), the engine behind a whole bunch of VoIP services such as Skype just added VoiceMail capabilities to its products. The new VoiceMail Engine, which allows applications developers to quickly and successfully build a fully-functional and high-quality voicemail application for VoIP telephony systems. […] Read more »
Remember ClearWire, and how upset everyone got that they were blocking VoIP traffic. (Vonage suffered as a result, which is a shame!) but many other ISPs are planning to, or can do exactly the same. David Farber’s Interesting People mailing list has a thread going on […] Read more »
Like a scab a five year old tries to pick again and again, people are not letting go of Google’s VoIP plans, despite no evidence that there is any. Damn, even their latest filings with SEC said so. A self professed pundit over at Motley Fool, […] Read more »
James Enck reminds me that our old friend Gary Lerhaupt of Prodigem has set-up a new torrent marketplace which allows independent publishers to set prices for their work, and which may now be licensed under a newly-added copyright mechanism. Smart Mobs adds that marketplace’s “success will […] Read more »
Broadband Reports points out that, “Comcast’s joint bid with Time Warner to purchase the bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corp.’s cable system last week faces a potential roadblock, reports the Washington Post.” As part of the 1992 Cable Act, the FCC set a limit that no single company […] Read more »
In my opinion, pinball can be likened to the huge range of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream. There are a countless number of variations on what is always essentially the same basic recipe. With this classic arcade game, the simple essentials are always the same. Take […] Read more »
PopSugar, my new favorite site reports that Moto almost sponosred tennis star Maria Sharapova’s 18th birthday party. Apparently, Maria was hanging out with Lindsay Lohan, Adam Levine from Maroon 5, Fergie, Fonzworth Bentley and more and they were given the latest IT phone, the black Motorola […] Read more »
Looks like there is more music coming our way on the web. AOL and XM Satellite Radio just announced a deal where AOL will stream 200CD-quality XM radio channels over the web, for a monthly fee of $5 a month. 150 Lower bit-rate channels will be […] Read more »
Open media dollars are coming thick and fast. Today Joshua Schachter announced that he had quit his job, and raised money from a whole bunch of people. (tip-off, Niall Kennedy) Union Square Ventures leads the investment group, and the other members are Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV […] Read more »
Salesforce.com might the only CRM player doing all right these days. My dear friend Sramana Mitra who has just started blogging (one feed which is well worth adding to your aggregator!) , and she has some suggestions for other forgotten CRM players. She thinks there is […] Read more »
Andy and Jeff both EV-DO, I don’t. I am going to be soon in a minority, if you believe this story in News Factor. Verizon officials, the report says, are pretty happy with the take-up rate of its 300-500 Kbps EV-DO service. “It’s been beyond our […] Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #005- 10th April 2005 (56min 30sec) MP3 – 19.5MB Another good show this week where Kevin and I discuss a lot of Windows Mobile topics, play a few comments from the techADDICTION Skype line, talk about the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, lament a […] Read more »
Want to emulate an environment on your Mac? Want to emulate a platform on which to run Linux, BSD? VirtualPC or the some of the free software alternatives are great. Assuming what you want to run is an x86 based version. But what if you want to run OS X? or the PowerPC version of Darwin, Linux or BSD? Read more »
Daily Wireless has an amusing suggestion – build a nationwide WiMAX network that delivers video to people’s homes for free along with free phone and free broadband services. The argument is that since most of the network television is going to hell anyway this network could […] Read more »
So finally bloggers have started to question Google News’ policy on including bloggers. Robert Scooble writes, “why are some sites, that look an awful lot like opinion blogs, on Google News, but other bloggers like, say, Dave Winer’s Scripting.com aren’t? The hubbub started after Dave Winer […] Read more »
Virginia was more known for its tobacco than for its broadband infrastructure. But things seem to be changing. Some of state’s outlying and rural communities are taking the money they received as part of the big tobacco settlement and are building their own fiber networks, hoping […] Read more »
Bob Garfield of NPR did a great 12-minute segment on the chaos scenario facing the media business, as new technologies like PVRs, BitTorrent and Podcasting take hold. He pulls together many bits of information and remixes them in a nice bite sized chunks. Hear comments from […] Read more »
Kinetic Tide, now called Avvenu is one of the handful of place-shifting companies that is trying hard to unwire the desktop, making it easier for us to share and access our digital content anywhere, anytime. (Sling Media and Orb Networks are others, and I am sure […] Read more »
Bubble Generation is pointing out the flaws in the Technorati game plan, and is extolling the virtues of Bloglines. “Bloglines,… went first-to-scale, created a superior content prop, and, critically locked users into it’s real estate by creating an easy, hassle-free feedreader,” they write. Jeremy Zawodny thinks […] Read more »
MCI investors, are hoping to get the same deal as Carlos Slim, and have told MCI board that if they try to do something shady, well then they might have to call in Tony Soprano. Bill Miller CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management fired off a […] Read more »
Marc Orchant and I are both big OneNote users and we talked about the tool at length in the last Tablet PC Show podcast. Marc mentioned Chris Pratley on the show who is far more knowledgable about OneNote than either of us. When Chris Pratley talks […] Read more »
The GigaBank 6.0 is a USB 2.0 drive from I/O Magic that weighs less than two ounces and should retail for about $200 in May of this year. The tiny drive is the perfect way to take a lot of files and MP3s with you for […] Read more »
inding a good comfortable keyboard and mouse is probably the most important decision you’ll ever make. It doesn’t matter what computer you use, the keyboard and mouse will be your interface to the system. The choice gets even more difficult if you want a keyboard that works with multiple platforms through a KVM switch; it needs to be multi-platform compatible, as well as intelligent so that it doesn’t do weird things when you switch platforms. Read more »
Looks like all the hubbub over MCI is making AT&T investors a tad envious. As you might remember, the company got a decent buyout offer from SBC, but it really offered no premium for Ma Bell’s stock. Funny, because all this jealousy for WorldCom made old […] Read more »
Verizon’s played its ace in the battle for MCI, when it decided to buy Carlos Slim’s 13.7% stake in MCI for $1.1 billion in cash. That works out to about $25.72 a share, and will pay Slim’s companies a bonus in one year should Verizon’s share […] Read more »
While no one would argue against the windows platform’s dominant market share, Om Malik points out that throwing a significant bone out to our thriving Mac Community just might go a long way spreading a “buzz” about a product. Read more »
The invasion of the PodPeople. Read more »
Apple goes to a number of industry trade shows every year and one of them is FOSE, the US government’s computer trade show. If you work for the US government and you have a ID to prove it, or if you’re a government contractor with $50, […] Read more »
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