If India and China who have skirmished for decades and still bury the hatchet, I am not surprised that the leading proponent of open telecom standards and stupid network, Martin Geddes can fall prey to the charms of Skype. “The number of open SIP nodes addressable […] Read more »
Now I love Tetris as much as the next guy, but I won’t pay $137 million for it. But Jamdat would, and did! MobilePlaya points out that “Tetris could be the perfect mobile game,” and lauds the Jamdats’s $137 million purchase of Blue Lava Wireless. The […] Read more »
If you are looking for a convertible Tablet with a big, high resolution screen then don’t forget to check out Toshiba’s new Tecra M4. The 14.1" screen is a high res wonder producing a resolution of 1400 x 1050. The M4 is definitely aimed at users […] Read more »
Toshiba has announced the introduction of the new Libretto U100 mini-notebook computer in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first laptop computer. OK, they also mentioned bringing it back is due to customer demand so that’s probably the real reason. The Toshiba Libretto series of […] Read more »
I am watching this whole scandal about NBC Today show tech editor Corey Greenberg who gets paid to say nice things about consumer gizmos on NBC affiliate shows. Apparently he got about $15,000 to talk up products from the likes of Apple, Sony, HP and Creative. […] Read more »
There is a whole new movement around “making a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.” Which essentially is a euphemism of how to make money off people who don’t have much money. California-based Hop-On which is aiming for a whopping 2% of the global cell […] Read more »
Rojo, the latest entrant to throw its hat in the news reader ring is out of beta, and is ready for general consumption. Given that I prefer to live in the three-pane world of Net News Wire, I was pleasantly surprised that I actually liked the […] Read more »
London is a massive city – 10 million people and much more sprawling than New York or even San Francisco Bay Area. So perhaps a tiny sliver of it is now a hot zone should not be big news. Still, I think the idea of free […] Read more »
The big Enron Broadband trial started today, and as per Reuters: federal prosecutor Lisa Monaco in her opening statement said, “The mission of Enron Broadband Services (EBS) was to pump up the Enron stock price by telling investors they had a solution — a solution to […] Read more »
Lucent Technologies, thanks to wireless equipment sales has managed to somehow over come the negative trends overwhelming the telecom markets. In the fiscal 2Q 2005, the company reported sales of $2.34 billion and net income of $282 million, essentially flat sequentially and up marginally year-over-year. Of […] Read more »
Back in the day I question the validity of Treo as a mobile platform. The sales showed that Palm OS based Treo never really got the traction of rival smart phone platforms like Symbian. Russell Beattie, has come to the same conclusion and says that instead […] Read more »
Extreme Tech reports that “Wi-Lan and Fujitsu partnership will announce their own chip at a wireless conference beginning this Thursday in Las Vegas. The spokesman declined to offer details of the chip in advance of the launch, but characterized it as ‘real silicon’.” Given the bitching […] Read more »
T-Mobile (Europe) is impressed with the results of its Flarion OFDM trials. According to Unstrung, T-Mobile’s VP of RAN Engineering, Klaus Juergen Krath, claims that the trial achieved average data downlink speeds of 1.5 Mbit/s with a peak of 3.2 Mbit/s. Average uplink speeds were 500 […] Read more »
I think all of us including me over reacted about Verizon’s naked DSL news. Thanks to Jesse, I re-read the news and figured out that this naked DSL offering is for Verizon’s existing broadband customers. Just to clarify, I went ahead and called the Verizon PR […] Read more »
Scoble’s boss Lenn Pryor, the Channel 9 founder, is leaving Microsoft and joining Skype. Google, Yahoo and Technorati have become homes for former Microserfs. Given the recent exodus of officials and senior executives from Microsoft, you know Bill has a serious problem at hand. Stagnating stock […] Read more »
The old UFO game from years past was one of my favorite PC games. It was well done, with good graphics for that time, and I must admit I lost hours and hours to this fun game. A couple of years ago Russian developer SMK Software […] Read more »
I have lamented the passing of TechTV and The Screen Savers show in particular. G4 ruined a great tech TV station when they dismantled TechTV and I miss the great chemistry between Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton and the others on the old show. I am happy […] Read more »
Congratulations to Layne Heiny (and the rest of the first family of Tablet PCs) for having Tablet PC Post designated as one of the Top Computing Web Sites by PC Magazine! Well deserved! Read more »
April 19th, 2005 by James Kendrick The techADDICTION Show #006- 19th April 2005 (49min 10sec)MP3 – 17.2MB Kevin and I are back with a new techADDICTION Show and this one is full of cool gadgets, talk about prison, the cheapest M205 ever and much, much more. […] Read more »
Well talk about flirting with danger… Mercora, one of my favorite programs on the Windows platform and promoter of P2P radio concept (More in Business 2.0) is bringing time shifting to its software, risking the ire of the close minded and super greedy Hollywood types. This […] Read more »
I’ve spent the last four days toying with the Samsung P207, and it has convinced me that soon I will never physically type another text message again. Otherwise an unremarkable EDGE-capable, $79 clamshell phone—the Samsung P207 comes bundled with some innovative voice recognition software that translates […] Read more »
Is 3G here or not? From the conflicting reports about the uptake of 3G services, that is a megabillion dollar question. Whenever faced with such a quandary, I normally turn to the basics – silicon. The chips always tell the story, albeit nine to 12 months […] Read more »
Verizon’s head honcho Ivan Seidenberg antagonized a lot of people yesterday with his comments in The San Francisco Chronicle. Given his previous comments about faith in wireless and its critical importance to Verizon’s future, I still find it hard to believe that he said what he […] Read more »
I have a ton of MP3 audio files and want to convert them to WMA so I can put more of them on my Sony U and Creative Muvo. I’m looking for a good free (of course) batch converter. Any suggestions? Read more »
I hear from a lot of mobile users who are looking for a good mobile scanner to take with them on the road and use with their Tablet PC or other mobile computer. The trick is to find one that is so small it is very […] Read more »
Many computer users consider the Nero CD/DVD burning suite to be the best you can get and they are probably right. Linux users should take note, Nero now has a version of the program that runs on that platform. The best part of NeroLINUX is that […] Read more »
Seagate has introduced a 120GB notebook computer hard drive which is definitely the highest capacity drive I have seen. The drive turns at 5200 RPM which some might feel is slower than 7200 RPM drives but this is almost certainly a concession to battery life. The […] Read more »
Business 2.0: Have you walked into a cell-phone store lately? If not, then let me tell you what you’ll find there. Unless you’re willing to spend upwards of $300 on a phone, you will find scores of silvery devices, none bigger or much smaller than two […] Read more »
Looking for some broadband madness? Well don’t expect US to oblige – its a duoply nation, in case you didn’t notice. It is Europe which is turning into a broadband battleground. English DSL providers are opening up the pipes for $20 a month, French DSL wannabes […] Read more »
If cell phones could be tailored to the individual, even more of them might sell. Software to the rescue. By Om Malik, April 18, 2005 Have you walked into a cell-phone store lately? If not, then let me tell you what you’ll find there. Unless you’re […] Read more »
Thomas Hawk has taken the bait and is posting something about Microsoft’s “StartSomethingPC.com.” Could it be a remixed eBook/PC/MiniTablet PC, perhaps? Daily Wireless has the details. The whole thing could be tied to the WinHEC. Microsoft apparently is putting together an innovative hardware section at WinHEC […] Read more »
Two companies who have not kept up with times – Adobe Systems and Macromedia – are hooking up. Adobe is buying Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock. The deal is proof that there is little or not growth organic growth left in the old Silicon Valley. […] Read more »
Sony’s 3.1 pound ultra-portable, T250, is becoming a favorite of the CEO set. Till recently, most chief executives who popped into Business 2.0′s 29th floor offices in San Francisco’s financial district, would show up toting an IBM Thinkpad T-Series (T-40 or higher). In past month or […] Read more »
Steve Jobs earlier this year had declared that 2005 is going to be the year of HD. And he was not talking about just macs either. From Alias torrents to televisions to DVD players, everything is going hi-def. Even the lowly video conferencing hardware. I recently […] Read more »
They might have been late to the party, but it seems SimplyHired, the job search site is wasting no time adding interesting features and services to its offerings. The latest being a hook-up with LinkedIn. The companies are likely to announce an official partnership later this […] Read more »
The best utilities work well when they’re needed, and stay out of sight the rest of the time. So it is with Stuffit Deluxe 9 from Allume. In fact, I almost forgot about the new Stuffit version after I installed it to review. But there’s more there than meets the eye – that is, if you look for it. Read more »
After years of waiting, Intel’s finally going to put its silicon where its dollars are – in WiMAX. The company is going to announce Rosedale chip, that costs $45 to make and connects homes with fixed wireless networks tomorrow, according to Reuters. Scott Richardson, general manager […] Read more »
SkypeIn is marching in, 100 million copies have been downloaded and there are tons of companies making products that are Skype-happy. Except one tiny problem, and that’s on the horizon. As per James Enck, some Mexican users are complaining that Mexican giant Telmex’s ISP subsidiary Prodigy […] Read more »
The ink on the del.icio.us funding papers is not even dry, and I can almost feel that we are onto the next big thing – visual bookmarks. David Galbraith, who has now defected to the right (coast) side of the country, aka New York, has told […] Read more »
The best utilities work well when they’re needed, and stay out of sight the rest of the time. So it is with Stuffit Deluxe 9 from Allume. In fact, I almost forgot about the new Stuffit version after I installed it to review. But there’s more there than meets the eye – that is, if you look for it. Read more »
