George Ou: It’s routine for many wireless LAN equipment makers to sell bastardized variations of the 802.11g standard that promise “turbo g” or “super g” speeds of 108 megabits per second when in reality they top out at around 30 megabits per second even under the […] Read more »
The video telephony is suddenly getting hot. Video4Skype was introduced last week. Sony is pushing a $500 a month service called Instant Video Everywhere. And not to be left behind, ZyXEL, is likely to debut their Prestige 5000 Video Phone at Supercomm, an industry trade show […] Read more »
With all the excitement about the Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC and the great interaction with Eric Mack during his big M4 unveiling it seems that Google has been paying attention. I should have snapped an image before Eric knocked jkOnTheRun out of the number one […] Read more »
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Dale Coffing of mobilepassion always gets to look at cool Windows Mobile devices long before everyone else and he has published a detailed article about the exciting HTC Universal. The HTC Universal is a clamshell Pocket PC that swivels into a slate form for standard PDA […] Read more »
C/NET is reporting that Apple will announce on Monday the severing of the long-term agreement with IBM and the move to the Intel microprocessor platform. This rumor has been floating around for some time but the C/NET article states that Steve Jobs will make the announcement […] Read more »
Anandtech, well known for thei in-depth PC hardware reviews, have looked at the G5 with some interesting results and caveats. Read more »
CNet has the scoop that Apple is ditching PowerPC in place of Intel. At least, I think that’s what they are saying. Read more »
SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is to real-time communications what SMTP and e-mail are to message delivery, and is slated to become the next major revolution in the ways we humans communicate. Want to start playing? Start here. Read more »
Heartland Institute which for some reason thinks of itself as “know it all” says that The Federal Communications Commission ruled on May 19 that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony service providers must make E911 service accessible to their customers within 120 days. Unfortunately, since the […] Read more »
FCC has released its order on the e911 requirements for IP service providers. More later! Read more »
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All the celebrities, all the billions and all the Bush bashing has done nothing for Huffington Post, the bastard child of celebrities, their brains and liberalism masquerdaing as blogging. After an initial spurt, the traffic seems to be flattening out, and that’s just a month after […] Read more »
Tired of waiting in a line outside a dance club? Perhaps you should tryout V-Disco, a 3G music download service (to launch soon) that allows you to get an avatar, visit a virtual disco and well listen to disco music. The website is pretty cool – […] Read more »
The $4.1 billion on a tape-backup company is not such a good idea. I thought so, and now Merrill is letting its displeasure know loud and clear. “We’re neutral to slightly negative on the acquisition. Sun used $3.1 billion of its $7.5 billion in cash for […] Read more »
Infonetics Research says that the worldwide PBX/KTS revenue dropped 12% to $1.5 billion between 4Q04 and 1Q05, and the number of PBX/KTS lines shipped worldwide decreased to 6.3 million in 1Q05, 15% lower than in 4Q04. Pure IP is the only PBX category to beat the […] Read more »
VoIP just might be techworld’s Lindsay Lohan. The hype around VoIP matches that of IT girl Lindsay, who like VoIP gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage, for no good reason. There are other comparisons, but lets leave those for a bar room conversation. VoIP is […] Read more »
Tablet PC Buzz is back up again so you can all go get your fix now! :) Seems faster too, or maybe it’s just me. Read more »
New Scientist reports a major security flaw in current Bluetooth devices that can be exploited by a roving hacker. The hacker can hijack your cell phone via Bluetooth and eavesdrop on conversations and even place calls using your phone. Cryptographers have discovered a way to hack […] Read more »
Netgear, most think of them as a wireless router company, and over look the fact that it is selling all sorts of things like broadband gateways. The company says it has shipped more than a million wired and wireless ADSL gateways. Mostly in Asia pacific and […] Read more »
Tired of seeing ole’ Jobs in blue jeans and a sweater? Well now you can play dress up with him. Dress him up like a pirate, biker, beach bum, knight, punk, pimp, and more. The Joy of Tech has created this killer flash app to allow […] Read more »
WSJ is running a story on WildBlue, a satellite broadband company that hopes to sell good-speed connections to consumers and businesses who are off the high-speed Internet grid. I wrote about the whole satellite trend last week. But this quote from Greg Caressi, a senior manager […] Read more »
Two words – Absolutely nothing! At least on the face of it! The company became a victim of the telecom downturn, and basically treaded water, and since then has survived the bust. It has slowly weaved its way into the hearts and minds of incumbets. All […] Read more »
The new improved and recently ratified VDSL2 standard has one enthusiastic support at the very least – BellSouth. The company says it will use Tellabs’ AFC gear for its fiber to the curb project. “BellSouth will use VDSL2 to upgrade existing FTTC systems and achieve broadband […] Read more »
There isn’t a lick of Apple info in this post…nothing but good times here. I came across Gizoggle today and immediately thought of how dope TAB would be if it was all crunked out. So, I decided to take a post that wasn’t so fondly responded […] Read more »
One thing I am asked frequently is to recommend a good portable webcam. While I don’t use one myself I have heard very good things from those who use the Logitech QuickCam. Designed to be used with notebook computers or Tablet PCs, the QuickCam clips onto […] Read more »
Lets face it Sun can do only one thing right: make big boxes. But that doesn’t prevent them from trying different things. Now they are buying Storage Tek for $4.1 billion, hoping that they can take on EMC and IBM. I wonder why they even bother. […] Read more »
Business 2.0: In their quest for the next big thing, Verizon Wireless and its carrier cronies have zeroed in on mobile video as their savior-of-the-day. Matt Maier says it’s not ready for prime time–and won’t be anytime soon. Need proof? Spend five minutes trying to watch […] Read more »
Microsoft announced the adoption of the open standard XML as the default file format for Office 12. Since there are already hundreds of news items about this I’m just providing a link to many of them: Office 12 XML news Read more »
The NYSE network between the members and NYSE went down due to “error message propagating” and overwhelming the routers. Both primary and backup routers went down. As one very wise man writes, “I guess Einstein principle of insanity applies to router designs; inevitably, the conditions that […] Read more »
Company formerly known as Sorrent is now Glu Mobile. It is leaving me sniffling a little. The name change reflect company’s aspirations as a mobile entertainment brand, rather than focusing solely on game publishing. (Glu Mobile is one shitty name, if you ask me. Sorrent had […] Read more »
Looks like Feedster has finally found the funding it needs to grow bigger. The investment was led by Selby Venture Partners, a leading early-stage venture firm in Silicon Valley, with additional funds from existing investors Omidyar Network, members of the New York Angels, and prominent angel […] Read more »
Comcast is betting that VoIP phones, which it describes as digital phone service is going to become its next profitable business venture. The company promises to be in 20 markets by end of 2005, and offer this service in all of its markets by 2006, Comcast […] Read more »
This item from Digitimes is very interesting: Read more »
Nokia has been one of the few companies that has actually embraced open media in general and mobile blogging (photo blogging) in specific. A lot of credit for that goes to Christian Lindholm, the daddy of Nokia Lifeblog, a tiny application that lets you post photos […] Read more »
The industry specific trade shows, if you have attended one, are a love fest of the worst kind. Back slapping, plastered smiles and of course the bonhomie which ends the minute you walk out of the show floor. But since we are all grown up, we […] Read more »
SBC’s new low $14.95 a month pricing for DSL service is the last nail in the coffin for dial-up, at least in those locales where high speed connections are available. (The offer is only available online.) FCC says that’s over 90% of the country, but then […] Read more »
You might have noticed that blogging has been slow. I am on a tight deadline for the magazine, so I will be remiss in blogging duties and posting is going to sporadic. Maybe this will help you catch up and clean up your feed reader a […] Read more »
Joe Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest who is in all sorts of legal trouble with SEC says he did not do anything wrong, and the government is doing “enforcement by hindsight.” Not to be left behind, former CFO Robin Szeliga followed Nacchio’s actions. SEC had sued […] Read more »
Matt Marshal is batting better thank the Yankees. He just hit one right out of the park and scooped everyone on this most interesting development: Citrix buying NetScaler for $326 million. NetScaler, is one of the many companies that are in the business of “web acceleration” […] Read more »
Robert Scoble alerts us: Speaking of news, tomorrow the Microsoft Office team will announce something pretty important tomorrow. It’ll be up on Slashdot for sure. Come over to Channel 9 after 9 p.m. pacific time tonight. We have an interview with the team about the news […] Read more »
Open Source Region Stuttgart points us to a way to run (and test) Linux on your Windows PC without installing any to your computer. The "Start Linux" runs totally over the web in your browser and will even run on Firefox. Here’s the instructions from Open […] Read more »
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