Glenn Fleishman, normally a quiet thoughtful sort is speaking out forcefully today on the whole issue of EV-DO, Wi-Fi, and Andrew Seybold, who apparently has roiled up most WiFi insiders with his comments over on MuniWireless. But his approach to external Wi-Fi, however reasonable some of […] Read more »
Looks like Apple is going to do some sort of a connected multimedia device, though no one knows whether it will be a video iPod or something more exotic. The person making the argument, a hack-pack homie Tom Foremski has found out that British chip company […] Read more »
Business 2.0: If you are a frequent traveler to the wireless wonderland that is Asia, you can’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy when you see the colorful cell phones there that play video, snap high-definition photos, pump out bass-thumping music, connect to the Internet, […] Read more »
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My Sony U750P is a brick right now. Yesterday I was doing some partition merging with Partition Magic and it choked in the middle. I have used Partition Magic for years and never had a problem but my number finally came up. The process aborted with […] Read more »
Matt Drudge will have competition from Nick Denton’s Sploid or as I like to call it – yet another tabloid/gossip site. Smashing. New York Observer points out that the reason Drudge has been able to compete and stay on top is because he blogs from anywhere, […] Read more »
If you watch enough MTV and VH-1 like I do, then you have seen the Jamster ads where they make you think you can get free ringtones. Unfortunately it doesn’t work out like that and kids end up paying $1.99 per ringtone. This half-true advertising has […] Read more »
Time once again for wild and wooly projections, this time from IDC. Last checked there were about a million VoIP users in the US, but somehow the number is going to magically increase to 27 million in four years, they say. For 2005 they are looking […] Read more »
Is Vonage’s much talked about IPO being postponed as company goes out and raises more cash. Jonathan Askin who works for Pulver.com was speaking at a panel here in San Francisco yesterday at the NCTA show. Light Reading: “I’m hearing that Vonage is now thinking of […] Read more »
Pop Sugar tells us that even Paris Hilton is podcasting! So that makes its six million and one podcast fans. Anyway she is going to use podcasting to promote her new movie House of Wax and will begin podcast her promotions, parties and more beginning April […] Read more »
In real world when you go for a job interview, and you (falsely believe) that you have impressed the interviewer, you try and do the hard sell with your Harvard MBA, your 4.0 average and if all fails, your stunning good looks. Somehow that always results […] Read more »
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Turns out AppleCare is available to Florida residents, but Apple is too cheap to pay a one-time $500 administrative fee to the state to be allowed to offer it. Read more »
MSNBC reports that IBM has released the next generation notebook computer to replace the X40. The X41 features an updated processor (1.5 GHz Dothan), biometric fingerprint security, 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. The whole package weighs just 2.7 pounds making it great […] Read more »
FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin in a speech today at the NCTA show made it pretty clear to one and all – he is going to let the markets decide the outcome of the broadband free for all. Read more »
Newsweek via MSNBC: When Rosensweig came to Yahoo in 2002, the company had become a piñata. Its reputation, stock price and employee morale were all getting repeatedly whacked. But last week an article being passed around the blogosphere was titled “How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back.” […] Read more »
Intel Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini believes that US government has to boost broadband in the US like other governments around the world or just lose its preeminence in the technology markets. “We need to ask ourselves a fundamental question, and that is, […] Read more »
NextWeb, a California fixed-wireless Internet service provider for business, will expand its coverage area that will now span the Greater Los Angeles area. The expansion will come in four phases, the first of which was completed in March 2005. As part of phase one, NextWeb has […] Read more »
Founded in 1956, Elkhart Telephone, has decided to go all fiber. The Kansas-based independent phone operator will be deploying Wave7 Optics gear in its new FTTP network in Kansas. Elkhart will offer 4-lines per residence of VOIP, 100-channel RF-video television and high-speed data services, throughout its […] Read more »
Mobile technology makes it possible to work productively no matter where the individual might be and more companies than ever before are outfitting their professional workers with the mobile tech gear to make that easier. The proliferation of BlackBerrys, Smartphones, Tablet PCs, pagers and laptops makes […] Read more »
HDTV is one of those technologies that spoils you once you try it and it is no surprise that companies are racing to the market with products to capitalize on the growth of HDTV. NEC has developed a small transceiver to go with their new transmission […] Read more »
The Apple Blog is looking for a few new writers for the site. If you’re interested, contact us. When you contact us be sure to include some examples of your past writing. Do note that these are currently not paid positions though you do get free […] Read more »
Note to self: time to stop taking anything Pew people have to say seriously. I am surprised that how can such a well respected and established research group put out research report which even they don’t believe in. Yesterday, they used a colorful way of describing […] Read more »
So I would love to revisit this news in six months, and then point out that some ideas like streaming radio streams on to cell phones is just plain dumb idea. Even if the wireless networks had bandwidth to waste – which they don’t – the […] Read more »
A new preview version of OrangeGuava is now available for those users who can’t wait to try the new features. To participate in the beta email the developer at beta at orangeguava dot com. Here’s a list of the new features as found on the developer’s […] Read more »
Law of unintended consequences – Juniper Networks might be the real winner in the MCI buyout. MCI has been one of Juniper’s biggest customers, and well hasn’t been spending much money (not that it had any) to upgrade its infrastructure. Either of the two likely buyers […] Read more »
Cisco working with start-up Broadlogic Network Technologies (investors include Time Warner, Cisco and Intel) has come up with a technology they call Wideband, that can deliver one gigabit per second ethernet speeds over cable networks. The technology, first noted by Dave Burstein, is backward compatible with […] Read more »
Richard says, “Skype was basically nothing new, but it was launched exactly at the right time and in the right context.” The reason for its growing popularity – third party applications. Its open-API just might save its closed garden approach to IP telephony. More recent third […] Read more »
British Telecom just started offering 2 megabits per second connections to some of its small business customers. Some of its smaller rivals think its no big deal, especially if you start adding hidden costs like $20 a month additional for static IP address. AltoHiway accuses BT […] Read more »
Marc Orchant is back as co-host and Tablet mayhem ensues. MindManager is one of the main topics of the day as we discuss unusual ways mind maps can be useful. OneNote tips and tricks that can be used on any computer are covered including a screen […] Read more »
Thanks to broadband and quick download abilities that fat pipes, more than six million people are downloading podcasts, and listening to the mp3 files on their Treos, iPods, Pocket PCs and other digital music players. I am frankly taken aback by this report from Pew’s Internet, […] Read more »
Skype has released a new version of the VoIP program for the Pocket PC. New features are going to be well received by Pocket PC users, especially those with VGA screens. Here’s the feature list from Skype: feature: ability to leave Skype Voicemail feature: SkypeIn support […] Read more »
Back in September 2004, I wrote about perpendicular storage, in my piece, Terabytes To Go as part of Business 2.0 story: Seven Technologies That Change Everything. “Today’s hard drives store bits of data horizontally, like stalks of freshly cut corn. PMR stores them vertically, like cornstalks […] Read more »
Nearly 5 million Britons are getting their broadband via ADSL technologies, a milestone of sorts for the tiny nation. In UK, one new broadband subscriber is signing up every 10 seconds, according to this report. The five million connections are shared between 200 ISs and British […] Read more »
Laughlin Ranch development in Bullhead City, Arizona is going all fiber. What with everyone deciding to move to Arizona (despite a lousy baseball team) the demand for high end homes is booming in the desert state. Laughlin Ranch is eventually going to have over 40,000 homes. […] Read more »
Over the weekend MCI board decided to take a serious look at Qwest’s almost $9 billion offer. Today, Verizon announced that it will pull out of the bidding if MCI’s board deemed a rival $9.07 billion bid by Qwest “superior.” In other words it is not […] Read more »
This is one very cool program. I’ve been playing with Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software for a couple weeks now and I’m using it more and more everyday. (Look at some of my recent posts – the screenshots are a product of Snapz Pro X.) Sure, OS X comes with Grab for taking screen shots, but it’s pretty basic in function. Snapz Pro X is full-featured and then some.
Snapz Pro X starts up as a background service when you log into your OS X account, so it’s always there, waiting for when you need to use it. Don’t worry though, it doesn’t bother your regular cpu usage when it’s not being used (I know, I keep a top monitor on my desktop with geektool, at all times…) When the mood strikes you, hit CMD + SHIFT + 3 and the options come up which allow you to choose what kind of screen capture you want to take. Read more »
Microsoft has released the Experience Pack for the Tablet PC (English language only) and all Tablet owners should grab this now. The Pack brings six programs and every one is a winner. The new Snipping Tool has been anxiously awaited for a while and it is […] Read more »
Like many urban myths, we have come to believe that US is a broadband laggard. Often pundits hold up the shining examples of South Korea and Japan as countries that are miles ahead of the US. Media is quick to point out that even puny Singapore […] Read more »
Point Topic just released world wide broadband data – 2004 was a block buster year with a record new 50 million new adds for the year bringing the total to 150.5 m as of 31 Dec 2004. The penetration rates in Europe and other established economies […] Read more »
Sometimes you just love it when two things you love the most – Baseball and IPod – come together almost naturally – just like a win to the Yankees on the opening day. The New York Times notes that Randy ‘Big Unit’ Johnson prepared for his […] Read more »
Rafat Ali asks the question – is there a photo-blogging related buyout in the works? Good question. Jeff Clavier has something here when he narrows down buyers to CNet or Google. Between these two, they have bought a couple of companies related to photo-related services. Google […] Read more »
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