SkypeHeadset is an interesting application that simplifies trying to use a Bluetooth headset with Skype. I am a big fan of Skype and use it all the time but it’s so much trouble to get my Motorola headset working with Skype that I never bother. This […] Read more »
TherYanking: A new set of standards, deemed microformats are appearing. These standards specify ways to markup XHTML in ways that give the content some meaning. Some examples include: Votelinks, NoFollow, hCard, hCalendar, podcasting, blogchalking, geourl, xfn, license, RelTag xFolk, and online news. The promise of microformats […] Read more »
Broadband over powerline, so far has seen limited success, but that’s not stopping bureaucrats to push the technology in European Union. Given that DSL and other technologies are more easily available in Europe than say US, I wonder why they need to make a push on […] Read more »
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This report in the Globe & Mail indicated that Cisco might be interested in Nortel Networks, perhaps in a buyout. Mark Evans has been saying this for a while. “The idea of a “partnership” seems much more plausible today than two months ago after Nortel hired […] Read more »
Most incumbents should take a cue from British Telecom, which now has 5 million customers. Wow! That’s just 100,000 shy of SBC which has a footprint many times the size of BT’s home territory. Reports say that BT actually hit the target a year ahead of […] Read more »
Broadband brings the world right to your laptop or your handheld. With it comes information, and along with it comes desire to stay connected, and on top of everything. Welcome to Internet Anxiety Disorder, a malaise that is more problematic than that blog fatigue. Back in […] Read more »
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Time Warner and Comcast might have the winning bid for bankrupt cable provider, Adelphia. The two giants are said to have offered about $18 billion. That’s a billion-and-half dollars more than what CableVision had offered. It is one of the […] Read more »
Cablevision and the Dolans have finally buried the hatchet and have come-up with a time line to shut down the ill-fated hi-def satellite service, Voom. Newsday reports that the board of directors including Charles Dolan made the decision last night. The father was pitted against his […] Read more »
The Philadelphia Plan: The “Wireless Philadelphia” network released their Request for Proposal today and expects their huge, 135 square-mile “city cloud” to be completed by late summer 2006. Philadelphia released the business plan with an RFP (pdf) and Business Plan (pdf) available on their web site. […] Read more »
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BBC says DIY crowd been quick to embrace Sony’s PlayStation Portable console. Of course, I said so nearly two weeks ago – Its a PSP planet! (Did Beeb get inspired by that?) By the way, PSP as a kitchen timer, if not the sink. Google asks […] Read more »
BellSouth seems to have a fine appreciation for VoIP-over-Wireless. Speaking at a Light Reading conference today, Joan Kratz, VP of business marketing at BellSouth Corp. said that BLS is looking to exploit VOIP over wireless wide-area networks (WANs). “We are actually doing a real test today […] Read more »
The buzz on Wireless USB is on an upswing, and if things progress as planned we should start seeing a range of products coming to market with wireless USB functionality. I would say this could happen in 9-to-12 months – and I am taking my cues […] Read more »
Microsoft has released the final version 7.0 of the MSN Messenger chat program and are taking Skype on with some of the new features in Messenger. The ability to make video calls to other Messenger users is now as simple as hooking up a webcam and […] Read more »
Ars Technica has looked at all the major desktop search tools available and written a very thorough review and comparison of the programs. They review the following search tools: Google Desktop, Copernic Desktop, MSN Desktop Suite, Yahoo Desktop and Ask Jeeves Dekstop Search. This a thorough […] Read more »
Looking for portable speakers with a subwoofer? This review of the Tritton Sound Bite Portable Speaker System seems to like the small, light one piece design of the speakers. Designed to be used with notebook or Tablet PC computers, the Tritton connects via USB and delivers […] Read more »
I have been following Eric Mack’s process for purchasing a Tablet PC and I am looking forward to seeing what he writes on his blog about the Tablet after he gets it. In true Eric fashion even though he hasn’t received his Tablet PC he is […] Read more »
What is the big problem with Microsoft? They do a lot of things, most of them are either poor or average at best. Occasionally like Microsoft Office for Mac, they are very very good. Their products have a feeling of feature creep to it. Microsoft Outlook […] Read more »
After months of build-up, denials and non-denials, America Online (US) has launched a VoIP service, finally catching up with itself. AOL France and AOL Canada have been selling VoIP service for the longest time. AOl launched its Internet phone service in more than 40 cities. The […] Read more »
Marketwatch columnist John Shinal believes that the looming proxy battle over MCI might actually be a good thing in the long run. The problem for the MCI board isn’t that it wants to sell to Verizon; it’s that it’s willing to sell the company for $23.10 […] Read more »
Wall Street Journal notes that late Tuesday night Qwest Chief Executive Richard C. Notebaert and several MCI officials — including court-appointed monitor Richard Breeden and director W. Grant Gregory had a chat. On the call, MCI asked Mr. Notebaert to raise Qwest’s current bid of $27.50 […] Read more »
In what can only be described as a most timely move, UAddict today reports that the Sony Support Site has posted the drivers for the US U750P. The new site also has a lot of support information for Sony U owners and is a must stop […] Read more »
Fiber to the home, or the curb or the premise or whatever is growing like crazy! Proof? Look at the booming sales of passive optical networking gear. Infonetics Research points out that PON sales in 2004 were $525 million and will top $2.2 billion in 2008. […] Read more »
Gary Forsee, the man who has helped turn around Sprint in a flash and re-focused the company on wireless believes that 2006 is the year when you could see most business people walking around with hybrid phones that combine wifi and cellular networks. According to Boston […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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