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 »
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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 »
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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 »
With PSP Hacks coming thick and fast, many like MIT Technology have started to wonder if Will Sony Crack Down on PSP Hacks? “The decision on how to react to this PSP hack is a tough one indeed. Any company has a right to defend its […] Read more »
I am going to be on NPR this weekend as part of Bob Garfield’s report on The Chaos Scenario. The print piece is in AdAge and is on the newsstands now. Radio piece will air on NPR’s On the Media this weekend. You can find local […] Read more »
If you’re always on the lookout for good games for your Pocket PC you should note that binoteq has released a beta of a cool looking game, Shark Attack. During the prospecting mission in Bermuda triangle area your fighting submarine has appeared in the epicentre of […] Read more »
In case you were trying to get a visual graphic of the real estate bubble in the San Francisco Bay Area, here is a little something something. Paul Rademacher has produced a good looking love child of Craigslist and Google Maps. Just check out the million […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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