Heber Acquafreda is an enterprising software developer in Sao Paulo, Brazil who has written a sophisticated decision analysis and maker program. Pocket Decider is a decision tool based on the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) model that is very useful when a rational decision must be reached […] Read more »
CNET reports that Skype began testing a service yesterday that lets Skype users send SMS messages to cell phones. Connectotel is providing Skype with the short message service. Read more »
Email Sound FX lets you assign unique sounds to any person, group or domain in your Outlook Address Book so you get a unique audible signal played when an email is received based on who sent it. Sounds like an easy way to tell if your […] Read more »
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Qwest is upping the ante and is willing to offer $8 billion for MCI, in hope that this would finally scuttle MCI’s deal with Verizon. While the deal is marginally higher than the $7.8 billion Qwest offered earlier, there are some key differences. Associated Press has […] Read more »
One of those days – lots of news around WiMAX chip makers. First French WiMAX chip start-up Sequans Communications raised $9 million in series B funding, bringing the total to $12 million. It will need the money since there is a lot of competition – Wavesat, […] Read more »
Apple’s earbuds hurt. Plain and simple. They just hurt. I have yet to talk to someone who thinks the stock iPod earbuds are comfortable or even stay in their ears good. Upon realizing within the first 5 minutes of wearing the Apple earbuds that they were […] Read more »
The good people at TrueSoft have ponied up another prize to give away to one lucky reader of jkOnTheRun. They previously gave us a personal license to True Launch Bar which we gave away a few weeks back and now they have upped the ante and […] Read more »
News.com has a big piece on America Online and its plans to launch a VoIP service sometime next month. Its got the usual stuff, and the company will do the usual things – offer flat rate service for $25 a month etc. Sign-up for Time Warner […] Read more »
Someone finds a new workaround for the infamous Mac OS X dead-screen problem on G3 iMacs without the latest firmware. Read more »
The Broadband Blog ’s James Enck pays a visit to BBC and finds out how one of the oldest communications company on the planet is using blogs, wikis, forums and RSS internally – perhaps creating a blueprint for the corporation that knows how to knowledge manage […] Read more »
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A home-brew Mac mini dock ignites the mini-as-HTPC and mini-as-car-stereo ideas all over again. Read more »
A weebit chest thumping for me perhaps? Roger McNamee who has invested in more “tech cycles” that I have written about has included my blog in his list of blogs he reads. I am blushing because of all the nice things he had to say. Now […] Read more »
Issue 2 of Free Software Magazine is out and among the stories is a very interesting read on iTunes, probably the better known of the free software tools to come out of Apple. Read more »
Looks like Cablevision is headed for a break-up. The paper of record when it comes to New York business, The New York Post has learnt that Cablevision is going to put its cable systems up for sale later this year, and the company most likely to […] Read more »
Verizon is not kidding about this whole fiber thing. The company has started to install fiber in Washington County, Oregon and is on an aggressive schedule for a showdown with incumbent cable provider, Comcast and local phone provider Qwest. Verizon has some minor footprint in the […] Read more »
Intel Corp., having failed disastrously with its own efforts to break into the digital home/television market, has decided that is going to buy its way into the market. It has acquired Israeli-start-up Oplus for $100 million. Oplus makes video processors and other chips that go into […] Read more »
Qwest is getting ready to take another run at MCI, and this time it has the support of a lot of people, reports The Wall Street Journal. “Qwest officials last night still were working on a modified proposal, which is expected to be announced today or […] Read more »
Donald Trump used to say, any publicity is good publicity. Hope Paris Hilton agrees, who seems to be having a terrible week. Her Sidekick Hacked, her voice mail hacked and now there is a mobile virus going around that promises naked videos of Hilton, except it […] Read more »
Skype is a great tool for mobile professionals and really anyone wanting a simple way to make free (or low cost) phone calls anywhere in the world. A while back I mentioned an add-on utility that gives you the digital equivalent of an answering machine for […] Read more »
B2Blog has noticed something interesting on a church website they maintain: I’ve seen serious traffic on my church’s website this month from Googlebots. Last year I added a Calendar to the site using the ical standard, and now the Googlebots are pinging the heck out of […] Read more »
I talked to Chris Adamson, author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer’s Notebook, about the book, QTJ technology and his other projects and interests. Read more »
I just posted this over on Business 2.0 Blog – a likely deal between Yahoo and Flickr. There has been a lot of chatter about this over last couple of days. Yahoo denies it, but the noise level is pretty high. Rumors are flying thick and […] Read more »
If you use a Motion slate Tablet PC you should check out Rob Bushway’s review of the SlateGlove. This unique product not only makes it easier to hold the slate in one hand but also to prop it up without a stand. Rob does a very […] Read more »
TiVo’s stock jumped about 17% after an article from Reuters started the rumor mill buzzing today that Apple is eyeing a takeover of TiVo. Despite Michael Ramsay, TiVo’s chief executive, saying that the company is not for sale, analysts figure the company might be an easy […] Read more »
You can no longer get an iPod mini to match your gold shoes, gold suit, and gold car. On the plus side, it’ll now cost you less for a non-matching version… Read more »
Copernic has long been my favorite desktop search and the new beta version 1.5 that has just been released further cements that position. There are so many new features that I will list them all after the jump but of significance for Thunderbird users Copernic will […] Read more »
We all know the Mac Mini suffers from a distinct lack of both USB and FireWire ports. Hubs are not exactly difficult to come by, but who wants multiple boxes attached to your svelte Mini? The Compaq USB and FireWire hub might be one solution. Read more »
Last week we posted an introduction piece to Quicksilver, meant to walk the un-innitiated through the world of Quicksilver. This week Dan Dickinson has a great mid-level piece on tweaking Quicksilver. It’s meant for the more Quicksilver-familiar crowd, and is a great next step for those […] Read more »
File this one under the category – ruminations of an idle mind! Reuters reports that Apple might be looking at gobbling up TiVo. Of course this is based on comments from an analyst I have never heard of before. “What we hear on the street is […] Read more »
Figuring out people’s passwords for hackers is not very difficult, especially is someone is as infamous as Paris Hilton. There are many theories doing the rounds on the Internet about how her phone got hacked. Here is how it might have happened: Like many online service […] Read more »
Hedge Funds, smelling a quick kill are moving into MCI, and buying up stock, hoping that Qwest will prevail and offer some premium for the limping long distance giant. The Wall Street Journal reports that hedge fund types are betting that at worst, Verizon will have […] Read more »
A long time ago, I wrote about a company called IPVerse, which was an early player in the softswitch market. The telecom bust killed the company, but it was reborn again as Nextverse and then merged with a division of Israeli telecom giant, ECI Telecom. The […] Read more »
Somedays I am amazed by the fact that people actually pay for research by the so-called research firms. For instance, today I came across a press release from ABI Research, which says set-top boxes might be the crucial factor in the battle between cable and telecom […] Read more »
Time Warner Telecom is launching a VoIP-over-Metro Ethernet service targeting the corporate customers in 21 markets. Michael A. Rouleau, senior vice president — Strategy and Business Development for Time Warner Telecom says, “Our strategy is to layer VoIP-based business-class solutions on our robust metro Ethernet platform.” […] Read more »
The Broadband price war in India is raging hard. Now Bharti Telecom has cut its prices and is offering a plain vanilla 256 kbps service for about $8 a month, about $1.25 lower than similar offerings from incumbent rivals, BSNL and MTNL. I find that most […] Read more »
The South Huntington Public Library in New York has come up with a novel way to both get young adults into the library and to get them to check out audio books. They have a number of iPod Shuffles that have been filled with books and […] Read more »
IP Wireless has just introduced a new chip that allows carriers who have spectrum in the 450 MHz band to bring UMTS/HSDPA services to the market. The company claims that the new product can allow up to 7.5Mbps on the downlink and up to 3.6Mbps on […] Read more »
Lost in the noise and fury around Qwest’s battle for MCI, was the news that Qwest is handing out nearly $7 million in executive bonuses, including $3 million CEO Dick Notebaert. In addition to Notebaert’s $2.97 million, Chief Financial Officer Oren Shaffer got $1.68 million and […] Read more »
EdgeQ is a developer of several programs for mobile devices and they have recently released a beta version of ComicEdge. ComicEdge is a program that is currently available for free (during the beta period) that downloads and manages comic strips for viewing on your Windows Mobile […] Read more »
Chris Pratley has written a great post on his blog that explains how OneNote session sharing works and gives a real world example on its uses and benefits. Chris describes how a OneNote shared session is used by the OneNote development team to conduct their weekly […] Read more »
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