One of India’s oldest PC companies, HCL has just launched a sub-$300 computer that is while skimpy is good starter machines for most Indians who want to get a computer for the home. The PC is called EzeeBee Pride, and will be available on a $9 […] Read more »
There is a big debate going on about whether cities should get into the business of providing broadband to its citizens, especially if incumbents don’t act always in their (citizens’) best interests. More than a dozen states have come-up with bills to outlaw municipal and city […] Read more »
Fourteen VoIP providers from Europe and SIPphone.com of US have set up an international peering network which allows them to interconnect with each other without spending any termination fees. Those in the “network” include little known names such as Callme.se (Sweden), e-fon.ch (Switzerland), Magrathea Telecommunications (Great […] Read more »
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Europeans are spending more on enterprise VoIP gear, while US spending is down according to Synergy Research Group’s Q4 2004 reports. The EMEA Enterprise IP Telephony market increased 28.1 % sequentially and 88.8% year over year while its U.S. counterpart dipped 3.5%– the first decrease ever […] Read more »
This article at CNN Money makes note of unnamed music labels planning to up the cost of digital music from the current 65 cents/song. As the article mentions, The Steve ain’t happy about this. The Record Labels are said to be comparing the higher cost of […] Read more »
MedVisor | dental is a patient education system for dentists that is based on the Motion Tablet PC. The company sells the software and hardware to dental offices to demonstrate dental procedures and diagnoses. They are also very instrumental for dentists to explain treatment plans in […] Read more »
A company in New Jersey, EtherTouch, has recently made technology available to OEMs to produce 3D touch screens for mobile devices. The EtherTouch screen has all electronics embedded in the screen by design so nothing is added to the appearance of the screen, which can be […] Read more »
Mini hard drive manufacturers Seagate and Hitachi have both announced the production of one inch drives with a 6 GB capacity. The new drives will no doubt start appearing soon in MP3 players like the iPod mini and Creative Zen Micro. Read more »
Qwest is in news for chasing MCI and well its original founder and board member, Phil Anschutz is making headlines as well. The Denver billionaire had financed the movie about singer Ray Charles’ life. The movie, Ray won six nominations and earned Jamie Fox his first […] Read more »
Blinkx has inked a deal with movie download service Movielink, and will create a channel is being added to http://www.blinkx.tv. – when you search Movielink through blinkx for a film title, you will see two windows pop up – one is the trailer for the film […] Read more »
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The Broadband Blog: Recently launched VoIP Security Alliance has been set-up with a grand goal of making VoIP more secure. A centralised security forum specifically for Voice over IP to work on a unified approach to vulnerability research is not just good for those in Security, […] Read more »
Steve Castellano. thinks that chances of Qwest winning MCI are remote because “Qwest has too much debt. Verizon will raise its bid, if it has to, and move on. MCI will never pair with a weak partner and see its shareholder value desolve.” “Qwest has submitted […] Read more »
Bernie Ebbers, the milkman-turned-telecom tycoon is likely to take a stand today in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. He is on trial on charges of conspiracy, securities fraud and making false filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to WorldCom, now known as MCI […] Read more »
Business Week is reporting that Vonage will one of the handful of companies hitting the IPO markets in coming months. Several VCs say the company is going to hit the public markets sometime this year. Among others on the IPO dance card include TellMe Networks. TellMe […] Read more »
The first Tablet PC Show is out of post production and ready for download on The Podcast Network. I’m really excited to be doing this podcast and promise you some exciting guests will be appearing on The Tablet PC Show and we’ll share a lot of […] Read more »
Update: Upon re-reading the story, I have corrections. They are blocking incoming ftp and IRC connections, and they are no explicitly blocking Bit Torrent and other P2P traffic, though they can. As Mike points out, they are letting you set up an FTP, email or IRC […] Read more »
US News & World Report says that Vonage is adding 10,000 new customers every week, and has a total of 450,000 customers. I guess, the big question is how many of them actually bail from the service, and how they are sliced and diced – i.e. […] Read more »
Steve Richards has Adult Onset Stills Disease (AOSD), a chronic and debilitating disease similar to arthritis that intrudes on every aspect of the afflicted’s life. An IT professional, Steve is in the fortunate position that allows him to work from home and still function in a […] Read more »
Reuters has a well reported, if slightly off target story on WiMAX. Even though tons of phone companies including Sprint and Qwest are trialing the emerging fixed wireless technologies, it is clear that the high cost of deployment and entrenched duopoly of cable and DSL service […] Read more »
Paris Hilton, the hacked socialite is getting some love – this time from Wall Street Journal and The New York Times – who have published remarkably similar stories in their Friday and Sunday editions. Gina Hoffman, Hilton’s spokeswoman told The Times: “She feels terrible that her […] Read more »
Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer was interviewed recently by MacWorld and outlined his views on the personal media center market and video players in particular. Oppenheimer admitted that while some consumers are interested in seeing Apple produce a personal video player there will be no […] Read more »
Chris de Herrera over at Tablet PC Talk has published a review of the Sahara i213 Tablet PC that covers the whole enchilada right down to the rubber bumpers. I particularly like the simple stand for holding the Sahara (or any other Tablet PC if you […] Read more »
Folks I am planning to do a special edition to mark the bursting of the bubble, which is coming up soon. I have teamed up with Carl Haacke, the author of Frenzy (Read his interview) and we will be writing special op-eds, about 600 words on […] Read more »
Chris Pirillo reports on the free satellite imaging program from NASA that has so many options built into the program that you can literally play with it for hours. World Wind is described best on the web site: World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude […] Read more »
* VoIP Will Be Free, or so thinks VoIP Inc. CEO Steven Ivester, who claims that his company will make money because of telephony features and its unique position as a hardware maker and a wholesale provider. VoIP Inc, which till recently was traded on the […] Read more »
FCC is looking into scores of low-power television licenses that are not being used. There have been 4385 licenses issued so for for TV stations, 2034 are classified low power and only 1366 are operational. The spectrum could be used to offer wireless broadband and phone […] Read more »
More Broadband over powerline FUD, this time from the dubious and notorious New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based lobby and policy group. They have yet to show me anything I have not heard before. The believe that broadband over powerlines will be an alternative to […] Read more »
I talk to Adam about his latest book, the role of AppleScript in Mac OS X and how he came up with the example scripts used in the book. Read more »
Uber-blogger in retirement, Andrew Sullivan in his latest column for The Times of London pens an ode to the church of Apple, and how iPod people have taken over the normally bustling, crazy and funky Manhattan. There were little white wires hanging down from their ears, […] Read more »
Recently I posted about iCal and Address Book, and my suspicion that they were a couple of unsung heroes amongst the OS X-included apps. As a follow-up, I’ll start with iCal and my findings after using it daily for a few weeks.
My general conclusion is that iCal is a good calendar program as far as calendar programs go. I mean, what do you really do to make a calendar really stand out from another? On its own, I don’t think it shines the way I suspected it would. It’s helped me keep better track of my life and all the stuff that goes on around me. (My wife is especially appreciative of this aspect of my new iCal use.) At the end of the day, that’s what it’s really about, isn’t it? Read more »
Qwest’s second attempt at taking over MCI is getting a cold shoulder from CEO Michael Capellas. In a conference call with investors he told investors that he likes the deal with Verizon. “We will do our utmost to drive that through.” Not sure if the board […] Read more »
Unwired of Sydney is finding lot of success selling its non-line-of-sight fixed wireless service in that city, according to a company press release. “We grabbed 17 percent market share of new broadband users in Sydney,” said David Spence, president and CEO, Unwired. That’s almost 14,000 in […] Read more »
Ever since I posted the story about Flickr-Yahoo deal over on Business 2.0 site, there have been many reactions and more tips. First of all, I think Kris’ idea of starting a pool – fantastic. Of course there is the non-denial denial from Caterina over on […] Read more »
Agenda Fusion has long been one of the major PIM replacements for the Windows Mobile Pocket PC platform and the new version 7 cements that position. The major new feature appearing in Agenda Fusion for the first time is the inclusion of project management tools. The […] Read more »
Samsung Electronics introduced a "push-to-all" (PTA) mobile phone this week and says the phone is the first to allow the owner to talk with several people simultaneously, make a video call and transfer data. The phone works on mobile Broadband networks (w-CDMA) and WiFI in addition […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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