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 »
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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 »
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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 »
I just received the April issue of Pocket PC Magazine and found an excellent article by my good friend Don Sorcinelli of Boston Pocket PC that chronicles an experiment he recently conducted by using only his Pocket PC for 5 days at work. Don’s article is […] Read more »
Software Update time- Security Update 2005-002 Released Read more »
Despite the steroid scandal, Jose Canseco and bitching by *world champion* Boston Red Sox, I am looking forward to Baseball this season. Boston versus New York will be games to watch, and I am all set to commit the money to MLB.com. Excited because I love […] Read more »
Even as we patiently wait for fiber to the home, VDSL chip maker Ikanos Communications has released a new chip that will allow carriers to stream data at speeds of upto 100 megabits per second over boring-ole copper cables. The new chip – Fx 100100 – […] Read more »
There’s been lots of talk about the Mac Mini being a great PVR or media device, or how it could take the place of many an iMac and even a G4 desktop in businesses across the country. However, I see the Mac Mini as providing a different solution to the problem of computing power and flexibility. Read more »
David Galbraith: Apple is a great vindication of ballsyness rather than MBAness. Jobs is our generation’s Frank Lloyd Wright. That Apple is doing well is also a great vindication of everyday people over faceless corporations. When companies buy laptops they buy boring thing like Dells on […] Read more »
Slashdot Comments from Bryan Ischo, a TiVo Employee It can be very disheartening to work for an innovator in a marketplace where large established companies have such control over the distribution channels…. It’s kind of funny to me that people will pay $80 cable bills without […] Read more »
So while we are all having a good night in Paris (Hilton) phone, another hacker went ahead and hacked not only her but Vin Diesel’s voice mails. This should scare you more – because it can happen to any one of us. Kevin Rose exclusively reports […] Read more »
Aswath Rao comments Vonage made an informal complaint to FCC and they have not had any follow-up discussion. This is truly amazing for me that the VoIP community is willing to go to bat on such a flimsy ground. Also why did Verizon and SBC declare […] Read more »
Why Yahoo Looks Like a Broadband Winner From Bandwidth to Content: how BT is making itself over as an IP player Boingo teams for wireless VoIP Pingtel pushes open-source VoIP Level , getting ready to sell? Clie, and with PalmSource, is dead Cable VoIP, $6.9 billion […] Read more »
Road warriors are always concerned about remaining battery life when out and about. Sure, you can always carry a second battery for your laptop, Tablet PC or UPC but there is another option for extended trips that provides 4 – 10 hours of additional battery life […] Read more »
What is New in Tablet PCs has posted on a subject that is often on the minds of Tablet PC and UPC owners. Many owners of these devices have other computers, desktops or laptops that they also use and need to keep important files synchronized between […] Read more »
More suggestions coming form the blogsphere on how to save TiVo. Mr. Blog hisself, Jeff Jarvis suggests more things TiVo could do. He sums it up best, when he says, TiVo should become the anti-cable. Let us download, store, organize, and serve media from both cable […] Read more »
One last time- I don’t care if a celebrity’s phone or Sidekick gets hacked. I really don’t. Read more »
Laugh as we may about the Paris Hilton and her hacked SideKick, one thing is clear: it is a wake-up call for the entire wireless world. I think the device makers and others need to start taking wireless security more seriously. Bob Metcalfe, in a chat […] Read more »
A simple, but beautiful piece of plastic, the Griffin iCurve is the simplest, and yet one of the most effective methods of putting your Apple Powerbook (or any other laptop). But somehow this piece of plastic does so much more. Read more »
The first generation 3G networks are not even fully rolled out and there is talk about the next generation 3G networks, powered by a technology called high speed downlink packet access or HSDPA. It is about four times faster than current generation of 3G networks, also […] Read more »
Qwest is likely to launch a new improved bid for MCI, this time with total support of MCI shareholders who are upset with the management selling out for cheap. “From where I sit, what has been reported as the Qwest offer appears to me to be […] Read more »
Regular readers know I have written about Peerio and Popular Telephony in the past. This is an update to company’s strategy of commoditizing the PBX market. The company has signed a deal with Commoca to make IP phones that are based on Texas Instruments’ Titan chip […] Read more »
With an anti-muni broadband wave sweeping the country, it is good to see that Bristol, a tiny town in Tennessee, is moving ahead with its fiber plans. The local utility, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services will offer broadband and cable tv to about 20,000 of its customers […] Read more »
Intel has developed a new I/O Acceleration Technology that accelerates the performance of applications, and will unveil this technology at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The technology boosts the speeds between networked clients and servers. I/O is a big bottleneck for networked applications despite higher […] Read more »
Here are four start-ups, I found across the blogsphere which others have found interesting. Common, another social network XConnect went live, with its interconnect service for VoIP providers. James Enck asks, “I’ll be very curious as to what the members do in the way of tariff […] Read more »
This blows me away. Just Googled for "mobile tech" which is a pretty generic term, right? Google returned 23.7 million terms for mobile tech and look who’s at number 5: Read more »
Japanese case maker Extreme Limit has two new cases for the Sony U750. Crafted from black leather the two models are specially made for the Sony and both offer a flip up stand that props the U at an angle for working with the keyboard. One […] Read more »
Brad Isaac of Pocket PC Addict has written a nice article explaining how to configure your Windows Mobile Pocket PC to handle your email attachments for syncing with your desktop. Windows Mobile and ActiveSync is not intuitive at all for getting this configured correctly and Brad […] Read more »
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