Looks like VoIP is headed to the stratosphere. Net2Phone and Hughes Network Systems have teamed up to offer an integrated VoIP service to DIRECWAY broadband satellite customers throughout Europe and the Middle East. The service runs over HNS’ advanced DW6040 Voice Appliance terminal. It was jointly […] Read more »
Can Cisco sizzle? asks CNN/Money writer Paul La Monica. Cisco is also starting to look more and more like a mature company. Growth in its core businesses of selling routers and switches is slowing and competition is increasing. There is no longer a palpable sense of […] Read more »
I have seen my expenditure on connectivity and other elements of digital lifestyle going up slowly. The last item to be added to this list is for “place shifting” services such as Orb Networks, which I wrote about in Business 2.0 about three months ago. Surely […] Read more »
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The great folks at TrueSoft have given me a license of True Launch Bar to put up as a prize in a contest here on jkOnTheRun. True Launch Bar is one of my favorite utilities and normally costs $19.90 so this is a great prize for […] Read more »
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Newsfire is an amazing news aggregator from developer David Watanabe. Unlike many of its competitors, Newsfire confronts the user with the elegance design and OS integration of an iApp. From the brushed metal interface, to the iChat-esqe feed bar, Newsfire screams “Panther”. Newsfire has been my […] Read more »
Mondays are typically bad – a ton of email, dozens of press releases and well annoying phone calls. Today was no different except that most of press releases/info coming my way were related to VoIP in some way or the other. I thought it would make […] Read more »
Early adopters love VoWiFi phones, and disagree with me on the whole issue. I just think the ease of use and real good economic incentive is not there as yet. That doesn’t mean it will never be useful. Read the comments on my previous post. Andy […] Read more »
Every since I posted my last piece on Skype, there has been a deluge of Skype Related information. For instance, Simon Perry has a great review of the Siemens-Skype Gigaset S440 phone. He likes it. I think it looks nice, though no idea about the quality […] Read more »
According to some security-related mailing lists, a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Web Access allows malicious attackers to redirect the login to any URL they wish. This allows the attacker to force the user to the site of the attackers choosing enabling the attacker to use social […] Read more »
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A company from my home state of Texas won the Most Innovative Mobile MP3/ Data Storage Device award at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show for its MP3 watch. The nTren MP3 watch comes in both men’s and women’s models and is available with either 256 MB […] Read more »
I was wondering when this would become an issue as it seemed likely that P2P networks are doing this and Slashdot is reporting that court documents confirm that Kazaa is logging downloads on their network. This chilling revelation from the Slashdot article: "APC Magazine journalist Garth […] Read more »
Ramesh Jain: Phones have two major advantages over computers – they are truly mobile and they are more ‘natural’. Mobility comes from their size. Once you start adding a bigger screen and more weight to phones, they will start losing their edge in terms of mobility. […] Read more »
John Markoff reports in the New York Times on the new Cell chip architecture developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. The Cell has some components that in the lab switch at 5.6 GHz, and several people familiar with the design said that it was both more […] Read more »
MCI is playing cute and is trying to keep Qwest hanging. It might be too late for MCI if it is waiting for that call from Verizon. If anyone who knows a thing or two about telecom knows how bad that deal will be for the […] Read more »
Voice-over-the-Internet will kill circuit switches …. eventually! Despite all the buzz around VoIP these days, many are finding that switching away from circuit switch technology is a nightmare. (This is not to be confused with greenfield deployments, which are relatively easy to pull off.) “There is […] Read more »
Fabian Wenk is very worried: about Skype’s peer-to-peer network using his computer as a node, and thus depending less on its own servers. While, this is part of the Skype End User License Agreement, Wenk and others are worried about this and are trying to finding […] Read more »
We know broadband has been the real reason why ecommerce has taken off, but as I have said earlier, things will be tough for the e-tailers going forward. In addition to my theory of global Internet shift away from the US, the intense competition is going […] Read more »
MSN Search ad… did anyone see the commercial? Loved the commeercial, not impressed that much by the service itself.How much of “the commercial” is really true? My experience with MSN Search is well, lukewarm… Go Daddy.com had a great commercial, and apparently others thought as much. […] Read more »
I plugged in the first ZonePlayer into my Apple Airport router; turned on the power; pressed the mute+volume button. Less than 30 seconds later, the Controller displayed the first ZonePlayer. It was named, Library. Repeated the process with ZonePlayer two, and with equal ease, added it […] Read more »
Road warriors are always looking for ways to combine different functions into one unit since it is so much easier to carry just one device and charger around. The Addonics MFR DVD+/-R/RW is a 25 in 1 function device which just might be the last thing […] Read more »
I’ve posted on this before but just had it going with the iTunes visualization going and felt like sharing: Read more »
The Web 2.0 consolidation has begun. Long after Google bought Blogger, we have seen two deals in quick succession – Live Journal being snapped up by Six Apart, and now Bloglines has been bought by Ask Jeeves. I think we are going to see a rapid […] Read more »
I have been waiting for this puppy for too long. I unpacked it this morning and hopefully will have it set up by end of the day, before SuperBowl kicks off. Meanwhile don’t forget Daytona 24 Hours race today! To recap – Sonos music system came […] Read more »
TiVo’s troubles are well known by now. It lost its premier partner, DirecTV which came out with its own PVR hack. And now the other satellite television provider, EchoStar is trying to do in TiVo by aggressive marketing. Earlier this week the company launched a free […] Read more »
Sunday morning reading is all about peer-to-peer telephony. For instance Skype has inked a deal with Hutchinson in Hong Kong. The two companies will set-up a joint portal which will allow fixed line carrier’s customers to download and use a special Skype client. The basic Skype […] Read more »
For all you open source fans Mozilla has released the first major release of the Sunbird program. Sunbird is the calendar/ task manager intended to complement Mozilla’s Thunderbird email program, with the hope the combo can replace Microsoft Outlook for those who prefer open source solutions. […] Read more »
The world is finally going flat – that is Flat TV. Falling prices combined with digital convergence is going to boost the sales of LCD television in 2005. The prices are going to decline by as much as 60%, and the demand will continue to grow […] Read more »
The new version of the Mozilla Sunbird, the iCal equivalent from the folks that brought us Firefox and Thunderbird. Read more »
Saw this on Cameron Reilly’s blog. It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever put on any computer. Go get it, now. You’ll thank me later. Earth Browser Read more »
If you are like me you have tons of movies on DVD, hardback and paperback books, console games and lots of software. You could benefit from some method of cataloging them all into an inventory if it was only easy. Every system I’ve looked at in […] Read more »
Kansas lawmakers are proposing a new legislation that would require customers of Internet-based phone services to pay monthly fees into two subsidy programs, reports Kansas CIty Business Journal. First, the customers will have to pay about 50 cents a month towards a fund to establish an […] Read more »
How do you get your mom to stop calling you every second day, and repeating, well, “when are you going to get married son… you know all your friends are trading their first ones in for new wives and you haven’t gotten out of the blocks […] Read more »
I am pleased to publish this guest review from jkOnTheRun reader and forum member Chuck Davis who has graciously allowed me to post his in-depth review of the Sony Vaio U750P. Chuck covers everything you want to know about the capable UPC and even throws in […] Read more »
Bloglines sold to Ask Jeeves Yahoo’s new bitch uses Google AdSense to make money. Piss off Kanoodle. Don’t worry, looks like Yahoo’s Overture will come to the rescue soon. But seriously, great news Russ. Good luck! Commodity Computing Exchange Mobile Games are going to be big […] Read more »
Using the iMate SP3 Smartphone (AKA Orange C500, Audiovox SMT5600) as an input device for MS Outlook by Pete Rooney (aka Road Runner) I’ve had this phone now for around 6 months, and it seems like I’ve stumbled on an easily missed benefit. A lot […] Read more »
In my ten-minute review I may have mistakenly compared Pages to Word. I have since been informed that it is actually very similar to Microsoft Publisher which is one of a whole sea of Windows applications I haven’t used or heard of so I can’t base any of my comparisons on it. I can only compare this product to other products I am familiar with such as Word and PageMaker.
Pages is part of the new iWork software suite from Apple. I am not really sure how well this bundle works since Pages will appeal to a broader consumer audience while Keynote is something that would be more popular among business professionals and college professors or anyone else who use PowerPoint on a regular basis. Of the two Pages is much more interesting to me so I would have rather been able to pay half of the iWork price just for it since I have never needed or even used Keynote except to just try it out. Pages on the other hand is an application that I can see myself using on a regular basis. Read more »
Google’s earnings are on everyone’s lips – and with a reason. Read Google By The Numbers over at Business 2.0 website, and you will be impressed. What caught my eye was the amount of money Google generated from what it calls the “Google Network Sites,” and […] Read more »
So you say you want to run Windows on your Mac Mini? There’s a new Windows emulator for the Mac that is only $70 and claims to be a full emulation. You do have to supply your own copy of Windows but if the screen shots […] Read more »
The developer of Pocket Mechanic has responded to the assertions that the latest version of his program, 1.50, contains malicious code that will hard reset the Windows Mobile device when an illegal copy of the program is detected. The response is quoted here in its entirety […] Read more »
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