IBM, like parents and companies in technical sectors, is worried that the US is not as competitive as it should be with educating our kids in the sciences. The large company is taking an innovative step by financially backing employees who leave the company to become […] Read more »
I have been using the MindManager Viewer beta with no problems but apparently some users reported some minor bugs that Mindjet has now fixed. The new version of the viewer is available on this web page. Read more »
Copernic has released version 1.6 of their Desktop Search program and Firefox users will be quite happy. They have added native Firefox support for the Search program bringing it up to par with the Internet Explorer support. There is also an improvement for mobile users on […] Read more »
The techADDICTION Show #17 (MP3 – 16.1MB – 47min) LISTEN HERE You are looking at techADDICTION #17, the show for those who can’t get enough of gadgets and mobile devices. Kevin and I have a good conversation about mobile power options, Internet appliances, Bluetooth stereo headsets […] Read more »
Storage is such a dirty word in Silicon Valley. Everyone looks down on the disk drive makers with such scorn, and derision. Disk drive makers have such a thankless job – double the disk drive capacity in nine months, i.e. at a pace that is twice […] Read more »
What you read is not what you blog? I get that feeling after reading Cory Doctorow’s comment over on Boing Boing about Bruce Sterling’s Wired column this month He takes an amazing, science-fictional view of how an internetworked world is likely to upend the creaking, corrupt […] Read more »
“Enter Name” gets WiFI, has to be most generic headline in the news business. Wi-Fi Networking News points out that this is becoming quite a trend. Though the depth of the articles has increased, and focus has shifted from single brand or location. Read more »
Jeff Pulver things that a petition filed by BellSouth with the Federal Communications Commission could become a big nightmare for ISPs and independent VoIP providers, according a report. Pulver points out that with this petition, independents who don’t own their own telecom infrastructure could not stay […] Read more »
Digital Chosunilbo reports that LG and Intel are teaming up to push the international mobile Internet standard based on the Korean mobile internet service standard WiBro and plans to improve the efficiency of equipment development using technology from both companies. Read more »
British Telecom is pretty serious about its IPTV efforts and has been talking with content creators like BBC to get the service to its broadband customers. Read more »
Nick Denton is aspiring a few others. This trend is called fast-following! Anyway I think Azeem is off to a good start with his Mink Media which has two blogs – UK Politics and Travel. The name Wandalust is pretty cool! Read more »
I love it when some pesky start-ups bitch slaps a giant, especially one which has a lock on most of the user-interfacing markets. Norway-based alternative browser maker, Opera, is planning to release a Microsoft Pocket PC Mobile Phone version of its lightweight, lighting fast browser. I […] Read more »
Cisco has won a major VoIP deal with Bank of America reports News.com. BoA will replaces nearly 362 PBXes and will deploy 180,000 Cisco Internet Protocol (IP) telephones throughout 5,800 banking centers and enterprise locations in 29 states and the District of Columbia. This is the […] Read more »