So here’s a fun but totally unscientific next gen console survey you can try doing on Google over the year, just like I did a few minutes ago: Search “defective 360″: 2810 returns Search “defective PS3″: 1570 returns Search “defective Wii”: 931 returns Therefore, unless someone […] Read more »
Al Chappaz just got a Fujitsu P1610 Tablet PC and in true geek form has posted his unboxing experience on his blog. Al took a LOT of photos so we can all enjoy his experience. Ahh, memories. Read more »
No, I haven’t tried installing Vista on Miyagi, my Fujitsu P1610, because it’s just too darn functional for me with Windows XP 2005 Tablet Edition running on it. I was pretty sure there would be a number of drivers that haven’t been released for Vista yet and I […] Read more »
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Blake Ross, one of the more high profile members of the Firefox team, has been quietly working on a new start up for a while. He has been successful in keep the wraps on his new startup, Parakey, but now it seems is close to revealing […] Read more »
Business 2.0 covers blogging entrepreneurs in its latest cover story, calling the upstarts “Real businesses, with real revenue streams from real advertisers — not overhyped next big things with pick-a-number valuations based on selling out someday to some overenthusiastic big-media sugar daddy.” Writers Paul Sloan and […] Read more »
Earlier this month MobileRead gathered up reader questions about the new Sony Reader product and the answers just came in, direct from Sony! What a great example of collaboration between the web community and a major consumer electronics company. I consider the MobileRead community to be […] Read more »
Kidding aside, there could be some good uses for a USB adapter that rotates up to 90-degrees. I sometimes find it awkward to use the USB port on the right side of the Samsung Q1 for tethering when I have the power cord plugged in as […] Read more »
Although this announcement is really geared towards Tablet PC OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturers), it grabbed my attention by explaining a little more how both passive and active digitizers work on Tablet PCs. InPlay’s subsidiary, FinePoint Innovations, has a new battery-free digital pen, the MP820, that uses […] Read more »
If this is not a good reason to not blog, then what is. Just letting you folks know that I am out there somewhere, enjoying a beautiful sunny day in San Francisco. It just got me in the mood for warm lazy days full of Baseball. […] Read more »
In case you were wondering why I did not go to the Steve Jobs Show yesterday, let me tell you the reason: I was meeting with 83 Degrees co-founders Julie Davidson, Nick Wilder and Narendra Rocherolle, the Webshots trio, that are working on an online calendar […] Read more »
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Verizon Wireless and partner Microsoft are set to announce the launch of a new online music store, VCAST Music, at CES. The new service will go live January 16th and offer music downloads a la iTunes. Verizon intends for the new service to extend their current […] Read more »
I got me one of them shiny new black iPods a couple weeks back. It’s real purty. While the black is very nice looking, it’s also going to scratch if you breath on it with anything less than freshly brushed teeth. I’m not much for the cases – I don’t like hiding my iPod, but I DO want to protect it. So I set out to find some skins to properly protect my new toy.
DecalGirl and The Invisible Shield hooked me up with a couple to try out. I went through the installations of both, and tried each out for a few days to see how it protected my iPod from daily use. It’s been widely established that these new iPods scratch far too easily, so while I take good care of my things, having these protective skins was a great help. Read more »
I am inching towards the 5000 Post mark. Any suggestions on how to celebrate? Any interest in a San Francisco meet-up? If yes, do post your comments. Meanwhile, I have the 5000 contest still going, incase you are interested. Read more »
AT&T’s business has been contracting for a long time, but if you read Ma Bell’s latest earnings release, you can see where the company is headed – IP services. The IP&E-services revenue grew 9.5 percent over the prior-year second quarter. This is the business that includes […] Read more »
The citizens of Lafayette, Louisiana vote today to approve the funds needed to build a city-wide fiber optic network for high-speed internet connectivity. The city won a legal challenge by the two private sector companies that serve Lafayette earlier and if the voters choose to approve […] 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 »
Everyone is predicting a party — before the shakeout. By Om Malik, November 29, 2004 Business 2.0: Telecom executives have adopted a glass-half-full attitude these days. After three brutal years, 2004 proved to be a good-enough year, giving them hope that 2005 could actually be better. […] Read more »
David Churbuck: While I rather see the private marketplace do its economic magic, the cozy relationship between the Telcos and public utility commissions insures we’ll never see true free market capitalism at work. Read more »
Eweek: Net2Phone’s Wi-Fi handset for its VoiceLine IP telephony service. Mum on its OEM origins, the service provider will sell the XJ100 handset for $160, chiefly through its reseller channel of cable operators, ISPs, interconnects and telcos. Andy did not care much for most of the […] Read more »
UK Broadband has started selling 8 megabits per second DSL broadband to its customers for about $55 a month. That’s cheaper than what speakeasy charges for its 6 MBPS connections. Read more »
John Battelle spotted this – Overture is now experimenting with RSS ads. Read more »
Wall Street Journal reports that FCC Chairman Michael Powell has no plans to leave the agency. Mr. Powell said following an FCC meeting he was “thrilled” with the election results. When asked about his future, Mr. Powell said, “I’m happy where I am” and joked that […] Read more »
Last month when we talked about Microsoft and Symbian were in the future of Treo, many dismissed it as speculation. No No…. Now the Wall Street geniuses at Needham & Company have put a report out saying pretty much the same. C/Net reports that the analysts […] Read more »
Fred Wilson says, “My friend and VOIP pioneer Tom Evslin has been saying for years that VOIP will be ubiquitous by 2010. I think he is right about that, but possibly it will be even sooner.” Not likely Fred: less than a million people are using […] Read more »
Digital disruption is happening all around us. Music, Movies, Telephone, … it all is being digitized, chopped, assembled and reassembled by us. Between Tivo/PVR functionality (now integrated into one chip), P2P file sharing platforms, Hi-Def. TV, BitTorrent, broadband Internet, falling HDD costs, rising CPU power, we’re […] Read more »
Wacom has become the de facto standard for digitizing tablets for graphic artists and supplies the active screen technology for most Tablet PCs. Wacom is now bringing the active pen technology to smartphones and PDAs, according to an announcement by the company.“With the W8002 single chip […] Read more »
So my statement that the “axis of technology has shifted to somewhere in the South China Sea” is finally coming true. Couple of days ago, Cisco Systems announced that it was setting up a $32 million R&D labs in China. Today there is news that Cisco […] Read more »
Mark Evans suggests that Nortel should buy Juniper and become an IP tour de force. “If Nortel had the financial resources, strategic courage and senior management focus, it should take a serious run at Juniper Networks Inc. With a market capitalization of US$12.5-billion, Juniper would be […] Read more »
Not to beat up on Fast Company when they are down, but John Byrne is totally talking smack about Business 2.0. Byrne called us “ugly” and the Frankenstein monster of business magazines, “composed of the body parts” of two business magazines (and the subscription list of […] Read more »
Need to send a text message to someone but don’t know their phone’s email address, or even what carrier they’re using? Don’t fret- teleflip it.Teleflip is a free service that let’s you send text messages from your PC to anyone’s cell phone, even when all you […] Read more »
Some new essays and sunday afternoon musings… * The dawn of micro-pubs * Networks according to AT&T CTO * What does Mario think? * Why Indian media is so self obsessed and bad? Read more »
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