Microsoft wants more PDAs in hot spots
The software giant teams with the largest U.S. hot spot providers to encourage more people to use Pocket PCs for wireless Net access at coffee shops and other locales. [CNET News.com]
Month: June 2003
note to my work colleagues…
When you know someone is going to phone in to a conference bridge, make sure they have the materials (ppt deck etc…) in advance or at least during the call. Otherwise it’s a complete waste! Yes indeed I am listening right now to a room of people discussing a deck they all have in front … Read morenote to my work colleagues…
N.H. City Launches Chamber-Sponsored Hotspot
Unwilling to wait for large ISPs to build Wi-Fi access points in smaller cities, the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce activates a free downtown hotspot. [internetnews.com] Campbell expects strong interest in the Portmouth hotspot. During the late 1990s, Portsmouth was the hub of the Granite State technology scene with a slew of Web design shops … Read moreN.H. City Launches Chamber-Sponsored Hotspot
First high-definition DVR
TiVo’s planning to have this feature by the end of the year, but it looks like Zenith has the first digital video recorder that’s compatible with high-definition television. The downside to recording HDTV with a DVR is that saving a show requires huge amounts of hard disk space – the HDR230’s 80GB drive can only … Read moreFirst high-definition DVR
Setting the rules for ISPs and spammers
CNET News.com’s Declan McCullagh says a case that pits EarthLink against an independent film producer may decide what Internet providers can legally do to fight spammers. [CNET News.com]
Branded pigeons invade Wimbledon
Game maker Acclaim hopes the answer is an emphatic, “yes”. It plans to invade this week’s Wimbledon championship with twenty Virtua Tennis 2 branded birds, the BBC reports. The homing pigeons will fly down during pre-match warmups, sporting spray-painted logos, and then return to a secret location in south west London. Acclaim officials assured the … Read moreBranded pigeons invade Wimbledon
Widespread US Broadband Adoption
A recently-released white paper from In-Stat/MDR finds that 63.7% of US dial-up Internet subscribers would subscribe to broadband at a lower cost even if it was a slower speed (traditional broadband is transmitted at 1.544 megabits per second or higher). [eMarketer]
Apple and Microsoft: Can this divorce be saved?
I remain concerned that there needs to be more great Apple software to help the platform along. But I don’t think that Microsoft’s withdrawal from that market will prove fatal for Apple. Steve and company are quite capable of filling any gaps Microsoft’s departure would leave. I’d like to be concerned that someday I’ll have … Read moreApple and Microsoft: Can this divorce be saved?
some updates…
I took advantage of the rain (yes again) this weekend and made some tweaks to the home page. I added a nice Google search reference which highlights incoming search requests as you land. I also added a Category listing on the sidebar for those interested with what the main topics are around here. Lastly I … Read moresome updates…
The Corporate Blog Is Catching On
Corporate executives like Alan M. Meckler, the chief executive of Jupitermedia, are starting to publish their own Weblogs. [New York Times: Technology]
Google cut in on me…
As I previously noted the Google Dance is on (might be over now) and page rankings get updated and adjusted. Doing the usual vanity search to check myself out I now see that I am no longer #1 with this site but actually #2 — knocked out by my own previous and long outdated blog. … Read moreGoogle cut in on me…
Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
Twenty years ago, a group of USC computer scientists automated the domain name system, a key innovation essential to making the modern Internet work. The next step is helping the technology continue to mature. By Kari L. Dean. [Wired News]
3G is really just for cost reduction?
at least according to Cambridge Consultants: “The theoretical cost per minute is eight times lower on UMTS, so what 3G is all about is increasing capacity at low cost,” CCL’s Jim Schoenenberger, “It’s not about multimedia services, it’s about reducing cost.” “Voice is still the killer application,” explained Schoenenberger, “and the operators’ problem is that … Read more3G is really just for cost reduction?
The Next Step in the Spam Control War: Greylisting.
Evan Harris: The Next Step in the Spam Control War: Greylisting. The obvious extension is to make the blocking time adaptive. I also wonder if this can be implemented with the database as soft state. [Hack the Planet]
The Google Dance…
So the Google Dance is on again which means PageRanks and backlinks will continue to be weird, so don’t be worried if they’re not what you expect. [Google Weblog] Hopefully I will get fully re-indexed and the old links listed will update with the newly installed pages
it just gets worser and worser
Dan Gillmor nicely captures the truth around the emerging spam consensus in DC: A spam bill that will make it (1) harder to decline UCE from companies with famous logos, and (2) impossible to block UCE from spammers. [Lessig Blog]
Bill Takes Aim at ICANN
Lawmakers question ICANN decision to give secondary market for .com and .net names exclusively to VeriSign. [internetnews.com] Rival domain registrars across the country have expressed concern over the ICANN effort to implement an exclusive Wait List Service (WLS) to be maintained by VeriSign for customers interested in registering domain names that are in use by … Read moreBill Takes Aim at ICANN
EarthLink Offers Extra for SMB Customers
The ISP will provide Trellix Web site building software to dial-up, broadband and hosting subscribers at no charge. [internetnews.com:] Pushing for retention and differentiation…
BlogAds Shows Top-Performing Ads
BlogAds: Best Click-through Last Hour BlogAds, a service that allows advertisers to build their own classified-like ads on participating small web sites (mostly weblogs), has introduced a new feature that shows which ads are performing best on a click-through basis, updated hourly. CEO Henry Copeland said he was not aware of any other ad network … Read moreBlogAds Shows Top-Performing Ads
Sneak peak of the Treo 600…
Brian Cooley of Cnet interviews Greg Shirai, Director of Product Marketing, Handspring and gives a very nice overview of the new Treo. You can get some solid close-ups on how it looks (amazing!) and see it in action as well.