This company seems to have successfully modified the internal workings of a Tungsten C and will do it for you as well. Cost is $69.99, and is guaranteed for 30 days… We have modified a number of Tungsten C’s by adding an internal condensor microphone and boy do they work great! This mod allows you … Read moreAdd an internal mic to the Tungsten C
PocketSensei has released SilverScreen 3.0, an upgrade to the popular application launcher. The new version features a pop-up tools set, customized icons, background images and sounds effects. [PalmInfocenter]
With Apple’s entry into the digital music business with the iTunes Music Store, which will be made available to Windows users later this year, “a fundamental shift in Apple’s strategy may be afoot,” David Zeiler writes in a SunSpot.net column. [MacCentral]
Smart marketers will use the Web if they want to harness some of that teen spirit, according to a new study on media consumption among young people. [CNET News.com]
This morning, during Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ keynote at the company’s annual financial analysts’ meeting, a product manager demonsrated the Outlook Connector for MSN. The new product, which is testing and will release with the next version of MSN later this year, adds MSN e-mail, calendaring and contact management to Outlook. The connector takes advantage … Read moreMSN Outlook Connector
If “Tinyurl” is becoming a verb with you, you’ll want to check out Notlong’s wrapup of short link generators. The short link generators, about ten of them, are arranged in a table. The table contains a variety of information including default links, expiration, whether or not statistics and custom links are available, whether or not … Read moreA Wrapup of Short Link Generators
GIA is inspired by the federal government’s Terrorist Information Awareness program (TIA), an effort to monitor Americans’ lives in detail, from credit card purchases to pets’ veterinary records. But unlike TIA, GIA is maintained by a diverse population of citizens rather than by the government. [URLwire]
July Bandwidth Report — “As of June 2003, most users in the US connect to the Internet using dial-up modems… [WebWord] Cable has 67% to 105% more users than DSL in the US, according to two recent surveys. Overall, broadband grew by .83% in June, with 36.7% of wired US users enjoying a high-speed connection.
DoubleClick Inc. on Wednesday announced results of its Q2 2003 Ad Serving Trend Report, which reveals that rich media usage continues to grow quarter by quarter, while larger ads have surpassed the smaller options in popularity. The report also suggests that marketers, having mastered direct response on the Web, are now perfecting the art of … Read moreRich Media and Larger Ad Units Maintain Growth Levels
At least one U.S. airline plans to offer free Wi-Fi Internet service, and phone calls for as little as 50 cents a minute. Business travelers, in particular, want both services. But they have reservations about a plan to subsidize the costs of the services with intrusive advertising. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
Enabling wireless technology in university auditoriums has led to a back channel of communication for students to reveal their thoughts. [New York Times: Technology] Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer and blogger who has experienced this back-channeling at several international technology meetings, likens the chatter to what happens in the corridor just after people leave … Read moreIn the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus
As a movie, “Masked & Anonymous” is an unholy, incoherent mess. As a Bob Dylan artifact, it is endlessly, perhaps morbidly, fascinating. [New York Times: Arts] The intent seems to have been to capture the feeling of one of Mr. Dylan’s surreal, shaggy-dog ballads on celluloid (not to be confused with cellulose): not an especially … Read moreTimes They Are Surreal in Bob Dylan Tale
I still think the strategy of migrating the AOL base to a rich package of content, services, and software via 9.0 BYOA is the right strategy, but the subscriber drop-off is alarming. AOL management had to lower its outlook overall (total 03 revenues down mid-single digits) because of “limited visibility” into subscription trends. Management is … Read moreAOL Time Warner 2Q03 Notes
The House of Representatives votes to tighten regulations limiting TV stations, radio stations and newspapers, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the White House. [CNET News.com] The House voted today to support the reversal of a rule that permits the nation’s biggest TV networks to grow larger. [New York Times: Business]
The company says it has ordered the gear needed to meet investor NTT DoCoMo’s deadline for it to launch a next-generation cell phone network in the United States. [CNET News.com] The U.S. carrier is facing a closing date of Dec. 31, 2004, to launch a high-speed 3G commercial service in four U.S. cities. If it … Read moreAT&T Wireless gears up for 3G launch
This new Cocoa programming series from O’Reilly starts off by teaching C: “You will learn all the C you need to know to learn Cocoa, and ignore the rest: these lessons will leave out the parts of C that, while useful, are not necessary to know in everyday Cocoa programming.” [Ranchero]
The marketing association urges members to write the New York senator to remove the provision for a do-not-e-mail registry from his anti-spam bill. [internetnews.com: Top News]
James Strachan points to a script he tweaked (.dmg d/l) to allow AppleScript to extract NNW feeds for reading via PDA. [James Strachan’s Radio Weblog]
Wow, a chart that reflects the reality of what real people really want to hear? This could be something… [Blogcritics] Billboard says that Apple, the most aggressive player in this market so far, is selling an average of 500,000 tracks a week. If that’s true, and it takes just 1,500 sales to be No. 1, … Read moreBillboard’s Download Chart
Search engine personalization: An exploratory study [First Monday] Have to read this one later when I have time…