As you probably know by now the power is out in all of NYC. I am in DC and my pregnant wife is “trapped” at our apartment. The good news is that she is OK but has been extremely freaked out for the past few hours as without power there is no news update. She … Read moreCan you say FRUSRATION!
Long promised, often hyped, and undelivered, true Video-on-Demand may finally be coming. Imagine every TV show, available all of the time, living in the cable network, awaiting your request. Maybe this time’s for real — churn amongst digital subscribers is up to a murderous 5% per month, the DBS threat looms large, and the cable … Read moreTruckwidth
IBM and Cisco Systems have a suggestion for Baby Bells trying to compete with cable companies in the broadband arena: slash your prices. [CNET News.com
A Wi-Fi chair, since you ask, is not a Professorship in mobile IT. It is a chair made out of the cables which people are throwing away because wireless LANs are making them obsolete. It symbolises the British wireless resurgence. Apparently… [The Register ] Remember laptop burns man’s penis? How about Chair beams your bits!
Code Red, Love Bug, Slammer, Nimda, Pretty Park, BubbleBoy, Melissa, Code Red II, MSBlaster, and numerous other high-profile Microsoft-sponsored incidents…many view them as “the price of doing business in the Information Age” and cheerfully spend (or lose) increasing amounts of money with each new incident arising from poorly designed software. But rather than face reality … Read moreForget California, It’s Time to Recall Microsoft
Scientific-Atlanta shipped 387 thousand Explorer 8000 home entertainment servers in the fiscal year 2003, including 158 thousand in the fourth quarter. These are DVR/PVR boxes. The company also shipped 197 thousand HD set-tops in fiscal year, including 58 thousand in the fourth quarter. All in all, the company has shipped more than 300 thousand high-definition … Read moreOne of each….
Like a comet that passes Earth every few years, Apple Computer consistently comes out of the blue with products that alter the trajectory of the technology business and leave observers rubbing their eyes in amazement. [Wired]
It didn’t fly high and it didn’t fly swiftly, but The Spirit of Butts Farm made it all the way from Canada to Ireland with a few drops of fuel to spare, a group of model airplane enthusiasts say. They are hoping for a distance record for the flight of 38 hours, 23 minutes over … Read moreModel plane flown across Atlantic
Salon: A coalition of big-name tech companies — Microsoft, Amazon, eBay and others — wants the feds to make sure that cable companies don’t ruin the broadband Internet [JD’s New Media Musings]
Cell phone maker Kyocera unveiled its first handset Tuesday that uses Qualcomm’s GSM1x technology, which is used to bridge two cell phone standards that are not interoperable. [CNET News.com] This is very cool… one phone to roam them all
Quite possibly, you are… Return Path found that the false-positive rate varied wildly at ISPs, from as low as 1 percent to as high as 46 percent. Among major ISPs, AOL gave e-mail marketers the most fits, with a 25 percent rate. AOL, struggling to hold onto its 28 million subscribers, has made its robust … Read moreThink you’re missing some email?
As I noted yesterday, there is a wi-fi train test happening in Europe… Well looks like Caltrans is adding service now to the Silicon Valley. This is great stuff and I really hope that these tests are successful. It’s hard when you travel via train to run a stumbler and nab a connection — at … Read moreWi-Fi Trains in the US
No great surprise: Lizzie Grubman won’t be on Howard Stern this week. Lizzie had scheduled it herself for Wednesday but then Lizzie’s people said, silly Lizzy, she forgot that she’s in Miami on Wednesday. She’ll reschedule. Uh-huh. [BuzzMachine]
A quick search via the google bar in Mozilla and bam – rich text moveable type editing in Mozilla!! Loving it – just posted this entry… clicked to add a URL…
The slogan for the tongue-in-cheek candidacy of Speight as Tate, as posted yesterday on the Web site, www.terrytate.reebok.com, is “Save our state — vote Terry Tate.” Mr. Speight is an actor and former football player and wrestler who has worn Reebok apparel and shoes to portray Tate since the campaign was introduced during the Super … Read more“Save our state — vote Terry Tate.”
Here’s a nice listing of Carriers and the text address formats for their phones…Waste of a Good TypePad (thanks Anil!)
Dave endorses the view, stating that “the three-pane `feed reader’ is a disaster, it’s merely recreating a mess I want to run away from. I like having a new queue every few hours.” I think I have hit upon the ideal solution: a single folder with all the RSS items in an email client, like … Read moreScalable RSS Aggregators
I’ve got Jury Duty today… It’s the third time I’ve been picked in about a year and I have yet to serve. The first two cases were for Special Grand Jury but today is for Grand Jury… I have a feeling that today is my day – at least to go through with the complete … Read moreJury Duty today…
Then you’ll love Scamorama!
eMarketer forecasts the number of US digital TV households to reach 56.5 million in 2005, up from 38.9 million at the end of 2002, according to the Digital Television report. This equates to a rise in digital TV penetration from 35.9% of households in 2002 to 50% in 2005. [eMarketer