Lawmakers in California have scheduled a hearing for later this month to discuss privacy issues surrounding a controversial technology designed to wirelessly monitor everything from clothing to currency. [CNET News.com]
Ever been on the train within the Eastern corridor? It’s a great way to travel… but without connectivity. Hopefully this works well enough for there to be interest here….
Howard Stern said this morning that Lizzie Grubman, people-mowing PR princess and ex-con, is going to be on the show this week. Howard said there was considerable debate about whether to have her, but, hey, she asked to come on and Howard is hardly holding back his disdain for her. He calls it: She is … Read morePR’s PR
Is there any advantage in having been ahead of the crowd now that just about every telecommunications company is rushing into the Wi-Fi wireless world? Wayport, a pioneer in installing high-speed Internet access in hotels and airports, is about to find out. [New York Times Technology]
A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search–and possibly out-Google Google in the process. Kaltix was formed in recent months by three members of Stanford’s PageRank team–a research group created to advance the mathematical algorithm developed by Google co-founder and Stanford … Read moreSearching for the personal touch
helpful hints for understanding the layout of templates [anil dash’s daily links]
Updated list of RSS readers I have updated my list of RSS readers. I’m sure there are some missing, so please let me know and I’ll add them [Blogroots] This is a great list and I am now testing a few more ways to read my RSS files including an RSS to IMAP path courtesy … Read moreUpdated list of RSS readers
People are finding many versatile uses for Apple’s iChat AV software, like sharing video across town or finding dates. Thing is, they’re not using it much for video conferencing, the task for which it was built. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
Food companies and retailers love radio frequency identification tags: The tiny transmitters will save them big bucks. But privacy concerns are sidelining the technology, so the companies will portray RFID tags as antiterrorism tools to win over consumers. By Mark Baard. [Wired News]
FEATURE: The next phase of the Portal Wars appears headed for TV-land as developers of next-generation interactive programming guides (IPGs) race for a land grab reminiscent of headier days. [internetnews.com: Top News]
The IEEE standards body has officially endorsed the ZigBee wireless standard, paving the way for the PAN technology to move further ahead. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
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With Google News Alerts you get filtered stories that can be posted to a cateogry weblog via a “mail-to-weblog feature.” This in turn generates an RSS feed that can be subscribed to. Simple. This is going to be an ongoing thing. Google slowly rolls out services they think they can control and end-users find ways … Read moreWith Google News Alerts you…
OJR is featuringJ.D. Lasica‘s series on Participatory Journalism. Lots of primo stuff in here. Required reading (and writing). [Doc Searls]
Microdoc News: “With the implementation of Google News Alerts I am becoming increasingly aware that Google Inc is fast becoming an Internet Services Company with search being an attractive core, but certainly not the main game.” [Scripting News]
PhotoReviewer doesn’t try to be all things to all people. It is not a replacement for iPhoto or Preview. It won’t remove red-eye, or crop your photos. It won’t generate thumbnails, make HTML pages for you, or put your photos into albums. It does only one thing, really; but it does it well. It helps … Read morePhotoReviewer
Executive Summary of International Spam Laws [The DMA]
A New Hampshire company appears to be grossing close to half a million dollars each month by spamming people with sales pitches for an herbal ‘male enhancement’ product. The discovery may explain the intractability of junk e-mailers on the Internet. By Brian McWilliams. [Wired News]
The cable giant plans to expand consumer trials for a high-speed Internet service, the latest step in the Comcast’s effort to double the speed of its standard cable modem product. [CNET News.com Communications] I’d take it! We usually get about 1MB on average through Road Runner (NYC) has spiked to 2MB on occasion. I’d even … Read moreComcast to extend 3mbps trials
Dial-up Internet users are more willing to upgrade to DSL than to cable modem service, according to a study. The problem is finding a DSL provider. [CNET News.com]