Riddle me this: What would you get if you crossed a BlackBerry with an iPod? The answer: The future of the music business. Let me explain. Imagine, if you will, an iPod as a wireless digital ladle. It would dip into a nearly bottomless stream of continual music, scooping up any song you wanted, when … Read moreA Wireless iPod Can Torpedo the Pirates
The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music — possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders. [Boston.com] Seems an open AP enabled a windows user to trade music over a Mac households network which confused the intelligence … Read moreOpen your wifi – F the RIAA
A new laptop is imminent and as a result I’ve started really rethinking my PDA/Phone strategy… For the first time I will have bluetooth which means I can get wireless access on my computer while traveling via the right kind of phone or PDA. The Treo 600 will certainly do wireless email, but won’t let … Read moreWhat to get…
Gov. Gray Davis signed into law last night a bill that outlaws sending most commercial e-mail messages to anyone in the state who has not explicitly requested them. That makes it the most wide-reaching law of any of the 35 other state laws meant to regulate spam — or any of the proposed bills in … Read moreCalifornia Is Set to Ban Spam
Get to know the man behind the animal-woodcut covers that fill our bookshelves. His mission: “Technology transfer–helping important technologies become more widespread” and to “create more value than we capture.” Many forget how influential O’Reilly & Associates was during the early days of the Internet. They created Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first portal and … Read moreTim O’Reilly–The Software Paradigm Shift.
A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission overstepped its authority in creating a national do-not-call list against telemarketers. [ABCNEWS.com]
PalmSource has announced at its developer seminar, currently under way in Munich, that Palm OS 6, code-named Sahara, will be complete by December 29th. The new version will focus on wireless technology standards, security and multimedia. Developers will also be able to write fully ARM native applications. With OS 5 developers have had to use … Read morePalm OS 6 Will Be Finished In Late December
Dartmouth College has long been at the forefront of wireless technology, and now plans to provide free VoIP to incoming freshman via the campus wireless network. The college was one of the first to implement e-mail in the 1980’s, long before other colleges. Now the campus is providing 1,000 students their own seven-digit phone numbers … Read moreDartmouth – Free VoIP to all incoming freshmen
More on the Roku… no wonder it’s so cool ReplayTV creator Anthony Wood on Monday unveiled his latest consumer electronics effort, a company named Roku whose first product is a media player for high-definition televisions.[CNET News.com – Personal Technology] I’ve always thought Replay had a tech edge over TiVO but was too gunshy to buy … Read moreReplayTV founder fires up media player
Note the time of the Scrubs premiere show. It starts at 8:32PM. huh? Coupling is a new show that also sports an odd time slot: 9:27PM-9:58PM. ER starts at 9:59PM that same night. Friends runs for 47 minutes and is followed by a 39 minute long Will and Grace. What in the hell is going … Read moreNBC launching attack on competitors by tweaking PVR owners?
Got the official green light today for a new Powerbook. I believe it was even ordered today!! A new machine is going to be a great change of pace, though after three years my current TiBook has really put in some good service. I’ve been to Europe (Switzerland, Netherlands, Czech Republich), all over the US, … Read moreCleared for take-off
If you are reading this in your aggregator you’ve been missing my messing with the template on the site. I’m far from an expert coder, but with a little help from the Dreamweaver MX Trial, I am able to tweak my style sheet with relative ease. I’ll be messing in the free cycles that I … Read morelook and feel…
iPass is offering a new Wi-Fi roaming service, designed for wireless carriers and service providers that want to quickly enter the hot spot market and increase the reach of their networks. On Monday, the network software and service developer launched its Wi-Fi Roaming Service, which essentially allows business travelers to gain access to several Wi-Fi … Read moreiPass opens door to Wi-Fi roaming
This looks very cool… For the first time, you can enjoy viewing your favorite digital photos in high-definition on your HDTV. Simply snap in your digital camera’s memory card or use the easy network connection between Roku and your home PC. And if you like a more sophisticated atmosphere, choose from a wide selection of … Read moreHigh-Definition Photos, Art and Music…
Two lawsuits later… VeriSign said it was creating a committee of “Internet leaders” to advise it on technical matters although it planned to continue offering its SiteFinder service, launched last week amid a firestorm of protest from privacy advocates and rivals. [CBS MarketWatch]
Why doesn’t my digital camera have an “email this picture” option? Why can’t my iPod be updated with news or email or RSS feeds? Why does Tivo require a physical connection to a telephone landline? Why is data access so much more expensive than voice access? [MediaSavvy]
It’s time for applications to start running off of remote configuration files. By this, I mean have applications store their settings in a file they access via an HTTP call, instead of on the local file system. [Gadgetopia] This would be fantastic across a few apps – RSS Aggregators (subscriptions and what’s been read or … Read moreRemote Configuration Files
The coming freedom to keep your cell-phone number when changing wireless companies has overshadowed a possibly more revolutionary change also due this fall: the power to move a number from a regular wired phone to a mobile handset. While traditional local phone companies see the government-mandated change as an unfair invitation for wireless rivals to … Read morePortability unleashed!
Divmod Quotient brings together your email, IM/IRC and IP telephony. Having not tried it yet, it looks a little like Zoe. [Hack the Planet] Looks like a very cool project that will allow for Bayesian spam filtering, indexing of mail including IMAP, as well as safe (no image loading) mail. I love projects like this … Read moreQuotient
Mozilla 1.5 RC1 is the latest version of the alternative Web browser for Mac OS X. Version 1.5 adds improvements to Mozilla Composer, support for logging in Chatzilla, improvements to tabbed browsing, and improved unstyled XML display. [MacNN News] I’ve been hooked on Mozilla for a month or two now and can’t see going back … Read moreMozilla