We took Hannah and her Aunt Whitney to Brooklyn Heights today to see Dan Zanes play at the PaddleWheeler Festival and Book Fair at PS 8. It was quite a day for us… First Hannah rode the subway for the second time (the first was yesterday to SoHo!) and even did a pretty long transfer … Read moreHannah’s First Concert!
T-Mobile has announced plans for a new service that will allow users to easily roam between various types of wireless networks. [Brighthand]
Empower Interactive have published a study on mobile spam. [textually.org]
This is a very cool Mario-based movie … hoping for a conclusion in Part 4. The tragedy of Marioland: a three-part Flash animation using pixel-cool graphics from 8-bit Mario games as characters in a screamingly funny movie about the tragic invasion of Marioland. The use of Marioland mood music is a masterstroke. Part 1 Link, … Read moreTragic, hilarious Marioland 8-bit Flash movies
CEO Terry Semel says the portal–whose fortunes depend on selling online advertising–could some day offer versions without ads. [CNET News.com – Entertainment & Media]
The death of broadcast [BuzzMachine] …and what it might very well mean to radio, not too mention free speech. All based on Clear Channel’s decision to knock out Howard Stern’s broadcast signal.
Need more software… An anonymous reader writes “CNN Money’s Game Over column is reporting that Sony has delayed the launch of the PSP handheld gaming system in the U.S. [Slashdot]
Just the data… The company will be the first Baby Bell to voluntarily offer its high-speed Internet service to customers regardless of whether they purchase Qwest’s voice services. [CNET News.com – Communications]
Good link I just discovered through MobileWhack… I have not tried it and probably won’t… just passing it on. If you have a bluetooth phone and a Mac you can easily iSync your contact list or a group you create just for the phone. With Vazu, you can email or OTA them… Christian Gloddy writes: … Read moreVazu: Contacts OTA
So the new Subway campaign seems to imply that you are a loser (as in dork, not in the contest) when they say (in paraphrase) They were losers but Subway taught them to win (referring to the team getting off a bus)With over 8 million winning cards there are no losers… no losing cards anyway … Read moreEat at Subway, be a loser?
News.Com: AT&T to launch VoIP nationwide. The forthcoming AT&T service, called AT&T CallVantage, will cost between $30 and $40 a month, Martine said. Features will include the ability to forward voicemail to anyone on the Internet and a “locate me” service to let users forward calls to any or all of their phones… [Tomalak’s Realm]
Intel’s president and CEO recently demonstrated that a prototype handheld running a next-generation XScale procesor is capable of playing near-DVD quality video. [Brighthand]
Two publications have recently published interviews with people heavily involved with the development of Palm OS Cobalt. The interviews go into the development processes and history behind the new OS. [PalmInfocenter]
Tomorrow’s digital video recorders will be able to record two live shows and shuttle recorded content to several TVs at once, setting up a battle with PC makers. [CNET News.com – Personal Technology] Engineers in the consumer electronics lab of hard-drive maker Maxtor, for example, are working on DVR-type devices that can record or broadcast … Read moreTiVo-like devices to get booster shot
Google Labs has announced the addition of Wireless Froogle, another product of Google Labs. If you have an WML-enabled phone you can try it out at http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html. [ResearchBuzz]
Target is slowly joining Walmart on RFIDs. This is great. Keep going. Unfortunately, misguided privacy activists want stores to destroy the tags as you leave the store. RFIDs could be a very powerful way for people to track the goods that they buy. For example: it would be great for insurance purposes (have you ever … Read moreTarget is slowly joining Walmart on RFIDs
I guess taking care of things well in advance of mobile P2P really being too much of a reality is a good way to assure that your products get picked up by device manufacturers. Qualcomm Inc. will build digital rights management (DRM) technology into its forthcoming chipsets in hopes of enticing content providers to distribute … Read moreQualcomm to build DRM into WCDMA chipset
Recording industry lawyers consider Tuesday’s protest, where over 300 Web sites offered downloads of “The Grey Album,” 24 hours of mass copyright infringement. [New York Times: Business]
Looks like Kaleidescape is finally getting some competition in the hard disk DVD jukebox market from Molino. [Hack the Planet] These devices are absolutely the future… coming soon to your living room. BTW — Molino has a very TiVOlike logo, don’t you think?
In many cases, the mechanics for the gizmos already exist — mainly wireless sensors, cellphones, broadband access and home computers. What’s been missing, and what researchers now are trying to develop, are ways to harness the hardware to run your entire house with little effort or technological savvy — letting you turn up the heat … Read moreThe Home of the Future