Mobile Pipeline reports that PalmSource is going Linux! There are still no devices running OS6 (powered by Be) so it should be interesting to see when this actually hits the market. Palm OS developer PalmSource said Wednesday that it will create a Linux version of the Palm OS. The company announced it is acquiring China … Read morePalmSource going Linux
I was very pleased to see Bejeweled 2.0 ($19.95 from Astraware) arrive in my inbox Sunday! I had a serious addiction to the original game and had been looking forward to the release of the sequel since I learned it was in development. It’s a great advance from 1 to 2.0, though one caveat. You … Read moreBejeweled 2.0
Reading this news at eHomeupgrade it struck me just how ignorant some people can be… Why wait until the product has been licensed and released to do something like this?!?! Why even allow the license?? Kaleidescape, one of the few players in the DVD movie server market that has made the best effort in producing … Read moreKaleidescape Gets Sued
Iambic released Agendus 9.0 today and it continues to be offered in two flavors – Pro and Standard. As a long time user I decided to give it a try once again to see if I really did want to give up full Meg of storage for a Calendar / Todo / Contact / SMS … Read moreAgendus 9.0
I don’t have the EyeTV hardware to test, but still like what this does a great deal… CyTV is a streaming solution for elgato’s EyeTV family of TV tuners. It allows you to watch TV and recorded programs over a local network (wired or wireless) or the internet, and it supports EyeTV USB, 200, 300, … Read moreCyTV Streams TV
Andy at VoIP Watch notes the rise of Cablevision in VOIP, but with a distinction in service I am not sure most people will actually care too much about. Geographic portability tends to be more extreme use of the service rather than just saving money… Cablevision’s Optimum Voice VoIP service is now at 250,000 subscribers, … Read moreCableVision’s VoIP #2
I recently finished reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson and wanted to recommend it to anyone interested in Scuba, History or Adventure. My dad actually recommended the book to me recently and I picked up my copy digitally to read on my Treo via eReader. As I started the book I was hooked right away. … Read moreShadow Divers
I have just posted a new article at Treonauts on Pocket Tunes 3.0 which gives you an overview of the application and walks through the process of getting streaming audio from ShoutCast on your Treo.
Andy at VOIPWatch points to a review of a beta product which when running on your PC can function as an answering machine for Skype. Personally, I’d prefer a network based voicemail, so I could receive messages whether or not my computer was on…but this is as good as it gets until Skype delivers.
According to the Crazysoft newsletter and website, you can now rent any game from Crazysoft. This is a new spin for Palm software and should be interesting to see if anyone else follows… The policy at Crazysoft seems like a good one. You rent for a low price ($2.95) and unlimited access to the software … Read moreCrazysoft offers Palm Software rentals
PC Magazine gives the Treo 650 4.5 / 5 in their review… the usual issues are noted, but the Treo 650 is clearly the device to beat.
My Mail.app had been acting strange… HTML newsletters from Apple sent to either my main email or my .Mac account never displayed as HTML and my IMAP accounts were giving consistent errors on launch and then lately Mail was not able to Quit without a force quite so I finally decided to take some action… … Read moreHealing Mail.app
Om Malik recently invited me to participate in The Broadband Daily, a new technology group blog. I’m honored to participate and will be contributing on my usual topics of interest along with a great list of other bloggers you might already be reading. The site went live yesterday and I just posted my first piece … Read moreThe Broadband Daily
Walt Mossberg sums up the state of the Portable Media Center pretty nicely… There’s a tendency in the technology industry to think that, just because a product can be built, it should be built, even if all the necessary pieces to make it a success aren’t in place. Sometimes these premature products eventually become hits. … Read morePortable Media Center Is the Wrong Choice
Cingular’s announcement of a real 3G network for North America is a serious canon fire across the other major carriers… This clearly declares that they want to big both the biggest and the baddest in town. T-Mobile has yet to even make a formal EDGE (2.5G) statement… Cingular today announced its 3G plans, an expected … Read moreCingular 3G