Best Wishes for a Speedy Recovery to Om Malik

I was stunned to learn today that Om Malik had suffered a heart attack last week!

“I had a heart attack on Dec. 28. I was able to walk into the hospital for treatment that night and have been recovering here ever since. With the support of my family and my team, I am on the road to a full recovery. I am going to be OK.”[GigaOm]

Om is truly one of the great ones and I have enormous respect for what he does and how he carries himself. While we’ve yet to meet in person I look forward to that day and hope it’s sooner than later.

Best wishes man! I’m glad your report was as positive as it could be today, and hope you take plenty of time to recover properly. Take it easy man and we’ll be looking forward to welcoming to back in due time. I’m sure your growing empire at GigaOm is in good hands while you recover.

Full YouTube on the Nokia N95 8GB

Today’s firmware update for the N95 8GB includes Flash Lite 3, which as you can see in Ricky’s video enables full YouTube (desktop) playback.

The widgets runtime is also included which will be a great addition on your connected handset. I was not previously into single function web apps but I can definitely see the value in single purpose information or entertainment online apps.

I’m hoping we’ll see this update (including Demand Paging) within the N95-3 someday soon … it would be nice to be on par with the rest of the N95 family.

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Apple Ultra Portable to Dock into an iMac like system?!

apple docking system

This is such a cool patent I hope it’s real for Macworld this year. I’ve been reading about Apple’s potential products for MacWorld like most enthusiasts and the notion of an ultra portable (MID or UMPC) would be a very cool release. The market is certainly ready this time around – at least from my accounts of how things are working. A device that gives me full access to my stuff, locally and from the cloud and all in the same elegant Apple OS would be a home run.

While I’m not currently a major traveler I would totally want this type of rig as it truly would offer the best of both worlds. From what I can tell this is probably something in the 5-7inch screen size like the EEEPC, rather than the Nokia Tablet and would not fit in your pocket, but would easily fit in a bag. Macworld starts on January 14th … getting close!

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