atmaspheric | endeavors

The paragraph that takes the cake is the following:

There’s nothing particularly bad about the current state of browser technology–that is if you are frozen in a time warp, circa 1999. Internet browser design stopped being interesting years ago. That’s simply because Microsoft no longer faces any challenge that forces it to innovate. If Microsoft were [...]

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CNN - Howard Stern has sued ABC and the producers of the series “Are You Hot? The Search for America’s Sexiest People,” claiming the show is based on ideas that aired on his radio program.
The 49-year-old radio personality claims ABC’s show duplicates some tactics used on his show, including blunt criticism of contestants and the [...]

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…my hope is to demonstrate within a short time that this is at least a feasible approach to creating a “modern” Newton device, by piggy-backing on an existing, current PDA platform, and disregarding its native user interface entirely.
[~stevenf]

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Samsung today announced theit PalmOS 5.2 based Smartphone. It’s a Triband phone with GPRS Class 10 and features a CMOS camera with 640×480 resolution. It’s powered by a XScale PXA800F-CPU with 266 MHz, 32 MB RAM, SDIO capable SD/MMC Slot. It will also feature Graffiti 2 and is supposed to be available mid 2003, with [...]

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So by now you have probably read or seen the infamous Puma ads…. allegedly real, then fake. I personally believe them to be real, though claimed fake for the PR kick. You can’t beat the Buzz that has come from this. Everyone is talking about them - in Advertising and in [...]

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CompUSA and SoftwareToGo, in conjunction with the Apple Developer Connection (ADC), has launched a new program that gives ADC Premier and Select members the opportunity to have their products carried in CompUSA stores across the US — regardless of whether the retailer currently stocks the shrink-wrapped product on the shelf or not — via electronic [...]

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You’re a Bayesian Filter!
A Bayesian filter, such as POPFile, will quietly discard any type of mail you don’t want to read. You train the program by correcting its “junk” or “not junk” guesses on individual messages. Over time, the programs statistical accuracy improves dramatically, to the point where it can be trusted to file junk [...]

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President Bush on Tuesday signed legislation creating a national “do-not-call” list intended to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls. … Telemarketers say the registry will devastate their business. I hope they’re right…. [JD's New Media Musings]

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The Net giant on Wednesday will introduce new pop-up advertising controls that let members suppress spontaneous promotional windows while surfing the Web. [CNET News.com Entertainment & Media]
First Spam, now pop-up blocking… looking good AOL!

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A Barcelona company says it has “developed an artificial intelligence application that could analyzed song and determine its potential to become a hit,” reports Neil Strauss in The New York Times. Really. Executives of the company, called Polyphonic HMI say that when they “loaded every song in the Billboard Top 30 over the last five [...]

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Amazing array of concept designs called “Offspring” from Frog Design and Motorola for a new line of wearable devices that connect to each other via Bluetooth. Among them, a Wearable Digital Assistant that uses voice recognition instead of a numeric keypad and has storage for music and video files; the Wristable (pictured at right), a [...]

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Critic knows why SI’s swimsuit models don’t wear bikini tops [Wash Post via Jim Romenesko's MediaNews]

But then I realized what was really going on. SI is owned by AOL Time Warner, the rapacious conglomerate that was nearly bankrupted by the moronic merger-mania of its executives.
This folly apparently left SI so poor that it could [...]

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Known…
Sony Clie TG50
pro: OS 5, Bluetooth, 320×320 screen, keyboard
con: Memory Stick
Update (3/15) - reviewed by both Brighthand and Infosync. Just ok… not the WOW I was hoping for.
Palm Tungsten T
pro: OS 5, Bluetooth, 320×320 screen, slider, SD
con: Price (for now) it did just come down though and they are offering a $99 SD [...]

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The consumer-electronics maker introduces a trio of models–from high-end to midrange–to its family of Clie handheld devices. [CNET News.com Personal Technology]

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Just got off the phone with a totally lame Telemarketing rep. She called me and the call went like this:
Rep: Hello, I This is Judy from “never heard of me” software company.
Rep: I was wondering if you were looking to make any changes to your business software.
Me: No
Rep: Ok then thank you, I guess [...]

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A secretive team of AOL Time Warner executives has begun talking with other major cable operators and media companies about speeding up and co-opting the potential revolution that TiVo kicked off. The company’s system, called Mystro TV, is AOL Time Warner’s gambit in an imminent battle over the future of the television business. Satellite services, [...]

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Perkins: The problem we are trying to solve here is about the consumer experience on top of any OS. The test model for this is what Steve Jobs just did with Jaguar. Personally, I got iTunes, iPhoto, iMovies all running on one server at home, and it’s transparent. If I plug a DVD [...]

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Intel Capital is certainly pushing the keiretsu model of synergy among its companies. Vivato’s switch can certainly benefit Cometa as well as Intel’s Centrino marketing efforts.
[802.11b Networking News]

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The Details

Here’s the services offered by .Mac: Mail, Address Book, desk, Home Page (including iPhoto Albums), Backup, iCards, Anti-Virus, and Support. All of this is tightly integrated with the Mac OS and I want to mimic this level of integration.

Here’s what I see as potential online services offered by Dot Mob (and I’ll explain their [...]

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Using sophisticated imaging technology, NASA and the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) have produced the first topographic indication of Chicxulub, the impact crater on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Scientists believe the impact was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs and more than 70 percent of Earth’s living species 65 million years ago
[National [...]

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