atmaspheric | endeavors

I find it interesting that browsing the Palm website via my Palm Tungsten C I am greeted by the regular desktop version. It attempts to shoot a pop-up window open, but the Palm browser tells me that pop-up windows are not supported.
Why would Palm NOT create a version specific to their devices?? Seems [...]

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The electronics maker is combining digital video recording capabilities to its line of DVD recorders in its latest attempt to jumpstart the DVR market. [CNET News.com]

Pioneer’s new DVR-810H DVD recorder comes with an 80GB drive and costs $1,199, while the DVR-57H has a 120GB drive and is priced at $1,800. Both will include the TiVo [...]

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Palm has released an update for the Tungsten C handheld on its support website. The software update addresses issues involving a MAC address bug, clicking noises and various WiFi related compatibility issues. [PalmInfocenter]
Palm gives you a simple way to test if this is necessary / recommended (it was for me) and a PRC file to [...]

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Ronnie Scelson, who sends 60 million to 70 million spam e-mails a day, is among the USA’s best known. Among the others:
Avg. daily spam
Type of spam
Eddy Marin, 41
250 million
Viagra, mail-order brides, loans, computer software.
Brendan Battles, 31
50 million
CDs of e-mail addresses.
Alan Ralsky, 58
30 million
Vacation giveaways, mortgages, work-at-home opportunities.
[USA Today] (thanks, Dad!)

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In a letter to customers, Microsoft’s chairman highlights the company’s campaign against unsolicited e-mail. [CNET News.com]

“Spam is so significant a problem that it threatens to undo much of the good that e-mail has achieved,” Gates wrote in one of his periodic e-mail missives to customers.
I find that hard to argue… POPFile has categorized [...]

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To be bored with Microsoft is to be bored with life. It makes me want to … drop by that Apple Store in Palo Alto. [Stuart Alsop]

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At the launch of Apple’s new Power Mac G5, Wired News was granted an exclusive tour of the new machines by Jonathan Ive, Apple’s lead industrial designer. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

“It’s really much more potent when you don’t put on a veneer pretending to be powerful,” he said. “I see (the G5) as a [...]

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When Pocket PC 2003 senses that a wireless network is available, it notifies you and gives you a chance to connect. If you move from one hotspot to another, or from one access point to another within your corporate campus, you’ll find this very handy. Once you’ve entered your login information for a particular network, [...]

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test post from my palm!!

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Not that they really had much choice in the matter after losing an appeal in Federal court a few weeks ago, but Verizon says it isn’t going to fight the FCC’s mandate for cellphone number portability and that it won’t charge customers any special fees for taking their number with them when they switch to [...]

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Sixty-eight new feeds from BBC News Interactive. [Scripting News]
Just a few more…

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Seven new feeds from BBC News Interactive. [Scripting News]

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CEO Steve Jobs claims the line of Power Macs set for release in August will be the world’s fastest personal computers. People who’ve seen the 64-bit monsters in action tend to agree. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

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Business Objects, a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced it is the first BI vendor to support Apple’s Safari Web browser… [MacMinute.com]
Good news! Not that I even use this stuff, but it’s great to see support for Mac specific browsers.

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Just as Nextel and two other carriers expand their services for the cell phone walkie-talkie feature, a new study predicts turbulent times for the technology. [CNET News.com]

The survey comes just a few weeks before Verizon Wireless is expected to launch the first of three new services that are similar to Nextel Communications’ DirectConnect and aimed [...]

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Households upgrading to high-speed Net access are basing their decisions on practical necessities rather than a desire for splashy graphics and streaming videos, a new study shows. [CNET News.com]

In a survey of 525 U.S. broadband households, faster Net access and a freed
phone line influenced consumers’ decision to upgrade from their dial-up
accounts significantly more than watching [...]

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Courtesy of mixstar a nice compilation of Treo 600 shots…

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“Small businesses have a variety of different needs, and we’ve found with QuickBooks that some of these third-party software developers are able to create applications which meet the specific interests of particular small businesses,” Thacker says.
“Under the terms of the agreement, Amazon.com will process the transaction for the customer while [...]

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Where the heck is the revised 15.4″ Aluminum PowerBook? What is taking so long for this to make an appearance? I can’t believe that Apple would just EOL the middle size.

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Safari, the Mac OS X default Web browser, offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. [Jun 23] [Apple Hot News]

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