atmaspheric | endeavors

Ericsson and Verizon are both separately working on cordless phones that work like a regular telephone inside the home, but when taken outside work like a cellphone:
Verizon Communications, the largest U.S. telephone company, this week is expected to announce a new cordless-cellular phone that operates on regular telephone lines in the home and on the [...]

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MIT Technology Review: Spam Wars. Despite deep divisions among this assemblage on who has the best tools for eradicating spam, there’s broad consensus on one point: if there’s one thing worse than a piece of junk e-mail, it’s the prospect that a spam filter will stop a legitimate message from reaching its recipient. [Tomalak's Realm]

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Motorola partners with TI for 802.11a/b/g in their Wi-Fi/cell phone: Motorola’s phone will handle a/b/g, Voice over IP, 2.5G and 3G data, and GSM or CDMA…. [802.11b Networking News]

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I am currently looking for a new host for this domain and blog. I’ve had a bunch of issues and outages and can’t take it anymore since apparently it is only happening on my end (though any other site loads at those times). Ideally I’d like an economical host that I could place [...]

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Deloitte Consulting admits it helped foster confusing, indecipherable language, but it’s now released Bullfighter software to help business people avoid gobbledygook. [CNET News.com E-Business]
Part viral marketing and PR, but mainly a funny and good idea. If you’ve ever had to read or actually written any of this Krap (the K is for emphasis) you’ll [...]

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The new view combines titles and descriptions—it’s sort of like a web page, actually, except that you can navigate via arrow keys and the space bar and you can expand and collapse descriptions.
And you can get it from the beta page.

Well worth the usual risk associated with beta software… The new combined view makes scanning [...]

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A key Senate committee plans to vote Thursday on a proposal to restrict unsolicited commercial e-mail by requiring a working return address and a way for recipients to decline future messages. [CNET News.com]

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Subscribe before June 20, 2003, and get the first year of service for just $10.99. That’s 63% off the regular service fee of $29.99. If you subscribe after June 20th, 2003, you may experience an interruption in service and the price will increase to $29.99.
Just retrieved as it was nicely fitered to [...]

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The agency is expected to ask Congress for sweeping new powers that would let it cooperate closely with other governments and prosecute domestic and overseas spammers more readily. [CNET News.com]

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Stewart Alsop’s current column in Fortune details his back and forth with broadband access to the home. Although he started as a fan of DSL, he’s moving over to the cable camp.
I have to say I’m not convinced and in fact, think cable creates a bad dynamic for the future development of the Internet. I’m [...]

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The portal giant puts a controversial challenge-response technique to work to stop spammers from using its Web e-mail service to send out junk e-mail. [CNET News.com Entertainment & Media]

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Using the Blue Hawaii, beta 9 AOL client I just signed up for an Alert for AOL Journals - as they put it, Blogs are coming to AOL!
Stay tuned… this space could get very interesting if sudddenly ~30 Million people can blog.

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Seattle’s online retailing giant launches new business-to-business e-commerce division to help partner sites. [internetnews.com: Top News]
Amazon.com said the group would also provide fulfillment and customer service operations as part of the range of services available for merchants that want to sell on the Amazon.com site.
Major news… Not sure why InternetNews is so [...]

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Microsoft sends a cease-and-desist letter to a shareware firm started by former employees, claiming their home-networking application violates a non-compete agreement. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft claims that Schnazzle–which allows PCs on a home network to share music, photos and other media–is similar to planned Microsoft technology and therefore violates the non-compete clause of the employment agreements Rao [...]

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The real test of any music store is its ability to move the chart toppers. While it’s great to sell and offer a deep catalog, the cost to run something like the apple store or Amazon/CDnow would be a losing proposition without major hits.
Checking the Apple store for today’s releases is unfortunatley disappointing in [...]

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Seems logical that everyone is taking a renewed interest in Music Stores thanks to the early success of the Apple efforts…[LaTimes via MacRumors]
Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and AOL Time Warner Inc.’s America Online unit are among the companies expected to launch services to compete with Apple’s 6-week-old iTunes store, which charges 99 cents [...]

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New STBs from Pioneer, Scientific-Atlanta, Motorola and LG Electronics focus on high-definition TV, digital video recording and interactive services such as video on demand. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
If this replaced my cable box I would be all set:
Pioneer Electronics has unveiled its Voyager 4000 HD-DVR, which features a dual HD tuner configuration (860 MHz) that allows [...]

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The iTunes Music Store won’t take money to promote acts, according to an independent record distributor’s report of comments made by Apple’s CEO at a private briefing. [CNET News.com]

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Software giant makes another run at providing interactive software for digital set-top boxes. [internetnews.com]
Microsoft said its software would allow cable operators to generate new revenues by offering services, such as on-screen TV guides, movies-on-demand and a new generation of interactive advertisements, coupons and other sales and marketing incentive programs. It said the software allows cable [...]

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I am quite sure this is legit and something you can do quite easily to
protect your personal privacy. It takes about 5 minutes…
Your credit info goes public July 1, 2003
Your Credit: Personal Information goes public Starting July 1st,
2003, the four major credit bureaus in the US (Equifax, etc.) will be
allowed to release credit info, [...]

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