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Archos has been showing off its next-generation personal video player, the AV500, which besides having a 40GB hard drive and being able to play audio and video files (WMV9 as well as MPEG4 and DivX), will be able to double as a PDA. And if that doesn’t already sound too good to be true, they’re [...]

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So with the move to Pair comes a nice installation of SpamAssassin which is great as I was not really up the challenge of installation in previous hosting environments.
My goal with filtering spam was to create a separate box just to collect the spam and check it when I got the chance. My usual [...]

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Moving a site is not something people generally like to do. It involved making sure you have a good backup and some luck on the switch over of DNS, which in my case so far this week has been a bit flaky - well slow perhaps.
Just when I thought everything was over and in [...]

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The recording industry may protest, but some owners of independent music stores say file trading is good for business. Katie Dean reports from the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. [Wired News]
Take Hoodlums Music, located on the Arizona State University campus, which opened during the heyday of Napster. One might think Net-savvy students would [...]

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Looks very slick…
Toshiba has just released a consumer multimedia handheld device at the CeBIT 2004 show.
The Toshiba Mobile Viewer is a multimedia player featuring a 3.5-inch LCD display, and a 1.8-inch 20-GB hard disk drive for up to 80 hours of video storage. The Mobile Viewer also converts into a still picture and video recorder, [...]

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We can certainly hope this comes soon…
There is hope in the video-HDTV world where a new encrypted format has just been adopted called HDMI. With this computer like connection, you can link HDTV video components together with one nifty cable. The idea is brilliant – you keep digital video signals in the digital domain all [...]

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Broadband Reports says rumors are circulating that Microsoft could buy AOL. The New York Post claims Time Warner execs have met privately with Microsoft about a possible purchase of the black-sheep of the Time Warner family. Time Warner lawyers are also analyzing any possible antitrust violations such a merger would cause, the Post claims. A [...]

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Live from the CeBIT trade show floor, a (blurry) photo of the P50 Pocket PC Phone, BenQ’s Treo 600 killer which has a large LCD screen, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a mini-keyboard. [Engadget]
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Jeff Kirvin has written an article further explaining how the upcoming Palm OS Cobalt will handle running multiple applications at once. He also looks at the Palm OS approach to multitasking, compared with Windows mobile. [PalmInfocenter]
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T-Mobile has made it official that they’ll be officially launching their 3G service for both voice and data starting in May in Germany, the UK and Austria. This will take them a step beyond Vodafone, who has been launching their 3G for data only while they wait for someone (please, anyone!) to create good [...]

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Tantek Celik is a software development lead at Microsoft Corp. Joi Ito founded Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communication technologies. Pete Kaminski iniated the Social Software Alliance and serves as CTO for SocialText. Sam Ruby is a 21-year veteran of IBM and works as an open-source software consultant. And Adam Weinroth founded [...]

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This looks sweet - I did a search for free wifi in my neighborhood.
Today, Google officially launched Google Local, a search feature designed to make local searches easier. Users can type in a search term followed by a city name or go to local.google.com and perform the search there. Last week, Yahoo launched a local [...]

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Not to be left behind Google, Yahoo announced its new News Search product. The new version of Yahoo News will pull from 7,500 sources around the web but also incorporate the current Yahoo News articles. Search Engine Journal reports. [MarketingWonk]
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So I think the kinks are just about worked out and tests have been nuked. I was having some issues with MT but after some tweaks of the permissions we are all good. No idea why the files got off-center but all is good now. Posting will now resume!
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An interesting read, though I imagine infinitely more compelling in person with commentary… wish I was there to hear it.
The Powerpoint presentation for my keynote at the Wireless Future conference today is available here (1.6MB PPT). [Werblog]
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Launching two new high-end phones this week, Sony Ericsson’s CEO, Katsumi Ihara, gave a pointed reminded to Symbian that its commitment had better not waver.
“There are two important factors for Sony Ericsson with the Symbian OS,” Ihara said, ComputerWire reports. “It should be open to anybody. Not perceived as proprietary to a single manufacturer. [...]

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Maybe we add our finished song in a DRM (Digital Rights Management) format to our label’s syndication feed of what’s new — the pay-subscription service we run to which only college radio stations can subscribe. Why do they subscribe and why do we need a “label?”? Maybe “tastemaker” weblogs or other types of sites will [...]

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Microsoft says the cause is still unidentified, more than six hours into the first reports of inability to access MSN Messenger, Hotmail and other MSN services. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
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I came to the same conclusion… bluetooth is way too important to pass on.

I’ve been testing a SE Z600 Smartphone with Mac OS X. I have seen the light, and I can’t go back. [O'Reilly MacDevCenter.com]
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The first known case of an Easter Egg in automotive software - a way to get your new BMW M3 to take off like a veritable rocket. Popular Science | BMW’s Easter Egg [The Gadgets Weblog]
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