atmaspheric | endeavors

We already knew that Sony’s PlayStation Portable is supposed to have built-in WiFi for wireless gaming, but now they’ve revealed that the PlayStation 3 is going to come with WiFi as well, and that you’ll be able to use the PSP to access movies and music stored on the PS3’s hard drive. [Engadget]

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This chief of New York Times Digital once famously planned to spin off the online division and take it public. Didn’t happen. Now that his operation is turning a tidy profit, Martin Nisenholtz is back to making declarations. Wired magazine’s Josh McHugh investigates. [Wired News]
I wouldn’t need to work for Wired if I decided to [...]

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Wi-Fi users will outnumber cellular data users by 2007, putting strong pressure on wireless operators to bundle both types of access, according to a report to be issued later this month by Pyramid Research.
“This trend should be a wake-up call to any carrier offering or planning to offer a cellular data service,” the research firm [...]

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Quite the new frontier…
After
investigating the instruction sets used by 64-bit chips from AMD and
Intel, an industry analyst has concluded that Intel reverse-engineered
the AMD64 instruction set to create its own 64-bit microprocessor
architecture. [Extremetech]

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I need to vent something briefly here on this topic…
While I was still employed at my former employer, the agency that manages ALL of Intel’s world-wide marketing efforts I proposed an idea VERY similar to this which was rejected by agency management and
decreed something that was not something Intel would want to manage. Well today [...]

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In case you missed it, John C. Dvorak published his latest anti-tech essay. Sounds to me like he is just writing for the wrong industry.
Sure there are uses for technology that might be viewed as lewd or just boring, but these things tend not to openly present themselves to people not either invited in or [...]

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Tiny Mac-related hosting site is giving away gig of free email. No idea how. Stefanie Olsen reports… [John Battelle’s Searchblog]
Spymac is trying to promote new Web hosting and auction services by giving away copious amounts of e-mail storage. With roughly 47,000 members, the former Apple Macintosh gossip Web site is small potatoes, compared with [...]

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Archos’ recently-announced AV500 will combine a Personal Video Player and a handheld computer. [Brighthand]
When will Apple just go for it. Why is Archos the pushing the boundaries of what you can carry in a single multimedia powerhouse device. Perhaps Cupertino is just waiting and watching to make it that much easier (and therefore [...]

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This is a great post (quoted below) and links through to some significant thinking on RSS and the general adoption of the technology…
It’s something I’ve thought about as well, though this is clearly beyond the scope of my abilities to solve (I’m a marketing guy, not a developer…). I know for a fact that most [...]

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So we just finished a movie (Intolerable Cruelty) and decided to tune a bit before bed and discovered that Britney’s show is on again “Live”…
Hard to call it live at all. Sure she’s on stage (and yes I know it was really last week), but it is a lame performance. The music was [...]

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Space Invaders is 25 years old. Riding a wave of ’80s old-school geek chick, the cult Japanese game is experiencing a renaissance. On April 25th, Space Invaders for PS2 launches around the world – and mobile versions are said to be in the works. [Boing Boing]

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Just in from AudioRevolution…
…the TiVo interface will likely be on store shelves at dealers such as The Good Guys by April 12, 2004. The price will be around $1,000. Rumor has it that there will only be 4,000 to 5,000 units for shipment to launch the component to consumers. Many of the most hardcore HDTV [...]

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MacMegasite: I decided to look at it, and was greeted by a screen saying that my browser is unsupported when using Safari. [Mac Net Journal]

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According to this there will not only be no new high end model (replacing the T3) but the T3 itself will be allowed to upgrade to the next full generation of Palm OS. This is great news and provides hope that I really did buy the right device last fall. I love my T3 and [...]

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This is a very cool way to view things…
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further [...]

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It’s software not hardware and a new fix for DRM called Janus…. Like all things Microsoft, this is a wait and see in my book. The big boost here seems to be that subscription services will finally let users move tracks to portable players.
Long-delayed technology is close that could help fill portable music [...]

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For Now though there is Apple’s Mail which recalls what windows were open and their position on screen including whether they were minimized in the dock.
Perhaps this will come in the next rev of Office / Entourgae this spring/summer….
for your customers to help you design better products? Especially when your product is a [...]

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Sure it costs nothing and offers 1 GB of storage, but Google’s newly announced Gmail service gives some privacy advocates the creeps. A program would scan missives for keywords and serve ads based on the content. [Wired News]
Update - 4:28PM
Cnet has similar coverage as well.
I’m not sure the targeted messaging bothers me so [...]

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Day 2… still no reply from my email for help on import. Not too good for a service seeking to be an aggregator for people who don’t know what RSS is… the other 90%. No auto-reply to let me know my message was received …
I am sure they are swamped with requests [...]

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Yahoo has launched a system to show the Web Rank popularity of pages viewed by those using its toolbar. It’s similar to the Google Toolbar’s long-standing PageRank meter – and brings with it some of the same potential problems. [Search Engine Watch]

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