atmaspheric | endeavors

Om pointed to a piece in the WSJ (sub required) today on the the possibility of Voom no being spun off from Cablevision, but sold instead… the likely buyer is Echostar so they could add both HD and capacity to their Satellite Service.
Voom has certainly had their issues - customer churn, high operating costs and [...]

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Rogue Amoeba has something very nice cooking for current or future Airport Express owners…

Rogue Amoeba is pleased to announce our newest product, Slipstream. Slipstream is the first and best way to send audio from any application directly to remote speakers attached to Apple’s renowned AirPort Express device. With Slipstream, audio from any application can be [...]

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This certainly confirms PalmSource’s investment in Linux… more and more companies are looking to Linux for all sorts of needs. PalmSource has said now that Cobalt will run on top of Linux, though I am not sure whether DoCoMo will create a new GUI for their phones or simply use it under the [...]

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My radio is across the room and behind me actually so I can’t see the display other than that it glows blue. If I don’t know what’s playing and want to see I have to get up… until now. Sirius Stream Explorer is a cool site that shows all live stations and [...]

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As I mentioned previously, I had my first in-car Sirius experience today. I had to drive from NYC to outside Philadelphia, a trip I’ve made many times. In past mornings I’ve tuned into Howard Stern, and usually hang in until some obscenely long commercial break and then tune around or activate my iPod. [...]

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In light of yesterday’s post about the XM MyFI, the portable player and today’s announcement from Napster with unlimited downloading (via DRM of course - courtesy of the new MS Janus system)…
What if Sirius subscribers got access to digital downloads within iTunes as a subscription bonus - or actually paid for an additional [...]

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Courtesy of the Scobleizer …
Chris Anderson, the guy who wrote the “Long Tail” article for Wired that got blogged all over the place is now blogging about writing a book on the same topic.
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Cnet takes the MyFi, XM’s portable player for a spin and gives it a pretty healthy smack-down. Sounds like XM’s naming strategy - stations like Fred and Ethel - are not as easy to get as Sirius’ choices like Purejazz and Chill. I’d still eventually like to see a portable Sirius player he [...]

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Michael Gartenberg ay Jupiter says January is going to be an interesting time with exciting products and new technologies… I say Bring it On! I am always ready for new cool stuff!
Just wrapped up another fascinating call. I’m still in thinking mode about the implications of what was discussed. The first few weeks in [...]

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I was just thinking last night that video would be a great complement to some of what I’ve been listening to on Sirius. I was checking out The Tony Hawk show and thinkig I’d really like to see what these guys are doing since they are obviously having a raucous good time. Perhaps [...]

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Given my recent interest in Satellite subscription radio I find this announcement to be pretty interesting, though for now I think I will continue to ride the free wave for cellular… With my Treo I can easily stream from Shoutcast using Pocket Tunes Deluxe for free. I’m not a sprint customer and this [...]

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Yesterday I had to head down to Soho and on my way back the R Train that arrived was a vintage 1940 subway car. It was pretty cool to ride it. Noisier than today’s train, but in many ways I found it to be nicer. It felt like there was more space. [...]

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Mark Cuban has an interesting post on the legalities of collecting movies and how perhaps Hollywood might consider some changes in release schedules.
So Hollywood has a choice. They can change their businessmodel of windowed distribution of movies and significantly impede any potential impact of camcordering and internet downloads. How ?
They can release DVDs day [...]

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We received the Tivoli Audio Model Satellite as a gift and it arrived today… I activated it just before dinner and have been enjoying it immensely since. The radio is pretty small and got a “wow thats actually pretty handsome” from my wife - so well done Tivoli! Since we live in [...]

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Based on my recent success with Archive and Re-Install on my Mac I thought the same theory would apply on my Treo. The main difference, is that you have to actually reset your Palm device and rebuild. I’ve posted a how-to at Treonauts - The good within Hard reset

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Forbes reports on the long standing rumor of an Apple / Motorola joint development, but beyond the MOT phone that might handle some iTunes stuff. Seems this is going to be a mid-priced phone capable of connecting via bluetooth to your computer to share a subset of your tunes. As Jobs was heard [...]

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MetrO is a great, free Palm application which can help you find your way through the subways of the world.
There are no graphical maps to see, but it’s very simple use and plan a route based on known locations if you don’t know the street of your stop. The application fills in likely stops [...]

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While most of us are waiting on WiFi for the Treo, Verizon blasts out with an Audiovox PPC that can run on the super quick EV-DO network.

The XV6600 runs the Phone Edition of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition on a 400 MHz Intel XScale PXA263 processor. It includes 128 MB of RAM, and has [...]

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I finished reading Michael Crichton’s State of Fear last night and would definitely recommend it. If you are a fan of his previous work, you know Crichton does his homework, this time making some compelling arguments against many popular environmental theories we all patently accept. If nothing else, it gets you thinking and [...]

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Don’t miss this…
Advertising is an integral part of the Web user experience: people repeatedly encounter ads as they surf the Web, whether they’re visiting the biggest portals, established newspapers, or tiny personal sites. Most online advertising studies have focused on how successful ads are at driving traffic to the advertiser, using simple metrics such as [...]

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