As the early buzz over new music services such as Apple Computer’s iTunes fades, record labels and technology companies are struggling to turn the services into profitable businesses. [CNET News.com]
Congress Votes to Can Spam
The House approves the first national anti-spam measure. The legislation encourages the Federal Trade Commission to create a do-not-spam list of e-mail addresses and includes penalties for spammers of up to five years in prison. [Wired News]
Time to Reboot…
I was officially restructured out of a job today…
I will actually be fully employed through the end of the year, with severance to follow for a few months beyond.
This is sure to be an interesting opportunity for me. I’ve basically worked for the same place (even through quite a few structural and ownership changes) over just about 8 years…
I’m completely open to what comes next and will need to think seriously about what that might be… My experiences will hopefully be a benefit, though I have no idea what the current job market is like.
So if you know of any opportunities, in wireless, entertainment, technology, marketing or advertising, this is one always-on marketing savvy technophile looking for work. You can email me directly (link on my sidebar or leave something in comments).
Time to work on my resume and spend some quality family time.
Jobs interviewed by Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone has published an interesting interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in which he shares his views on the music industry and Apple’s position in it… [MacMinute]
Wi-Fi Blackberry in Works
Research in Motion Ltd. is building BlackBerry messaging devices that run over wireless LANs, company officials confirmed last week.
RIM, of Waterloo, Ontario, has started testing BlackBerrys that can roam between 802.11, or Wi-Fi, WLANs and wide-area cellular networks.
“We’ve been working on Wi-Fi for a long time,” said Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO of RIM. “We weren’t really planning to talk about it for a while, but it’s a bit predictable that we would do this—it’s just another transport.” [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
Portability Active…
T-Mobile kicked in tonight… nice. Old Nextel number is now active on newer T-Mobile account and phone. Took a call or two but all good.
Yahoo’s New Plan to Fight Spam
In a bid to fight junk e-mail, Yahoo is developing technology that would automatically authenticate the sender of a message so that unwanted solicitations could be blocked. [Wired News]
The Latest Challenge to Windows’ Dominance
RSS and the Mac could be potent rivals for Microsoft. [eWeek.com Messaging and Collaboration – Featuring Steve Gillmor]
Good thoughts – I agree! I can’t see any reason for Windows in my world. It’s all information and easily accessible, not to mention well integrated in my workflow on the Mac.
Business Week Best Products of 2003
Portability Update…
According to T-Mobile, I’ll be up and running with my old number again by tomorrow afternoon. Everything is all set, though it did take some manual intervention to get the required corporate information (Tax ID etc…) from my Nextel account.
Sun sets up European RFID test center
Amid some privacy concerns, the Java advocate enters the retail-tracking game in Europe by opening a test center where companies can test their radio frequency identification systems. [CNET News.com ]
Music Retailer Seeks More Volume
Facing declining music sales, the Virgin Megastore chain is hoping new digital gadgetry will lure customers away from Internet file trading and into its stores. [Wired News]
Store based downloads… thought this was the idea in the pre-broadband era.
AOL Preps Live Video IM
It may work with iChat AV eventually… [InternetNews.com]
moblogging!
Finally got things going… Buzznet is in the blog. On the left side, you can now find some images taken in passing and in the moment. I’ll be shooting them on the go via my mobile.
The Subway
I snapped a shot of this guy while walking past this morning… fortunately my iPod was going so I did not have to hear the Bagpipe playing – yes the bag pipe! Sorry it’s blurry – I took it while walking and over my shoulder so I would not draw his attention…
At night I’ve been spotting “The Original Hambone player” have to capture that one for you later…
Time Warner Launches HD DVR
In a press release today, Scientific Atlanta and Time Warner Cable-Green Bay (Wisconsin) announced availability of the Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to TWC-GB cable customers. “Scientific-Atlanta announced today the availability of its integrated dual tuner high-definition digital video recorder set-top solution…. [GearBits]
Looks like early next year will be when this is ready for prime-time in other larger markets.
Rich Palm blog posting?
I can’t seem to find any way other than the Palm Browser to fully post from my Palm to moveable type. I’ve tested Kablog and Blogplanet which are essentially the same java apps. I know about Pop2Blog, but I can’t set up the necessary details on my host. So far the only (and most complex) way is to login to the MT site from the Palm browser and post the way you would from any browser. This totally works as you would expect, but is not terribly efficient.
I’d love to be able to either attach an image to an email and send or find an app, like netnewswire or kung log for palm. Hand/RSS is read only rss for now…
minimal sleep…
Working on minimal sleep today… should be interesting. For some reason I was not able to get to sleep even though Hannah was ready to go for 5 hours again last night.
After much high test I am still groggy. Perhaps after lunch some faculties will return.
Test from palm
Test 123
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This post was made with a trial version of BlogPlanet, a photo blog client for mobile phones. For more information visit www.blogplanet.net.
Falling on my sword a bit…but not really
I know I’ve mentioned the Treo 600 rather obsessively in the past, but I am now officially glad it has yet to arrive through T-Mobile. After long consideration, I’ve decided to instead be a 2 piece guy (for now) and manage my life with Palm plus Phone. I really like the Sony Ericsson T-610 as I’ve also mentioned previously and the more I used it, the more I don’t want to give it up. As a result, I’ve been trying to find as many Bluetooth options in my devices to enable as much connectivity as well as simplicity. The Tungsten C unfortunately did not make the cut. As much I was enjoying it, I’ve decided to give it a rest for now (possibly for good… any buyers?) and picked up the Tungsten T3 which is an amazing unit.
It does not have wifi, just bluetooth which is just fine since it easily connects to my phone for data usage. I could write a great deal on this but it so happens a nice page was done today at GearBits, which you can read here.
While the T3 is not new, I thought I would share some quick thoughts on what I like since it is pretty different from my previous Palm.
First – the return of Grafitti. No keyboard, but if you’ve been using Palms as long as I have this is quit easy to deal with.
Next – Stereo Sound. I did not realize I was missing this until I heard my first sounds on the T3. Games in the speaker or with stereo headphones are great!
Voicememo with built in mic! Not sure what Palm was thinking when they decided that the TC had to use an external mic, but this feature is infinitely more useful when you can just hit the button and record.
The screen is amazing. 320×480 half VGA and extremely bright. Pictures from Splashphoto are amazing and in my newly minted parental role, I have MANY pictures. Guess I’ll be getting a larger SD card soon to handle them all.
The only negative so far is that the battery is not the best. In fact it is actually weaker than on my TC which is odd since I always thought that bluetooth was supposed to be more power efficient than wifi. My guess is that it is probably the screen more than the radio… but I could be wrong. I’ve just installed BTToggle to see if I get get some more time from it. Don’t get me wrong… you can download a great deal of email with the battery, I would not do to much web browsing which I see more as a nice to have rather than a need to have since this is a small device anyway. The screen really does make this far more pleasant than on the TC which I was most familiar with.
So far so good with this combo punch. It’s interesting that I ended up this way (for now) given the hype on the Treo and it’s all in one capabilities. For me it all came down to the lack or bluetooth and the micro keyboard. I may have gotten used to the keyboard over time, but it did not seem easy given my testing usage.