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Verizon to launch High Speed Wireless in D.C., San Diego
With virtual private network (VPN) connections, data customers in both cities will be able to access Verizon’s 1xEV-DO high-speed data network as an extension of their corporate local area network (LAN) or intranet. In order to receive the increased data speeds, 1xEV-DO devices are required, and the company says it plans to sell PCMCIA cards, office modem solutions and a number of other mobile devices.
Also in the third quarter, the company said it plans to offer complementary access between its own branded 802.11 service and its WAN. Recognizing the proliferation of Wi-Fi on corporate campuses and in travel related venues such as hotels and airports, Verizon Wireless is working with Wayport to offer Wi-Fi service in popular indoor locations. [Internetnews.com]
We’ve got the (un)Funk!
Thanks to an excellent template and write-up from Brad Choate, I now have a new RSS 2.0 template that is most un-funky.
Hopefully those reading this through an aggregator, see the difference. I over-wrote the old one with the same name, so you should just be able to see the revised layout without having to re-subscribe.
The DMA’s doublespeak on spam
CNET News.com’s Declan McCullagh explains the real story behind the Direct Marketing Association’s position that unsolicited e-mail entreaties to us shouldn’t be considered spam. [CNET News.com]
AT&T offers shared landline, cell plans
The carrier begins selling AT&T One, which lets subscribers use a block of minutes on either a cell phone or landline. [CNET News.com]
Time Warner to Test Microsoft’s iTV Software
“Time Warner Cable is very aggressive and savvy as a technology adopter,” he added. So, if Microsoft’s trial proves out, the move could be a big opportunity to position itself in an interactive television screen. It could also bode well for finds the trial successful, cable technology platform company Scientific-Atlanta could also benefit, Brancheau said.
According to Gartner, as of mid-year 2003, 22 million U.S. households were upgraded to digital cable, out of a total base of 66 million cable households in the U.S. (The total household base in the U.S. is 106 million.)
So, the deal gives Microsoft some room to grow Internet News
Sprint PCS to Launch WiFi Service
The Overland Park, Kansas-based company said it plans to initially roll out WiFi, or 802.11b services, in more than 800 public locations such as airports, convention centres and hotels through roaming agreements with closely held companies Airpath Wireless Inc and Wayport Inc.
It is currently in negotiations to build out its own WiFi infrastructure and plans to offer 2,100 locations, including roaming, by the end of the year. [REUTERS]
Yamaha’s MusicCast wireless digital audio system
A new wireless digital audio system from Yamaha called MusicCast which consists of the MCX-1000, a digital audio server with an 80GB hard drive for storing MP3s, and the MCX-A10 (pictured at right), a digital audio client that can wirelessly stream music files off of the server. Unlike some of these other digital audio receivers, you can get MP3s onto the MCX-1000 both by ripping them from CDs or transferring them over from a PC. Read [Via The Gadgeteer]… [Gizmodo]
A more sophisticated approach to my SliMP3 system, though I bet it costs a great deal more. I like how you can rip and burn cds from the server… Then you hook in the wireless receivers either with our without speakers per room. 80GB drive standard though it is upgradeable as well.
Looks very slick…
Wozniak’s new company creates wireless ID tags
The New York Times has an article today on WozNet, a new wireless location-monitoring technology created by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s new company, Wheels of Zeus… [MacMinute]
WozNet, he said, will include a home-base station that has the ability to track the location of dozens or even hundreds of small wireless devices that can be attached to people, pets or property. The tags — expected to cost less than $25 each to produce — will be able to generate alerts, notifying the owner by phone or e-mail message when a child arrives at school, a dog leaves the yard or a car leaves the parking lot.
“We started out with the idea of a product to keep track of stuff,” said Mr. Wozniak, the 52-year-old engineer who was the technical brains behind the first Apple computer in 1976. “We ended up inventing a new class of wireless network.” [New York Times]
IM blog monitoring service
Blog Change Bot Blog Change Bot (blogchangebot on AIM) is a blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested in is updated. Subscribe via AIM or iChat to be automatically notified when the blog is updated.
Gratuitous self promo – I built this bot. [Blogroots]
This closes the loop on the AOL blog system… You can post and be notified of changes now all via IM. Add aoljournals to your buddy list and if you have previously set up your blog/journal the text you type goes right in.
The truth about XML
Systems powered by the Extensible Markup Language may prove to be the standard for sharing information between businesses, but experts at McKinsey explain why most CIOs won’t make the leap in the near future. [CNET News.com]
Going beyond the blog…
Here’s a great rundown on ways to use Moveable Type’s content management for more than the usual blog content.
Yahoo Buzz Index RSS Feeds!
Great stuff for your aggregator…Jeremy Zawodny’s blog
pop2blog
pop2blog was created specifically out of a desire to take the jpeg images which the Danger Hiptop (aka T-Mobile Sidekick) is able to capture and email and post them as entries in a MovableType weblog.
Almost there… just waiting on my host to enable cron for me so I can run this.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
THis is a new show on Bravo. 5 gay guys get together to spiff up a clueless straight guy [Blogcritics]
It is hilarious! I love this show. I tell you what, the sarcastic over-the-top gay culture is really MADE for TV. I mean it! These guys learned their moves from imitating the imitations of female glamour from Hollywood, so they are practically cartoon-like in their ability to quip and move things along.
The Door Is Ajar
Today, the human experience of the Net stands at a crossroads, paths diverging into the future, and nobody knows which one we’ll be on in a year. A lot of people who will read this have the chance to make a difference in the decision. Let’s look at the options…. [Tim Bray]
Food for thought on the state of the browser…
E-mail? The French beg to differ
France puts its foot down on English tech-speak, banning the use of the word “e-mail” in all official correspondence in favor of a more homegrown term. [CNET News.com]
Just ridiculous…but what do you expect from France.
An amazing reduction in Spam
Since moving with my job, I am amazed at how much less spam and as a result how much less email I get. I am going through a slight withdrawal from constantly responding to the new email sound, but in many ways feeling good about this change. I know we use a spam filter at the network level which is taking care of some of my issue, but I think the main thing is that 2 legacy domains I used for about 7 years are no longer forwarding to my newer email. This is great! I still get all my work email and none of the former BS. POPfile is no longer being used since it does not work with IMAP, but I am not really getting any spam … whoa. What few are coming through are now picked up simply with the Entourage Junk Filter.
I went from 48% spam, to less than 1%. Let’s see how long this can last!!
Information
In the past few weeks a lot has changed at work.
First, I was transferred to another company within our holding company, but I still maintain full contact (as you may or may not expect) with the previous organzation. We are actually trying to work even more closely together and my move is an interim step if anything.
My role, however is evolving on a weeekly basis. We have a very different structure in the new organization and I am now finding myself within our technology group, which is perfect for me. As you might gather (if you’ve read more than this post) that’s a good fit. I will be bridging technology to marketing and back again, across clients and within companies globally as well. It’s an exciting time for sure and only time will tell where I’ll end up.
Part of moving involves not only my physical shift (across the street), but also how basic apps are used. In my previous world, I used Entourage to do POP3 messaging and Meeting Maker for shared calendaring. I synced all that to my palm…
Now, since we are on Exchange, I use Entourage in IMAP mode to read and keep synced with my Outlook desktop which I use when remotely connected to the office. IMAP is pretty cool and something I finally get since I am actually using it. If you like (or have) to do email from different machines, as well as the web, I would highly recommend it. It keeps folders of your choosing synchronized across points of access. You can store copies of messages locally on your main machine so you don’t have to worry about not having things while in transit – a place I often find myself. I’ve also stopped using Meeting Maker completely and now just sync everything through the rest of the modules within Entourage.
Of course now that I am adjusted to the new way to work, I have to get ready for a much more drastic shift… Notes. By the end of the summer, we (all companies in our group) are moving to Lotus Notes. The adventure continues…
VOIP–a Tower of Babel?
If successful, Pulver’s new push could for the first time connect the few hundred thousand U.S. VOIP subscribers with each other and, as a consequence, generate more VOIP calling. A spike in VOIP use, in turn, could help convince cable companies to go forward with their currently stalled plans to sell VOIP services. While there are about 2.2 million cable subscribers that can make telephone calls, they use a form of circuit-switched telephones, not VOIP.