Archive for July 7th, 2008
GigaNET PM: Smart Grid, Olympic Videos + More
Earth2Tech: More VC money for wireless mesh for smart meter readers. NewTeeVee: Announcing NewTeeVee Pier Screenings 2008, with NY, LA on the menu. NewTeeVee Station: WhenP-Diddy meets YouTube, you get DiddyTV. WebWorkerDaily: 5 rules of thumb for Web Workers. ...
Time for a Personal ReBOOT?
One of the things I have learned is that you can always reboot yourself and set yourself on a course for a new beginning. This isnt something you have to tell anyone about, it is just something you just DO. Yes, depending upon where you find yourself in your life it can take a lot of effort to overcome your own internal inertia, but I have found this to be well worth the effort. As we grow up, there comes a point in our life where we become the one responsible for setting our own direction...
‘Look Ma, No Hands’: Bluetooth Converts?
Just read a CNET blog about Bluetooth converts in Cali, due of course to their “no cell phones when driving” law (at least meaning that it can’t be in your hand). That blog discusses an ingenious way to use Bluetooth and your cell phone in the car. Was wondering if anyone has become a Bluetooth convert in CT now that we have the cell phone law here, too. Or how about in other states, too, like New York? I’m pretty attached to the wired headset feeling, but...
Sangoma Acquires Paraxip Technologies
Sangoma has acquired Paraxip Technologies giving Sangama a broader communications play than just offering telephony boards for Asterisk-based solutions. Sangoma is positioning the news as a new foothold in the Windows Unified Communications and IP Contact Center markets. This kind of reminds me of Aastra which first started offering IP-phones used in Asterisk, trixbox, FreePBX, etc. but then launched the Aastra Aastralink Pro 160 Appliance, making Aastra a ‘competitor’ to IP-PB...
June Media Roundup
Not sure why I didn’t do this sooner, but I’ve been wanting to post a monthly roundup of my recent media citings. A number of people keep mentioning articles where they see me cited, and sometimes I’m not even aware of them. I try my best to post media citings in the right column of this blog page, but also thought it might be helpful to summarize recent citings in one post. June was a particularly busy month for being quoted in the tech/telecom media, as I was included in stor...
Guitar Hero III on BlackBerry
Yes, you are reading correctly! You can get the free Guitar Hero III trial from Bplay.com for you BlackBerry — it’s a great way to get acquainted with GH III and the various products available at Bplay.com. To get it, simply provide permission for Bplay/Magmic Games to include you when sending information regarding new BlackBerry games, themes and other entertainment products from the company. (Of course there’s a bit of a hook to this …) Tags: blackberry, Bplay.com,...
Why Is Symbian Charging Its Partners?
Symbian, which recently agreed to be acquired by Nokia, is part of a growing number of mobile platform makers — Apple, Google, LiMo — that are all are vying for the attentions of the mobile developer community. The company sent over an email this morning with details of its Symbian Partner Network (SPN), which will theoretically allow members to work better in the Symbian ecosystem. There are tons of benefits to this new partner network, and I’m sure some of them are actually ...
Gossip Guys: The Microsoft-Yahoo Saga
Remember back in the Dark Ages before text messaging, when a teenager (let’s call him Jerry Yang) might get a best friend (maybe call him Carl Icahn) to call another friend (say, Steve Ballmer) using three-way calling? With Yang sitting silently on the line, the goal would be for Icahn to goad Ballmer into saying how he really felt about Yang. Well, now that we’re adults, and billions of dollars are on the line, all this is done via proxy battles as is the case with the aborted deal...
South Korea VoIP Number Portability Shenanigans
We all recall how South Korea banned the U.S. military from using VoIP, right? The South Korean government, with the backing of major South Korean ISPs pushed for the ban because of the unlimited flat-rate calling plans offered by American competitors. Now, according to the Korean Times in a recent article, it states VoIP service providers were put on hold as South Korea delayed its decision on whether to allow number portability to VoIP users. Mind you, these must be South Korean VoIP service ...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Smart Cards …
… and were afraid to ask! Or didn’t know to ask! Must reading indeed in last week’s New York Times Circuits column by David Pogue, who explores not so much the past, but what the future holds for smart card technologies. Take a look at how a contactless Smart Card works — one small (maybe not so small) step forward from contact Smart Cards. And that may be a time when we indeed have only one card — or one gadget — that contains all of the digital inform...
Toyota Highlander Hybrid First Impressions
Very good news is that gas mileage on our first two tanks of gas in our Toyota Highlander Hybrid is 28.7 mpg, better than advertised although obviously not as good as we could get with many smaller conventional cars. We do hilly country driving, Interstates and two lane highways mainly with a little bit of "city" driving in Burlington, population 40,000. The very graphic display of instantaneous gas mileage and whether the car is running on gas alone, gas plus electric, electric alone...
Rogers, Here’s an iPhone Tip
Rogers is taking a public relations pounding over the high-cost data plans (three-year contract, no unlimited data) for the 3G iPhone that hits the street on Friday. As well, Apple is apparently pissed at Rogers. Here’s a way for Rogers to get out of its PR pickle: unveil a $130/month plan with unlimited data and, say, 1,000 voice day-time (non-weekend) minutes. Play the mea culpa card: “Canadians, we goofed by not realizing how much you wanted to use the iPhone to access the Web. Ou...
Free Gas for Tech Purchases?
With gas prices climbing to $4 a gallon in the U.S (welcome to the $100 fill-up!). and $1.40 a litre in Canada, it has been interesting to see consumer-focused companies start to offer free gas as an incentive. Chrysler, for example, is offering buyers a locked-in price of $2.99 a gallon for three years for nearly of all its new vehicles. Calloway Golf is offering a $100 gas card for people who buy a FT-i, FT-5 or Hyper X driver. Meanwhile, the Shady Lady Ranch in rural Nevada is offering its b...
FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed
I as sitting in Philadelphia Airport, wondering when my connection to San Francisco is going to actually take off. The good news is that my EVDO modem is working, my Macbook is plugged in and I watched the RedSox-Yankees rubber match on ESPN. Whew… that was a nail biter. Red Sox are really good team, despite the injuries. We are a terrible team because of the injuries. The upside of the connection - I got to this fantastic video by Allen Stern over on Center Networks. The video exposes t...
Five Nines on the Net is a Pipe Dream
The New York Times today finally got around to noticing that when web sites go down, people are increasingly likely to get mad and generally react the way I might if I drove to my favorite bar and found it closed for a private party. I might be miffed and share a few choice words with members of my party before deciding on a new locale. However, when we write blogs or tweets (if Twitter is up), the inconvenience and our subsequent vitriol is archived forever and transmitted around the world ra...
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