Archive for August 6th, 2008
Free World Dialup (FWD) No Longer Free
Saw this news on http://www.freeworlddialup.com/ stating that Free World Dialup, often referred to as FWD is now no longer “free” but now has a $30 annual “fee”. Well, at least they get to keep the FWD acronym since both have the letter ‘f’, but the domain name is no longer accurate. Anyway, FWD was one of the first free SIP-to-SIP calling services using their SIP registrar (fwd.pulver.com:5060). It seems to me that FWD has had its loyal but small fanbase, b...
John Roese, Nortel CTO, to Speak at Mobilize
John Roese, chief technology officer of Nortel Networks, is one of my favorite technologists; he can marry the promise of technology with hard-nosed business pragmatism like no one else. When we met up two years ago, he and I talked about both “wideband” and “hyperconnectivity,” two themes that have become pervasive in my coverage over the past few months. Our conversation was unusual in that we didn’t talk about hardware, the gear that his company sells. Instead,...
HP Keeps Pushing Touch
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that within 18 months HP plans to have multiple touchscreen products, including a laptop, “that use the same type of finger-tapping interface popularized by Apple Inc.’s iPhone.” If HP does use the same type of touch screen as that of the iPhone, it will represent a significant breakthrough for larger touch screens as it will help drive down costs and create a market for more applications. The iPhone has brought touch to the masses, but HP ...
Verdiem Wants to Help You Cut Home PC Power
Power management tools are the low-hanging fruit when it comes to cutting carbon emissions out of the computing world — 90 percent of energy-saving tools on home PCs are disabled, and almost half of PC users don’t know what this stuff is or how to use it. Verdiem, a Seattle-based startup that has been focused on selling enterprise power management software, has just launched a free, easy-to-use download called Edison that could help out the rest of us. Microsoft is asking Windows us...
The Police Rock Jones Beach
On the evening of August 5, 2008, on the night before the end of their 14 month record-breaking tour, The Police rocked the stage at Jones Beach. (Photos taken using Panasonic DMC-TZ5) This is the set list that I twittered live: - Message in a Bottle - Walking on the Moon - Demolition Man - When The World is Running Down you Make of Whats Still Around - Dont Stand So Close to Me - Driven to Tears - Hole in My Life - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Wrapped Around Your Finger - De...
August 7th 2008: Social Media Thursday in NYC
On Thursday morning I will be speaking at the iBreakfast event: Web 2.0 - The Best Practices Conference. Afterwards I was thinking of heading over to Social Media Camp New York. And in the evening there is: SummerMash New York City. Overall, a great day for social media for anyone who happens to be visiting the New York Metro area tomorrow. Tags: iBreakfast, Social Media, Social Media Camp, SummerMash, Jeff Pulver ...
The Reality of Convergence is Still Divergence.
I spent yesterday at a Nokia marketing event in Toronto and decided to only take my three mobile devices to see how I would deal with maintaining essential contacts and information flow (email, Twitter, Facebook, voice calls, web browsing) without having a full laptop available. The devices: a Blackberry 8820 (GSM/EDGE/WiFi), a Nokia N95 (WiFi only) and an iPhone 3G. For about 2 hours we were in a studio where there was video shooting. During this time I had to turn off the carrier radio as it c...
ARM Says Browser Drives the Mobile Web
A lot of talk has been devoted to mobile operating systems lately, with Windows Mobile, Symbian, LiMo and Android getting the lion’s share of the attention. But if you consider that the mobile phone will soon be a place to make calls and access the web through cloud services, then the operating system is less significant and the browser becomes the king. Or so says Bob Morris, head of mobile marketing for ARM Holdings, which designs the cores for many of the mobile chips that act as the b...
Cable Unit Boosts Time Warner’s Earnings
Time Warner Cable reported positive second-quarter earnings (PDF) this morning that fell 26 percent but beat Wall Street’s expectations, and said it would split AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising businesses into two divisions in 2009. Its earnings beat expectations largely because of gains in its film and its cable and networks division, which will also be spun out into its own company by the end of the year. High-speed data revenue rose 12 percent to $1 billion, thanks to the ...
How To Stand Out in a Sea of Storage Startups
Online storage companies pop up more frequently than mushrooms after a downpour in Southern France. And like the wild-growing fungus, not all of them are easily digested. Case in point: AOL’s Xdrive, which despite corporate backing recently joined the likes of Omnidrive and MediaMax on the proverbial technology garbage heap. That doesn’t dissuade entrepreneurs and their backers from joining the fray. At last check, we counted more than two dozen startups trying to carve a piece of the o...
Why Consumer Love..and Pay More for Macs
Having just purchased a new MacBook, Joe Wilcox’s article on why people are willing to pay twice as much as for a Mac than a Windows PC caught my attention. He makes some great points in doing some apples to oranges comparisons between a MacBook and an HP laptop, and an iMac and a Dell Inspiron 518. When you look at the machines side by side, you pay a lot for more a Mac but get less. Why is that? How can Apple demand and get premium prices while PC makers battle it out with prices as on...
Cisco Looking to Start Growing Again — But How?
Cisco Systems came out with its financial report card for its fiscal fourth quarter and full-year 2008 period after the close of markets today, and in typical Cisco fashion, the numbers were marginally ahead of what Wall Street was expecting. The financial performance — sales growth of 4 percent over the same quarter last year ($10.4 billion vs. $9.8 billion) and a 13.2 percent rise ($39.5 billion vs. $34.9 billion) for the full-year period — masked Cisco’s biggest challenge: how ...
Teaching an Old Blockbuster a New Trick
Blockbuster to roll out DVD rental kiosks! Yes, in another tactical shift, Blockbuster will begin testing 50 DVD rental kiosks to compete with Redbox, which rents DVDs for $1 per night. According to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Blockbuster plans to roll out 10,000 kiosks over the next 18 months. The kiosks are designed for DVD rentals, but could include digital downloads and sales of movies in the future. In related news, Netflix is reportedly testing charging a ...
Apple Store’s Still Sizzling
Armed with a completely legit excuse to visit the nearby Apple Store (a busted power adapter), I was a little surprised to see the place packed with people browsing and buying. With the North American economy showing signs of a recession and consumers starting to pull back on discretionary spending, I was expecting the store to be quieter given Apple sells premium priced products. The fact it was so busy suggests Apple’s still the world’s hottest consumer brand with red-hot products ...
Nintendo Goes Holographic! Wow Wii!
Nintendo, the maker of the market-leading Wii videogame console, has reportedly co-signed for a patent on holographic storage and may be gearing up for development of this ultra high-capacity storage concept. Nintendo signed the patent with Inphase Technologies, but bringing holographic storage to market won’t be easy. (Inphase has been at this a looong time.) Nintendo, one of the world’s top three videogame console and handheld device makers, apparently is preparing to invest som...
GigaNET: Olympics Online, Green Power, Trial Accounts
NewTeeVee — Pirate Olympics: 5 Alternative Ways to Watch the Olympics Online Earth2Tech — Competition for Green Power Could Sink Utilities’ Eco Programs Web Worker Daily — The Haunting: Trial Accounts That Wouldn’t Die OStatic – Open Source: How Big Is the Tent? NewTeeVee — DVD Extras Are the Future of the Internet ...
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