Nokia official dismisses report of Cisco interest
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/new...a-211956-1.xml
>>> HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Nokia spokeswoman said on Monday a weekend newspaper report that Cisco Systems Inc was considering making a bid for the top mobile phone maker seemed to be "pure fabrication".

>>>Nokia's policy remains not to comment on rumours, the spokeswoman said, but added that an article in the Business, a London-based newspaper, seemed to be "pure fabrication based on rumours on the Internet".

>>>Nokia shares were up 1.78 percent at 13.15 euros by 0949 GMT, having earlier been up as much as 3.3 percent.

-- Nokia, you should know better than to insult the Vast And Living Internet System!

Nokia declines comment on report has dismissed Cisco bid noise as 'fabrication'
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxn...action=article
>>>HELSINKI (AFX) - Nokia Corp declined to comment on newspaper speculation that it could be a bid target for Cisco Systems Inc, or on a newswire report that the Finnish handset giant had dismissed the print article as "pure fabrication".

>>>"We are not willing to comment on the story at all. If there is anything we want to say, we will put out a statement," a spokeswoman said.
-- someone's not in a good mood...

Nokia Sees Shortages Of N90 Phone Due To Strong Demand
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt...as/money/cm/nw
>>> STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nokia Corp. (NOK) (NOK) is seeing shortages of its much- hyped N90 camera phone due to strong initial demand, a spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.
-- well, that didn't take long.

Nokia and Ollila's legacy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...acy/print.html
>>>Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila, the architect of the Finnish giant in its current form, is to step down next June, although he will remain as non-executive chairman. Although widely rumored to be after a career in Finnish politics, he has announced that he will take over the chairmanship of oil giant Shell instead.
-- tch! Not one mention of the 770 in all this!

PSP
http://schwuk.com/entries/141/psp
>>>Sony have promised to block some of the exploits being used to achieve these hacks with the european release [of the PSP], so I’m waiting to see how successful they are before handing over my money. Especially with the presumably hacker friendly (given it’s origins) “Nokia 770” hopefully available soon at a similar price point.
--now there's a smart lad.

Doom на Nokia 770
http://svyatogor.gnns.net/archives/13
--Russia likes Doom too.

Mach schneller, Nokia
http://www.cordless-club.com/blog/ar...schneller.html
--the usual stuff.

GPE-Calendar on Maemo
http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/08/gpe-calendar-on-maemo
>>>Matthias has made progress on a GPE-Calendar port to the Maemo platform. Porting GPE-Calendar is a lot harder than a lot of ./configure; make; make-install “ports” to Maemo, and it looks like it is coming along nicely. The Nokia 770 is still officially not a PDA mind you, but the more solid apps available for the platform on launch day the better.

maemo.org
http://exodusmachine.com/?p=11
>>>This is a very good reason to get the Nokia 770.
--sourced from http://www.nokia770.com

Nokia Launches Mobile Search Application To Smartphones
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt...as/money/cm/nw
>>> STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Corp. (NOK)(NOK) Monday said it has introduced a new mobile search application, search on the go, to its smartphones.

>>> The current service and content providers incorporated in the search application include Eniro, Fonecta, Medio Systems, Yahoo!, Yell.com, as well as digital map solution provider AtlasCT and digital map data provider NAVTEQ.

>>>The mobile search application is currently being piloted in the U.K., Finland and Sweden.

>>>The application will be distributed in the standard sales packs of the Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and Nokia 6630 smartphones.

A Serious Contender for the Couch Throne
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl...27236&from=rss
-- followup to a prior entry; the /.ers rip into that $900 "hub."

Cisco Going Mobile, Acquiring Nokia?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...40222&from=rss
-- the /.ers rip into the very idea of it taking place.

OSDL's Weinberg: Open source is a 'velvet' revolution
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtar...112997,00.html
>>>There may not be fireworks. CIOs and IT directors may not be heaping their proprietary software on bonfires and dancing. Even so, the open source revolution is happening right now and will carry the day, said Bill Weinberg, open source architecture specialist and Linux evangelist for Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).

Kept Alive by Open Source
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/print.php/3525671
>>>Beloved old technologies don't die. They go open source. For some reason the open source model has enabled dead and dying technologies to stay alive long after commercial interests left them to rot.
--this is great reading. When it comes to digital stuff, I think Copyright law should provide for abandoned IP to get into the public domain ASAP.

Razer Copperhead
http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-21730-2416-x-x-x
>>>The Razer Copperhead gaming mouse has a 2000dpi laser sensor, 32KB of memory, and an adjustable weight system.
-- I bring this up because it prompted a Q in my head. It turns out that Pocket PC can use a BT-enabled mouse. You wind up with a frikkin pointer you can use! I've been wondering if the 770 could similarly use a mouse. That'd be killer: BT keyboard *and* BT mouse.

edited to add:

Wireless wilderness: Internet access gains favor among campers
http://www.computerworld.com/printth...103730,00.html
>>> Camping essentials used to include Coleman lanterns, goose-down sleeping bags and water purification kits. But a growing number of campers are adding laptops to that list, and wireless Internet access in the great outdoors is becoming the new must-have.
--another niche market for the 770 to exploit!

AOL making wireless move
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/20...wildseed_x.htm
>>>NEW YORK — America Online will announce today that it's accelerating its move into cell phone services through the acquisition of a software company, Wildseed, which will be part of a new unit called the AOL Wireless Group.

>>>"We believe that wireless is one of the biggest places for AOL to play in," says AOL Wireless General Manager Craig Eisler. The deal with privately held Wildseed "enables us to offer new products like instant messaging for phones, and great photo and music experiences for phones."

-- interesting. AOL is the Disneyland of the internet. The place where people who can't think for themselves go.

More here:
Can AOL Take Over The Mobile Experience?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050808/0137253_F.shtml

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Nokia first to adopt FEC technology for 3G delivery
http://www.the3gportal.com/3gpnews/archives/007479.html
>>>It was reported by Digital Fountain that Nokia will be the first licensee of its FEC (forward error correction) technology, DF Raptor, which the 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) recently adopted as an official global standard for the reliable delivery of multimedia to handheld devices.

Nokia and Intel work together on WiMAX Broadband Wireless Technology
http://www.the3gportal.com/3gpnews/archives/007429.html
-- this is an old one (6/12) that I missed.

I think from now on I will only create a new thread entry when I have more than 3 items to plunk down at one time.

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If Cisco buys Nokia, will it be sorry? Only if Cisco is dumb enough to do it...
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2364
>>>Rumours of Cisco "eyeing" Nokia with a view to a takeover have been published in a Sunday Business report, and widely discussed. It is, almost certainly, not true, say sources - including some inside both companies.

Motorola N. America Sales Strong As Nokia Struggles
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/08/mot...s17_print.html

If you've popped in to read this because you saw it was updated on the front page, check out the prior post too. That's been added to twice more today.

Stuff only very vaguely related to the 770...

Linux Feels Growing Pains As Users Demand More Features
http://online.wsj.com/public/article...html?mod=blogs
>>>A program called Linux sparked radical changes in the way software is developed, and poses problems for mighty Microsoft Corp. But backers of such "open source" software now face new challenges, like pleasing Joseph Drouin.

And the /. take on this:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl...44230&from=rss

China Co. Debuts TV Show for Small Screen
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-
>>>It's a super-modern love story made for the small screen — the very small screen.

>>>Two motorcycle racers vie for the same woman in "Appointment," a romance squeezed into five-minute episodes made to be shown on mobile phone screens half the size of a credit card.

Microsoft Linux Lab Manager Responds
http://interviews.slashdot.org/inter...tid=11&tid=106
-- /.ers grill MS guy.

Google to Buy Meetroduction
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news...le.php/3525986
>>>Chicago-based Meetroduction launched the first version of Meetro, "location-aware social networking software," on Aug. 4. The idea of Meetro is to find people to hang out with in the physical world.
-- I wonder how these "location-aware services" will work with the 770? And if they will drive 770 desire and sales?

-- edited to add --

Nokia to sell device running RIM software
http://rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=23688
>>>Nokia said it will sell its 9300 smart phone this fall in the United States. The device will ship with RIM's BlackBerry software, allowing users to access their corporate e-mail through BlackBerry servers.
-- Nokia doing Blackberries and Palm doing 770s. The world is going crazy...

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MEX: Why is AOL buying Wildseed?
http://www.pmn.co.uk/20050808aol.shtml
>>>However, in developing this solution, Wildseed also created a full Linux OS optimised for mobile handsets and sophisticated handset customisation platform. It is these key assets which AOL is interested in. Armed with this technology, its own extensive media libraries, the AOL mobile instant messaging franchise and Tegic’s existing customer base in the mobile industry, AOL has all the elements of a rich mobile user experience.
--so PalmSource has yet another competitor!

-- edited again to add --

This was just too good to leave until tomorrow...

Freedom Input Bluetooth Keyboard
http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archive...h_keyboard.php
>>>This is the sweetest Bluetooth keyboard we've come across - not only is it tiny like a credit card but there are drivers for just about every device you could imagine. Drivers, you say? There is even a dedicated website for your mobile device so you can download drivers from anywhere, witout a PC!
-- yet another BT KB possibility? Home page of source does not show it --
http://www.freedominput.com/
-- and the drivers page is here:
http://frekey.com/

It is so far a dull news day...

Noticias -- Nokia Linux --
http://milinuxhugo.blogspot.com/2005...kia-linux.html
-- the usual overview specs of the 770; in Spanish.

The rest is non-770 stuff...

Nokia Sale: The Latest Summer Fiction
http://www.thestreet.com/_tsclsii/co.../10237129.html

Will Cisco buy Nokia? And, what does that mean to us?
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7555

Search engine for your Nokia smart mobile - but no Google?
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2365

Is a $20 cell phone on the horizon?
http://news.com.com/Is+a+20+cell+pho...3-5823239.html
-- yeah, with a *$100/month* bill! Sourced from /.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...08226&from=rss

ThinkFree to Debut Office Suite for Linux
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news...le.php/3526076
>>>The original ThinkFree application suite was released five years ago. Today, the company announced its latest version 3 in a Linux (define) edition. In addition to a price of $49.95, ThinkFree is laying claim to having the best compatibility with Microsoft Office of any program to date for Linux, Windows and Macintosh users with an interface similar to Microsoft's. The software also imports and exports Microsoft Office files.

In Pursuit of Good Desktop Linux
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux05/Desk...1_Story01.html
--yick! What a horrible page layout! It's not a design; it's a mess!

I don't know.... I'm beginning to think I should do *second* blog. One perhaps called "Of Interest To 770 Owners." This one would congregate all the stuff that is *not* directly about the 770 itself. Maybe Reggie will do a poll. It's not really more work for me. Just posting stuff in a *different* thread.

Anyway, 99% of the below falls into the "Of Interest To..." category...

Local.com New Local Search Engine Launches
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2024
>>>Keyword DNA utilizes business characteristics such as location, service area, and business-specific keywords among other data to create a unique meta-profile for over 16 million U.S. local businesses. Interchange’s local-web index delivers relevant web listings for specific geographic areas. Some search results and core data info is also supplied by Acxiom Data Services while local targeted paid search advertising is handled via ePilot (this is probably going to be one of ePilot’s largest distribution channels as ePilot is also owned by Interchange).
-- one of the things I *hate* doing on the Net is searching for *local* stuff. Perhaps this will alleviate/fix that chore? This might also be useful for travelers with the 770, looking for local stuff in their guest city.

Broadspot Worldwide Wireless acquires Washington-based Internet access provider
http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story.php/2...2570580048DE9B
-- one more step towards Nokia's vision of the Internet being wireless and mobile. I expect wireless announcements to become a daily blizzard once the 770 is released. This might be the Second Coming of the Internet. Now, if I can just get my hands on some capital to invest. It'd make up for my missing the First Coming -- and amazon at that hilariously-high stock price...

French WiMax licences to be awarded in 2006
http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story.php/2...25705800428BBA
--I didn't know WiMax required licensing anywhere. I thought it was enhanced WiFi. Perhaps someone will do an article for this site? Hello, Reggie!

Google News offers RSS Feeds
http://toprank.blogspot.com/2005/08/...rss-feeds.html
-- also more info at --
http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html
-- the 770 has an RSS Newsreader built in.

Wireless LANs Dominate In Homes; Equipment Revenues To Surge
http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/168400010
>>>Local-area networks (LANs) in the home market are now dominated by wireless technologies, which have passed the timeworn Ethernet solution, according to a report on home networking released Tuesday by market research firm In-Stat.
-- ah, I didn't think that *infrastructure* could be a good stock buy during the Second Coming of the Internet! Beware the huge flyleaf ad on this page!

Gizmodo’s Official “It Plays Doom Certification” Announced
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/porta...ced-116455.php
>>>Reader Joo has created the first official “It Plays Doom” certification icon for manufacturers of hair dryers, portable vibrators, and MP3 players. We would suggest that OEMs and even resellers begin certifying their products using this new logo and we will expect a certification fee—work out the specifics with Joo—for every device that sports this logo. Click on the image to view a larger version.
-- right, who will be first to print that out and paste it to the back of their 770?

Protect Yourself Against Wi-Fi Bandwidth Vampires
http://nwc.networkingpipeline.com/sh...leId=168200045
>>>They come by night -- and, for that matter, by day -- furtively sucking the lifeblood from unprotected Wi-Fi networks wherever they find them. They're wireless bandwidth vampires.
-- and we'll be using 770s, too!

A non-no to google Google
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/arc...le_google.html
-- Google touts its "Do No Evil" philosophy. Here I see it is practicing its "Let's Just BE Evil" hidden philosophy. Gee, Google will now ban me too? Oh, the tears I am shedding!

-- more on this here --
Google: An Apology
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39212555,00.htm

Technorati 100: Inside And Outside The List
http://www.corante.com/getreal/archi...e_the_list.php
>>>In a recent post, Jason Calacanis on The Blog 500, I suggested that Jason Calacanis was off base when he said that the Technorati 100 are selected -- unlike the rest of the index -- "based on the number of links for all time." Jason also asserts that the T 100 don't change over time.
-- have any of you tried to *read* that Top 100? Most of it is just bloody boring tripe! Really, I'd rather watch TV! I'd sooner sit and watch Fox News!

Yell, Nokia In Mobile Phone Content Deal
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt...as/money/cm/nw
>>>Yell and Nokia Tuesday announced a collaboration which will see Yell.com as the U.K. local search engine in Nokia's new mobile search application.
-- right. Here's the new ad tagline one of you Big Fat Companies can pay me royalties for creating right here right now: Act Global. Search Local. PM me for the royalty address...

--edited to add--

What is RadioTime?
http://www.radiotime.com/
>>>RadioTime makes it easy to find better radio and listen when you like. The service includes a free web-based personalized guide to radio programs with desktop software to listen live, or later from MP3 files. Think of "TiVo for Radio". It's like having a personalized podcast from most any radio program.
-- ah, now this sounds (no pun intended!) like just the thing for the 770's streaming radio capability! The 770: A Radio TiVo in Your Hand!

More for the "Of Interest" category...

Concurrent and GoldPocket Announce Integrated Applications for On-Demand
http://www.ecmag.net/Articles/Articl...ArticleID=8341
>>>GoldPocket's advanced media solutions, combined with Concurrent's MediaHawk IMS, is designed to enable two-way interactivity with on-demand programming content, allowing consumers to customize their television viewing experience. GoldPocket technology enables users viewing on-demand programs to "telescope" to advertising, commerce capabilities, or other specialized content via "hotspots," or visual cues that are layered on top of the content. GoldPocket's StoryTeller, an interactive authoring product, allows providers to customize on-demand interfaces to reflect their content, creating these hotspots that highlight content specifically tailored to a viewer's preferences. The latest addition to Concurrent's on-demand platform, the MediaHawk Interactive Media Solution (IMS), helps service providers offer targeted promotions and advertising, taking the on-demand navigation process to an interactive level. Concurrent's MediaHawk IMS, with its in-band streaming technology, provides a solid foundation to support the interactive applications available from GoldPocket Interactive.

-- a bit of history is in order here. During the glorious First Coming of the Internet, GoldPocket ran a live, real-time trivia game with a million-dollar prize, called Live Trivia. (Ah, those were the days!) Came the Crucifixion of the Internet, they retreated to providing what they called LiveMatrix, a software/procedure for delivering live, real-time events. (Alas, without that million-dollar incentive for being there!) I wrote about the convergence of televised events and wireless devices here --

Palm Computing and the Promise of Real Convergence
http://www.palminfocenter.com/print.asp?ID=818

-- perhaps with the Second Coming of the Internet -- with the 770 thrown in and millions of people sitting in front of their TVs with it -- we'll see this finally come to pass. I hope I win the million then!

Debian Debuts in China
http://asia.internet.com/news/article.php/3526221
>>>Beijing, China-based Sun Wah Linux officially announced its enterprise Debian Linux offering today at LinuxWorld San Francisco.

>>>The launch of Sun Wah's enterprise Debian offering comes as the Debian Common Core Alliance (DCCA) officially launches at LinuxWorld and vendors, including Novell, Red Hat, Turbolinux and Red Flag Linux, all vie for the lucrative top spot in the world's fastest-growing economy.

Have WiFi adapter, will map
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pa...&itemNo=607674
>>>Even today, after devoting an entire month of his life to researching the subject, as well as several more weeks to analyzing the resulting data and then organizing it on a multicolored map that rivals any in a military situation room, Ofir Gal-Mor, 32, of Ramat Hasharon, still has no explanation for the mapping bug that infected him one day in March.
-- give this a read!

The above was sourced from Michael Gartenberg's blog, which also provides this --
The Battle for Power (outlets)
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/a...es/009728.html

Nokia: Going Cheap!
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1845817,00.asp
>>> I thought the report about Cisco taking over Nokia was hilarious.
-- well, it scared me!

Future of the Rich Internet Application
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t21372.html
>>> Datamonitor published a recent article titled "The Saga of the Rich Internet Client". Most people call this RIA, for Rich Internet Application, so I'm going to stick with that name here.
-- this stuff will have to run on cellphones, the 770, and the like. Are these people thinking about that? Anyway, given that this site touts Java, it's another reminder that the 770 shipping without Java is a mistake.

Appeal could delay new fast Finnish mobile network
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/new...a-212086-1.xml
>>>HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's new mobile broadband network, expected to be the first of its kind, could be delayed by up to a year due to appeals by rivals proposing alternative technology, a Finnish court official said on Tuesday.

>>>The technology, developed by unlisted U.S. firm Flarion, has been used for fast Internet access on computers and is now getting out of the test phase.

Why the Internet is wonderful (pt 479)
http://blog.org/archives/001298.html
>>>As Salon pointed out to me, the wonderful folks at the Internet Archive have 150 tracks of Caruso singing – part 1 and part 2 – turned from 78s into MP3s. Download what you like before some idiot lengthens the term of copyright even more and it goes out of the public domain again…

>>>And along similar lines, I was encouraged to learn that the BBC’s recent experiment with free Beethoven downloads garnered millions of downloads – many more than any commercial single sales.
-- related note: visit http://www.teleread.org/blog daily for your minimum daily dose of the DRM/Copyright battles.

More "Of Interest"...

Oracle looking to Linux
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5825...=st.util.print
>>>Within the next five years, half of Oracle's customers may be running Linux, President Charles Phillips has predicted.
--more here--
Oracle's Charles Phillips: On demand is the future
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1701
-- lets not forget that business users will want to access their Oracle DBs *wirelessly* as well as *inexpensively*. This is where the 770 fits in. I don't think it will be difficult for Oracle or even their clients to devise a 770 client to access corporate Oracle DBs. The more companies that adopt the 770, the higher its visibility. The more that are out there, the more economies of scale kick in and we can get lowered prices -- and if not lowered prices, at least an *affordable* price for *in-store* sales.

Stealing your neighbor's Net
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/08/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes
>>>The spread of wireless is opening lots of opportunity to log on for free, but experts urge caution.

Business Objects Offers Apps For Linux
http://www.crn.com/sections/breaking...leArticle=true
>>> Business Objects aims to address one of the biggest issues facing Linux: A dearth of applications that run on the open-source operating system.

LinuxWorld news
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/linuxworld.html
-- the Expo was held in San Francisco. Nokia did not attend.

Envisioning RSS as a Web 2.0 platform
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/7562
>>>RSS began its life as a really simple way for content providers to syndicate their content and for content consumers to subscribe to their favorite providers. When the blogosphere emerged, RSS really took off. Now, just as its “simple” technology cousin, HTML, provided the underpinnings of the Web 1.0 technology platform, RSS is emerging as a platform for delivering the broadband and mobile ready applications of a Web 2.0 enabled world.
-- I think it is entirely possible that the 770 will reshape the Internet. It's the first easily-totable and inexpensive device with a *good* screen. Blogs came about because someone thought it would be a good idea for people to have easier publishing tools. How will devs be inspired by the 770?

More "Of Interest"...

What Business Can Learn from Open Source
http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html
>>>Like open source, blogging is something people do themselves, for free, because they enjoy it. Like open source hackers, bloggers compete with people working for money, and often win. The method of ensuring quality is also the same: Darwinian. Companies ensure quality through rules to prevent employees from screwing up. But you don't need that when the audience can communicate with one another. People just produce whatever they want; the good stuff spreads, and the bad gets ignored. And in both cases, feedback from the audience improves the best work.
--this was sourced from the following link, whose promo of an excerpt really got on my tits for being so fekkin stupid! So of course I just had to leave a nasty comment to the clueless. It'll probably be gone by the time you go look (if you do) --
http://www.corante.com/futuretense/a...pen_source.php
-- and because they thought *that* excerpt was so revelatory, it's clear business will learn *nothing* from open source. (Well, I hope Nokia will. They are now the Great Open Source Hope.)

Amp'd calls up $60M
http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/CS?...=1123524351540
>>>Armed with $60 million in first round venture funding, Amp'd Mobile is gearing up to battle the giants of the wireless world with the planned launch of its broadband mobile phone services targeting 18-to-35-year-olds.
-- MVNO, another acronym to give me a headache. OK, kids, which would you rather do? Squint at a wee cellphone screen while your per-month minutes go drip-drip-drip down the drain, or be at a free public WiFi hotspot viewing stuff on a 770's big screen? It seems to me that at some point A Corporate Pinstriper will wake up to the fact that cellcos and free public hotspots cannot peacefully co-exist. Then will either come the Night of the Long Knives for Free WiFi or the collapse and death of the Hold-'em-Hostage-and-Bleed-Them Typical Corporate Cellco. Keep being smug, Cellco, Inc. Back in the 1980s, there was this very popular online service called CompuServe. They actually thought they were delivering *value* at a connect-time rate of $3.00 *per hour* (actually, it might have been $3.50, if not even $4) -- until the Internet showed up with ISPs charging a flat unlimited-use monthly fee. Where is the Almighty CompuServe today? Eh? You guys are the next dinosaur to be ground down.

The Second Coming of the Internet
Here are a three links that are debating just what the Second Coming will be like. I don't expect it to be anything like what these guys are going on about. BitTorrent, for example, came out of nowhere -- from the head of *one guy* -- and changed everything.

http://phaidon.philo.at/martin/archives/000298.html
http://www.itgarage.com/node/641
http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/0...rdays-web.html

Talking with Steve
http://archive.scripting.com/2005/08...lkingWithSteve
-- Dave Winer goes on about the value of local searching, the sort of stuff I wondered about the 770 affecting in a prior post.

Go Refigure
http://doc.weblogs.com/2005/08/09#goRefigure
>>>Already it's 2005, and all the hotels (like all the airlines and rental car agencies) still sit out there in their silos, with their stupid, deaf, blind CRM systems, trying to trap and hold (or, in slaveholder parlance, own) customers — about whom their systems know as little as possible — inside. Rather than engage in a truly free (and therefore open) marketplace.
-- it's about Captive WiFi. I love this rant!

Rasiej Plan to Wi-Fi NY
http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/20...ame=wifi&page=
>>>It’s time to bring New York City into the 21st century.

>>>One big step in that direction will be to bring affordable, universal wireless (”Wi-Fi”) to all New Yorkers.
-- holy cow! If you live in New York City, go read this link!

Calling All Luddites
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/op...erland&emc=rss
>>>I've been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana's.
-- this is the NY Times site. I hope you've regged! I did warn you earlier.

Why Murdoch Really Bought MySpace?
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/06/why-mur...ought-myspace/
>>>Much like Viacom’s CBS decided to use the broadband web to bypass cable and compete against the 24-hour news networks like CNN and FoxNews (see PaidContent’s coverage here), the acquisition of MySpace positions Murdoch to challenge the dominance of MTV in their category. I’m willing to bet that he will go even further by eventually extending the MySpace brand to include a dedicated cable & satellite network/channel. He is after all an old media guy. In fact, just a couple of weeks before News Corp. announced the deal, we all witnessed the web’s potential in this context when AOL’s webcasting audience for Live 8 outreached MTV and ABC’s ratings of the same event (details here.) Such a data point can go a long way towards justifying a $580 million price tag.
-- so, will MySpace get wise and start partnering with Nokia to offer the 770 to its users? (Not that I want to help Murdoch make money; I detest him! 770 advocacy makes strange bedfellows...)

YouTube
http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=137
-- flickr for video!

Ten Things That Will Be Free
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003067.shtml
>>>I started to name the list "Ten Things That Must Be Free" - but this sounded to me too much like an empty political demand. And the point is: this is not a dream list of things which I hope through some magic to become free, but a list of things which I believe are solvable in reality, things that will be free. Anyone whose business model for the next 100 years depends on these things remaining proprietary better watch out: free culture is coming to get you.

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AOL Rising
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008565.html
>>>Maybe its because I now work at an Internet Portal and thus am more aware of these things, but it seems that AOL is making all the right moves lately to become a serious competitor to MSN and Yahoo! Let's tick off the things they've done over the past month or so:
-- a good list that shows AOL is really making moves. I wasn't aware of any of this. However, AOL is the CompuServe of today... can they avoid its fate?

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What Education Can Learn From Open Source
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/356
>>>Paul Graham recently offered the interesting essay, “What Business Can Learn From Open Source“. It’s a worthwhile read, and our educational institutions could easily adapt some of idea from the essay. I have taken the liberty of adapting this essay focused on business to suit the educational environment.
-- inspired by what I linked to first in this entry. OK, you guys get one crack at a sequel and this was it. I'm not posting an endless list of "What X Can Learn from Open Source."

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Life After the Oil Crash
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/SecondPage.html

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What the Dormouse Said: An Interview with John Markoff
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/intervie...9_markoff.html
>>>I think that in large part many of the values that emerged in the '60s have very much stayed with the computer industry and, in fact, with those responsible for all digital media. I'm thinking particularly of the Open Source movement, which first emerged in the '60s and '70s but didn't really have a huge impact until the mid '90s, and is now very much playing a dramatic role in guiding the direction of technology today.
-- bloody excellent interview, and I must read this book!

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Cisco finally comments on those rumors...
Cisco CEO on Nokia: Don’t confuse partnerships with M&A
http://telephonyonline.com/finance/n...rships_080905/
>>>“I was surprised by the credibility the market gave to recent rumors,” Chambers said during the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday afternoon, insisting that Cisco’s long-held acquisition strategy has not changed. The company prefers to acquire small, young companies with interesting technologies that share a similar corporate culture and geographic proximity with Cisco. As many analysts pointed out, that strategy is entirely inconsistent with the idea of acquiring a large, foreign vendor like Nokia.

Browser Options for the Nokia 770
http://www.postneo.com/2005/08/09/br...-the-nokia-770
>>>It looks like users will have several browser options to choose from when the Nokia 770 drops.

¿La punta del Iceberg?
http://outdabox.blogspot.com/2005/05...l-iceberg.html
>>>Nokia va a comercializar a partir del ultimo trimestre del presente año un PDA-Tablet basado en Debian Linux. El nuevo Nokia 770, que no dispone de funcionalidad como teléfono móvil se presenta como una gran alternativa utilizando Software Libre a las actuales PDAs, pero con características más propias de un laptop.

Nokia permite el uso de sus patentes a Linux
http://www.error500.net/nokia_patentes_linux
>>>Además de la salida del Nokia 770 Internet Tablet basado en Linux Debian, la compañía telefónica finlandesa ha dado un paso más allá de utilizar Linux, y es el permitir el uso de sus patentes al kernel de Linux.

WiMax Guide
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp...svl=reports1_3
-- good FAQ, but I don't want to dance with them:
http://img.lightreading.com/images/u.../dancing_2.jpg

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Violating my own rule. More than 3 things here, but I'm not doing a new post. No refunds, no returns.

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo - Day 1
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?s...36257&from=rss
-- so there's Batman, chatting up Wonder Woman.

Envisioning a wireless future
http://news.com.com/2102-1071_3-5825...=st.util.print
>>>When taken in small doses, technical evolution seems fluid and almost natural. But considering the advances in technology over the course of decades reveals a much more radical transformation of the way we live, communicate and entertain.
-- ach, I don't *want* implants!

Time Warner Still Interested In Mobile Service
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050809/2028202_F.shtml
-- these guys should make Roadrunner work properly *first*!

Debian Dissension Gets Louder
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/...=157639,00.asp
>>>The Debian Common Core Alliance hasn't even been formally announced yet at LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, and already one of its prospective members, VA Linux Japan, is explaining why it isn't joining.

DTV Beta: Internet TV on Your Mac
http://participatoryculture.org/download.php
>>>DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library. Our publishing software lets you broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost. The project is non-profit, free and open source, and built on open standards.
-- I'm really stretching by putting this in here. But I think it'll be good to know later on...

What mobile OS do you want get support for?
http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=149816#149816
-- someone asks for a Skype port to the 770.

Tablet tascabile di Nokia con SO Linux
http://www.ziobudda.net/news/see_com..._notizia=23607
>>>gIANNI scrive: "Sarà disponibile a breve un bel tablet tascabile con sistema operativo linux, della nokia. Il kernel utilizzato è il 2.6 e le gui si basano su Gnome. Tutto l'ambiente di sviluppo è rilasciato sotto licenze Open Source. Il prodotto è visibile sul sito della Nokia: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/770 L'ambiente di sviluppo è scaricabile a questo indirizzo: http://www.maemo.org/index.html ...dimenticavo, il costo sarà di circa 350 Dollari Americani". [03/08/2005]

maemo applications
http://svenfoo.geekheim.de/index.php...-applications/
>>>Looks like Abiword and Gnumeric have been ported to the Nokia 770. Let’s hope that the device that I won at GUADEC will arrive soon so that we can start porting GIMP.

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Nokia/Maemo at GUADEC 6 - Stuttgart
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcrozat/sets/413224/
-- flickr portfolio.

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Reading PDF Documents on a PDA
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...?threadid=4684
>>>Over the months and years, we've seen a lot of proposed methods for reading pdf (Acrobat Reader) documents. I'm not sure, though, if any of these are clean, reliable and relatively successful.
-- I will be so glad to have a 770. This nightmare will then be over.