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2005-08-10
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Net problems, PC problems, and Stuff To Do took me away for a while. During that time, I've thought better.
For one, I've taken my name off the title of this ersatz blog. I'd like to have others chime in here. You lot must do some interesting reading out there. Whatever is Of Interest or Potential Interest to 770 owners should be plopped in here. Let's try for an all-in-one resource.
These things would include:
1) The Second Coming of the Internet (or Web 2.0 as others call it)
2) Open Source developments in general
3) Neat sites that 770 owners might want to know about
4) The wireless world and where it is going
5) Non-770 Nokia stuff
And things like that.
For one, I've taken my name off the title of this ersatz blog. I'd like to have others chime in here. You lot must do some interesting reading out there. Whatever is Of Interest or Potential Interest to 770 owners should be plopped in here. Let's try for an all-in-one resource.
These things would include:
1) The Second Coming of the Internet (or Web 2.0 as others call it)
2) Open Source developments in general
3) Neat sites that 770 owners might want to know about
4) The wireless world and where it is going
5) Non-770 Nokia stuff
And things like that.
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2005-08-10
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About PenguinTV
http://penguintv.sourceforge.net/
>>>PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format.
-- now this is something the 770 needs!
RSS Compendium Blog
http://ast.antville.org/
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Nokia CEO may visit MEA region ahead of departure
http://www.itp.net/news/details.php?id=17197&category=
>>>Outgoing Nokia chief executive Jorma Ollila may pay a visit to the Middle East region before his tenure ends in October 2006, says Eddy Rizk, Nokia’s senior communications manager for the MEA region. “There’s a possibility Ollila may visit the region in the next 6-12 months,” Rizk says. Motorola CEO Ed Zander is also reported to be preparing to visit the region before year-end.
-- what's this? No farewell Jorma World Tour?
Podcasting attracts stupid VC bucks
http://hosting.mansellgroup.net/enab...ters/Aug10.htm
>>>There is little that gets Valley girls and boys as hot and bothered as when an Internet company gets funded by both Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. So it’s worth noting that the iconic venture shops have participated in an $8.85 million Series A round for PodShow Inc., according to a regulatory filing. For an added bonus, both John Doerr and Ray Lane have taken board seats, joining both Jerry Newman of Bear Stearns and omnipresent angel investor Ram Shriram (Google, Plaxo, Zazzle, etc.), who is representing shareholder Harris MyCFO Inc.
>>>PodShow is a Miami Beach-based company focused on the development, management and promotion of online audio programming, with an obvious focus on the podcasting phenomenon. It seems to be the renamed version of Boku Communications, which was launched last year by Ron Bloom and “The Podfather” Adam Curry (who was the MTV VJ with whom I grew up).
-- usually I don't make up a headline, but this one deserved it. I hate podcasts!
Too Much Data=Too Little Knowledge
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0...1846760,00.asp
>>>Now for the bad news. Well before we get to 1:1 atoms per bit, we will need more atoms than are likely to be available if we want to store everything we will be creating and keeping. In fact, even if every atom of the earth were available to store a single bit, we still wouldn't have enough atoms to meet the projected storage demand by 2018. That's scary.
-- when I first saw this headline, I thought, "Yeah, right. Tell that to Sherlock Holmes!" But check out the paragraph I've excerpted above.
-- edited again to add --
System for TAgging Messages, Post-Inferential Semantics
http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/research/stamps/'
[I]-- cutting to the chase, read the following link first:[I]
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/200..._for_tagg.html
-- Web 2.0: Stalker's Playground.
Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr44878.html
>>>SUMMARY:
>>>The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.
-- hey, I stopped using MSIE after several people finally wore me down and I tried Firefox. These eejits want me to have to go back in order to e-file a Copyright form?! Are they nuts? What if I want to file from the 770, using Opera or any other browser? Sure, I guess some of these browsers can "fool" a site into thinking it's MSIE, but that's not the point! Online communication is *not* one vast MS standard
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Is anyone listening? WiFi and the new ADD
http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000764.html
-- and --
Speaking and wifi at events
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/0...with-wifi.html
-- wait til the 770 is in the hands of all these people! You'll be talking to someone one-on-one and they'll be doing WiFi! And guess what? You'll be doing it too!
Last edited by Mike Cane; 2005-08-10 at 21:04. Reason: Added stuff; see post version bumber
http://penguintv.sourceforge.net/
>>>PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format.
-- now this is something the 770 needs!
RSS Compendium Blog
http://ast.antville.org/
-- edited to add --
Nokia CEO may visit MEA region ahead of departure
http://www.itp.net/news/details.php?id=17197&category=
>>>Outgoing Nokia chief executive Jorma Ollila may pay a visit to the Middle East region before his tenure ends in October 2006, says Eddy Rizk, Nokia’s senior communications manager for the MEA region. “There’s a possibility Ollila may visit the region in the next 6-12 months,” Rizk says. Motorola CEO Ed Zander is also reported to be preparing to visit the region before year-end.
-- what's this? No farewell Jorma World Tour?
Podcasting attracts stupid VC bucks
http://hosting.mansellgroup.net/enab...ters/Aug10.htm
>>>There is little that gets Valley girls and boys as hot and bothered as when an Internet company gets funded by both Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. So it’s worth noting that the iconic venture shops have participated in an $8.85 million Series A round for PodShow Inc., according to a regulatory filing. For an added bonus, both John Doerr and Ray Lane have taken board seats, joining both Jerry Newman of Bear Stearns and omnipresent angel investor Ram Shriram (Google, Plaxo, Zazzle, etc.), who is representing shareholder Harris MyCFO Inc.
>>>PodShow is a Miami Beach-based company focused on the development, management and promotion of online audio programming, with an obvious focus on the podcasting phenomenon. It seems to be the renamed version of Boku Communications, which was launched last year by Ron Bloom and “The Podfather” Adam Curry (who was the MTV VJ with whom I grew up).
-- usually I don't make up a headline, but this one deserved it. I hate podcasts!
Too Much Data=Too Little Knowledge
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0...1846760,00.asp
>>>Now for the bad news. Well before we get to 1:1 atoms per bit, we will need more atoms than are likely to be available if we want to store everything we will be creating and keeping. In fact, even if every atom of the earth were available to store a single bit, we still wouldn't have enough atoms to meet the projected storage demand by 2018. That's scary.
-- when I first saw this headline, I thought, "Yeah, right. Tell that to Sherlock Holmes!" But check out the paragraph I've excerpted above.
-- edited again to add --
System for TAgging Messages, Post-Inferential Semantics
http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/research/stamps/'
[I]-- cutting to the chase, read the following link first:[I]
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/200..._for_tagg.html
-- Web 2.0: Stalker's Playground.
Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr44878.html
>>>SUMMARY:
>>>The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.
-- hey, I stopped using MSIE after several people finally wore me down and I tried Firefox. These eejits want me to have to go back in order to e-file a Copyright form?! Are they nuts? What if I want to file from the 770, using Opera or any other browser? Sure, I guess some of these browsers can "fool" a site into thinking it's MSIE, but that's not the point! Online communication is *not* one vast MS standard
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Is anyone listening? WiFi and the new ADD
http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000764.html
-- and --
Speaking and wifi at events
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/0...with-wifi.html
-- wait til the 770 is in the hands of all these people! You'll be talking to someone one-on-one and they'll be doing WiFi! And guess what? You'll be doing it too!
Last edited by Mike Cane; 2005-08-10 at 21:04. Reason: Added stuff; see post version bumber
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2005-08-11
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When laptops are a pain in the neck
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/sto...546144,00.html
>>>Jeremy Clarkson and I seem to have something in common: we've both been laid low partly by our laptops. Physically, if not financially, he's much worse off than me. According to his column in The Sunday Times, he's visiting an osteopath for a slipped disc, whereas I'm just having physiotherapy for a cricked neck. But in a world where Wi-Fi and notebook computers are replacing wired desktops, this is very likely to become an increasingly common problem for computer users over the next few years.
-- it will be interesting to see how many of these people wind up writing stories along the lines of, "I Ditched My Notebook for a Nokia 770!"
Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...)
http://odeo.com/blog/2005/08/odeo-re...m-charles.html
-- a second podcast venture attracts VC funding. I don't care. I hate podcasts. They demand way too much time compared to print. And their information-to-time ratio is far too low. Don't bother defending them to me. You'll only annoy me and frustrate yourself.
The Pulse of Modern Mobile Design
http://www.designinteract.com/features/
>>>When it comes to design for mobile devices, it’s tempting to take an ostrich-like approach: Hide your head in the sand and behave as though nothing is happening. Unfortunately, in the not-too-distant future, more people will be using mobile devices to access the Net; and no interactive designer will be able to ignore them.
I see the Beeb has trotted out Berners-Lee for a Q&A about the WWW. Ignore that. You won't learn a bloody thing. This is the guy you should know about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
His books are mostly out of print. "Dream Machines" goes for a bloody small fortune, if you can even find it, on ebay. That and "The Home Computer Revolution" are marvelous, timeless books that will take your breath away. That they are not in every public library and easy to buy in affordable editions is truly a cultural crime. His home page is:
http://ted.hyperland.com/
This man is like a god to me. More:
The Structure and Boundaries of Information
http://www.scope.at/live/nelson.html
>>>39 years ago, I had some very simple ideas and unfortunately, they’re still too simple for most people. And, uh, it takes forever, 39 years, to explain them. Someone asked me yesterday, how come I wasn’t rich ? And I was reminded of the inventor of television, or, at least, of one them, I forget his name, who I believed starved to death and was eaten by rats. So, I feel terribly lucky. On the other hand, when it comes to being eaten by rats, there was an article in Wired magazine that came close, which depicted me as a incoherent blithering drooling fool incapable of harboring let alone expressing a coherent thought.
-- and --
The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History
http://www.netvalley.com/intvalliv.html
-- from the sublime to the slime --
News Corp's Murdoch: No Bigger Priority Than Internet
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt...as/money/cm/nw
>>>News Corp. (NWSA) (NWSA, NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch said the media conglomerate has no greater priority than to expand its presence on the Internet.
-- this is the guy who bought Delphi and threw it in the trash. Eejit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/sto...546144,00.html
>>>Jeremy Clarkson and I seem to have something in common: we've both been laid low partly by our laptops. Physically, if not financially, he's much worse off than me. According to his column in The Sunday Times, he's visiting an osteopath for a slipped disc, whereas I'm just having physiotherapy for a cricked neck. But in a world where Wi-Fi and notebook computers are replacing wired desktops, this is very likely to become an increasingly common problem for computer users over the next few years.
-- it will be interesting to see how many of these people wind up writing stories along the lines of, "I Ditched My Notebook for a Nokia 770!"
Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...)
http://odeo.com/blog/2005/08/odeo-re...m-charles.html
-- a second podcast venture attracts VC funding. I don't care. I hate podcasts. They demand way too much time compared to print. And their information-to-time ratio is far too low. Don't bother defending them to me. You'll only annoy me and frustrate yourself.
The Pulse of Modern Mobile Design
http://www.designinteract.com/features/
>>>When it comes to design for mobile devices, it’s tempting to take an ostrich-like approach: Hide your head in the sand and behave as though nothing is happening. Unfortunately, in the not-too-distant future, more people will be using mobile devices to access the Net; and no interactive designer will be able to ignore them.
I see the Beeb has trotted out Berners-Lee for a Q&A about the WWW. Ignore that. You won't learn a bloody thing. This is the guy you should know about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
His books are mostly out of print. "Dream Machines" goes for a bloody small fortune, if you can even find it, on ebay. That and "The Home Computer Revolution" are marvelous, timeless books that will take your breath away. That they are not in every public library and easy to buy in affordable editions is truly a cultural crime. His home page is:
http://ted.hyperland.com/
This man is like a god to me. More:
The Structure and Boundaries of Information
http://www.scope.at/live/nelson.html
>>>39 years ago, I had some very simple ideas and unfortunately, they’re still too simple for most people. And, uh, it takes forever, 39 years, to explain them. Someone asked me yesterday, how come I wasn’t rich ? And I was reminded of the inventor of television, or, at least, of one them, I forget his name, who I believed starved to death and was eaten by rats. So, I feel terribly lucky. On the other hand, when it comes to being eaten by rats, there was an article in Wired magazine that came close, which depicted me as a incoherent blithering drooling fool incapable of harboring let alone expressing a coherent thought.
-- and --
The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History
http://www.netvalley.com/intvalliv.html
-- from the sublime to the slime --
News Corp's Murdoch: No Bigger Priority Than Internet
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt...as/money/cm/nw
>>>News Corp. (NWSA) (NWSA, NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch said the media conglomerate has no greater priority than to expand its presence on the Internet.
-- this is the guy who bought Delphi and threw it in the trash. Eejit.
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2005-08-11
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Two items carried over from yesterday --
State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 4: Spam and Fake Blogs
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html
>>>Today I will write about some of the darker sides of the blogosphere, including the increase in spam and fake blogs, comment and trackback spam. Along with the growth in the blogosphere (as reported in parts 1, 2 and 3 last week), Technorati has also been tracking an increase in the number of people who are trying to manipulate the blogosphere. First off, some defintions:
-- he doesn't use my prefered term: roboblogs.
Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly In Two Minutes
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/a...obile-friendly
>>>After checking out B. Adam Howell’s excellent IYHY.com site a couple of weeks ago, I thought it might be a good idea to write a little tutorial about how to make your entire site more mobile-friendly without even touching your pages. You may think that since you write valid code and separate structure from presentation at all times, your site already works great on mobile devices. You may also think bad things don’t happen to good people. In both cases, you’d be wrong.
-- this has some very nice and convincing examples. Would 770 owners prefer to go to a mobile-friendly version of a site even with the 770 having almost the viewing power of a desktop PC?
-- and now today --
Unhappiness drives open source adoption
http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...3-758193AE36BF
>>>A common reason why more governments and enterprises around the world are moving to open source software is unhappiness, it was revealed during a panel discussion at the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco yesterday.
-- in my own case, I have been very unhappy with PalmOS, and PPC just sucks (and yes, I've used PPC; I own a dead GENIO).
ibiblio torrents
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/
>>>Providing BitTorrent access to ibiblio content
-- legal stuff; with Project Gutenberg ebooks too! Now all we need is a 770 BT client...
Take Your Pick of the Debian Litter
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...le.php/3526396
>>>Since Knoppix burst dramatically into the Linux scene there has been an explosion of Debian-based distributions. This is welcome news to us lonely souls who have long been preaching that Red Hat is not Linux. Linux covers a far wider spectrum, as a quick peek at DistroWatch demonstrates. You'll find everything from tiny specialized Linuxes that fit on embedded devices, USB keys, floppy diskettes, or miniature CDs, to full-blown "kitchen sink" distributions that fill a DVD. Red Hat deserves a substantial amount of credit for supporting Linux development, popularizing Linux, and spawning a host of other Linux distributions. Just don't think that Red Hat is all there is to the Linux world.
-- repeating: Maemo is based on Debian.
HTC 'to build' Palm's Windows-based Treo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...palm_treo_670/
-- cue "Taps" for PalmOS.
Open-source allies go on patent offensive
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5827...=st.util.print
>>>Two Linux allies are taking a leaf out of their opponents' book as they try to prevent software patents from putting a crimp in open source.
Linux licence revamp in the offing
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/...ge=1&pagePos=3
>>>The basic open-source licence covering software such as the Linux OS will be revamped and ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project.
Slime Update:
Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller?
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2040
>>>Paid Content listened to Rupert Murdoch’s earnings call (bless them) and had this to report about Murdoch’s local musings (which are full of hubris of course): Murdoch sent a wake-up call to local online players, ticking off the lengthy list of local properties in the U.S.—35 o-and-o TV stations, 21 regionl sports nets, print, existing web sites. “We already have the assets to be a dominant player” in online local. “We go deeper with more resources than virtually anyone else … We plan to exploit that advantage.”
-- OK, if Crudmeister Murdoch, who is no slouch to exploiting things (and even wasting them, witness Delphi), says local search will be big, then you can count on it. I expect he has seen the 770 and that got him going.
State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 4: Spam and Fake Blogs
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html
>>>Today I will write about some of the darker sides of the blogosphere, including the increase in spam and fake blogs, comment and trackback spam. Along with the growth in the blogosphere (as reported in parts 1, 2 and 3 last week), Technorati has also been tracking an increase in the number of people who are trying to manipulate the blogosphere. First off, some defintions:
-- he doesn't use my prefered term: roboblogs.
Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly In Two Minutes
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/a...obile-friendly
>>>After checking out B. Adam Howell’s excellent IYHY.com site a couple of weeks ago, I thought it might be a good idea to write a little tutorial about how to make your entire site more mobile-friendly without even touching your pages. You may think that since you write valid code and separate structure from presentation at all times, your site already works great on mobile devices. You may also think bad things don’t happen to good people. In both cases, you’d be wrong.
-- this has some very nice and convincing examples. Would 770 owners prefer to go to a mobile-friendly version of a site even with the 770 having almost the viewing power of a desktop PC?
-- and now today --
Unhappiness drives open source adoption
http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...3-758193AE36BF
>>>A common reason why more governments and enterprises around the world are moving to open source software is unhappiness, it was revealed during a panel discussion at the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco yesterday.
-- in my own case, I have been very unhappy with PalmOS, and PPC just sucks (and yes, I've used PPC; I own a dead GENIO).
ibiblio torrents
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/
>>>Providing BitTorrent access to ibiblio content
-- legal stuff; with Project Gutenberg ebooks too! Now all we need is a 770 BT client...
Take Your Pick of the Debian Litter
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...le.php/3526396
>>>Since Knoppix burst dramatically into the Linux scene there has been an explosion of Debian-based distributions. This is welcome news to us lonely souls who have long been preaching that Red Hat is not Linux. Linux covers a far wider spectrum, as a quick peek at DistroWatch demonstrates. You'll find everything from tiny specialized Linuxes that fit on embedded devices, USB keys, floppy diskettes, or miniature CDs, to full-blown "kitchen sink" distributions that fill a DVD. Red Hat deserves a substantial amount of credit for supporting Linux development, popularizing Linux, and spawning a host of other Linux distributions. Just don't think that Red Hat is all there is to the Linux world.
-- repeating: Maemo is based on Debian.
HTC 'to build' Palm's Windows-based Treo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...palm_treo_670/
-- cue "Taps" for PalmOS.
Open-source allies go on patent offensive
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5827...=st.util.print
>>>Two Linux allies are taking a leaf out of their opponents' book as they try to prevent software patents from putting a crimp in open source.
Linux licence revamp in the offing
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/...ge=1&pagePos=3
>>>The basic open-source licence covering software such as the Linux OS will be revamped and ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project.
Slime Update:
Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller?
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2040
>>>Paid Content listened to Rupert Murdoch’s earnings call (bless them) and had this to report about Murdoch’s local musings (which are full of hubris of course): Murdoch sent a wake-up call to local online players, ticking off the lengthy list of local properties in the U.S.—35 o-and-o TV stations, 21 regionl sports nets, print, existing web sites. “We already have the assets to be a dominant player” in online local. “We go deeper with more resources than virtually anyone else … We plan to exploit that advantage.”
-- OK, if Crudmeister Murdoch, who is no slouch to exploiting things (and even wasting them, witness Delphi), says local search will be big, then you can count on it. I expect he has seen the 770 and that got him going.
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2005-08-11
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New Analysis of FCC July 2005 Broadband Report — A Devastating Critique of US Broadband Policy
http://muniwireless.com/community/796
>>>Broadband costs in the United States remain high, despite growth in the total number of connections. Meanwhile, the cost of broadband in other countries has dropped dramatically while speeds have increased. On a per megabit basis, U.S. consumers pay 10 to 25 times more than broadband users in Japan.
-- the Oligarchy at work...
Nokia zeigt Handy-TV
http://tomorrow.msn.de/news?id=182230
-- excerpt via Babelfish --
>>>Vodafone makes it in Germany already forwards: The service at its UMTS customers, most popular with distance, is the video offer. With "Vodafone MobileTV" particularly prepared transmissions - for example summaries of newscasts or the Top Lacher from the last Stefan-Raab-show - are made available as Download or Streaming. But television in the actual sense, thus live-uebertragung, is that not yet. Nokia and its partners - from the portable radio network carrier to the national TV transmitter -, which with approximately 500 test persons for well three months a mobile phone-tv-pilotprojekt in of Finland capital Helsinki accomplished, want however regular television broadcasts live on mobile phone to bring. And they are convinced of success. They feel confirmed by the statement of the participants, who evaluated mobile phone-tv to approximately 60% as good and desirable offer.
-- this is worth a look because there is a picture of this test device.
August Is the Month of Speculation
http://battellemedia.com/archives/001791.php
>>>First, I have very good confirmation that the earlier Meetro-Google rumour is false. Second, Rafat has a rundown on the word that Newscorp/Murdoch is on the prowl for search properties.
Cloud pushes Wi-Fi into the mainstream
http://www.nma.co.uk/Document.aspx?d...b-e141ef30273c
-- this one is for UK & European readers.
Opera finds new answers
http://news.com.com/2102-1038_3-5828...=st.util.print
>>>Opera Software and Answers.com announced a partnership Thursday in which the search engine will be integrated into the Opera browser and portal.
-- give us FURL!
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Nokia 9300 Smartphone Review
http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2623
>>>The Nokia 9300 is a well-made device, another of many that promise to do it all. I enjoy the 9300 for the most part. The display is great; it works well as a phone and does a pretty good job as a PDA. The software package is a little limiting, but depending on what you need, this may or may not be an issue. The web browser is strong and could be even better if there were a full screen mode. The biggest oversight that keeps me from pushing this device hard though is the lack of integration with middleware email systems like Exchange. For a device that's geared toward mobile business users, this alone might be enough to knock it out of contention, as it does for me, at least as a full time all in one device. It's a well made product though, certainly something that should at least get consideration, in a market dominated by ho-hum devices.
-- well, nice pictures.
Nokia make a white leather fashion statement
http://www.fashion.ie/index.cfm/fuse...565D3472F4.htm
>>>With fashion and functionality becoming intertwined more and more, Nokia have introduced an exclusive limited edition Nokia 7200 phone, complete with tailored, pure white leather covers. This Limited Edition phone offers state-of-the-art technology - such as camera and radio - in a haute couture, folding design.
-- I don't know. This seems to me like that old Claudia Schiffer Edition Palm V... See
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=1534
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http://muniwireless.com/community/796
>>>Broadband costs in the United States remain high, despite growth in the total number of connections. Meanwhile, the cost of broadband in other countries has dropped dramatically while speeds have increased. On a per megabit basis, U.S. consumers pay 10 to 25 times more than broadband users in Japan.
-- the Oligarchy at work...
Nokia zeigt Handy-TV
http://tomorrow.msn.de/news?id=182230
-- excerpt via Babelfish --
>>>Vodafone makes it in Germany already forwards: The service at its UMTS customers, most popular with distance, is the video offer. With "Vodafone MobileTV" particularly prepared transmissions - for example summaries of newscasts or the Top Lacher from the last Stefan-Raab-show - are made available as Download or Streaming. But television in the actual sense, thus live-uebertragung, is that not yet. Nokia and its partners - from the portable radio network carrier to the national TV transmitter -, which with approximately 500 test persons for well three months a mobile phone-tv-pilotprojekt in of Finland capital Helsinki accomplished, want however regular television broadcasts live on mobile phone to bring. And they are convinced of success. They feel confirmed by the statement of the participants, who evaluated mobile phone-tv to approximately 60% as good and desirable offer.
-- this is worth a look because there is a picture of this test device.
August Is the Month of Speculation
http://battellemedia.com/archives/001791.php
>>>First, I have very good confirmation that the earlier Meetro-Google rumour is false. Second, Rafat has a rundown on the word that Newscorp/Murdoch is on the prowl for search properties.
Cloud pushes Wi-Fi into the mainstream
http://www.nma.co.uk/Document.aspx?d...b-e141ef30273c
-- this one is for UK & European readers.
Opera finds new answers
http://news.com.com/2102-1038_3-5828...=st.util.print
>>>Opera Software and Answers.com announced a partnership Thursday in which the search engine will be integrated into the Opera browser and portal.
-- give us FURL!
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Nokia 9300 Smartphone Review
http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2623
>>>The Nokia 9300 is a well-made device, another of many that promise to do it all. I enjoy the 9300 for the most part. The display is great; it works well as a phone and does a pretty good job as a PDA. The software package is a little limiting, but depending on what you need, this may or may not be an issue. The web browser is strong and could be even better if there were a full screen mode. The biggest oversight that keeps me from pushing this device hard though is the lack of integration with middleware email systems like Exchange. For a device that's geared toward mobile business users, this alone might be enough to knock it out of contention, as it does for me, at least as a full time all in one device. It's a well made product though, certainly something that should at least get consideration, in a market dominated by ho-hum devices.
-- well, nice pictures.
Nokia make a white leather fashion statement
http://www.fashion.ie/index.cfm/fuse...565D3472F4.htm
>>>With fashion and functionality becoming intertwined more and more, Nokia have introduced an exclusive limited edition Nokia 7200 phone, complete with tailored, pure white leather covers. This Limited Edition phone offers state-of-the-art technology - such as camera and radio - in a haute couture, folding design.
-- I don't know. This seems to me like that old Claudia Schiffer Edition Palm V... See
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=1534
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Naysayers put Nokia N90 in doubt
http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/08/naysayers_put_n.html
>>>Everyone wants 2 megapixel cameras with video recording and MPEG4 support on a hard disk drive but unfortunately, being fickle beasts that we are, no one wants a brick in their pocket.
Nokia, Fashion, Lifeblog - Anina.net Invites Us Into the World of Fashion
http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack...fashion_l.html
>>>Supermodel, Anina Trepte together with Nokia have put together a mobile Lifeblog about fashion.
Nokia fashion week opens in Cape Town
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_3343208.htm
>>>The Nokia Cape Town Fashion Week kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa August 10, 2005 with 37 shows and more than 60 designers from 12 countries.
The URL says it all...
http://www.itplaysdoom.com/
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Good Grief! How did this stuff get by me til now?
Nokia Shorts 2005
http://www.nokiashorts.com/flash.htm
-- with related info here:
http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/08/15_second_short.html
-- fifteen seconds? Nanoprograms?!
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The Realm Mobile Personal Server (MPS)
http://www.realmsys.com/solutions.htm
>>>The Realm MPS represents the world's first and only secure, platform-independent, USB-powered computing device. Users can easily plug the MPS into any computer USB port (regardless of operating system) to safely and securely access their enterprise applications and services any place there is a network connection. The MPS includes an embedded operating system with up to 64 MB of DRAM, dual PowerPC processors, and up to 1GB of flash (using an SD expansion slot) or up to a 20 GB hard drive.
-- whoa! Powered by Debian. Go look at the pics and info! /.'s take is here:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl...04231&from=rss
Making the case for Windows on Palm devices
http://news.com.com/2102-1047_3-5829...=st.util.print
>>>A senior Palm executive says his company could benefit from building a mobile computing device that runs on the Windows operating system made by once-bitter rival Microsoft.
-- thank you, Nokia, for offering me an alternative!
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Handhelds' appeal obvious, to a point
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20050806
>>>In my case, I became so wrapped up in the wireless phenomenon — how you can pull out your laptop almost anywhere to get your messages — that I forgot about the whole handheld subcategory. Carrying a laptop is a little like dragging around a recliner. You can be comfortable anywhere you go, with all the comforts of home.
-- there have been plenty of articles like this in the past. But now this sort of thing takes on a different aspect with the advent of the 770. Will any of these people try it?
Vista Gives the Linux Desktop a Chance
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/...=157952,00.asp
>>>Opinion: It's late, it's lame and installing it won't be cheap, so now is the perfect time for Linux desktop vendors to make a charge at Microsoft.
Microsoft Needs to Come Clean About Vista
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1846067,00.asp
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French students to get Linux CDs
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=s...390t-10000004c
>>>Many secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open source software when they return to school in September.
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Some of the best videocasts
http://www.pdalive.com/showarticle.php?threadid=9534
>>>Podacsts are receiving enough attention, where everyone and their grandmother knows what the must-downloads are (see: Twit, iTunes New Music Tuesday, Daily Source Code,) but what about videocasts? This is a fairly new (in comparison with podcasts) concept to the mainstream, so here’s the quick Videocasts 101.
-- let's not forget the 770 can sort of do video (well, here's hoping the release version does it better than the pre-release one I fondled). Of course, devs might come out with other video players too!
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http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/08/naysayers_put_n.html
>>>Everyone wants 2 megapixel cameras with video recording and MPEG4 support on a hard disk drive but unfortunately, being fickle beasts that we are, no one wants a brick in their pocket.
Nokia, Fashion, Lifeblog - Anina.net Invites Us Into the World of Fashion
http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack...fashion_l.html
>>>Supermodel, Anina Trepte together with Nokia have put together a mobile Lifeblog about fashion.
Nokia fashion week opens in Cape Town
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_3343208.htm
>>>The Nokia Cape Town Fashion Week kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa August 10, 2005 with 37 shows and more than 60 designers from 12 countries.
The URL says it all...
http://www.itplaysdoom.com/
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Good Grief! How did this stuff get by me til now?
Nokia Shorts 2005
http://www.nokiashorts.com/flash.htm
-- with related info here:
http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/08/15_second_short.html
-- fifteen seconds? Nanoprograms?!
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The Realm Mobile Personal Server (MPS)
http://www.realmsys.com/solutions.htm
>>>The Realm MPS represents the world's first and only secure, platform-independent, USB-powered computing device. Users can easily plug the MPS into any computer USB port (regardless of operating system) to safely and securely access their enterprise applications and services any place there is a network connection. The MPS includes an embedded operating system with up to 64 MB of DRAM, dual PowerPC processors, and up to 1GB of flash (using an SD expansion slot) or up to a 20 GB hard drive.
-- whoa! Powered by Debian. Go look at the pics and info! /.'s take is here:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl...04231&from=rss
Making the case for Windows on Palm devices
http://news.com.com/2102-1047_3-5829...=st.util.print
>>>A senior Palm executive says his company could benefit from building a mobile computing device that runs on the Windows operating system made by once-bitter rival Microsoft.
-- thank you, Nokia, for offering me an alternative!
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Handhelds' appeal obvious, to a point
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20050806
>>>In my case, I became so wrapped up in the wireless phenomenon — how you can pull out your laptop almost anywhere to get your messages — that I forgot about the whole handheld subcategory. Carrying a laptop is a little like dragging around a recliner. You can be comfortable anywhere you go, with all the comforts of home.
-- there have been plenty of articles like this in the past. But now this sort of thing takes on a different aspect with the advent of the 770. Will any of these people try it?
Vista Gives the Linux Desktop a Chance
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/...=157952,00.asp
>>>Opinion: It's late, it's lame and installing it won't be cheap, so now is the perfect time for Linux desktop vendors to make a charge at Microsoft.
Microsoft Needs to Come Clean About Vista
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1846067,00.asp
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French students to get Linux CDs
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=s...390t-10000004c
>>>Many secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open source software when they return to school in September.
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Some of the best videocasts
http://www.pdalive.com/showarticle.php?threadid=9534
>>>Podacsts are receiving enough attention, where everyone and their grandmother knows what the must-downloads are (see: Twit, iTunes New Music Tuesday, Daily Source Code,) but what about videocasts? This is a fairly new (in comparison with podcasts) concept to the mainstream, so here’s the quick Videocasts 101.
-- let's not forget the 770 can sort of do video (well, here's hoping the release version does it better than the pre-release one I fondled). Of course, devs might come out with other video players too!
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Don't forget to check the prior post today for updates.
New Zealanders Take To Small Screen Action
http://www.cdg.org/news/latest_news....105_ind_a.html
>>>Telecom’s T3G Video Clips service has recently past the one million mark, just three months after its launch in April.
>>>The service, which is currently free, enables customers to stream video highlights up to three minutes long, directly to their mobile phone.
>>>Telecom estimates the one million streamed clips would equal about five and a half years’ worth of small screen viewing.
>>>In the three months since the service’s launch, approximately half of Telecom’s customers with video capable phones have streamed video clips.
-- geez! I'd really like to know the demographics of these users. Grown adults or teens? And I'd also like to see what the popularity of this is when they start tacking on fees! And what those fees are.
Don't Get Cozy With Ajax Just Yet
http://as400blog.blogspot.com/2005/0...-just-yet.html
>>>AJAX, the web technology that is spreading like wildfire and powers Google Maps, Flickr, Gmail, and even parts of Digg, is on everyone's mind right now. The problem is, AJAX provides the biggest security hole in years, allowing your keystrokes to be monitored, and other negative things. Devs and users, don't get too cozy with AJAX just yet.
-- sounds like the Second Coming of the Internet will be a wee bit delayed...
OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the "ouspoken"
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1721
>>>In case you missed it, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced this week at LinuxWorld that it would be creating a patent commons as it looks to further bolster the open source community's resilience to the patent related issues that could hold it back. Red Hat piled on by offering financial assistance to open source developers who were seeking patents as long as those patents would be made available to the open source community.
Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/library...ight=0,Soulpad
>>>The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one’s own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on carrying an auto-configuring operating system nalong with a suspended virtual machine on a small portable device. With this approach, the computer boots from the device and resumes the virtual machine, thus giving the user access to his personal environment, including previously running computations. SoulPad has minimal infrastructure requirements and is therefore applicable to a wide range of conditions, particularly in developing countries. We report our experience implementing SoulPad and using it on a variety of hardware configurations. We address challenges common to systems similar to SoulPad, and show that the SoulPad model has significant potential as a mobility solution.
-- leads to a PDF link with details. WTF? *IBM* using the word "soul"?! Is this the Noo Kewl IBM? Have they replaced their legendary "Think" signs with "Slack"?
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LinuxWorld Conference and Expo - Day 2
http://business.newsforge.com/articl...51203&from=rss
>>>The second day of LinuxWorld passed without any fistfights breaking out between vendors, although there are rumors of rancor between Sun and IBM over a modification of OpenOffice.org that IBM is passing out on CDs. There are more hardware vendors than last year, with bigger and splashier displays. And in honor of the late, great San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen, I will end this paragraph and some other ones with three dots...
Last edited by Mike Cane; 2005-08-13 at 01:09.
New Zealanders Take To Small Screen Action
http://www.cdg.org/news/latest_news....105_ind_a.html
>>>Telecom’s T3G Video Clips service has recently past the one million mark, just three months after its launch in April.
>>>The service, which is currently free, enables customers to stream video highlights up to three minutes long, directly to their mobile phone.
>>>Telecom estimates the one million streamed clips would equal about five and a half years’ worth of small screen viewing.
>>>In the three months since the service’s launch, approximately half of Telecom’s customers with video capable phones have streamed video clips.
-- geez! I'd really like to know the demographics of these users. Grown adults or teens? And I'd also like to see what the popularity of this is when they start tacking on fees! And what those fees are.
Don't Get Cozy With Ajax Just Yet
http://as400blog.blogspot.com/2005/0...-just-yet.html
>>>AJAX, the web technology that is spreading like wildfire and powers Google Maps, Flickr, Gmail, and even parts of Digg, is on everyone's mind right now. The problem is, AJAX provides the biggest security hole in years, allowing your keystrokes to be monitored, and other negative things. Devs and users, don't get too cozy with AJAX just yet.
-- sounds like the Second Coming of the Internet will be a wee bit delayed...
OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the "ouspoken"
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1721
>>>In case you missed it, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced this week at LinuxWorld that it would be creating a patent commons as it looks to further bolster the open source community's resilience to the patent related issues that could hold it back. Red Hat piled on by offering financial assistance to open source developers who were seeking patents as long as those patents would be made available to the open source community.
Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/library...ight=0,Soulpad
>>>The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one’s own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on carrying an auto-configuring operating system nalong with a suspended virtual machine on a small portable device. With this approach, the computer boots from the device and resumes the virtual machine, thus giving the user access to his personal environment, including previously running computations. SoulPad has minimal infrastructure requirements and is therefore applicable to a wide range of conditions, particularly in developing countries. We report our experience implementing SoulPad and using it on a variety of hardware configurations. We address challenges common to systems similar to SoulPad, and show that the SoulPad model has significant potential as a mobility solution.
-- leads to a PDF link with details. WTF? *IBM* using the word "soul"?! Is this the Noo Kewl IBM? Have they replaced their legendary "Think" signs with "Slack"?
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LinuxWorld Conference and Expo - Day 2
http://business.newsforge.com/articl...51203&from=rss
>>>The second day of LinuxWorld passed without any fistfights breaking out between vendors, although there are rumors of rancor between Sun and IBM over a modification of OpenOffice.org that IBM is passing out on CDs. There are more hardware vendors than last year, with bigger and splashier displays. And in honor of the late, great San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen, I will end this paragraph and some other ones with three dots...
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NYC Heat Index is 103. You think I'm gonna be looking for stuff to blog? Ha!
Are Computers without Hard Drives Useless? Doubtful.
http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...on=show&id=105
>>>Knoppix, a Linux based live CD, will boot a computer from the optical drive and gives a slow but usable graphical user interface. The average Windows user may balk at the idea of learning Linux. On the other hand, anyone willing to fumble around in the GUI for half an hour, and throw out the occasional Google search shouldn't have too many problems using the Knoppix interface. The most recent version, Knoppix 3.9, comes with Firefox and OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta, so if you're already using the Windows equivalent, Knoppix is that much easier to pick up. This still leaves the question, what can be done on a computer without a hard drive?
-- the 770 is announced and all the PPC Weenies chant, "No HD! No HD! Nyah, nyah! What good is *that*?" Then it turns out none of them went and got a MicroDrive anyway. And then they diss the RS-MMC too -- until Compaq this week reveals their latest will sport a *mini-SD*! Ha! I doubt the PPC Weenies could do the above with *Windows*.
Welcome to BlogDay.org
http://blogday.wikispaces.org/
-- another sign of Armageddon.
Ripple Project
Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Currency and Payment System
http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
>>>Ripple is a monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more efficient as a means of exchange.
-- this I will have to go study. Seems very interesting.
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I got screwed by a search engine that popped up something it said was news for *today* -- and it was from 2000! I plead heat prostration! Thanks to Jeff Kirvin for catching that!
My Experience with the Nokia Experience Center
>>>http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack...erience_w.html
>>>Ok first of all, it wasn't a center, it was a kiosk. Secondly, maybe it's just me, but the person working that pop-sickle stand was totally clueless!!! What are the job requirements?
-- someone in Finland better fix this!
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Are Computers without Hard Drives Useless? Doubtful.
http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...on=show&id=105
>>>Knoppix, a Linux based live CD, will boot a computer from the optical drive and gives a slow but usable graphical user interface. The average Windows user may balk at the idea of learning Linux. On the other hand, anyone willing to fumble around in the GUI for half an hour, and throw out the occasional Google search shouldn't have too many problems using the Knoppix interface. The most recent version, Knoppix 3.9, comes with Firefox and OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta, so if you're already using the Windows equivalent, Knoppix is that much easier to pick up. This still leaves the question, what can be done on a computer without a hard drive?
-- the 770 is announced and all the PPC Weenies chant, "No HD! No HD! Nyah, nyah! What good is *that*?" Then it turns out none of them went and got a MicroDrive anyway. And then they diss the RS-MMC too -- until Compaq this week reveals their latest will sport a *mini-SD*! Ha! I doubt the PPC Weenies could do the above with *Windows*.
Welcome to BlogDay.org
http://blogday.wikispaces.org/
-- another sign of Armageddon.
Ripple Project
Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Currency and Payment System
http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
>>>Ripple is a monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more efficient as a means of exchange.
-- this I will have to go study. Seems very interesting.
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I got screwed by a search engine that popped up something it said was news for *today* -- and it was from 2000! I plead heat prostration! Thanks to Jeff Kirvin for catching that!
My Experience with the Nokia Experience Center
>>>http://darlamack.blogs.com/darlamack...erience_w.html
>>>Ok first of all, it wasn't a center, it was a kiosk. Secondly, maybe it's just me, but the person working that pop-sickle stand was totally clueless!!! What are the job requirements?
-- someone in Finland better fix this!
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Too hot to blog. You're on your own the rest of today.
Coming soon: Soap opera on your Nokia phone
http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO2005081441808.html
>>>Phone maker Nokia is looking at offering television via the mobile phone as one of the value-added services for customers of its new line of cellular phone models which will soon be launched in the Philippines.
>>>However, Parikshit Bhasin country manager of Nokia, said the Finland-based firm has yet to hold negotiations with Philippine-based broadcasting companies for the mobile TV service, which will use DVB or digital video broadcasting, an international standard for beaming TV signals to mobile phones.
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Eh. I came back. Once.
YouTube -- The Flickr of Video?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...20217&from=rss
Debian start-up seeks new funding
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5831...=st.util.print
>>>Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialize the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed.
Creative Technology chokes after trying to bite into Apple
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...recreativetech
>>>One year after launching a direct challenge to Apple Computer's iconic iPod, Creative Technology is finding it tougher than expected to bite market share off the US-based digital music player giant.
>>>Creative went into the red for the first time in three years with a 31.9 million US dollar loss in its fourth quarter to June, compared with profits of 6.63 million dollars a year ago. The drop was worse than market expectations.
-- Nokia, get "cool" tagged onto that 770!
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Coming soon: Soap opera on your Nokia phone
http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO2005081441808.html
>>>Phone maker Nokia is looking at offering television via the mobile phone as one of the value-added services for customers of its new line of cellular phone models which will soon be launched in the Philippines.
>>>However, Parikshit Bhasin country manager of Nokia, said the Finland-based firm has yet to hold negotiations with Philippine-based broadcasting companies for the mobile TV service, which will use DVB or digital video broadcasting, an international standard for beaming TV signals to mobile phones.
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Eh. I came back. Once.
YouTube -- The Flickr of Video?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...20217&from=rss
Debian start-up seeks new funding
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5831...=st.util.print
>>>Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialize the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed.
Creative Technology chokes after trying to bite into Apple
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...recreativetech
>>>One year after launching a direct challenge to Apple Computer's iconic iPod, Creative Technology is finding it tougher than expected to bite market share off the US-based digital music player giant.
>>>Creative went into the red for the first time in three years with a 31.9 million US dollar loss in its fourth quarter to June, compared with profits of 6.63 million dollars a year ago. The drop was worse than market expectations.
-- Nokia, get "cool" tagged onto that 770!
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Norway's Opera launches Mini mobile phone browser
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/new...a-212225-1.xml
>>>Norway's Opera Software launched a system on Wednesday allowing access to the Internet via mobile phones normally incapable of running a Web browser, giving its shares a boost.
-- details here --
Opera launches Opera Mini J2ME browser for all Java-compatible mobile handsets
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=5012
>>>Opera said in a statement the new "Opera Mini" would work for most of the estimated 700 million WAP-enabled phones around the world.
Open source patent library launched
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=s...645t-10000022c
>>>Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) revealed plans on Tuesday for a project that will aggregate information on patents that have been pledged to the open source community.
P2P Is Here To Stay… Deal With It
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/10/p2p-is-...-deal-with-it/
>>>Hollywood, and its acolytes in the music business are fighting a losing battle when it comes to peer to peer networks. They can try and prosecute kids, and teenagers, but in the end it will all come to a naught. With each prosecution, Hollywood is only steeling the resolve of the coders to come-up with even more powerful technological solutions. Lawyers, unfortunately cannot keep up with the bits-and-byte world of P2P networks.
-- go ahead, just try to take away my eD2k and LimeWire! And the shame of it is, there's just so much legal stuff on P2P. For instance, I got the entire radio broadcast day for one in the late 1930s and one during World War II. Keep your bootlegged movies; I wouldn't pay to see them in a theatre and won't waste my time even when they're "free."
The next Web revolution
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...als/print.html
>>>The Web celebrates its 10th anniversary and it's still a pain to use -- clunky, slow and unresponsive. But thanks to creative small companies like Chicago's 37 Signals, the Web is finally becoming as fun and flexible as your favorite software.
--you might have to view an ad first to read this; but worth it. Another glimpse into the Second Coming of the Internet. I hope 770 devs who happen to read this are getting inspired...
Database start-ups bet on open source
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5825663.html
>>>Following the gradual acceptance of Linux, open-source databases are moving into corporate data centers as an increasingly viable option.
-- won't some of these things require client software on something like the 770? Or am I too thick to see that everything of this sort is now handled via a typical web browser?
Send complaints to Reggie. Or money to me.
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