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:-) When product Marketing clashes with Technology: Apple's OS X Upgrade Fiasco - Apple's newest operating system sells for more than 0. The latest upgrade costs under . A couple of programmers discovered they could convert the upgrade into the full OS, and published the info. Apple: not happy. By Michelle Delio.
Nice sliding keyboard: Sharp Ships New PDA Running Linux 2.4
Open Spectrum and Community Wireless Networks - Release 1.0's Kevin Werbach writes that wireless networks are pointing toward a new way to address the broadband bottleneck. In his essay on "Open Spectrum", he mentions NoCat.org, a communinity network site developed by O'Reilly Network's crack system administrator, Rob Flickenger, who just published with O'Reilly his book, "Building Wireless Community Networks."
It ain't easy to organize a community based on SMS, right? But digital Communities are far from over, they are just starting right now! Orange kills Locust - Mobile operator pulls plug on text message community. The calendar on the blog page is working now thanks to paolino@tipic.com :-) this cool feature lets visitors browse back in time a member's Blog. Glenn Fleishman quoting from the 802.11 conference: "Wi-Fi is 3G: If a base station costs anywhere from 0K to 0K, why would you invest in something like that? Wouldn't it make more sense to take that money and blanket the area" with cheaper access points?
Loking at DoCoMo from a different perspective? Analysts Blast NTT DoCoMo - NTT DoCoMo may have bragging rights as the first phone company in the world to offer 3G services, but it also has a lot to hide. Also: Ring tones are chosen to annoy.... and more in this week's Unwired News.
Resetting the VC Clock to 1994 - Bill Gurley's analysis of how venture capitalists and entrepreneurs should be forgetting what they learned during the dotcom era, and what that means in terms of expectations, is a must-read piece for anyone involved in a high tech startup.
Palm Embraces WiFi - PalmInfocenter reports that Palm is offering discounts on Xircom wireless LAN modules for the more recent Palm handhelds. Good move Palm!
Boohoo Tells a Dot-Com Disaster - British e-commerce site Boo.com was famous for its meteoric rise, its executives' lavish lifestyles and its spectacular crash and burn. A new book by one of the founders tells some of the inside story.
Want to carry some digital stuff around in a button?
Intel unveils transistor to enable 20GHz+ CPUs - Depleted substrates and high-k dielectrics... Not bad :-)
Leonid Meteor Showers Delight Many: there are the little 'eeee' ones, then there are the 'ooooh' ones - those ones you have to stand up and follow with your head,'' said Susan Kitchens, a writer and artist at the Mount Wilson party.
This new company starting in France could be a sign of Internet related business activity starting up again or it could just be a white fly flying around....
A that's interesting.....
SafeWeb goes down for the count - Anonymity services dropping like flies
"I'm not particularly interested in seeing how p2p can be used to better centralize the profit from baby formula and cruise missiles. Instead I'm rather keen on how p2p can shred the enterprise with the knive-sharp teeth of a billion little pirhanas. Many of those bloated "enterprises" are obsolete, and their fat carcasses will make a lot of meals -- and a lot of happy piranha:) The record labels are the first to feel the bite, but every IP provider and every market maker and every drop-shipping cross-dressing middle-man from NASDAQ to IBM to WalMart is going to feel those little teeth in their billions before the decade is out" - Tony Kimball
Interesting point: Why Virtual Offices Suck - Virtual offices have more drawbacks for employees and contractors than for employers and clients.
New Linux-Managers Mailing List - For those of you who administrate Linux boxes on a daily basis, you now
have a new quick-response source of solutions for problems. [Advogado]
Mars Society Boldly Goes to Oz - The Australian Outback appears to be strikingly similar to the desolation of the Martian landscape. So members of the Mars Society came up with an idea. Stewart Taggart reports from Sydney.
This article about new media (the real thing not the financial fud of the past few years) is a sign of things to come. Do not make the mistake of trying to interpret new media with traditional paradigms; try to figure out what this grass root trend is and how it will change the face of communication forever: "Online punditry is giving traditional editorial pages a kick in the ass ยท On September 10, 2001 online political pundit Glenn Reynolds was pretty pleased with the 1,600 hits a day he was getting on his quaint editorial site InstaPundit.com. The next day he had 160,000. I spoke Glenn Reynolds about warblogging, the modern news cycle and the big-picture impact and rising influence of online pundits".
Peer and Web Services are Technologies of Connection and Coordination - Technologies that promise to let distributed users access each others files, or update spreadsheets with data from others' machines aren't new; Windows for Workgroups promised these things ten years ago. So how is the new crop of peer-to-peer technologies different? Jon Udell reports from O'Reilly's Peer-to-Peer & Web Services Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. 5-8. 2001.
Game-development on Compaq iPaq - Great news... want some of these on my iPaq!
New possibilities open up for crackers and new liabilities for SysAdmin
Passport Pickpocketed - "By cobbling together a handful of browser-based bugs with flaws in Passport's authentication system, [the Apache Software Foundation's Marc] Slemko developed a technique to steal a person's Microsoft Passport, credit card numbers -- and all, simply by getting the victim to open a Hotmail message." For more tech nitty gritty, read Marc's "Microsoft Passport to Trouble."
Back from London...
Got to London. Flying these days is not that reassuring. Anyways... I will try to take some steps back and figure out the new services to introduce in the next few weeks....
Groove de-decentralizes, sort of... - A slightly misleadingly titled Computerworld article announces a measure of clumping in Groove's P2P architecture. The fact of the matter is that Groove is making some intelligent distinctions between what should and should not be decentralized in an effort to provide some much requested functionality: "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol integration; local (on the premises of the customer) location of the relay server; a Bot server; better integration with Microsoft Corp.'...
Five Steps to Adding Physics-Based Realism to Your Games - A general overview of the five major steps you must take when developing physics-based simulations for your games, by the author of O'Reilly's upcoming Physics for Game Developers.
This is a searchable database of hot spots of Wlan around the US. Think about it, when the coverage increases, there will be much more wireless bandwidth than expected with only UMTS or similar tecnologies
News That's Fit to Download - The New York Times launches an exact digital replica of its New York edition. But will users pay? By Kendra Mayfield.
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