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A Social Aggregation Site No One Wants to be Part of
It’s interesting that many on the internet think the future of media has to have a curation component – some even suggest aggregation as an important area of focus. I couldn’t help but think about these suggestions when I happened...
Early Morning Star Trek Geekiness
For those of you who are drinking your coffee this morning pondering the evolution of Star Trek warp jumps ( you know who you are :) ) here is a video clip which I discovered from Gizmodo which shows you...
HDTV Buying Tips
If you are looking for an HDTV you want to be sure youtake many different items into consideration such as manufacturer specifications, product reviews, return policies, etc. As one coworker reminded me today - be sure the TV you purchase...
Really Poor iPhone Predictions
This post (light profanity) from Gizmodo presents a humorous look at how very powerful people in technology made some very wrong iPhone predictions. Perhaps my favorite is the quote from Ed Colligan, Ex-Palm CEO: We've learned and struggled for a...
Blackberry Storm 2 With Piezo Technology and WiFi
According to the video below the new Blackberry Storm 2 will perform head and shoulders above the original Storm and the iPhone. With a multitouch screen and Piezo electronics allowing a smoother and faster text inputting system we can expect...
Joost Beats Skype To iPhone
I find it ironic that Joost has beaten Skype to the iPhone. There are already a number of VoIP competitors on the iPhone and one would imagine with the resources availabble to eBay, Skype would be first.Remember of course Niklas...
Is the Shoe The Ultimate in Green Technology?
I come across hundreds of news items each day. On some days it is thousands of news stories. Occasionally I see something odd and obscure but strangely compelling. For example, in Japan, NTT has created a shoe which generates three...
Multi-Touch+Camera+Voice+Force = New Interface
Remember when I said the GUI would become the gesture-based user interface or GBUI? I mentioned Apple's patents in the blog entry and now a new patent application shows Apple is looking to fuse gestures, voice, the camera and motion...
Next iPhone to Have Bluetooth Stereo, GPS, Nike Integration
What's on your wish list for the iPhone? The obvious addition is a keyboard and faster connection (well that is my personal wish list anyway.) But certainly stereo bluetooth and GPS are on my short list as well. According...
Messy Skype Presence Solution
Its funny, I spend so much time writing about solutions for service providers and enterprise customers that when I come across a do it yourself (DIY) solution allowing you to keep tabs on your Skype friends without the use of...
HTC Shift Vista UMPC does EV-DO
What is amazing to me is just how small full featured devices are getting. The HTC Shift ultra mobile PC or UMPC packs the Microsoft Vista OS, WiFi and now EVDO. Sure it has a weak processor, battery and...
Don't Squeeze the Soft Phone
Many of us think of a softphone as a phone that runs in "software." Apparently to others the term means a phone you could use as a teddy bear. More from Gizmodo and Yanko Design...
LG Viewty Crosses Threshold
We are really at the threshold of a new era of mobile communications as today's cell phones are monsters in terms of capability... Processor speeds are getting faster and memory is getting cheaper. If you want an example of...
SkullCandy Double Agent
I think it was the movie Minority Report where the actors used a headset without a cellphone in sight. This is what I thought of when I learned there is an MP3 player headset without the need for an...
Be Careful at Best Buy
For those last minute holiday shoppers – beware of Best Buy redirecting you to a website that is not the real bestbuy.com but instead a site for those people in the store. Prices on this website may be higher than...
Pen Phone
Would a pen phone sell? I wonder. I suppose having a smaller and smaller phone makes sense but while this is happening I am also noticing a trend towards phones with bigger screens with the ability to check e-mail. While...
