Thursday, November 14, 2002

InfoWorld: Top News -> Low-key Comdex to highlight gadgets. "Tablet PC, wireless technologies to take center stage" 4:56:30 PM  comment []       CNET News.com -> Comdex: It's a wireless thing. "Wireless networking, particularly Wi-Fi, along with the home and office devices that take advantage of these connections, looks to be a dominant theme at the weeklong tech show. " 10:05:56 AM  comment []       The Scobleizer Weblog -> "Steven MacLaughlin is talking about the TabletPC today. Yeah, I agree. However, he asks manufacturers to hand them out to evangelists so they can help get the word out. I totally agree that'd be a great marketing technique, there's one problem with that: margins are non-existent. What does that mean? It means that return on investment for such an act would not be there. How many Tablets would some company sell by giving even a highly-trafficed Weblogger a free Tablet? I doubt we'd sell more than a couple. Our margins on hardware sales are way less than 10%. See the problem? Now, if you can guarantee me you'll sell 100 units or more, let's talk! " 8:02:14 AM  comment []       InfoWorld: Wireless -> Hewlett-Packard launches two iPaq handhelds. "A lower-cost model and a unit with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are unveiled. " 7:43:56 AM  comment []       ZDNet AnchorDesk -> AnchorDesk Radio: Recent shows -> David Coursey Wednesday, Nov. 13 "CNET Radio's Brian Cooley is the guest host today. First up, CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos discusses the debut of the new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip. Next, CNET News.com reporter Lisa M. Bowman talks about the Internet's latest free-speech test. Finally, Brian opens up the phones to talk to you. The topic: What will make you finally go out and buy a new PC? Price? Performance? Maybe Steven?" LISTEN 7:32:10 AM  comment []       Boing Boing Blog -> Bluetoooth still sucks. Bob Frankston explains why Bluetooth still sucks: it's all about the connectivity. We should learn from the example of X.400. X.400 was (is?) a mail protocol approved and required by essentially all the telecommunication agencies throughout the world. It was designed over a period of ten years yet failed against SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) which could be implemented in an afternoon. Like x.400, the Bluetooth was designed and promulgated before anyone could learn from the first generation. Bluetooth is designed to work in the specific cases imagined by its designers and thus will perform very well in precisely those scenarios and these are the scenarios touted in press releases. It's not surprising that if you don't use Bluetooth precisely as envisioned it will not work very well. There is a tendency to view these problems as anomalies and those of us who point them out are considered spoilers and are thus discounted. Link Discuss 7:05:44 AM  comment []       InfoWorld: Top News -> Gates describes 'digital decade' to Indian developers. "Gates says promise of Internet still holds true" 6:39:32 AM  comment []       Boing Boing Blog -> Your name on Mars. Songdog says: No, it's not a scam ("Lunar Real Estate For Sale", "Give Someone a Star For Christmas"). This one is bona fide. From NASA. Names submitted via a web form will be burned to DVD, carried to Mars in a 2003 rover mission, and photographed on the surface. The project is free of charge, and deadline for name entries is November 15. Link Discuss 6:22:59 AM  comment []       80211b News -> Texas Instruments offers chipset plan for a/b/g path: "TI announced today its plans for upcoming chipsets to support 802.11a, b, and g, as well as draft quality of service (QoS) and security (802.11i, WPA) standards. Part of their will allow seamless roaming across 802.11a, b, and g networks, so that an adapter can swap opportunistically, instead of requiring a manual change of network type." 6:15:57 AM  comment []

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