Wednesday, February 05, 2003

New Bluetooth USB adapter from Mitsumi New Bluetooth USB adapter from Mitsumi. The-Gadgeteer review of the WIF-0402C from Mitsumi, a new Bluetooth adapter that fits into the USB slot of a PC. Read [Gizmodo] 7:33:14 AM  comment []       Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz. Two or more Bluetooth devices can communicate in a variety of ways. Communication can occur at half-duplex (similar to a conversation on a speaker phone) or at full-duplex (like your telephone). Bluetooth devices that are communicating with one another are said to have formed a “piconet”. Devices that have formed a piconet ignore signals from other bluetooth devices or other piconets. A piconet can consist of one Master device, up to seven active Slave devices, and 248 devices in standby mode. Devices on a piconet share a common data channel where data is transferred in packets. Think of a letter in an addressed envelope as a single packet. The letter is the data in the packet and the addressed envelope is the header and handshaking information of the packet. The piconet channel has a capacity of one Megabit per second including the overhead of the header and handshaking information. Device to device connections have a maximum data transfer rate of 721 kilobits per second. This data rate corresponds to three voice channels. [Smart Mobs] 7:25:29 AM  comment []       Prelude to the PacketPC?. Well it's not quite the PacketPC, but Sony has come out with a personal WiFi server that looks like it's pretty small and easy to carry around. The FSV-PGX1 has a 20GB hard drive, connects to a wireless LAN through 802.11b so others on the network can access its files, and weighs just 390 grams. Comes out in Japannext month; no word about anywhere else. Read [Thanks, Damien] [Gizmodo] 7:09:17 AM  comment []       Huh? megnut -> Huh?. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a weblog article with a seriously wrong fact. Author Chris Mooney writes: "Although scattered blogs existed during the late 1990s, it wasn't until 1999 that San Francisco's Pyra Labs created the free Web application Blogger. Originally, the hope was that the innovation would help those collaborating on business projects to coordinate and share information on an internal Web server, a kind of company bulletin board." Perhaps there was a mis-reading of Pyra's history (we started the company to build project management software and Blogger was something extra we released) or maybe there's a misunderstanding of how Blogger came to be (we published an internal weblog and used that codebase as part of the original Blogger release). But Blogger was never released with business projects in mind, nor with a focus on internal Web server content. It was built to make it easier for people to publish online, no matter where one's content was hosted. Mr. Mooney continues by saying: "There seems to have been little thought about the central role blogging would play in the very external media world." To which I have to respond: we had dreams about its potential, we just didn't know how it all would play out. I'm not sure how one could be certain of blogging's role when there were at most a few thousand people doing it at the time. To assume that it would play a central role in the media world is much easier in retrospect. At the time it seemed more than a little hubristic to me. [via Anil] [megnut] 6:55:43 AM  comment []

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