Thursday, January 17, 2002

Fame! Fame! Scoble quoted me and linked to my blog.  I was of course polite and emailed him my thanks: "Thanks for your link and encouraging words.  If IDG wants to do a book on Radio for Dummies, I'm highly qualified to write it.  I think I'm one of the less technical users, but Radio really draws me in - I want to uncover and use all its power."   I am truly having a blast with this tool! 11:41:46 PM

Broadband: Prices Up, Adoption Down. Broadband prices reached new highs in 2001, but the pace of adoption has slackened. internet.com 3:33:50 PM

Fixed Wireless For the Final Mile "Seeing isn't believing for fixed wireless."  Install-it-yourself focused radios almost work. Cnet News. 2:27:34 PM

No, We Do It Heavily -- eBay on its new and rising fees: "We recognize that price increases directly impact our users, so we do not raise fees lightly..." [CNET News.com: E-Business] 2:11:43 PM

No More Calls, We Don't Have a Winner. SJ Mercury: "Handspring's phone-PDA combo is a dud. Handspring's much-touted new Treo 180 ``communicator'' at $399 -- the latest attempt to merge a personal digital assistant with a mobile phone -- turns out to be yet another kludge that's too much of a PDA to be a good phone and too much of a phone to be a good PDA." [Tomalak's Realm] 2:03:44 PM

New Lesson:  My blog entries are kinda pretty but they're too big and klunky for news feeds.  I learned this by subscribing to my own news feed.  (No, it's not narcissism, it's science.) 10:38:52 AM

European GPS Stymied.  "Europe wants its own global positioning system, but pressure from the United States appears to have halted the proposed $3 billion project." Steve Kettmann reports from Berlin. [Wired News] 8:40:29 AM

Dial SMS for Murder  Nokia mobiles can be disabled by SMS message "Security researchers in Holland have found a way to crash some Nokia mobile phones using a malformed text message." [BBC News: sci/tech] 8:32:42 AM