Monday, February 11, 2002|
Mobile PC Data Access Emerges. New products give access to desktop data files [allNetDevices Wireless News] 11:43:00 PM  comment
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Wireless App Platform Adds Java. Enables over-the-air app distribution [allNetDevices Wireless News] 11:42:14 PM comment
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Seattle Times: Wireless where you want it: Wi-Fi is the guerrilla revolution of wireless computing. [The Bluetooth Weblog] 11:41:35 PM comment
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IBM grows in shrinking server market. The first glimpse of 2001 server sales shows IBM gaining over its competitors, increasing its revenue despite a U.S. market that plunged 23 percent. [CNET News.com] 11:39:41 PM comment
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Meanwhile, Alan Reiter blogs about the massive expansion of hot spots in Korea.Two competing firms will roll out 25,000 hot spots, ostensibly over the next several months in anticipation of the World Cup soccer games occurring there this summer. I'm assuming this is the advantage of being a wired and/or cell telco and rolling out hot spots. You already have and own some infrastructure nearby so you're not bearing the related cost of leasing a data infrastructure separately. (Note in the linked article that they're claiming 11 Mbps is five times the CDMAx1 speeds, as if 2 Mbps will be a consistent available speed for cell data.) [80211b News]11:38:41 PM comment
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NYT. Carver Mead's Foveon  . His new company switched from high-end camera's to a mass market approach. It's X3 chip has the capability to replace film. What's great about this chip is that it can handle both video and still pictures at a level of resolution and color control that matches film. Nice. They expect cameras that use this chip will be priced under $1,000 next year. Combine this with PSD (personal storage devices) like iPod (5 Gb -- I have already seen 10 Gb Windows PSDs for less money) with autofocus solid state lens technology and you get an amazing personal video and audio capture system.
It's starting to become clear where the PSD market is going. It will be the ultimate storage container for music, pictures, and video with storage space doubling every nine months. Interestingly, this turns the Gilder paradigm on its head. Bandwidth growth was halted in the last mile due to regional Bell reluctance. As a result, true bandwidth growth now has a doubling rate of every 4-5 years. In contrast, storage (at 9 months) and microprocessors (currently at 18 months and dropping fast), will provide the exponential growth the computing industry needs. In five years, you will likely have a PSD with ~1 Tb of storage space. It will connect to sub-$300 video/still cameras, play-back audio and video to any monitor, and connect P2P with other PSD users via highspeed wireless. I will be able to download an entire library of music and movies to you in 20-30 minutes during a face to face meeting. Further, I will be able to manage this library of content via my PC. This replaces CD and DVD technology with ferocity. An interesting aspect of this is that much of the new content created will need to be published. The volume of content created will require that personal publishers provide end-users an easy to use interface. There are two approaches on how to do this: server based systems and desktop systems. The server side systems could never keep up with the volume of storage necessary to share this content. Desktop systems in contrast, will allow people to share the pointers to personal content within an easy to use Weblog interface on a central server, and enable the actual transmission of the content via P2P. Further, permission-enabled desktop hosted Web Services will make it possible for me to search a database of content, select the items I want to utilize, and then easily download what is available from the closest source. Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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eWeek. Longhorn (Microsoft's next release of the O/S) is expected to include a SQL database driven file system (a pared down version of Yukon). 11:30:59 PM comment
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Common Sense Kryptonite - It is amazing to see how much patience Miguel uses in trying to persuade the religious zealots of common sense. There is no way I would be so patient, I would have exploded with "are you all retarded?" or something equally rude by now if I were in his shoes. He is pointing out why Mono is a good idea, and is not even remotely a sellout to Microsoft. Here is my analysis:
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News.Com: Google aims search device at companies. What makes Google different is that it is selling search hardware and software, all contained in a slim device it calls the Google Search Appliance, which businesses can install behind their own corporate firewalls and program to scan whichever documents they wish. [Tomalak's Realm] 11:13:27 PM comment
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Snoop Software Shreds Reality. Yale professor David Gelertner has developed software that gives bigwigs easy access to all their company documents. Will it help to prevent nefarious activities, or just assist in covering the tracks? By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News] 11:11:13 PM comment
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A Tale of Two CPUs. We are fast approaching a major change in the CPU architecture of the computers on our desktops. Since the introduction of the 386 in the 1980s, most of use have been using CPUs based upon Intel's 32-bit x86 instruction set architecture. That is all about to change as we make the transition from 32-bits to the new world of 64-bit machines. Soon, it will be the first time in computing history that 64-bit CPUs have ventured out of the high-end workstation market and will be fighted for consumer mindshare during the Superbowl. In the article below, we'll take a brief look at the need for 64-bit CPUs, the history of the x86 architecture, the options for the transition to 64-bits, and what it might mean for you. [kuro5hin.org] 1:34:18 AM comment
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Biathletes use Wi-Fi for split-times: the Olympic biathletes will be using Wi-Fi transmitters to help their coaches offer in-progress advice. Watch for pranksters disguised as journalists carrying cans of Pringles. [80211b News]1:23:04 AM comment
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