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Palm-Size Ultrasound Scans Safely in a Flash. Medical equipment that once so large it had to be wheeled into action on carts is now shrinking significantly. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology] 2:38:03 PM  comment
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C# standardization moves ahead. Microsoft and its allies make a quiet advance in pushing C#, a competitor to Java and a foundation for the company's next-generation Internet services. [CNET News.com] 2:37:39 PM comment
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Hewlett-Packard Debuts PC That Works Like a TV. Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday a personal computer that acts like a television, the first of a new wave of crossover products that computer makers hope will build enthusiasm in consumers. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] 2:36:34 PM comment
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Decade of IBM Mobile Tech Smarts. IBM's breakthrough notebook computer, the ThinkPad, turns 10 this week. A look at how the signature black laptop forever changed mobile computing. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News] 2:36:15 PM comment
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Was Satellite Radio a Big Waste?. An FCC decision to let analog radio stations make the switch to digital signals was music to their ears. Good news, perhaps, for commuters trapped in cars with only a local DJ for company, but it spells likely doom for satellite radio. By Brad King. [Wired News] 2:35:52 PM comment
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The Economy Is Better Than It Looks. A sense of gloom permeates most conversations about the economy, but our current situation is not as dire as some would have it. By Steven Rattner. [New York Times: Opinion] 2:35:29 PM comment
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Bereskin on Bluetooth: Ken Bereskin is an Apple product manager who has been blogging about Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) features. Yesterday, he wrote about Bluetooth's integration and features within Jaguar. [80211b News]2:35:08 PM comment
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Accenture Posts Quarterly Profit. Accenture, the world's largest computer and business consultant, had a fourth-quarter profit as cuts in salaries offset a 3.1 percent decline in sales. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Business] 2:34:45 PM comment
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News.Com: MIT tries free Web education. As of Sept. 30, people with an Internet connection and a Web browser have been able to access the syllabus, lecture notes, exams and answers, and in some cases, even the videotaped lectures of 32 MIT courses. [Tomalak's Realm] 2:34:19 PM comment
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NY Times: Changing Channels, on the PC. The result is a PC that can also play music CD's and DVD movies, present slide shows of your digital photos, play back video clips from your camcorder, let you watch TV, and even record TV shows without tapes, much like a TiVo recorder. [Tomalak's Realm] 2:34:01 PM comment
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Usually, when you read histories about the rise of the Internet, the conversations naturally revolve around the software and network architects. While that is all well and good, it tells only half the story. The missing half has to do with the rise of the 14.4 modem. Until the 14.4 modem was launched, online connectivity for the majority of people not at Universities or corporations was limited to closed online services. These online services (AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy) deployed heavy clients that preinstalled graphics and functionality that were used to augment the user experience. At 3,300 bps there wasn't any other way to provide an enjoyable experience to most users. The advent of 14,400 bps modems made it possible for people to download the graphical user environment for a site on demand. Without 14.4 modems, there wouldn't have been a Internet boom. This goes a long way to explaining why the Web can't evolve to the next level. It's caught with what a 56 k modem can do (that is the top of the line in dial-up modems now). The combination of the wrong technology (DSL and Cable), expensive modems, highly controlled access (the death of the CLECs at the hands of the baby bells proves this), and high costs ($40-$70 a month for connectivity on average) have combined to prevent even "low-end broadband" from reaching most homes. This combination of factors is likely to keep even "low-end broadband" out of the hands of most people for the next ten years. So, what does this mean? It means we are back to the days of online services that use desktop software to augment experiences for end-users. It of course doesn't mean the death of the Web (that is already easily utilized via current connectivity), but it does mean that if you want better experiences (or deliver better experiences to end-users), you need to run powerful software on the desktop. It gets even more compelling as you look at what is going to happen over the next 10 years in computer hardware. Over 130 million PCs will be sold next year with multi-GHz chips, storage space measured in the hundreds of Gbs, and extremely powerful graphics cards. In ten years we will be looking at 50% to 100% more PCs sold with 30 GHz processors, storage measured in the multi-Tb range, and on-the-fly photo realistic graphics. The sweet spot in this is to find ways to leverage the best of the Web with better desktop experiences managed by powerful desktop software. More on what this looks like later. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] |
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Mobile Video Gets Faster, Smoother Playback. PacketVideo and MediaQ enhance MPEG-4 playback on mobile devices [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:33:11 PM comment
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Multimedia Toolkit Available for 3G Phones. Enables development of services such as videoconferencing and video streaming for 3G mobile phones over existing circuit-switched networks. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:31:09 PM comment
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Mobile phone growth to stagnate in Europe. Slow crawl [The Register] 2:26:39 PM comment
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Compliance with Mobile Number Portability Looms. Application available today enabling rapid compliance with regulations imposed in numerous European countries. Enables operators to avoid fines and pick up new customers. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:22:01 PM comment
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D-Link Introduces Bluetooth USB Adapters. The new devices allow Macs and PCs to connect with any any Bluetooth-enabled device. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:17:23 PM comment
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A Real-Life 802.11 Site Survey Detailed. Miami International Airport (MIA) is undertaking one of the largest airport-wide deployments of 802.11 wireless technology, and Jim Geier explains his first-hand experiences performing an RF site survey of MIA's public areas. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 2:12:59 PM comment
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