Monday, April 12, 2004

Useit.Com: Why Mobile Phones are Annoying. What is certain is that the research documents the fact that mobile phones are annoying, and that conversation loudness is only one factor. If mobile-phone vendors want to avoid a backlash against their products, they're well advised to heed these findings and launch a major effort to make mobile phones less irritating to bystanders. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Refining Semiconductors, One Atom at a Time. At the heart of semiconductor fabrication are crucial additives called dopants. A physicist has succeeded in controlling doping precisely at the atomic level. By Anne Eisenberg. [New York Times: Technology]
9:25:47 PM    comment   

Mini Video-to-Go Moves From Concept to Shelf. INEXPENSIVE ways to play video on hand-held devices have been promised for at least a couple of years, and there have been tantalizing glimpses of bright-screened, palm-size prototypes at electronics shows. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology]
9:23:56 PM    comment   

XScale Extended. Intel launches its next-gen mobile device processors that promise more functionality and power management in cell phones and PDAs. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:22:58 PM    comment   

Less Is More: Stylin' PCs. Computer makers are finally sizing down desktop PCs and jazzing up conventional design, incorporating media centers and saving space. New players in the market are causing big-rig makers to take notice. [Wired News]
9:22:11 PM    comment   

Gopher: Underground Technology. More than a decade ago, gopher took the Net by storm. The Web stole its thunder soon after, but enthusiasts are still keeping it alive -- and bringing it into the future. By Lore Sjöberg. [Wired News]
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Making Wireless Roaming Fun. Games exploiting mobile phones' GPS capabilities are becoming popular in Japan and Europe, and Mogi -- a virtual treasure hunt -- has players teaming up to cover Tokyo. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
9:10:31 PM    comment   

Vodafone promises multi-network moves. But Wi-Fi will force pricing rethink By Wireless Watch . [The Register]
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IAnywhere updates Web application software.  IAnywhere Solutions Inc. released an upgrade to M-Business Anywhere on Monday with features designed to make the mobile application software more attractive to corporate users. [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:09:28 PM    comment   

Sun gambles big on future chip design. SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc.'s recent surprisedecision to drop work on its UltraSparc V processor could be seen as either a desperate cost-cutting measure by a troubled company, or a vote of confidence for the next generation of multithreaded, multicore "throughput computing" processors that Sun has been readying since its 2002 acquisition of Afara WebSystems Inc. [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:08:54 PM    comment   

PDAs Are Dead; Long Live PDAs. JOEL JOHNSON -- So PDA sales are falling, while smartphone shipments are up. According to some, like The Dallas Morning News' Doug Bedell, this means that PDAs are dying. To others, like Brighthand's Ed Hardy (looking resplendent in dark turtleneck and matching beard), it means that PDAs, overall, are just... [Gizmodo]
9:04:14 PM    comment   

Wherever You Go, There You Are. JOEL JOHNSON -- Cambridge scientists have developed photo recognition software that matches up pictures snapped from cameraphones to a database of building photographs on a remote server, helping the phone user determine where in the hell they are standing. Of course, at the moment it only works in a small... [Gizmodo]
9:02:47 PM    comment   

Scribbling in the margins.
The fuzzy intersection of official and unofficial data has never been a comfort zone for information technologists. In chapter 4 of Klaus Kaasgaard's Software Design and Usability, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alumnus Austin Henderson says that "one of the most brilliant inventions of the paper bureaucracy was the idea of the margin." There was always space for unofficial data, which traveled with the official data, and everybody knew about the relationship between the two. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
This column muses on the use of DNS TXT records to implement the latest round of SMTP sender authorization schemes. Everybody feels guilty about not using some new formally-defined DNS resource record type, but everybody also knows that would be a non-starter. So instead we're scribbling in the margins of the DNS, and luckily, DNS has margins available for scribbling. ... [Jon's Radio]
8:43:53 PM    comment   

Vodafone's Flash Future. JOEL JOHNSON -- As much as I'd like to be cynical about the Vodafone Future Site, I have to admit being taken in by the slick Flash presentation of 'near future' communication devices designed to enhance entertaining, working, belonging, and, yes, caring. I especially liked the ePaper overlaid with a... [Gizmodo]
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