Saturday, July 17, 2004

Lindsay Lohan's Sidekick: We All Have Our Little Slips.

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I guessed, but I guessed wrong. Lindsay Lohan's Sidekick was bejewelled -- with Swarovski crystals, no less -- by none other than local mobile couturists NYC Peach. How do I know? It's on the freaking website. Well, and a bunch of you guys told me. My reputation as a hard-hitting technology journalist is besmirched forever.
Read - Home Page [NYCPeach]

Related
Lindsay Lohan's Nipp... Sidekick Found [Gizmodo]

[Gizmodo]
10:41:38 PM    comment   

Creative Portable Media Center Skewered.

zen_portable_media_center.jpgIf you'd like to read a review of the Creative Portable Media Center with "so much added (and useless) commentary that Gizmodo would be ashamed to publish it," ExtremeTech has a very unpositive, baseball-centric review. While I don't think that portable media centers are going to crash and burn, necessarily (although the ones hobbled by DRM might), I do think it's amusing for a company to promote products that are most easily (and most commonly) used by those that use Bit Torrent and other copyright-infringement tools, while with the other hand selling DRM systems to the television, movie, and music industries.
Read - Another Dumb Idea from Microsoft [ExtremeTech via eHomeUpgrade]

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Amazon Launches Portable Media Center Page, Preorders for Samsung Yepp YH-999, Creative Labs Zen [Gizmodo]

[Gizmodo]
10:33:24 PM    comment   

New iPods on Monday?.

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ThinkSecret is reporting that the new iPods will be announced Monday, will be cheaper than the current models (I doubt this), and will not be released in different colors (as previously reported), but will instead be launched in the trademark white. If that's the case, I would expect the new iPods, which are said to be roughly the same size as the old models, but thinner, to look something like this one in the middle. (Thanks, Mark!)
Read - Apple to announce new iPods Monday [ThinkSecret]

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Is This The Next iPod? [Gizmodo]

[Gizmodo]
10:32:13 PM    comment   

DoCoMo & TI to Develop Multi-Mode UMTS [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:54:48 PM    comment   

NTT DoCoMo to Market SH506iC i-mode Smart-Card Handset [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:49:09 PM    comment   

Sony, VeriSign Japan Enter into Alliance for Security FeliCa Card [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:48:17 PM    comment   

Vodafone's FM Handset Launched [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:46:24 PM    comment   

NEC Introduces 3G Mobile Phone Chip for Rotating TFT Displays [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:45:54 PM    comment   

Fujitsu's New VoIP/PHS Handset [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:45:13 PM    comment   

DoCoMo Does 3G Olympics [Wireless Watch Japan]
9:34:13 PM    comment   

ABI: Savi, Philips, TI Top RFID Matrix. OYSTER BAY, N.Y.--ABI Research recently announced a new business... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:33:19 PM    comment   

Verizon Wireless Taps Smith Micro Software. BEDMINSTER, N.J. and ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:30:20 PM    comment   

AT&TW MVNO's For TelePlus. MONTREAL -- TelePlus Enterprises, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:29:50 PM    comment   

Lucent Lands Deal. Verizon Wireless updates its supplier agreement with Lucent Technologies in a deal tagged at 5 billion for network expansion in voice and data. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:29:00 PM    comment   

RFID Gets Shot in Arm. Radio frequency Identification goes sub-derma in Mexico, but will droves of humans line up to be injected with the wireless tracking technology [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:27:24 PM    comment   

AWE Coy. AT&T Wireless is plunging ahead with 3G- based services by year's end, but the wireless operator won't confirm speculation that four cities will launch as early as next week. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
9:26:25 PM    comment   

Rivals Close In on Nokia. The latest earnings reports show just how deeply Samsung and Sony Ericsson have bitten into Nokia's considerable piece of the mobile handset market. But will their feast continue? [eWEEK Technology News]
9:22:56 PM    comment   

Freescale's IPO Sputters on Worries of Chip Slowdown. Freescale Semiconductor cuts the price of its initial public offering to $13 a share as investors worry about a downturn as manufacturing capacity pulls ahead of demand. [eWEEK Technology News]
9:21:24 PM    comment   

Linspire Gives Linux IM a Voice. The company's new PhoneGaim offering combines an instant messaging client with VOIP services. [eWEEK Technology News]
9:20:15 PM    comment   

Qualcomm Tests Cell Phones Aboard Plane. Reporters CDMA technology phones, and a few minutes to make and receive calls. The FAA and the airlines ban in-flight cell calls for fear the signals could interfere with navigational equipment. The FCC is worried about them disrupting terrestrial cellular networks. [eWEEK Technology News]
9:19:07 PM    comment   

First Windows CE Virus Surfaces. The "proof-of-concept" WinCE4.Dust Virus works only on ARM hardware and performs simple file infection. [eWEEK Technology News]
9:18:12 PM    comment   

Mobile Location Based Services To Rebound As 3G Enabler. Operators looking to recoup their investments in 3G have found that successful mobile data services have been limited mainly to fun, youth-oriented applications such as SMS, ring tones, logos and games. However, while SMS and ring tones enjoy phenomenal popularity, LBS[base '] wider target audience[~]comprising both consumer and business markets[~]is expected to work to its advantage. Full Story & Source: businesswire.c [3G Analysis]
9:17:33 PM    comment   

Darth Fok, Lord of 3G. Hutchison Whampoa[base ']s boss turns to a tactic he probably didn[base ']t learn in business school to explain the company[base ']s 3G business: the Jedi mind trick. Full Story & Source: thefeature.com [3G Analysis]
9:16:51 PM    comment   

Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and co-author Koleman Strumpf floored the disbelieving music industry with their findings that illegal music downloads don[base ']t hurt CD sales. Oberholzer discusses what the industry should do next.
9:16:06 PM    comment   

Too Much Machine-To-Machine Hype: (3G revenue forecasters, please note!). Obviously, there[base ']s a ton of potential for wireless machine-to-machine connections, but it[base ']s going to take some time. Like many technology predictions, you should probably ignore the short-term predictions, while assuming many of the long-term extrapolations are underhyped. Full Story & Source: techdirt.com [3G Analysis]
9:14:30 PM    comment   

Anyone think this threatens a % of 3G revenues?. The system itself is extremely simple: Visual Radio runs in parallel with a traditional radio broadcast, and is transmitted to the user[base ']s handset via GPRS. A reasonably informative and immersive service can be transmitted in about 200 kilobits per hour, but can vary enormously depending on the amount of graphics used on the service. Full Story & Source: digital-lifestyles.info ` [3G Analysis]
9:12:51 PM    comment   

Sendo X: phone meets PDA, MP3 player, light sabre. Review OK, maybe not the light sabre... [The Register]
9:11:53 PM    comment   

Wireless CRM takes to the field. Pitney Bowes' new wireless field service system gives technicians both a broader wireless coverage area and expanded access to customer data. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
9:11:29 PM    comment   

TI and DoCoMo to develop single-chip 3G products. Phones based on WCDMA/UMTS technology should be able to download data from the network at speeds between 144Kbit/sec. and 2Mbit/sec., depending on the conditions. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
9:07:50 PM    comment   

InfoWorld: HailStorm was before its time. Jon Udell. Sooner or later, we will wind up delegating the management of these facts to services acting on our behalf. HailStorm was the right idea. But the dawn of this century was the wrong time and Microsoft was the wrong company. [Tomalak's Realm]
9:06:15 PM    comment   

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