Thursday, November 14, 2002

The Perishable DVD as Musical Taste Test: A MAJOR record label will give music fans a chance this month to judge whether music DVD's might become the medium of choice over CD's. Rentals anyone?

San Diego wireless net installs 72-mile, 2.4-GHz link: Wow!

Zaurus Returns: Sharp announced the latest update to its Zaurus line, the SL-5600, this week. Wasn't the PDA market supposed to be dead?

H-P Plans to Launch Two Handhelds in Strike at Dell: HP said it will unveil two new handheld computers on Monday.

Patent Office Issues Patent to WorldGate for Its Pioneering Technology Innovations: The patent, titled "Access System and Method for Providing Interactive Access to an Information Source Through a Networked Distribution System," contains twenty separate ITV claims.

Toshiba Licenses TiVo Technology for Use in Next-Generation Consumer Electronics Products: Another big win for TiVo.

Slashdot: Tivo and SonicBlue Settle Dispute

Remote Windows desktop access with the Sharp Zaurus PDA. Enterprise play.

A Linux smartphone that does Bluetooth. IBM makes persuasive pervasive case (at last).

Slashdot: Review: EyeTV

Mobile net use proving popular. Slowly but surely British mobile phone owners are starting to use the net while on the move.

Beta of Opera 7 for Windows released. Company eyes mobile market where Microsoft does not control distribution.

F.C.C. Approves Merger of Comcast and AT&T. The $29.2 billion merger of Comcast and AT&T Broadband was approved by federal regulators Wednesday.

Is TI's "turbo Wi-Fi" losing steam?. Texas Instruments' turbo Wi-Fi technology makes for the speediest wireless networks around. But analysts think it may have only a short shelf life.