Sunday, December 1, 2002

InfoWave Updates Wireless E-Mail Service. The new version of the Symmetry Pro software includes optimization for the Handspring Treo and support for e-mail in foreign languages. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:32:21 PM    comment []

Public Wireless Access Will Grow. A new report from the Yankee Group says the hotspot market in North America is poised to become a billion dollar business. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 6:30:26 PM    comment []

pp://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17541">Apple Warns Users About iPhoto Filenames : Apple is advising anyone ordering photo prints from its iPhoto printing service that it is unable to print iPhoto files that include a question mark in the filename. (MacNN via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 4:02:37 PM    comment []

Portable Bargains Cost Less Than $1,200 And Have Many Of The Latest, Greatest Features : There's a major upside to the economic downturn that's devastated the high-tech industry: Laptop and notebook computers have never been cheaper. (Detroit Free Press via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 4:01:16 PM    comment []

Thorough Wall Street Journal reporting on Wi-Fi hot spots and its challenge to cellular: This very thorough story -- available for free via MSNBC -- outlines the threat to cellular's next generation. As one interviewee notes, the majority of places that high-speed cellular would be ideal can be more easily served by Wi-Fi. This is in accord with my world view. I'm waiting for the time when an article like this can focus on the next level, rather than recapitulating everyone since prehistory. It takes maturity for a technology before mainstream business reporting can assume its readers can understand the background in a paragraph instead of 1,000 words. The New York Times already assumes that, but that's partly because of their heavy tech focus over the last few years, and their Circuits section. [80211b News] 2:00:24 PM    comment []

BitTorrent: "The key to cheap file distribution is to tap the unutilized upload capacity of your customers." [Scripting News] 1:59:42 PM    comment []

Professor Irwin Corey. "If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." [Quotes of the Day] 1:58:46 PM    comment []

Coverage of 3rd world townships with wireless Internet services. The focus in Internet development in the west has mostly been on wired systems, primarily because almost every location is linked with every other location by existing overland lines. However, in most of the world, and almost all of the 3rd world, properly functioning wired links between locations are rare. With all the recent advances that have been made on the wireless connectivity frontier, it holds to reason that it would be intelligent for the 3rd world to simply skip the high investment costs of laying and maintaining all the ground lines, and jump directly to wireless communication. [kuro5hin.org] 1:49:38 PM    comment []

Redesigning the Bike Lane. Listening to Bike Lanes is an interesting paper by Jeffrey Hiles on the controversy between planners who want to create 'safe spaces' for cyclists, and so-called 'Effective Cyclists' who distain bike lanes, and point out how they not only hider riders, but can contribute to accidents and instead argue for training cyclists to ride in traffic. Hiles looks at the matter as a design problem, bringing cognitive psychology to bear on the matter. He finds that the strategies used by 'Effective Cyclists' to negotiate traffic are fine, but novice and infrequent cyclists will not use them, so instead of dropping the white striped bike lane, he makes recommendations on how to refactor them. [More Like This WebLog] 1:48:53 PM    comment []

New t-shirts for Mac fanatics at Macsurfshop [MacCentral] 1:48:12 PM    comment []

I've created my Blog Backup files, which you can browse with Brentt's Blog Browser. I definitely see a new layer peeling off the web. Perhaps these urls will one day have the prefix bbb as in bbb.curry.com [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 1:47:00 PM    comment []