Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Computer, microphone, iPod make broadcasting personal. Carey, a 38-year-old website developer and marketing consultant from Sandwich, is among an early wave of fans for a new broadcast medium dubbed ''podcasting. 7:46:21 PM

Linksys Secures Media Streaming  PC World - New adapter will allow you to stream content from your PC to your TV or stereo. 6:01:50 PM

Not your father's jukebox. Broadband connections are bringing the barroom and soda-shop music boxes into the 21st century. 5:59:25 PM

The ScreamBody lets you vent silently. So, you’re busy at work, and you get a call from the Client from Hell. The call goes on and on, with CFH making ridiculous demands and insisting that they be acted upon right now. By the end of the call, you’re ready to scream as loud as you can, but you can’t. You’re at work, and you don’t want to get your ass fired. So you suck it up, roll up your sleeves, and do CFH’s bidding. This happens a few times, and the repressed anger starts to get you sick. You develop a nervous tic. You start grumbling under your breath; talking to yourself. People start avoiding you. When the guys in the white coats come, you practically thank them for taking you away. Wanna avoid this grim future? Check out the Screambody. Currently only a prototype, it’s a “wearable body organ,” that lets you scream at full volume without being heard (it even records the screams, in case you want to play them back later). You get the scream out of your system, and can get back to work. Yeah, you still have to work. But at least you won’t drive yourself crazy from repressed anger. 3:23:36 PM

CES to spotlight digital evolution. Annual trade show will offer peeks at the latest in high-definition technology, notebook chips and PlayStation Portable. 3:21:11 PM

Bell Labs grapples with VOIP, open source. Voice over IP (VOIP) and open source technology hold great promise for cost savings, but also threaten traditional ways of doing business. Rather than shy away from the challenges that these disruptive technologies represent, Bell Laboratories, the renowned R&D (research and development) arm of Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, New Jersey, is attempting to bring them into the mainstream. 3:18:30 PM

Ford behind drive for 1 million new Sirius users. Automaker will offer factory-installed radio as an option in four vehicle lines this summer, plus more over two years. 3:16:24 PM

Vonage to take VoIP on the road. New phone will let consumers make VoIP calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot using a Vonage account. 3:16:06 PM

Start-up beams TV to your hand. Orb Networks lets consumers view live TV though cell phones or PDAs, and big-name companies are paying attention. 7:03:58 AM

Pirate Cat T.V. Channel 13. Pirate LPTV in SF begins broadcasting 1/1/05. 7:01:38 AM

Paris English-language radio granted AM licence. France's first English-language radio station is to start broadcasting on AM this month after signing a partnership deal. 7:00:04 AM

The BlackBerry Brain Trust. First he reinvented the way we get e-mail. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself. By Duff McDonald from Wired magazine. 6:58:14 AM

Sat Radio Recording Moves Ahead. Once seen as the embodiment of evil, devices that record satellite radio are making inroads without much fight from the recording industry. 6:57:46 AM

Motorola to Build Cell Phones & Portable Music Into Ski Jackets Motorola Inc. said it will unveil plans this week for a line of outerwear that uses interactive cell phone and portable music technology in snowboarding jackets, in a bid to win over twentysomethings. 6:57:05 AM

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