Nov 18
USB 3.0 Finalized at 4.8 Gbps
Sun Microsystems to fire 6000. Crazy wording in FT. Jerry Yang quits. AOL kills Homestead. HO Says sales are heading up, not down like Intel thinks. USB 3. released (finalized) today. I highlight two stories about USB 3.0 showing how bad today’s tech coverage has become.Â
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Nov 17
Vista Capable Stll Not Capable
| Mark Cuban in trouble for insider trading. Vista Capable suit causing problems. Obama is going to have to stop using the Blackberry. Look for the AVCHD fake Blu-ray discs. Intel rolls the i7 as AMD rolls the Shanghai. Google has new sketch-up art program | |
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Nov 13
Will Apple do a Search Engine?
| Microsoft shows Wave 3 of Live.com. Social networking part of the scheme. Apple will do search? Microsoft search bribery is working. OLPC still lives in England. Valleywag’s demise shows Silicon Valley is not Hollywod.AMD shows new chip and technologies. Dell CTO steps down. | |
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Nov 13
Google (gMail) Video Chat…
| It’s been a long time coming, after all, we’ve had video conference / chat since before the internet, skype has it, AIM and MSN has/d it… however, after trying Google’s gMail Video chat, I must say, I’m impressed.Installation was near instantaneous, and almost completely behind the scenes. I had no idea it was installed (most likely a few seconds later) when I had clicked the “Install Voice and Video Chat” button, as it wasn’t until I wondered what was going on, and moved my browser out of the way that I saw the completion dialog box behind chrome.
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| As for usage… well, nothing seemed to really tell me that the settings are within the “chat” portion of your gMail “settings“, but that wasn’t to hard to figure out.
I started off like this… installed, hmmm, what do I do now? Friend IMd me… oh cool, an opportunity, within the browser (gMail), |
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| this enabled a smaller turn up (kinda like a clock rotation / pop up)… once I did that, it was then blatantly obvious to click “video chat” or invite the friend to video chat.My chat-hort was unaware it was out yet, so we had an audio conversation at first… smooth and easily understood. I was on a wired connection and he wi-fi at $bucks and once I told him the great news, he immediately clicked on the red text at the top of his gMail or iGoogle page that said, “| New! Video chat |” and his download was as instantaneous as mine.
We were off, with the install there was not even a need to restart the conversation, it just worked, immediately! Now that is seamless! I made a few adjustments in the “Camera” settings drop down, and it immediately changed in the chat session I had going… no hang up, no reboot, no hassle at all, it just worked. Again, SEEMLESS! Google, I must say, it’s an impressive addition to the already easy and clean gTalk (chat) function already available. NOW, I want to see it available as a mobile application (and please don’t fall into the iPhone only trap, at least make it for Symbian devices as well. Otherwise I’ll just continue using Fring and qik.com for video confrencing on my Nokia N95-4 8GB. ;) Oh, and on a slightly sadder note… I have two PPC macs, and this does not work on PPC. :( So, I was restricted to using it on my PC, since I don’t have an intelMac. :( I feel like I’m being left out with fewer apps being made for PPC. |
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Nov 12
Sun Turning Green
| LG, Sharp and Chunghwa plead guilty for price fixing. TroopTube takes over military vids. It’s run by the military. Go to budget.com/tech to help the podcast. Cisco is cancelling sales conference. Online gambling under review. Mars rover "spirit" getting dusted. Who cares what a phone costs to make? Sun Microsystems all over the news. The company may benefit from the "green" thing. Spammer host shut down. IBM looking at broadband over powerlines. | |
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Nov 11
Slow News Day Indeed
| Is Apple planning to design its own processor? Some think so. The G-phone is cheaper to build than the iPhone. Why is IBM antsy over Apple taking one of its key people. Apple may be developing a chip. More and more stories appear about the headset magnet magnets and pacemakers. Cray Supercomputer to hit 1.3 petaflops. 25 year anniversary of Windows. Nortel stock goes into the tank. | |
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Nov 10
Earbuds Bad for the Heart?
| Earbuds causing heart problems? Apparently. iPhone number one amongst adults. Seagate selling self-encrypting drives. Obama and the CTO story continues. No MP3 player from Dell before Christmas. Microsoft to turn to Sun Microsystems for marketing help. Laughable story. VMWare wants to virtualize cellphones. Why? Circuit City filed Chapter 11. | |
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Nov 6
Hookers Must Get off Craigslist
| Craig’s List killing erotic services after 40 states go after the company. Tethering the Internet now possible with AT&T finally. Meanwhile AT&T rejects Android. Ex-Intel engineer busted for stealing secrets? Can Windows 7 fit on a notebook? Some say no. Ballmer disses Google Android. USB 3.0 now delayed. Hotmail redesigned, users gripe. HP and Cisco downgraded by the market. | |
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Nov 5
No Agenda Gets Nominated for an Award
| Fujitsu rolls out mini tablet with GPS. Netflix will stop selling DVD’s, Developer of the iPOD quits No Agenda gets nominated for an award. Carl Icahn trying to make something happen with Yahoo. Meanwhile the Google Yahoo deal falls apart. Bill Gates pushing something called DreamSpark. Unknown what it is about. Sun shareholders think they should call the pay scale for executives. Intel getting back into the memory business? Gordon Moore to return for this. I reveal an interesting rumor. SanDisk has new 100X speed increase. Barack Obama a victory for social media. Yahoo killing Y!Live. Obama Trojan floating around. John Doerr says take Bill Joy (please!). | |
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Nov 4
Frozen Mouse Cloned
| Fujitsu rolls out mini tablet with GPS. Netflix will stop selling DVD’s, Developer of the iPOD quits Apple. AT&T doing the bandwidth CAP too. Frozen mouse cloned. Dell asking people to take a no-pay vacation. Windows 7 will boost solid-state drives. Slowly I turned. Europe market shares up. The ink vendors and printer companies seem to be ripping off the public. | |
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