Month: December 2004
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Survey: One in Five British Internet Users Buy Software Advertised in Spam
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Register reports that a recent survey by Forrester Research indicated that 22 percent of British Internet users reported that they have bought software that was advertised in spam that they received. The survey was sponsored by the Business Software Alliance which probably would have been happy that so many Britons…
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RIM’s Efforts to Grow Through Software and Services Highlighted by BusinessWeek
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBusinessWeek has an interesting article about Research in Motion‘s effort to grow through selling software and services to other manufacturers of mobile handsets. The company has reached agreement with 70 mobile carriers around the world to provide BlackBerry email service to some of their customers. The article also mentions that RIM…
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T-Mobile Will Hold Off Deploying 3G Data Services for Two Years
Reading Time: < 1 minuteReuters reports that T-Mobile USA’s CEO said that it will not deploy UMTS data service for at least two years. Deployment of broadband-speed wireless data service is already underway at Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint PCS. Buried in the article is an indication that T-Mobile doesn’t think that it has the capacity…
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Dan Washburn Reports on Electronic Gadgets He Used While Traveling Through China
Reading Time: 2 minutesDan Washburn of ShanghaiDiaries.com visited 18 Chinese provinces on a single trip recently. Now he’s reported on how each of his electronic gadgets fared during the trip. Included in his report are evaluations of the: 40-Gigabyte iPod from Apple, Media Reader for iPod from Belkin, Backup Battery Pack for iPod from Belkin,…
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Armstrong Will Decide Whether to Participate in the Tour de France in May 2005
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA report that Lance Armstrong intends to decide in May whether to participate in the 2005 Tour de France appeared in today’s First Edition Cycling News on CyclingNews.com. The report is drawn from an article that appeared in the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Armstrong and Discovery Channel Cycling Team management intend to…
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Telling the Difference Between Real and Fake LiveStrong Yellow Wristbands
Reading Time: 3 minutesLiveStrong Packaging (Front): Here is a photo comparing the appearance of the front of point-of-sale packaging for a counterfeit (fake) LiveStrong Wristband with the packaging for a genuine LiveStrong Wristband. Click on the photo for a much larger image. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] Note: This is one of the most widely…
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Comparing the Canon Powershot A85, Powershot A95, and Powershot S1 IS
Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen and I didn’t make the trip to New York City yesterday specifically to shop for a digital camera, but we ended up looking at them at both The Apple Store and B&H Photo and Video. I got to look at the Canon Powershot A85 side-by-side with the Canon Powershot S1 IS.…
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Spent Yesterday Afternoon in New York City
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday’s light story volume is the result of my trip to New York City. Kathleen and I went in for the afternoon, had lunch at my favorite spot when I worked on Wall Street, Rosario’s Italian Bistro, saw the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center, and went out to dinner in Greenwich…
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Recent Reviews of Treo 650 Reflect Memory Allocation Issue
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you read a lot of technology blogs, you know that most of them have been talking about the introduction of a Non Volatile File System (NVFS) on the palmOne Treo 650 and how the memory allocation scheme in the current NVFS implementation has reduced the amount of data that can be…