The Neat and public services
Working for a public school district, I found this article from the BBC interesting. I think they are right – in the end it’s the quality of service, not the method of delivery that is the most important.
T.J.
High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
Wired has a great story about how four high school students built an underwater robot for $800 and beat the pants off of engineering students from the likes of MIT and their $11,000 robot. A great read – definitely worth… Read More »High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
Wired has a great story about how four high school students built an underwater robot for $800 and beat the pants off of engineering students from the likes of MIT and their $11,000 robot. A great read – definitely worth… Read More »High School students’ “Stinky” robot beats MIT in underwater bot championship
Using USB Drive with ZENworks Imaging
Very simple clear instructions for using a USB Drive with ZENworks Imaging. Worked for me, although on some machines I had to replace “MOUNT /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd” with “MOUNT /dev/sda4 /mnt/usbhd” or sometimes /dev/sda3.
Cell-phone complaints: A sorry picture for Cingular/AT&T
Consumer’s Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) has released their annual report on complaints against cell carriers. The data seems to match my experiences – with Cingular, we have had few billing issues, but have had a fair number of service… Read More »Cell-phone complaints: A sorry picture for Cingular/AT&T
VNC via cell phone
KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services have teamed up to bring “micro-VNC” to KDDI’s au phones. I’ve played around with VNC on palm/pocket pc’s and found it barely useable. I’m not sure what benefit porting it to a cell phone… Read More »VNC via cell phone
Novell Announces Enhancements for GroupWise
“Novell to deliver new product features, 10-year extended support commitment and pre-bundled Linux with upcoming version of leading collaboration product” At this week’s BrainShare conference, Novell made some nice announcements about GroupWise. Announced upcoming features are: enhanced client code for… Read More »Novell Announces Enhancements for GroupWise
VoIP for the masses?
The Washing Post has a story on how Texas is suing Vonage because someone who failed to activate the 911 feature was unable to make 911 calls from their VoIP line. I thought it was interesting that this was one… Read More »VoIP for the masses?
Another nail in the coffin for traditional telecom?
Another interesting announcement at CTIA was Motorola’s announcement of their Cellular Residential Gateway. Even though the sign next to it in the Wireless Home exhibit announced “Shipping Now”, details on it are murky with no sign of it on Motorola’s… Read More »Another nail in the coffin for traditional telecom?
Combo EDGE/GPRS/GSM/802.11 card from Sony Ericsson
At the recent CTIA show Sony Ericsson announced a new multimode PC card that supports EDGE/GPRS/GSM/ and 802.11b/g. In my opinion, this would have been great news 6-12 months ago. Now most laptops are coming with 802.11 support built in,… Read More »Combo EDGE/GPRS/GSM/802.11 card from Sony Ericsson