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, and this doesn’t give a traveler much of an edge unless they have an older [...]
Why does everyone fear nonexistent wireless VoIP? Is the question Mike Masnick asks on The Feature this week. From the article: “You can’t really go a month in the wireless world without hearing of the next big “threat” to some wireless technology. This month it’s wireless VoIP that’s going to take down just about everything [...]
I ran across this interesting script that checks to make sure that a Mac has been re-named after imaging, and queries for a new name if it hasn’t. Neat little tool, and I think it supplements my vb script that renames our PCs after imaging to their Dell service tag #. Tweet
I’m glad to see that the cell providers and handset/PDA companies are finally starting to ‘get it’. Some heartening news this week that brings me to this conclusion. eWeek has a story about the cell providers testing IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) in their phones in addition or in replacement to their current UMA (Unlicensed Mobile [...]
Interesting story about a refrigerator-sized machine that would make “household items and gadgets, including kitchenware, cameras and even small musical instruments” out of metal or plastic. The cool thing, is that it would be able to make copies of itself – making it self replicating, and enable to original purchasers to defray the cost of [...]
The article: ZIP 2: another entrant in the VoIP phone marketplace by ZDNet‘s Russell Shaw talks about the new ZIP2 line of phones from Zultys. Their website lists the following specs for the phones: ZIP 2+ ZIP 2P ZIP 2x2L ZIP 2×1 ZIP 2×2 Ethernet ports 1 1 2 1 2 PoE No Yes No [...]
Came across an interesting phone – the ROAD S101. Another phone that combines cell and wi-fi access, instead of blocking it like the Treo 650. It’ll be interesting to see if it ever makes it to the US. Tweet
Novell is providing instructions on how to download just the needed iso files to install OES, as well as receive 30 days of free updates. Was a nice surprise to me, as I realized I wouldn’t need to re-download the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 isos again. Tweet
Novell is providing instructions on how to download just the needed iso files to install OES, as well as receive 30 days of free updates. Was a nice surprise to me, as I realized I wouldn’t need to re-download the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 isos again. Tweet
Network World features an interesting sounding high school – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The “cool name” part comes from it being referred to as the “TJ”. The “interesting” part was the description of how students are involved in the ID department, with some volunteering up to 20 hours per week, working [...]