My Favorite
Buzzword:
Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
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All About The MAN
Spam Overload Dept: According
to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes
or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get
100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source:
Symantec and Insightexpress
Superman Issue #1 Off the Subject: Take a tech break and enjoy the first-ever appearance of Superman in the comics. You can buy the issue for $75,000 or enjoy it for free online.
Tech Angle (you know there had to be one): This is the best scanning I have ever seen online. The cover looks like you are holding it in your hands.
Boeing Serves Up In-Flight WiFi Boeing is about to unveil a pricey but still nicey in-flight WiFi service called "Connexion." At $29.00 for a long flight and a gripping $14.95 for 3 hours, the company's stock was up on the news. All we can say is FINALLY. After wasting everyone's time and money on those in-seat phones no one ever used, we can finally surf our boredom away. A bargain at half the price. # Posted at
7:30 PM
Comcast Buys TechTV Comcast wrote a $300 million dollar check for struggling TechTV. With plans to fold TechTV into its game channel G4, this just proves my asserment that video games are not even getting started when it comes to revenue generation. # Posted at
6:59 PM
Virus Era Hits 5-Year Milestone
It was 5 years ago that Melissa first struck fear and bewliderment into randy surfers who opened the attachment without a second thought. How innocent we were. Journey back.... # Posted at
6:58 PM
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Hitachi's Giant Fuel Cell PDA Ok, so maybe it will take time to get a methanol fuel cell down into something you can reasonably call a PDA, but Hitachi gets props for trying.
Expected to launch sometime in the year 2005, this 100 percent pollution free baby is still just a prototype, but we all have to start somewhere.
Scary, Annoying Cellular Jewlery is here What is worse than a ringing cell phone? How about a flashing bracelet every time any cell phone rings within three feet of the wearer? Picture your next movie-going experience. Picture walking down a city street at night. Picture the fact that flashing pens and other flashing devices are on their way. The horror, the horror. # Posted at
5:34 PM
Forget Flat Screen, Think 360 Instead Big screens are getting cheaper, but the truly high end say it is all about going 360. Wrap-around screens give you multiple places to look and work, because unlike going ultra wide with a front facing flat panel, the wrap effect makes it easier to see and work on a wide screen. You glance to the left for your calendar, to the right for your music player, and right down the center for your latest budget. Seamless Display has a 40inch wrap screen that is beyond nice, but at $20,000 it is beyond too soon for most of us. Sigh.... # Posted at
2:17 PM
Monday, March 22, 2004
McMusic? You Deserve a Download Today Department: Proving that everyone on earth now has a music download site, McDonalds announced it was getting in on the act with Sony. McDonalds will reportedly invest $30 million in advertising in exchange for the songs. Customers will get access codes for free music when they purchase certain items off the menu. The only thing left , we suppose, is the iWhopper Music player. # Posted at
6:53 PM
Even more USB Oddities: The iDuck As quirky USB devices go, the iDuck is actually quite useful. It holds 256MBs of data, and even glows when you plug it in. Available in six designer colors, including the macho "Army" version.
Retro Alert: Can a tech comeback possibly be around the corner? One clue is the use of an "i": or 'e" in a product name, and this one quacks of the past. # Posted at
2:24 PM
Tranluscent Concrete Lets Light In The world of building materials is not usually the place for technical breakthroughs, but a new type of concrete called LitraCon (disturbing name alert) offers the strength of concrete with the see through power of glass. According to optics.org: "Thousands of optical glass fibers form a matrix and run parallel to each other between the two main surfaces of every block," explained its inventor Aron Losonczi. "Shadows on the lighter side will appear with sharp outlines on the darker one. Even the colours remain the same. This special effect creates the general impression that the thickness and weight of a concrete wall will disappear." # Posted at
2:24 PM
Nokia's Rare Flip Phone Known for stealing marketshare with its distinctive candy bar style phones, Nokia annouced it would manufacturer a clamshell style phone for those who have not yet flipped for the Nokia family of phones. (try saying that three times.)
The Nokia 7200 phone boasts a screen in 65,000 colors, an MP3 player, VGA camera that also does video, and intergated Bluetooth. Sounds like this flip may not flop. # Posted at
1:25 PM
The New Blackberry 7750 Reasearch in Motion's addictive Blackberry handheld has gone high-res with the upcoming release of the new 7750. The new model not only boasts a larger display area, it now provides a more colorful 65,000 color screen.
Java-based and still reigning champ in battery life, the new 7750s are expected to go on sale next month on Verizon Wireless.
All I can say is, "I want it." # Posted at
1:25 PM
Off the Subject: Take a tech break and enjoy the first-ever appearance of Superman in the comics. You can buy the issue for $75,000 or enjoy it for free online. 
Boeing is about to unveil a pricey but still nicey in-flight WiFi service called "Connexion." At $29.00 for a long flight and a gripping $14.95 for 3 hours, the company's stock was up on the news. All we can say is FINALLY. After wasting everyone's time and money on those in-seat phones no one ever used, we can finally surf our boredom away. A bargain at half the price.
Comcast wrote a $300 million dollar check for struggling TechTV. With plans to fold TechTV into its game channel G4, this just proves my asserment that video games are not even getting started when it comes to revenue generation.
Ok, so maybe it will take time to get a methanol fuel cell down into something you can reasonably call a PDA, but Hitachi gets props for trying. 
What is worse than a ringing cell phone? How about a flashing bracelet every time any cell phone rings within three feet of the wearer? Picture your next movie-going experience. Picture walking down a city street at night. Picture the fact that flashing pens and other flashing devices are on their way. The horror, the horror. 
Big screens are getting cheaper, but the truly high end say it is all about going 360. Wrap-around screens give you multiple places to look and work, because unlike going ultra wide with a front facing flat panel, the wrap effect makes it easier to see and work on a wide screen. You glance to the left for your calendar, to the right for your music player, and right down the center for your latest budget. Seamless Display has a 40inch wrap screen that is beyond nice, but at $20,000 it is beyond too soon for most of us. Sigh....
You Deserve a Download Today Department: Proving that everyone on earth now has a music download site, McDonalds announced it was getting in on the act with Sony. McDonalds will reportedly invest $30 million in advertising in exchange for the songs. Customers will get access codes for free music when they purchase certain items off the menu. The only thing left , we suppose, is the iWhopper Music player.
As quirky USB devices go, the iDuck is actually quite useful. It holds 256MBs of data, and even glows when you plug it in. Available in six designer colors, including the macho "Army" version. 
The world of building materials is not usually the place for technical breakthroughs, but a new type of concrete called LitraCon (disturbing name alert) offers the strength of concrete with the see through power of glass. According to optics.org: "Thousands of optical glass fibers form a matrix and run parallel to each other between the two main surfaces of every block," explained its inventor Aron Losonczi. "Shadows on the lighter side will appear with sharp outlines on the darker one. Even the colours remain the same. This special effect creates the general impression that the thickness and weight of a concrete wall will disappear."
Known for stealing marketshare with its distinctive candy bar style phones, Nokia annouced it would manufacturer a clamshell style phone for those who have not yet flipped for the Nokia family of phones. (try saying that three times.) 
Reasearch in Motion's addictive Blackberry handheld has gone high-res with the upcoming release of the new 7750. The new model not only boasts a larger display area, it now provides a more colorful 65,000 color screen.
