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Newsletter Archive: 2007


The Google Android & Funambol Impact
Funambol has released a position paper that discusses Google Android and the Funambol Open Source impact on the mass market for mobile email.

Date:2007-12-26



Review: Electrovaya Power Pad External Battery
For me one of the main limitations of a laptop based office/lifestyle is battery life. Manufacturers advertise battery life spans of 3, 4, and 5 hours or more. However what they don't tell you is these times have very very little to do with real use conditions.

Date:2007-12-12



Start Working Together in Less Than 60 Seconds - Anytime, Anywhere
Creating an effective company intranet just got easy with WebOffice. Share information and collaborate with co-workers, partners and clients - anywhere in the world.

Date:2007-12-06



The Evolution Of Home Entertainment
Fred Wilson is out with a post describing the evolution of his home entertainment set up. After putting together what sounds like an expensive "over the top" Creston System, he now has a set up with three separate entertainment systems with lots of goodies with Mac Minis as the centerpiece to the strategy.

Date:2007-12-04



Review: Toshiba Tecra A8
For the past week I've had in my possession a Toshiba Tecra A8 Notebook which I have thanks to Talk Toshiba and it's Tecra A8 triallist programme in which they give bloggers, journalists and community leaders the chance to test out their laptops for a week (more if you request) in exchange for writing an honest, objective review on your blog, forum and community site etc.

Date:2007-11-20



Voice Controlled Media Center
Amulet Devices has announced a Windows Media Center remote control that has a microphone stick at the top of it, letting you speak into the remote and issue voice commands to your television.

Date:2007-11-14



Access Your PC Remotely With WebEx
WebEx PCNow is the easy way to use your PC from anywhere in the world. Now you can work from home, telecommute, or even get the file you left on your office PC quickly and easily.

Date:2007-11-08



Microsoft Oslo: Does It Lack Interoperability?
First, I'm an IBMer. These are my views. IBM does not necessarily agree with them. Second, I think most of you will agree that I'm relatively friendly towards Microsoft when they may a positive OSS move.

Date:2007-10-31



Easy To Use Online Meeting Tool. Fast. Reliable.
Conduct unlimited online Meetings with up to 10 participants. Make presentations, demonstrations, review documents and share your entire desktop. Train, Collaborate, and Meet for one flat rate.

Date:2007-10-25


Internet Space, Near & Far
Vinton Cerf, Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist, gave a thought-provoking talk in Seoul. He was talking about the version of the Internet that will be required as we journey in space.

Date:2007-10-22



Go Live PHP & IIS
PHP just got a major boost from Microsoft this morning with the release of FastCGI for windows. Anyone working with PHP and Windows knows just how painful it can be, if you can get it to work reliably at all.

Date:2007-10-10



Celebrating 9 Years Of Google Technology
Google.stanford.edu in late 1997. Sergey Brin in 1999 says, "A perfect search engine will process and understand all the information in the world ... That is where Google is headed."

Date:2007-09-27



Home Server Update Announced; HP Delays Hardware Release
Microsoft announced that a significant update to the Windows Home Server operating system is currently being prepped for delivery via Windows Update before the end of the month.

Date:2007-09-05



How Fanatical Support(TM) can work for your business
No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. And no more wondering if there's a better way to go about it all.

Date:2007-08-27



The Quest For A Bluetooth Pen Device
I am a law student and have completely switched over to a laptop for all of my notes. My laptop is bluetooth and I use a bluetooth mouse. My question is do you know of any bluetooth pen devices?

Date:2007-08-22


Meet Online With WebEx
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Date:2007-08-20


Sony Vaio SZ4XWN-C - First Impressions
In my search for a new portable computer, it wasn't too hard to succumb to the allure of a Sony Vaio SZ series notebook. I've bought the SZ4XWN/C model. Ordered it online from PC World Business late last Tuesday night; it was delivered on Thursday afternoon.

Date:2007-08-15


Microsoft Is Still Product-Driven
According to the New York Times, Bill Gates is leaving his position at the head of Microsoft in a time of great change. Perhaps there is less change than one might imagine. Just over a year ago we thought Microsoft went Customer-Centric.

Date:2007-08-01


Google Maps Gets Used For Oracle's Field Service
The word "oracle" has a number of definitions, and they generally relate to knowledge provided by one or more deities - this would, in theory, be some solid intel.

Date:2007-07-18


Casio Cameras Now Include "YouTube Mode"
Thanks to LG’s Google phone, and to the Google Mini and Search Appliance, people are getting used to the idea of Google-branded hardware. But YouTube cameras?

Date:2007-07-11


Google Hardware To Go Through Ingram Micro
If you want to get the Google Mini or Google Search Appliance, talk to Ingram Micro - even as sales surpass 9,000 units, the company has been selected to distribute Google’s hardware.

Date:2007-06-27


Microsoft Enhances Virtual Earth
Microsoft and Intermap Technologies have announced the launch of Microsoft's enhanced Virtual Earth 3-D viewing platform based on Intermap Technologies' highly accurate and up-to-date elevation data for all of Great Britain.

Date:2007-06-21


The New Touch Screen Experience
HTC has announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone that features intuitive touchscreen navigation (very much like the new iPhone).

Date:2007-06-11


Microsoft, Google Chart New Map Views
Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps released new ways of looking at the world through their products at the Where 2.0 conference. 3-D looks at the Big Apple and street views of Miami were two of the big announcements at Where 2.0 in San Jose.

Date:2007-05-30


Attending IBM's Technology Leadership Exchange
As most of you may well remember, this week I am going to be away from the office, attending IBM's Technical Leadership Exchange event, a.k.a. IBM's TLE,. in Eurodisney, Paris.

Date:2007-05-23


Keyless Cell Phone
Given the resources and efforts working to make the mobile web a reality, progress is disappointingly slow. A study by InfoGin carried out among students at five UK universities has concluded something we've known all long: the mobile web is not working.

Date:2007-05-16


Real Borg Technology
Playing video games without a controller, being able to spot enemies at some 10,000 meters, its not science fiction, it is what is happening in the world today, the brain computer interface is quickly becoming reality.

Date:2007-05-02


Try WebEx WebOffice - 100% Free Trial
WebOffice has the business tools you need to work together from anywhere, anytime - securely and easily.

Date:2007-04-25


Social Technographics Reaches The Audience
Starting with Fanatical Charlene Li at Forrester Research has introduced a new buzzphrase: social technographics. It's all about using the right technologies to build relationships.

Date:2007-04-24


Web 2.0 Expo: Schmidt Keynote Highlights
Starting with Fanatical Thanks to the great wifi here, this lengthy post was completely erased when I tried posting. Here we go again, this time with feeling. John Battelle interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote Tuesday morning.

Date:2007-04-18


Think about servers inside and outside the box
Starting with Fanatical Support™, Rackspace is about one thing and one thing only—supporting you. It goes way beyond just your box or configuration. What's outside the box, our people, technical expertise, Zero-Downtime Network™, data centers and guarantees all exist to make your IT life easier. It's what makes us the hosting experts and everyone else just hosting providers.

Date:2007-04-12


Zune 2.0 To Hit The Streets In '07
Microsoft plans to follow up the lackluster release of its first generation Zune portable media player with a new model by the end of the year.

Date:2007-04-11



Nokia Visualizes Mobile Search
The heated competition for mobile handset search eyeballs may have reached the melting point of titanium now that a Nokia patent for visual search has been revealed. Nokia has been a technology driver throughout its existence.

Date:2007-04-03
The Google Talk Team Talks
In a recent email interview the Google Talk team revealed to WebProNews their future plans for Google Talk and the Google Talk Gadget. While Google Talk is being promoted in Gmail the team also pointed to a variety of other areas where it is currently available.

Date:2007-03-21


Google Phone Inches Toward Reality
The newest discussion of a Google-branded wireless device suggests a Blackberry-like gadget with VoIP capability comes from ex-Macromedia chief architect turned venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov, as he fuels the Google Phone rumor blaze.

Date:2007-03-07


Second Life To Get 3D Voice Capability
Linden Lab, creators of the Second Life online world, announced plans to enable residents to voice chat with one another in real time. This initiative is geared toward improving the collaborative efforts of educators, non-profits, and businesses that run their operations within the virtual environment.

Date:2007-03-01


Create your own WebOffice in just 60 seconds
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Date:2007-02-28


IBM Seeks PC Time For World Community Grid
A little CPU could go a long way toward making inroads on several medical research fronts, including cancer, muscular dystrophy, and AIDS, and IBM promotes its World Community Grid to help with that.

Date:2007-02-21


Google Works On PowerPoint Clone Presently
The presentation software used by millions of project managers and consultants, Microsoft's PowerPoint, will have a competitor from Google called "Presently" as the company builds yet another piece of the office suite everyone expects will challenge Office, once it actually has enough features.

Date:2007-02-07


High-Capacity Photon Storage
Scientists at the University of Rochester have stored an entire image-worth of data within a single photon, promising unsurpassed quantities of data storage for the era of quantum computing that lies before us.

Date:2007-01-24


Google Phone To Challenge Apple IPhone?
Engadget is reporting that they have received information from an inside source with product information about the near-mythical Google branded cellular phone, which has been the topic of much speculation over recent months.

Date:2007-01-19


Dash Drives Yahoo Local To Cars
The Dash Electronics booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will have a dash of Yahoo in its product, thanks to their partnership on local search. Through the wonders of GPS and the power of a wireless Internet connection, Dash will bring Yahoo Local search results to drivers using its service.

Date:2007-01-03


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