Color me confused, but I don’t understand the new Microsoft commercials at all. You know the ones, they feature Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. I watched the first one, and reserved judgment. Now I’ve seen the second one, and, well,…
Move over Kindle…there’s a new reader in town. Plastic Logic has presented a demonstration of their new eReader product at the DEMOfall 08 technology conference. As yet unpriced, it is expected to debut in the first half of 2009. What’s…
A judge decided that J.K. Rowling would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Harry Potter Lexicon, a labor of love for an unpaid web writer, were to be published. Yes, this is a victory for J.K. Rowling, who at this point…
There is no bandwidth crisis. At our highest usage, we are using less than 50% of the available bandwidth worldwide. WORLDWIDE. So why is it we need usage caps in the first place? Presumably, according to the telcos and cable…
Another company is proposing to offer free broadband everywhere. M2Z is gathering venture capital funding and preparing to bid on next year’s auction of the advanced wireless services-3 spectrum. I wish them luck. Their business model, based on getting the…
This is not a political post; I could have easily used any other Wiki example to make my point. It has been revealed that in the 24 hours preceding the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate for…
I so want one of these. I can think of half-a-dozen applications I could use this for. It has a range of up to 30 feet and can stream whatever you want from your desktop/laptop pc to any monitor/television with…