“So while 3 launches on 03/03/03, I suspect we’ll be waiting until 06/06/06 before we really feel we’re part of something new.” Guardian Unlimited | Online | Preparing for 3G day
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Jeremy Allaire: “A server is just another client — and I’d add, it’s a client with an institutional memory.” And in the context of P2P file sharing, a client is just another server, but a server with a personal memory. Jeremy Allaire’s Radio
Hey, a weblog tool specifically for people who create bandwaggons. What’s the bet that Imakenews’ weblog tool offers less than existing software. iMakeNews – Create newsletters and email marketing campaigns – trackable HTML email
“SnapStream’s primary product is the Personal Video Station, which can turn any computer with a TV tuner card into a device that, like TiVo or Replay, can pause and record live television. SnapStream’s product is inexpensive, about $50 for the software” Dwight Silverman: Hybrid products living up to hype
“The electronic Holy Quran has become more popular because of it is easy to use and available with English translations. It also gives the Qibla direction and accurate prayer timings in more than 1,000 cities of different countries,” said Riaz, a salesman in another electronics outlet.” GN Online: Digital Quran gains popularity
A new imaging technology gives X-ray vision without radiation. Presumably a device based on this technology could provide full body X-rays of people at airports, something much more reassuring than a metal detector. EE Times UK – ESA makes breakthrough in terahertz imaging technology
Nick Denton: Please please please will somebody, anybody, develop a usable micropayments system for the web. Hear Hear! If you had told me 5 years ago that we would still not have a proper Internet micropayments system, I would have assumed that the web must have failed to take off. So who should provide micropayments now that the only likely candidate, Paypal, has been absorbed by a classified ads company? Perhaps the retail banks? Hell no – can you believe that these guys actually have services that allow you to create a paper check online and have it mailed to a creditor. This is as mad as having little people inside ATMs. Retail banks move a glacial speed in terms of technology. What we need are the real micropayments masters, the phone companies. Pick up your phone and dial, and money drains out of your bank account, little by little,…
Jack Schofield writes about Dell’s latest attempt to ditch the floppy drive. A five year old article from CNET on a previous attempt at standardization gives some insight as to the problem: New floppy drive announced – Tech News – CNET.com “The other problem is history. Weilerstein says that when the 3.5-inch floppy became a standard years ago, there were only two companies of significance in the PC industry–Apple and IBM. After these two companies adopted the drives, everyone else followed.” The mere existence of the anachronistic floppy drive is a testament to a fragmented industry that cannot agree on standards. The only thing approaching a standard to compare with the floppy is the CD-R which is an inconvenient form factor and scores low on ease of use.
via Kevin Werbach, who is blogging like he’s eaten a whole bag of those coffee bean candies today. Tony Perkins, publisher of Red Herring has launched a commercial weblog, ‘Always On’. It looks good, but I am already irritated about the spin. This is an online magazine with permalinks. If people milk the whole commercial weblog thing for magazine sites they will only accelerate a weblog backlash. AlwaysOn Home
Wired reports on the internal ‘civil war’ at Sony, where the company that invented the Walkman needs to deal with the fact that the iPod is its 21st century equivalent. The development of products that play digital media competes directly with Sony as a media company. If companies like Sony try to stifle product development to try and preserve the status quo between media and media players that existed with analog formats they will lose. If they don’t, they will also lose. Wired 11.02: The Civil War Inside Sony
Brian Eno may have composed the Windows startup sound… but he uses a Mac Brian Eno: “I myself am a Mac user“ Jeff Jarvis: Brian Eno and the Microsoft sound