Thursday, December 22, 2005
Reuters - Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday they reached an agreement that settles their pending litigation that had barred a former Microsoft executive from heading up the Web search firm's research efforts in China.
Chief Gizmateer of RealTechNews writes: The Geeks will visit CES in Vegas early next month so we have been bombarded with meeting requests and new product announcements. One of the more interesting product announcements is from a company called Commodore. If you’re a geek, you know all about Commodore. Yeah, the little company that launched one of the most popular and best selling computers back in 1982 called the Commodore 64. After gobbling up Amiga…
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Yesterday I blogged about VideoiPodder. Now there's a similar service that does the same for TV shows. It's called tvRSS and it brings TV shows to your desktop through RSS. For example, here's a feed for my favorite show, Lost.
I read about Orb’s V4S product on Scobelizer and Skype Journal. V4S is a good, free tool for sending voicemails to Skype and Outlook contacts.
V4S joins a whole bunch of products attacking the same or similar market (sending voicemails over the web): YackPack, Odeo Waxmail, vemail, Springdoo and even the humble slawesome.
Pro Blogger Darren Rowse shares 18 lessons learned about blogging.
In November 2002 I first heard the word blog after a mate e-mailed me a link and said I should consider starting one. Within 24 hours I’d created my first blog (a blogspot blog that doesn’t exist today). Since that time I’ve run 20+ blogs (most have survived, some have not) and I’ve also transitioned from hobby blogger to part time blogger to full time blogger.
Yesterday blog search portal Technorati gained what founder Dave Sifry describes in his blog as "a whole raft of improvements and tweaks." Among them are charts which show blog mentions of your search terms over time, "Scoped Search" which narrows your search results into categories, enhanced profiles, and more. Technorati has made a lot of improvements in recent months in an attempt to remain relevance in an ever more crowded field, and those efforts appear to be paying off.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Skype has just released a long-awaited upgrade to the Skype for Pocket PC client. More accurately, two new versions have been released: one for models with higher-speed processors and one optimized for devices with processors under 300 MHz. Both versions now support Windows Mobile 5.0, along with landscape and square (240 x 240 and 480 x 480) screen orientations. Other minor enhancements include support for new languages, the addition of a call fowarding icon, and several bug fixes regarding voicemail. While lower-speed processor support will certainly be a boon to many, Skype cautions that external WiFi cards will not work when making calls from 300 MHz or slower models.
[Via the::unwired]
AFP - From the Internet counter-culture which spawned blogs and podcasts comes the newest thing in new media: vlogging.
The Songcube was a bookshelf system we wrote about a while back with a built-in hard drive. JVC has announced their version of it, the UX-HD1-M shelf system with a 4.3-inch color LCD and 2 x 20 watt speakers. The 40GB internal drive allows you to rip CDs into PCM/ATRAC/MP3 formats, while CDDB look-ups over the included Ethernet ensures the files are properly tagged.
In fact, the UX-HD1-M allows you to hit the Sony (and JVC Victor co-sponsored) ANYMUSIC service direct so our Japanese brethren can purchase and download music straight to the disk. And with DLNA support, you can even stream your MP3s off your PC’s disk.
A USB port is located on the front so you can conveniently hook up your portable digital audio device. As of now, it will only be available in Japan within the next month and no pricing has been set yet.
klubar writes "Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, were named Time Magazine "Persons of the Year". He was joined in this honor with Irish rocker Bono-all being named for being "Good Samaritans" who made a difference."
