Tag: Mobile Technology
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Will laptops ever be allowed in the air again?
After the terror scare where “liquids” became “weapons”, UK flights also banned laptops and other electronics in the cabin. Shortly there after, Sony batteries used in Apple, Dell and now Toshiba (Canadian recall) laptops were recalled as they might catch fire. Three now (Virgin Atlantic, Korean Airlines and Quantas) don’t allow these laptops to have…
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Zune-ing in
Microsoft has released the Zune specs. It looks retro (brown electronics) and seems to want to do many things. Some are calling it the iPod killer, but other are waiting. I guess we’ll see. But now I see that it won’t play DRMed content. I don’t think this is a good sign for the DRM…
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Roger’s Portable Internet – WiMax Commeth
I saw this in the mall today and hadn’t seen it baly-hooed anywhere, but Roger’s Portable Internet has arrived. It uses OFDM to wirelessly connect clients using WiMax. It may have arrived as early as April, but this is the first that I’ve seen it.
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Picasa Web Albums – Mac tools
Well, Google is certainly making it hard for users of Apple’s .mac service to justify the cost per year. Granted for the extra money you get more webspace and for a person like me with quite the number of photos that are likely to wind up online, that may be the deal breaker – synching…
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GCalSync et al
Along with Blogger/Blogger Beta being a bit flakey of late (I had to rebuild my template on Friday, logins are getting mixed up and the Google Notifier on the Mac lets you know that there is something there waiting for you, but you can’t go check it out – so I’m staying with the older…