June 30, 2005
June 29, 2005
Flying around the Globe with Google Earth
OK... I've downloaded the complete Google Earth and I have to say I'm pretty much blown away!
If you recall watching all the war in Iraq coverage last year on the news with the spanky Keyhole mapping that guided you around Baghdad and flew you over the country, well, that's essentially what you now have access to.. and much more.
- Glenn Letham [09:23:36 AM
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June 28, 2005
June 27, 2005
Is it time for the Apple i-pod to move over and make room for the latest converged mobile devices?
Is it time for the Apple i-pod to move over and make room for the latest converged devices?
Many would argue that mobile handsets will not have an impact on the i-pod's marketshare. Afterall, camera phones did not suddenly destroy the digital camera
business (according to Informa Telecoms and Media). MOBILE MUSIC (third edition), a new report by
Informa Telecoms & Media, finds that MP3-enabled phones will not seriously damage the digital music player market in the immediate future. But what about in the long run?
- Glenn Letham [03:30:18 PM
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June 26, 2005
June 25, 2005
Picking out the hardware for my MythTV box
I now have a MythTV machine running in parallel to my TiVo. The TiVo has served me well for the past two years, but I was interested in building a Myth box for other reasons. As I started my project, there was not a great deal of help in picking out hardware, especially if you want to build an AMD-based system.
- Matthew Gast [06:57:47 PM
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June 24, 2005
Gnomedex: Dave Winer
Dave Winer presented the opening keynote in a style he called bloglike, which
means he provided a title and description of the talk, and let the rest of the
keynote be driven by "comments" and "trackbacks" from him and the crowd.
- Eric Freeman [12:43:47 PM
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Ranum on security (again!)
While everybody and their dog already blogged about it, here it is: a fun interview with Marcus Ranum on security.
You know, I always had trouble understanding what the word "curmudgeon" means (not matter how many times I type "define: curmudgeon" in Google :-)), but this piece really explains it. Plentiful examples include: "whole RFC process is obsolete", "I see very little that's new and even less that's interesting [in security]", "I believe we're making zero progress in computer security, and have been making zero progress for quite some time", "If the CTOs of 10 FORTUNE 500 firms announced that they were deferring further purchases..."
So, is "everything good" in security already invented? No! I think nowadays it is not about "inventing 100% protection" (which is indeed already invented - by Ranum), which Ranum talks about, but rather about "how to I get exactly the right amount of protection while sacrifing a minimum acceptable amount of usability/efficiency"...
- Anton Chuvakin [08:28:18 AM
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Nokia's roadmap
Last week I had the good fortune to spend 3 days in Finland where key Nokia execs gathered a group of media reps from around the Globe. The event was billed "Nokia Connections" and the purpose was to present some new products, and discuss the future. Some of the highlights were as follows:
- predictions are for 3 billion mobile device users by 2010.. Nokia wants to make sure they have 40% market share
- emerging markets that will see the most growth are Russia, Asia PAcific, Africa, Middle East, China
- mobing towards open source. Nokia has adopted a new web browser as the standard for teh sEries 60 OS. The browser is based on open source code that is used by Apple in theyr Safari browser. The new Nokia 770 internet tablet runs on Linux.
- at v3, Series 40 (the OS for entry point devices) is now much more robust and provides a very rich user experience. Several new devices (6270, 6280 6265) will be the first to sport Series 40 v3 and will provide users with such features as FM radio, 2 mega pixel camera, bluetooth, QVGA display, MP3 player, etc...
- The hot areas for Nokia and target for their coming devices... mobile media consumption and enterprise mobility. As a result, partnerships are already being struck and technologies like VoIP, WiMAX, Wi-FI, RFID, GPS, will be quite important in the future. Nokia will be introducing its first VoIP over WLAN mobile radio device later in 2005.
- to help aid consumer consumption, Nokia's Preminet catalog will begin shipping on devices later this year. This will put apps and serices at the fingertips of users, creating some great opportunities for developers and carrriers.
More details from the event are in this article titled " Mobile People & Living Technology at Nokia Connection 2005" - http://www.symbianone.com/content/view/1956/
- Glenn Letham [06:59:30 AM
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The Future of National Mapping Agencies
Jeff Thurston writes, "If Google and Yahoo and others can make most of their profit from advertising by simply opening the vaults to spatial data and letting regular folks build, share and use geospatial information, why can’t national mapping agencies?" Good question!
- Schuyler Erle [01:40:52 AM
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