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Archive for November, 2003

HTML for Handhelds

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The Opera Browser site has some good tips forAuthoring for Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) Most Web pages are not designed for devices with small screens. Opera’s Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) feature automatically makes a more device-friendly version of those pages. This means that your Web site probably already looks great in SSR view. You can test SSR [...]

Linux 2.6 for Christmas

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, said overseer Andrew Morton in an interview Tuesday. Torvalds, Linux’s lead developer and now an OSDL Fellow, and Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton this week released the test10 version of Linux 2.6 after [...]

More Wireless Technology Incubators

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

The Austin Technology Incubator has hired high tech entrepreneur Erin Defosse to run day-to-day operations of the organization and to eventually form a wireless technology incubator. More than 80 wireless companies operate in the Austin area and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce recently cited wireless as a key industry. The potential for a wireless [...]

Everest WiFi Ad

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Broadband Reports says Intel Centrino television ads have come under fire for depicting wireless users happily browsing while on Mount Everest. According to the Guardian, a television watchdog group has started an investigation into the ad after over 100 disgruntled users complained. The ad shows one climber watching wireless video via his Intel powered laptop [...]

NeighborLink City Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Muni Wireless reports that Nevada, Missouri, a town of 10,000 has commissioned a Wi-Fi network to be built in town, according to the Miami Herald. NeighborLink is building the network for the city for approximately $25,000. Subscribers will pay $35 to $120 per month for Internet access, but they first have to pay for the [...]

Eugene Kleiner

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 25th, 2003

Silicon Valley pioneer Eugene Kleiner, whose ideas and money spawned a brood of high-tech giants, has died. He was 80. Kleiner died of heart failure last Thursday (November 20) at his Los Altos Hills, California, home, according to a family statement issued yesterday announcing his death. Although he shunned the limelight most of his life, [...]