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Archive for August, 2004

Cellular Film Festival

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 31st, 2004

The Feature has the buzz on cell-phone film festivals: Atlanta-based Zoie Films has partnered with Tin Can Mobile and Nokia to present a selection of one to five minute works in a new “Cellular Cinema Festival.” Interestingly, they’re not encouraging filmmakers to develop new works for the media, but rather to “dig deep into your [...]

XM Pulls the (USB) Plug

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 31st, 2004

XM Satellite Radio, until recently, had an accessory that plugs into a USB port on your PC. The XM PCR ($50), let you tune into XM’s 120 digital audio satellite channels, using your PC. But it didn’t let you record individual songs. Then a $29 program, TimeTrax became available from an independent developer. It used [...]

D-Link 802.1x AP/Repeater

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 31st, 2004

Tom’s Networking reports that D-Link today announced a business-class 802.11g AP with 802.3af Power over Ethernet support. The DWL-2200AP AirPremier Access Point security features include 802.1x user-based authentication and supports WPA, WPA2 (802.11i), AES encryption, MAC Address Filtering, Wireless LAN segmentation and SSID Broadcast disable. It features speeds up to 108Mbps, works as Point-To-Point Bridge, [...]

Opera Browser for PocketPC

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 31st, 2004

Opera Software, the popular browser used in PCs and in Symbian operating system cell phones like the Nokia Series 60, is now coming out with a version that runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform. It’s currently in beta. Opera Software said its Opera smartphone browser for Windows Mobile is a completely new platform for Opera. [...]

NRO Rides Again

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 30th, 2004

This evening at 6:53 p.m. EDT, Lockheed Martin and International Launch Services hope to launch the NROL-1, thought to be a Mercury signals intelligence spacecraft, atop an Atlas 2AS rocket, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. Update#1: The launch has been rescheduled for Tuesday at 6:49 pm EDT. Update#2: 7:17 p.m. EDT; LIFT-OFF! Lockheed Martin’s [...]

What Elephant?

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 30th, 2004

Om Malik, a senior writer with Business 2.0, has an interesting observation: Business Week in an editorial writes… “The U.S. is becoming something of a broadband backwater, a place where almost no one can do what Kato and millions of other Japanese take for granted. Many Americans may think that the U.S. is making progress [...]