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Hacking EyeFi for Linux

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 28th, 2008

Matt Westervelt (of Seattle Wireless and Metrix fame), got an Eeepc and a Eye-Fi card for his Nikon.

I’ve been able to cut down the weight I carry every day without losing much functionality. One thing that I have been missing however, is the ability to configure my Eye-Fi card for random networks that I [...]

Bender Resigns from One Laptop?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 21st, 2008

MSI’s Wind Notebook is pretty much everything we’ve heard, says Engadget; about 1-kg weight; XP-only (at the moment); LED-backlit, 8.9- and 10-inch 1,024 x 600 displays; and traditional 80GB, 2.5-inch hard disk.

MSI claims to have a superior keyboard and battery life compared to the competition. No word on price or delivery date though a [...]

Android Developer Challenge: 1,788 Entries

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 18th, 2008

From Google’s Android Developer’s Blog:

I’m thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!
What I find truly amazing is how global the interest in the challenge has been. Developers from the United States submitted one-third of the total applications while the rest came from countries [...]

Free 2155-2175 MHz!

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 11th, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen… I’ve traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn’t get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it. That well is now flowing at two thousand barrels and it’s paying me an income of five thousand dollars a [...]

Mapping Portland Startups

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 10th, 2008

The Silicon Florist compiles an interesting feature called Six map apps that put Portland on the mapping map

Portland is map happy. And nowhere is that more evident than our obsession with the mapping APIs that further the technology of cartography.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at the mapping and location apps that call Portland, Oregon, [...]

Opera Browser on Android

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 10th, 2008

Opera Software today unveiled the first major third-party browser for Android, the Google-backed open mobile phone operating system.
The Olso, Norway-based firm has a “technical preview release” of its Opera Mini browser available at labs.opera.com for Android developers to give feedback on. This preview will precede a beta release of the browser later this year. [...]

Android on Nokia Web Tablet

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 8th, 2008

Engadget says the Nokia N810 is now running Android.

The $500 WiMAX-enabled N810 should provide WiFi speeds with cellular range. TalkAndroid.com and eLinux.org have more.

OpenAirBoston Regroups; Becomes Open

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 4th, 2008

Boston’s citywide wireless Internet access plan is faltering, notes Boston.com, but a grass-roots effort may step in to provide “bubbles” of service
“We still have very ambitious plans to move this across the whole city,” said Bill Oates, the city’s chief information officer. “But we’re not sure how long it’s going to take or what the [...]

Android: Life is Good

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 3rd, 2008

South Korea’s third-biggest mobile service operator, LG Telecom, may offer Google’s Android platform on their 3G phones, LG’s chief executive said on Thursday. “We are using an open platform for our 3G service,” CEO Jung Il-jae told reporters.

The South Korean handset maker said in February it would start selling a model running on Google’s Android [...]

Go2 Netbook: $400 at Amazon

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 3rd, 2008

Intel says their new Netbook, the 2go PC, will soon be available for sale to the general public through Amazon for $400 and at other outlets like CompUSA and Fred Meyers. The 2go PC will be shipping beginning mid May.

“Only 5 percent of the world’s children today have access to a PC or to the [...]