From the BBC’s website this morning:
I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that’s all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning.
When I logged on to my desktop Twitter application (sad, I know) it [...]
Alltel this week launched a picture service that automatically transfers photographs snapped with the phone’s camera to a customer’s PC or online photo websites.
Called PhotoCopter (pdf), the solution uses Ontela technology to create a bridge between the phone and the network. It uses Alltel’s CDMA 1X and EV-DO network to upload photos as soon as [...]
MySpace and Sprint, today announced the launch of MySpace Mobile (m.myspace.com) on all Web-enabled Sprint phones.
Sprint says it marks the first free direct access to the new MySpace Mobile website on a U.S. wireless carrier, allowing Sprint data subscribers a fast track to their MySpace profiles on their phones.
MySpace Mobile will include the ability [...]
While at an RV show this weekend, I saw a mobile WiFi router with a cellular booster amp for WiFi access in remote places. The $795 kit delivers a solid cellular signal where regular phones can’t and the WiFi router is smaller, cheaper and faster than satellite connections.
I talked to Rob Taylo whose [...]
It may not be wireless, but it is pretty slick — and the price is right.
Belkin’s Podcast Studio is a self-contained, iPod-interfacing podcast production device. The unit features dual XLR and 1/4″ inputs and an embedded speaker. You slip your iPod in the top and record directly to the player.
It’s portable and battery powered [...]
Jim, did you know that Ethereal has 25% more riboflavin than any other cereal on the market?
Jim: No shit. — Putney Swope
Clear Channel Outdoor and Qwikker, the leading provider of Bluetooth content distribution, today announced an agreement to build a mobile content delivery network using Clear Channel’s outdoor signage.
Clear Channel Outdoor will deploy Qwikker [...]
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a six-person ensemble that performs music via computers. The performers sit on the floor with computers on their laps, explains NPR, with six-sided speakers next to them. They play original compositions written for the laptop.
Students play their laptops with a new music language — known as ChucK — written by [...]
Make Magazine describes Steve Paine’s solar-powered bike tour, along the Rhein River.
His Solar-UMPC.com blog describes powering Ultra Mobile PCs through solar and natural energy sources. He’s blogging with a Samsung Q1b UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) and portable solar gear. Here’s his gear and project photos.
The original plan was to cycle during the day with the solar [...]
Summer’s here!
So are outdoor music concerts, like my city’s Water Front Blues Festival. It’s the main fund raiser for the Oregon Food Bank.
The 6 day concert, which attracts more than 100,000 people, is held in Portland. Last year, blues fans donated $545,000 and 103,500 pounds of food to fight hunger and its root causes.
But [...]
A battle over increased royalty payments for songs on online radio is moving into high gear, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Online radio companies are appealing a ruling that would double rates payable to record labels in three years. They are filing a motion to stay the ruling on the new rates, which are [...]
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