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Wireless Flash Triggers

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 19th, 2008

I follow The Strobist, a blog about using speedlights, by photographer David Hobby. He works for the Baltimore Sun. I admired a photo of a Xohm technician shot in Baltimore without realizing he shot the picture. Here’s how it was done:

In a situation like this, shooting in manual is probably gonna make more sense than [...]

Intel & Taiwan Develop Moblin WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 30th, 2008

Intel has signed an agreement with the Taiwan ministry of economic affairs to jointly establish a centre for open-source software and applications. It’s intended to stimulate development of WiMax client devices based on Moblin, the open-source development environment for the Intel Atom processor.
Announcing the deal on Thursday in Taiwan, Intel president and chief executive Paul [...]

Indian WiMAX Expands

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 4th, 2008

India’s Tata Communications, formerly known as VSNL is planning to expand its WiMAX coverage from the current 60 towns to 115 this financial year.
The company has outlined some US$2 billion in CAPEX over the next three years. About half the expenditure will be on a WiMAX network which will cover 15 cities by 2009. Currently, [...]

Lemonaide

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 17th, 2008

Kurt Kroner is the man behind the defining example of the greatest advertising campaign of the century, says Bob Garfield.

He wasn’t the copywriter. That was Julian Koenig. Nor was he the art director. That was Helmut Krone. Nor was he elsewhere employed by Doyle Dane Bernbach, the agency that stormed the confining Bastille of advertising [...]

Nokia Advertising Alliance

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 11th, 2008

Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia Advertising Alliance, which is intended to simplify mobile advertising for brand advertisers.
The program brings together couponing, location-based targeting, image recognition, and other emerging technologies, to increase consumer engagement. Brands can work with Nokia with the latest mobile technologies for campaigns.
Members of the Alliance are integrated with [...]

Verizon Buying Alltel

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 5th, 2008

Verizon Wireless has agreed to buy the fifth largest cellular operator in the United States, Alltel for $5.9 billion. That would make Verizon Wireless, the second largest cellular provider in the United States, the largest.
Alltel has 13.2 million subscribers in 34 states, mainly in rural areas away from the coasts which would be added [...]

How to Fix Muni Wi-Fi

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 2nd, 2008

Brian McConnell, at GigOm, has an interesting take on How to Fix Muni Wi-Fi:

While the goal of providing free access to citizens is a noble one, muni W-Fi proponents have misunderstood how the Internet is used in public spaces, primarily by assuming that people who can afford laptops are somehow unable to afford Internet access.
Perhaps [...]

The Next Big Thing: Small

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 28th, 2008

I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
- Weezer

Over 80 technical sessions on OpenSocial, Google App Engine, Android, Google Maps API, Google Web Toolkit, and more were featured at Google I/O, the [...]

Touch Wall

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 14th, 2008

Microsoft’s annual CEO Summit today is bringing 115 CEOs from 26 countries, to Redmond. Bill Gates will demo a new prototype touch computing device called TouchWall and Plex, which envisions a new “Minority Report” type touch screen.

Tech Crunch has more details on the interactive, rear-screen white board.
Yes, it doesn’t have much to [...]

Mobile Social Nets Grow

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 8th, 2008

MySpace has embraced data portability, and partnered With Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter, says TechCrunch. MySpace is announcing data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships in a project called MySpace “Data Availability”.
The key goal is to allow users to maintain key personal data at sites like MySpace and not have it be locked [...]