tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115340572009-12-26T02:43:54.240+01:00A personal overview of lustfull technology and related news by an Amsterdam IT lawyer.Pavlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08791136516662509982noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11534057.post-1144413170374526252006-04-07T14:28:00.000+02:002006-10-05T01:37:14.126+02:00

Engadget did a write-up on a supposed new Dell product, a 9 pound laptop with a 20.1" screen. I'm sorry but this thing seems to be as practical as the 1989 Macintosh Portable. Those who never had the pleasure on working on one of these should consider themselves very lucky...

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Bang and Olufsen was one of the first companies out there with a media networking system: Beolink. Beolink used to be a wired solution with cabling running from room to room, allowing you to pipe music from a CD playing in your living room to speakers elsewhere in your house. B&O's now come into the modern age with the release of the Beolink Wireless 1.The only surprising thing is that they have

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Apples will finally run Windows. Apple has released a boot manager that allows users to load Windows XP on their Macs. Anyone wanting to be malicious could easily guess that Apple's preparing to concentrate on industrial design for standard pc's - something that would mean ditching their OS efforts...

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The Register's reporting on new screens from Hitachi. While 32", 37"and 42" LCD/Plasma screens are not particularily impressive, Hitachi's pushing the envelope with integration. The systems come with 4 integrated tuners and with harddrive based video recording (PVR) as an option. While DVD integration has remained limited to small yet bulky CRT's (or otherwise high end Bang and Olufsen hardware),

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While on the one hand, LaCie is pushing the hard drive desktop storage gauntlet with its 1 TB drives, Buslink is pushing the gauntlet on the other side of the desktop storage market with its 16 GB USB stick.I still have a Dell Latitude lying around, which, when I ordered it in 1999, was considered tricked out. The system came with a whopping 6 GB hard drive. Now with solid state memory (i.e.

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For once, not a gadget story. Although I don't have a high opinion of either PCMag or John Dvorak, I loved his story on U.S. overreaction to 'digital crime'. Bottom line: Dvorak (who's always been quite the 'U.S. patriot') has decided to move to France, a country where you're not likely to be thrown into bankruptcy for downloading movies off of P2P networks and where you don't run the risk of

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The register's reporting that Quanta has been signed up to make the new video iPod and that the likely announcement date for the puppy is April 1st (Apple's 30th birthday). Another rumoured Apple product is an Apple phone. The guys at the Register don't think it's likely because that would require Apple to enter a whole new business. I don't agree.A great example of how an outsider can enter the

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Engadget is reporting that Philips has released its own reader device The Philips release rounds out a newly formed submarket: that for the 'intermediate' device. As far as I know, noone's come out and named this market segment but there's a variety of poducts and form factors already competing in this market. Let's start off with the market characteristics. First of all intermediate devices

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The Wall Street Joural Online has an article on the $100 laptop, a device currently being developed under the auspices of MIT. The device can bring two major changes with it. First of all, despite attempts by Apple to prevent it, the laptop will be running a version of Red Hat Linux. This means that as the device is supposed to get rolled out in millions of units it will, for the first time, give

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It seems that Nokia has been making good use of the etra time they've given themselves before releasing their N91 phone: they have been subjecting it to drop tests to see how much abuse the device can take. Their benchmark device was the Ipod mini and the results are as follows: Ipod mini: dead after 12 drops; Nokia N91: dead after 300. It's good to see that someone out there is actually

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Notebook journal has a report on a new Samsung laptop that just begs the question: why? The laptop sports a 19 inch screen that can be detached from the rest of the chassis. The story goes that they have made the screen detachable so that you can lift it to a more ergonomic height. That's all very cool but what I want to know is: why in the world would you want a laptp big enough to accomodate a

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Nokia N90 reviewed on infoSync World. Bottom line, the damn thing is HUGE!

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The Register reports that Sony is about to launch a P2P music swapping network . Basically, it seems that if you buy your music from Sony, you'll be able to trade it with other users of their subscription service. Their downloads will probably be more expensive since a portion of the payment will go into a royalty based kitty from which artists will be paid a sum for the file sharing arrangement.

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The first N-series phone from Nokia's out. Regrettably, there's no news on the other n-series phones.

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that the PS3 could run on OS X. From that they conclude that Sony may use OSX as the platform for the PS3. Hohum... the post is based on a comment made elsewhere that the cell chips could run OSX. On the other hand, the way the chips have een designed, I wouldn't be surprised if they could also run OS2. Take: Im calling this shoddy reporting for the time

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The Red Ferret Journal spotted the wireless jammer on Spymodex. A bunch of others have picked it up and are touting its capability for disturbing bluetooth and WiFi devices. I personally am more impressed by the fact that the puppy also jams wirelesly transmitting video cameras. And that is probably going to be the reason why these things are going to be declared illegal very soon. On a

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Motorola splits into smaller fractions... since they are also releasing Symbian phones. The FOMA M1000 is an NTT phone for the japanese version of 3G. Ìt supports multiple networks: W-CDMA, GSM, GPRS and `802.11b. All in all decent but shows pretty little vision...

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Motorola seems totally incapable of making up its mind. They've a mixed track record with MS for phones (see the 220x communicator) and they're doing the razrberry/franklin/q on MS for phones. Yet on the other hand now they've gone off and released a spanking new triband GSM phone with bluetooth and WiFi (including a handover functionality between the various networks) based on Linux and Java...

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Beer anyone? Now available, through the net, your open source beer recipe. Cook it, brew it, cool it, drink it.

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Yes Virginia it is possible to attach two controllers to a PSP, as www.hackaday.com has shown. My only question is: why?

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ARCchart has published an article asking: Will Nokia dump Symbian? in which they conclude that this would make sense since Symbian has proven problematic when ported to new hardware platforms. The good people ar ARCchart seem tohave missed one additional issue Nokia's facing, namely a dwindling profit margen. Businessweek reports of Nokia's problem maintaining high average sales prices. A reason

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WinMobile Torrent is out for pocketPC. I don't understand why they have released this for the PocketPC platform when there are no PocktPC's with mass storage devices The LifeDrive or a Symbian based device seem like far more likely candidates for a mobile bittorrent client. We're still waiting.

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Forbes reports the rumour that Apple is not only working together with Motorola to develop a new phone tuned to iTunes but that they're also looking into launching an Apple phone network. Nobody expects Apple to build a new network (they couldn't without a license anyway, and as far as I know, the FCC's not selling new licenses and Apple's not in a position to bid for an existing network), rather

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Businessweek's asking what's happening to the DVD market. It seems that the pace of sales growth in the DVD market is slowing, and in some cases is even dopping off. Now that Dreamworks is reporting a drop in earnings, partly due to lower DVD sales it seems that the DVD market really is running into trouble. Normally, this kind of business news isn't interesting to gadget lovers since it

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Wi-Fi cloaks a new breed of intruder - says the St. Petersburg Times of Florida. What's the beef? Well, it seems that local police in Florida have arrested a man for logging onto an open (but private) WiFi router. Their reasoning is that he accessed the network without permission and by doing so hacked the network. I fear that we're looking at a new and important paradigm challenge again. The

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