tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115340572011-07-28T12:43:25.640+02:00A personal overview of lustfull technology and related news by an Amsterdam IT lawyer.Pavlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08791136516662509982noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag: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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Not too long ago at WinHEC Bill Gates demoed a new, "ultraportable" device with a seven inch screen. Engadget has posted further comments on the device with a 7" display. At the same time, yesterday saw a flurry of discussion on a number of blogs regarding Apple's tablet patent as originally reported by The Register in August 2004. It looks like a new category of portable devices will be coming

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Vertu, nokia's high-end subsidiary is releasing a new phone model, the Ascent.The phone sports an exclusive design (ie. expensive with high grade metal alloys accompanied by leather and crystal screens) but offers little more than your standrd phone functionality. Tak: the only reason why this is worth mentioning is that Vertu is one of the few companies casing technology in high end consumer

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Stuart Henshall's wondering whether voicemessaging with Skype could replace SMS or MMS messages. The idea's that you would record a voice message and transmit it over skype instead of sending an SMS/MMS message.Take: I personally do not see this happening. Messaging with voice is nowhere near as neutral or as hassle-free as sending a text message is. Even skype users choose to use text instead of

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I personally don't think it's big news but I guess I can't leave it unmentioned now that I've blogged the Qualcomm Linux announcement.Microsoft's come out with 'Magneto' (aka Windows Mobile 2005). See the Microsoft marketing blurb or take a look at DavesPDA for a general overview of the system features. Take: I'm not impressed. The bottom line is that Microsoft now has a platform for handheld

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Phonescoop's reporting Qualcomm's announcement that they will be integrating support for Linux on a new range of chips for mobile phones.If I'm reading the Qualcomm press release correctly, it looks like the Qualcomm chipset will enable phone makers to run Linux as an alternative to Symbian or the new Microsoft OS on phones. I guess that the bottom line here is that phone makers are getting an

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AnyCom Bluetooth Stereo - Bluepod spiler? This product pre-anouncement seems to be a spoiler for an Ipod add-on I atleast haven't heard of. If you check out the second paragraphy you will see that:"For the I-Pod an additional Bluetooth adapter will be offered soon"It looks like someone's finally gotten roud to realising the bluepod. Cool.Talking of Bluetooth, Ars Technica is reporting on

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the Orion Multisystems: DS-96 is a potent beast, a 96 processor animal running Linux and squarely aimed at the most processor intensive tasks out there. Basically, the machine's a normal Linux cluster. the main difference here is that rather than having to deal with 96 boxes which need to be wired together, you get one machine containing the 96. Plug the puppy into a wall socket and you're

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TouchDic is a new Nintendo DS game.

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The Nokia N91 is going to be my next phone. There now is no doubt about it. You can jump to Infosync or the Nokia N series splash site and read up on the specs. The thing has a camera (2 megapixels), it has a 4 GB HDD, it plays music, does tri-band GSM, bluetooth and 3G. But... it also does WiFi. Not only does the puppy do the 802.11b protocol - noooo... the Finns have gone off and added 802.11g

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Patek Philippe, tradition points to the future, is a cool title for an article highlighting my great love: namely the synthesis between beauty and function, especially where technology plays a role. Patek Philippe, one of my favourite watchmakers, has come out with a new type series of an older model. the remarkable thing with the puppy is that for the first time, as far as I know, a watchmaker

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Python for Series 60 Released The less technically inclined may think that Python is a new Snake version for the series 60. Wrong. The release of Pythong for the series 60 means that one of the most powerful (and rather widely used) scripting languages on Linux and a number of other platforms is now finally available for the most prevalent pocket platform. Personally, I think that the Python

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RIAA discovers Internet2 and decides to get its clogs*. The Register is reporting that the RIAA is threatening to sue some 400 students with access to I2 for copyright infringement. The RIAA was shocked to see that a full DVD could be swapped in 30 seconds straight and have decided to scale up their work provision scheme for counsel(s). I wonder whether the good people at the RIAA have really

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Unintended Consequences is a very useful blog on a mind numbingly boring topic: insurance and financial aspects of (re)insurance.Although this doesn't sound like an ecstatic recommendation, the blog is definitely worth a close read because this boring topic will be important in the near future.An ever increasing number of us are paying our own premiums for all kinds of insurances written by

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Knowledge@Wharton is great source of business insight. As long as you don't take it too seriously, it offers some interesting insights. The media types out there might want to give their analysis of the Oscars a look.

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Wired News: Take Your Porn on the Road. I'm getting amazed by the amount of buzz that's being generated about the PSP. In her article Regina Lynn points out another interesting use for the PSP, this time a more touchy feely way of using the device :-) PS. You'd alomst forget that Sony is being sued for patent breach because of the vibration technology they stuck in their PS2 controllers.

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BBC NEWS Americas Top US court rejects Schiavo plea so that one feeding tube gets removed but on the other hand: doctors feed Pope by nasal tube. So if anyone feels like holding a vigil for a vegetable, Rome's the place to go.

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New Scientist Breaking News - Electronic tags for eggs, sperm and embryos (Short intro: there are people in the United States -I am doing my best not to qualify such people - who believe that the apocalypse is nigh and that the marking of goods and people is a sign of its coming. The basis for this belief is the following text from verse 17, chapter 13 of the New Testament Book of Revelation "

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The final spasm - the Palm Lifedrive. Ppalm is rumoured to be preparing a new handheld device, this time with a bigger screen and with a 4 Gb hard drive. The buzz is that the hard drive is going to be an important selling point for the device. It may be... but as someone who uses his PocketPC intensively and is happy with a 256 MB CF card for storage, I don't think the harddrive is really going

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The Register has come out as the first company to report on the health dangers of the Ipod. The kind souls they are, they've also included a few initial warnings that might need to be placed on the oh so popular music player.

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Mobile PC's feature- The Birth of the Notebook provides us oldies with a nice reminder of all the things we did and saw in the past twenty years. I might as well 'fess up that I thought that laptops were unnecessary and that there was no real reason why anyone would want a colour LCD. Whoops. On the other hand, hey, monochrome is more than sufficient for text processing!

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Let me start by saying that apologies are in order: I intend to keep the focus of this blog is tech but every now and again I come across other info worth sharing. The Economist’s Buttonwood column offers a disturbing insight into the current state of the dollar. One of the scarier things is:“... the foreigners—mainly Asians plus a few outliers, including Russia and Brazil—have obliged,

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PSP Video 9 - PSPcasting documents how you can convert video for sharing onto PSPs. It looks like Sony may have found the comeback device with the PSP. It's high on cool and the geeks out there are already starting to work their stuff on it. Steve Jobs should start worrying any time now.

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Okay, the New York Times warned that the article was contrarian but they didn't warn it was ridiculous.The article is basically an argument against restrictions on resale of confidential information (ie. against privacy). The argument put forward is that people can be tracked and traced for good reasons as well as bad: the article tells the story of a woman reunited with her estranged daughter,

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The Guardian is reporting that students with computers at home show poorer performance in literacy, science and math.

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The Register is reporting that should Microsoft Corp. continue to fail to comply with the remedies imposed upon it by the European Court of Justice it could find itself having to pay a $5 million a day fine.$5 million a day sounds like a lot but when you remembebr that Microsoft's cash and cash equivalent stash was reported to be around $40 billion (we're not talking market capitalisation here,

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Loewe seems like it's taking a lead in the design stakes. Shown here is the Loewe Masterpiece - other than the usual cool design they've actually stuck a PVR (Personal Video Recorder - something like a TiVo) with a 160 GB harddrive. Beauty and function... what more could you want?

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I've got this thing called the lust stakes: namely every few months I kick around and decide on what the most desirable goodies are. Generally it's three or four categories in the audio/video/computing/telephony worlds.As far as the esthetics of audio and video systems are concerned, Bang & Olafsen have always been my favourites. But now I just don't know.

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The Competition directorate of the EU Commission has (quelle surprise) concluded that Microsoft is not complying with the agreement it made with the Commission. Apparently they're:- not making it easy for competitors to get access to compatibility protocols- overcharging for the licenses they require before the allow companies to see Windows' innards- not allowing companies to see into specific

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We've all known it's been coming. You could feel it in the water. You could feel it in the air. The PSP is here and it's looking to rumble. Just came across the following add on the PCMag site.

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No don't eat this iMac - rather, Eat this!Anyway, Sony's gone off and done what the Jobistas should have done with the new iMac. They've created an all in one computer with a TV tuner. Who cares? I do. You should too. I mean, you have this sweet sizeable LCD which in Apple's case cannot be used for non-PC purposes. (Feel free to flame about all the add ons which would enable you to watch and

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Sometimes someone'll release a brilliant product that you know is going to be dead in the market by the time you blink yet the idea is so cool that you can't help but marvel.Well Siemens has just gone and done that. they've brought out a home automation control unit. Huh? See here. Allegedly (according to Gizmodo and http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/)the unit in question is supposed to

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It seems Microsoft thinks that there juat may be. Or atleast, spyware seems to be doing a good job of masquerading as legitimate software. See their analysis: Windows AntiSpyware (Beta): Analysis Approach and Categories. One of their (IMO valid) points is that the failure of a software package to validly indentiy and later remove itself is a good clue about its 'evil' intent.

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