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Entries from March 2008

More Good News For Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax Baby

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Technology

There’s yet more good news for those of you who have been keeping tabs on the whole WiMax thing that Sprint and Clearwire have been involved (albeit, just talking about) in. Recent reports tell a tale of Comcast and Time Warner Cable willing to pump in another $1.5 billion into this project. Brighthouse Networks and [...]

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Why Palm and Apple Annoy Me

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets

I’ve got the Palm Treo 755p that I use on Sprint’s network. Perhaps you’ve seen me write about it in a previous post here. Sprint’s network is nice and fast and I’ve had no problems with it. I’d love to stay on with them. I also love my Treo. I’ve got loads of apps on [...]

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MS Sharepoint and Apple Safari 3 Frustrations

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Technology, Web Services, Websites

Apple just resently released Safari v3 to the world and I’d been holding off. At home where I primarily run on a Mac (G4 PowerBook…old school baby. My XP-based HTPC crapped out on me recently and haven’t had the time to tinker with it yet) I generally use Safari and Firefox. When I heard about [...]

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Microsoft Vista Still Lacking

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Software, Technology

Yes…Vista STILL blows. I had the joy of helping set up a machine almost a year and a half ago to be tested for interactive media and such. This test machine was sent by Intel, had Vista Media Center Edition (forgot which beta it was) loaded on it, and we were to see how it [...]

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ZapMedia Sues Apple…But Who is ZapMedia?

March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Practices, Inventions, Software, Technology

So ZapMedia Services, an Atlanta based company is suing Apple over alleged patent infringements regarding iTunes and the iPod. Now, maybe there is or is not a case…that remains to be seen. However, I can’t help but be a little sceptical when I try to get some information on ZapMedia Services (hey, I’m in Atlanta, [...]

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Apple’s Genius Regarding the iPhone Roadmap

March 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Hardware, Inventions, Inventions, Software, Technology

Apple released their roadmap for the iPhone today, talking about what they plan on doing with it, showing developers what they’ll be able to do with the SDK (it’ll be much better developing apps for the phone istself rather than the web browser), and my two favorite additions to iPhone functionality are 1) adding MS [...]

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Microsoft’s New Browser to Adhere to Commonly Used Standards

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Software, Technology

It’s about damn time. Microsoft said that the new browser they’ll be throwing out to the masses (Internet Explorer 8…only in beta right now) will adhere to the same set of standards at the rest of the browsers out there. This news blurb came out without much fanfare, but let me tell ya, this is [...]

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Delta Needs to Revise Its Inflight TV/Movie Proceedures

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Mergers/Acquisitions, Other

Returning from a trip recently I had the joys of experiencing Delta Airline’s ridiculous TV/movie viewing program. Here’s what you get…a screen on the headrest in front of you that allows you to choose from a number of “free” TV shows or pay $5 for a movie. Why do I have the word “free” in [...]

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