More on the Ultramobile Personal Computer
Today’s Joy of Tech rifs on the Origami thingy from Microsoft (I wrote about this yesterday). I just did some quick googling, and can’t find anybody excited about this… thing. This article by Om Malik is typical: With details swathed in secrecy and buzz created by a mysterious website, Microsoft’s Origami handheld debuted Thursday at [...]
Good news from Sony about Blu-ray and copy protection
Sony had news a few days ago about their upcoming Blu-ray plans. One important tidbit is about copy protection. Sound And Vision Magazine: Blu-ray to Debut May 23: In an important aside, Don Eklund, SPHE’s senior vice president for advanced technologies, said that Sony’s initial Blu-ray discs — and all of its Blu-ray titles for [...]
Yeah, that’s hip…
Project ‘Origami’ comes to life as ‘Ultramobile PC’: Microsoft showed off its ultra-compact computer Wednesday, which the software giant was scheduled to officially unveil Thursday at the CeBIT technology trade show in Hanover, Germany. The product, heretofore code-named Origami, has been christened the Ultramobile PC, Mika Krammer, a company spokesman told the Associated Press. Uh [...]
This kind of news puts everything else into perspective
Cassini Spots Water Geysers on Saturn Moon: The orbiting Cassini spacecraft has spotted what appear to be water geysers on one of Saturn’s icy moons, raising the tantalizing possibility that the celestial object harbors life. Today’s body count in Iraq, muslims burning buildings and killing people because of cartoons, more UN corruption, the latest American [...]
Ecto and Endo
I’ve never used a newsreader… never really could see the benefit. Lately though, as my consumption of blog content as increased, I’ve noticed that my browsing habits were just not efficient… too often going to blogs with no new content, or with content that while new, I wasn’t interested in. Yesterday I found out about [...]