April 2008

iSkoot and passwords in the clear

April 27, 2008

I awoke yesterday morning to mail from PhoneBoy telling me that iSkoot is passing passwords in the clear, unencrypted. He put a packet-trace on his WiFi router, and used the Nokia N95 to access iSkoot via WiFi rather than the way it is more usually accessed which is over the air. This morning he has [...]

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Squawk Box April 25

April 25, 2008

Today’s wrap up of the news of the week focused on microsoft yahoo and skype. The discussion on microsoft – yahoo was about their financial results and testosterone levels… I’ll let you listen to the podcast below to get more on this. While skype achieved its goal with their mobile release: We were talking about [...]

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Nokia N82: a journalists’ workhorse

April 25, 2008

The Technical Image Press Association today crowned the Nokia N82 camera phone the “Best Mobile Imaging Device in Europe“. The specs on the N82 are virtually identical to the N95, but it comes in a sleeker candy bar form factor. The jurors said “This Carl Zeiss Tessar focuses from 10cm to infinity and produces sharp [...]

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“Quest for Refund”: an epic AT&T tale

April 25, 2008

On March 11, I wrote a very upset blog posting about an AT&T error which resulted in my being over-billed hundreds of dollars.A reader, Jason Yeung, suggested I write AT&T President Randall Stephenson, and was even kind enough to supply several email addresses for Mr. Stephenson, and his telephone number. So I did. Two days [...]

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Engaged, Broadsoft? Or just shacked up.

April 25, 2008

It seems everybody is jumping into the mashup platform game these days. Just yesterday, Broadsoft pumped out a release announcing their new developer program. According to the release, the new Broadsoft Xtended Developers Program “allows software developers to integrate BroadSoft’s carrier-grade voice applications with unified communications solutions and leading Web-based business and consumer applications such [...]

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Microsoft’s contribution was TCP/IP

April 25, 2008

There’s a fascinating blog discussion going on here, here and here. The conversation is around Marc Andreessen’s refusal to trash Microsoft and Bill Gates on stage. Andreessen points to the way in which the company drove the industry forward in the 1990′s, and Mathew Ingram says “love them or hate them, at least Microsoft standardized [...]

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Squawk Box April 24 – Guest Eric Quanstrom

April 24, 2008

SightSpeed’s Eric Quanstrom gave us the low-down on SightSpeed Light for MySpace this morning — what it does, how it works, why MySpace, what the experience of developing for MySpace was like, and a whole bunch more. Embedded in user’s profiles, Sightspeed Light lets users talk in real time, or with threaded video conversations. Although [...]

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BoxBe is learning fast. Learn from them.

April 24, 2008

By now you’ve heard about my frustrations with BoxBe earlier this week. As irritating as the initial experience was, it was impressive how they handled the mistake and there’s some good learning for all startups. To re-cap, BoxBe’s sign up process encourages users to add their address book to the application so that email can [...]

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Running out of memory

April 23, 2008

You’ve all heard about the rig I’ve got at home now. Quad-core pentium, dual monitors, big disk, and so on. Well, I’m upset. I’m running out of memory. Windows keeps telling me to shut down apps. Why? Windows Vista 32 bit. It has a cap of 3G of memory. Actually, it’s 4G, but that includes [...]

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SquawkBox April 23 – Microsoft Live Mesh

April 23, 2008

This morning’s call was all about the Microsoft Live Mesh platform, announced yesterday. Announced at 9 PM last night, Live Mesh is Microsoft’s platform for synchronization and storage on the web. The promise of the Mesh is that you won’t have to care where you are or which device you’re using – your data will [...]

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