This whole discussion of the durability of electronic media has gotten me to
thinking.
These days, I very rarely buy paper books anymore. My last three Harry
Turtledove books and my last Stephen Donaldson book were bought from eReader
in electronic form only, even though in each case I have the first books of
the series in paper (hardback). Logically, [...]
Cnet
Tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban says the outcome of an upcoming
copyright case will reverberate for decades throughout the U.S.
economy.
This
is ridiculous.
Surfers who abuse their privileges “could be issued…a ‘please
explain’ and a bill,” suggests an exec at Exinda, a maker of monitoring
tools.
Via
PalmInfocenter
PalmSource today announced the availability of Java Technology
for Palm OS Garnet, a WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME) Java 2
Micro Edition (J2ME) certified runtime environment, for the Treo 650
smartphone and Tungsten T5 handheld from palmOne. IBM’s WebSphere
Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME) Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) certified
runtime environment provides the technology needed to enable
standards-based mobile Java applications [...]
PalmAddicts
Sammy, I know I speak for all Treo-nauts when I thank you for
the amount of PA bandwidth you dedicate to our slice of the Palm
world-at-large.
The new issue of eWeek did a smartphone comparison between the Treo 650,
Blackberry 7100t and Motorola MPx220. Although it found a lot to like in
all 3, this is the summary of [...]
Quote
courtesy of Palm Addicts, I don’t want to give this kind of lunacy more
page rank than it deserves.
My Palm Life talks about how it thinks Palm One is a sinking
ahip. “With the announcement of palmOne’s CEO Todd Bradley’s resignation,
it seems palmOne is headed down another gummy chapter in their long history
of the PDA. Not since [...]
From
Tam Hanna’s Palm OS Blog
SanDisk has an attractive lineup of SDIO WLAN cards. There is a
card bundled with 256MB and a regular one that only worked with the Zire 71
and the Zodiac by now. The devices are not too expensive, and seem to work
well-for PocketPC users! Palm users had to miss out on the joy [...]
Jeff
Jarvis with a clue-by-four for Universal:
Missing the beat
: The music industry still doesn’t get it.
Universal Music just announcedthat it is doing the exact opposite of what
it should be doing with music videos.
What they are doing: Pulling the videos from any online service airing them
unless the service starts paying Universal a fee or revenue share.
What they [...]
Slashdotted:
Contradicting this earlier article claiming otherwise,
smith_barney writes “Contrary to reports, Microsoft is not opening up its
proprietary Office XML schemas. Essentially, the state of Massachusetts is
simply repositioning what it considers an ‘open format.’ According to a
report in BetaNews, Microsoft told the state it would ease licensing
restrictions, but only for ‘end users who merely open and read [...]