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Google SketchUp Beta

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Here is more information on the new FREE product from Google, SketchUp. I am sure that over the next week or two, a lot of information will come out about it, but the best information yet is the availability of existing models you can download. This gives you a great starting point for any object [...]

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Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Vonage More Than Doubles IPO Expectations
$530 million ipo for a company that is yet to see profit. what’s wrong with this picture
(tags: technology telephone internet)

Skype Signs Up More Than 100 Million Users
and unlike other services, the more people on this service, the better the service.
(tags: technology internet telephone)

Microsoft’s one-day stock plunge: enough to buy all [...]

County Considers Free Wi-Fi for Residents

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Not be be outdone by the State of Rhode Island, Suffolk County is deploying border to border WiFi that will be provided FREE! You heard that right, FREE. The proposal package is going out in December, so mark your calendars to not miss bidding on this government sponsored Muni WiFi project.
My Way News - County [...]

Rhode Island ready to launch statewide wireless network

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Rhode Island has a plan to cover the entire state with Wireless Internet Service, but you have to remember, the entire state of Rhode Island is about the size of Houston. I’ve never been to Rhode Island, so I don’t know about the split of urban and rural there, but another project to watch. The [...]

IE7 Beta 2 vs. Mozilla Firefox

Friday, April 28th, 2006

I started writing a comparison of Microsoft’s new release of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 and Mozilla’s Firefox. How do they stack up against each other when comparing the features, but as I was working on the article, I started noticing all these stories in my news reader doing the same thing. As I looked [...]

Google Sees Things in 3D

Friday, April 28th, 2006

It’s Friday, so it must be “Google release another free product” day. Google bought @Last Software which sells a professional 3D modeling software product (which Google will continue to sell) and they have released a free version for consumers.
I have not had the chance to try this product out, so I will be anxious to [...]

Calif. agency OKs broadband via power lines test

Friday, April 28th, 2006

BPL (broadband over power lines) is a technology that keeps getting touted as a potential “last mile” alternative, but every test I have read about has failed in several points.
The service appears to work, but is not a cost effective way to deliver Internet Service. It was tested in Houston for a time and [...]

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Friday, April 28th, 2006

[video] Learn to ride a bike without falling
wow! this could be cool
(tags: technology)

Google Wi-Fi Deal Finds Powerful Critics

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Wait just a dadgum minute! I thought it was about the free WiFi, stupid. Now there is concern for privacy? After all this, they think to ask about privacy?
Google Wi-Fi Deal Finds Powerful Critics
A member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors said he has some objections to the city’s tentative plans to let Google and [...]

Is the Palm OS missing the multimedia boat?

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I always find these kind of comments funny in light of the fact that I just finished watching an episode of Digital Life TV on my Palm Tungsten T5. And my Palm does a better job of handling the video than my 4+ year old Dell laptop. Video, MP3s, Audio books, eBooks … isn’t this [...]

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