Mobile Computing
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Michael Arrington just posted about Jott, a company that is emerging from the shadows to offer voice to text delivery of voice messages: Jott to Convert Cell Phone Calls to Text It’s very simple – a user calls a specific phone number and leaves a voice message along with a recipient or recipients (an obvious…
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Google announced this morning that it had purchased JotSpot, one of the more creative wiki application companies out there. One of the huge benefits of this is that Jot’s capabilities will now have a large infrastructure and essentially be free to use. Hopefully Google won’t wait too long to integrate JotSpot into its other offerings,…
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After the lackluster launch of the UMPC (Origami), a failure that had as much to do with the bulky form-factor as price, Microsoft is keying up another personal device for consumers. Dubbed the Zune, most people have written it off already as an ‘also ran’ against Apple’s iPod. Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research, however, seems…
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It seems like every new edition of Quicken (or Microsoft Money) adds another needless layer of complexity to the personal expense management process. While it is nice to be able import your bank transactions into those applications, most of the time a quick entry into a spreadsheet is faster, more elegant, and more likely to…
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Chris Pratley, now the Group Manager for Office Authoring Services (which includes OneNote, Word, and Publisher) has posted an excellent entry on his blog on how OneNote notebooks can be synchronized across multiple computers. OneNote, for those of you who haven’t seen it before, is Microsoft’s omnipresent data capture tool. Simply put, OneNote is a…
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My pal Marc Perton writes over at Engadget that Samsung is going to sell their UMPC for approximately $2,000 in Korean. What!?!? This thing was supposed to be a sub-$500 machine! Ok, so Samsung will include a bunch of accessories for that price, but lets be realistic here. Can you imagine plopping down that kind…
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The Aircraft carrier of Tablet PCs, Gateway’s M280 is probably one of the most reasonably priced ink ready laptops available today. I first got a glimpse of this behemouth when I saw Marc Orchant‘s Gateway late last year. It is certainly a big, powerful tablet. I don’t know if I’d ever go for it, but…
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I just received several invitations for the Windows Live Messenger Beta. If anyone is interested, leave me a reply with a valid email address, and I’ll forward an invite. Only have a few, so first come, first serve.
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Last year’s dubious purchase of Skype by eBay for an ungodly sum is looking even more foolish today. Yesterday Yahoo! released the beta 7.5 version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. This update allows Yahoo!IM users to buy phone numbers, call out, call in, and generally function in a world similar to Skype without having another…
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Leave it to the guys at Engadget to snag the internet’s first quickie review of a real Origami machine. Their first thoughts – um, nothing special. The Samsung model they played around with was a pre-production unit, so there still may be some changes in store, but overall it didn’t come across as being revolutionary. …
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