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The MIT Technology Review has a look under the hood of the electric Tesla Roadster. Some the interesting things found there include the alternating-current induction motor and the lithium-ion battery cells. The motor is of the type advocated in the late 19th century by Nikola Tesla, and has several mechanical advantages over a DC motor. [...]
Filed under: alternate fuel cars | Tagged: automobile, Car, electric car, sports car, Tesla, Tesla Roadster | 4 Comments »
According to the Android Developers Blog, Bluetooth support has been dropped from the upcoming Android 1.0 release. The reason is that we plain ran out of time. The Android Bluetooth API was pretty far along, but needs some clean-up before we can commit to it for the SDK. Keep in mind that putting it in [...]
Filed under: Gadget, Smart Phone | Tagged: Android, cell phone, Google | Leave a Comment »
The NY Times calls them “netbooks”, which is what probably what one of their reporters heard someone call one at a Starbucks while he was trying to think of what to write to meet his deadline. Small systems, typically running UNIX, and in some cases XP, and have been selling for around $400. Now, the [...]
Filed under: Gadget, Internet, Smart Phone | Tagged: computer, netbook, notebook, travel | 10 Comments »
I’ve tried Stanza, which has the advantage of being free. It takes advantage of the nice big screen on the iPhone nicely. Easy to read and page back and forth. They have a large number of public domain books to download, including ERB and H. Beam Piper. Two of my favorites. I haven’t looked into [...]
Filed under: Apple, Smart Phone | Tagged: etext, Etext Reader, iPhone | 1 Comment »
It’s called Bookshelf, and yes, it costs money. I found it worth the $10 It supports a wide range of formats including ASCII text, HTML, AportisDoc, unencrypted Mobipocket, rft & Word Docs (not docx). I can access my Baen webscription account from it and download books directly as well as tapping their free etext library. [...]
Filed under: Apple, cell phone tech, Etext Reader, Smart Phone | Tagged: Baen, ebook, etext, Etext Reader, iPhone | 4 Comments »
Power is out, but I’m still online with my iPhone. It’s good to be a geek.
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From a post on another blog originally made November 27, 2007. Here is my geek punditry for the day. The Amazon Kindle etext reader is going to sell well. It will succeed for the same reason the iPod did. The iPod did not dominate the mp3 player market by creating a better mp3 player, they [...]
Filed under: etext, Gadget, PDA | Tagged: Amazon, Baen, ebook, Kindle, Mobipocket, Palm | 6 Comments »
Perhaps the Google Android team is getting a bit nervous, with actual working LINUX based smart phones on the horizon. Or it could be that iPhones are still selling like they were coated with crack and that Best Buy is going to start selling them as well. Whatever the reason, the rumors of Android not [...]
Filed under: Gadget, Smart Phone | Tagged: Android, cell phone, Google | 4 Comments »
Robin Bloor writes about Educating the CEO in the ways of IT. Great idea. She then points out a major problem with implementing that concept: An executive of an organisation I know that specialises in educating CEOs in a variety of areas, including IT, told us that he had once suggested organising IT brainstorming sessions [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: CEO, CIO, Education | 5 Comments »
Comment wise, one of the most popular posts here is about Cell Phone technology. The comments have drifted in to cell phone protocols. There are two main protocols, CDMA and GSM. CDMA is a legacy protocol only used here in the US. The rest of the world uses GSM. This is an issue for hardware [...]
Filed under: cell phone tech | Tagged: CDMA, cell phone, GSM, networking, protocols | 7 Comments »
