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Cebit wrap up with lots of pictures. This one passage caught my eye:
What is interesting is that voice over IP is becoming just something to add on to broadband. Several ISPs or pure-play VoIP operators were busy signing up people to flat rate telephony. There was also the faint rumblings of voice over WLAN for consumers. In fact, VoIP/WLAN could be sold and designed just like cordless phones: a base station that plugs into the wall (in reality an ADSL router and wireless node) and a cordless (wi-fi) handset. Looking further, video over IP (and video over WLAN) are becoming a not-too-distant commercial reality.The emphasis is mine, and this sounds like exactly what I was asking for here.
Joi Ito: Full-Time Intimate Community.
NEC's resonate wear: "Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers."
They aren't going to make any of these designs, but a few of them had some nice ideas. I really like the P-ISM.
Holy cow. Did you know you can cmd-drag background windows in OS X? I can actually imagine that being useful. Looks cool too.
Three blurry long range spy photos of the new unreleased Danger Hiptop: 1, 2, and 3. Although it's hard to be sure from these shots, it looks like the snap around swivel screen has been replaced by a non snap around slide up screen. This is obviously not as cool, since spinning the old one open with a resounding thwock was really excellent. On the other hand, it looks like this lets them make the unit a little less thick which, I will agree, was necessary.
For me it will all be about the camera. And my gut tells me this one is still going to be VGA qualty (although I'm guessing they at least got it *inside* the unit this time.)
Comment spam hasn't really been a problem for us here. Yet. But it is clearly just a matter of time. Sixapart, makers of the hugely popular Movable Type weblog software, are taking a shot at a solution: Typekey. Worth keeping an eye on. Details are a little thin, but it looks like a centralized identity infrastructure run by them, but open to all (with, it appears, some fees if you are including the technology in a non free product.)
I've mentioned these before, but here's a picture of a virtual laser keyboard projected from a prototype Siemens phone.
I'm a little skeptical, but willing to give anything a shot. The keyboard problem is an increasingly problematic one as our devices shrink well past the size where you can include a real keyboard on the device. (I guess the Treo 600 form factor is about as small as you can go with a "real" keyboard - and it's even a little too small.) (via engadget)
Best game mod as computer art ever? Or maybe I just mean I like this a lot.
I think that's the first worthwhile thing I've blogged in a long time. (via kottke)
The calendar in the kitchen at Alias has March 17th marked as 'best day of the year' and March 18th marked as "worst day of the year."
I was talking about wireless data connections at broadband speeds yesterday only to find that not everyone is a true believer (who knew?) Anyway, this is happening. I was saying 2006, but you can see how close we are today (at least if you live in D.C., or San Diego)
Verizon Wireless's BroadbandAccess [EV-DO] is the first wireless data service I've tried that could actually be mistaken for a cable or digital-subscriber-line connection. It routinely got me on the Internet in seconds, downloaded 600,000 bits of data each second and stayed online for as long as I wanted.Will the tree make it to the next age where we carry it around in our pockets all the time? Is that a good or bad thing?