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Time Magazine: The iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a false start. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent—particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area—on what are called tablet PCs: flat, portable computers that work with a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. […]

Propellerhead has unearthed another useful free extension for Firefox that tells you straight away if the website you are about to visit is in any way unsafe or annoying (i.e. riddled with malware or pop-ups etc.). Siteadvisor continually tests new and existing websites, checking the content, so when you tap in the address the Siteadvisor […]

TechCrunch: Yahoo launched Yahoo Go today, a DVR and general Microsoft Media Center competitor based on the recently acquired Meedio technology. The feature list is comprehensive: Use Yahoo Go to manage photos, search Yahoo videos, watch stored movies on your hard drive, listen to music and manage television shows via a full DVR (like […]

Google’s new AJAX-based calendar beta is now publicly accessible to anyone with a gmail account. Cool features abound, including a plain-text based “quick add” feature (i.e., dinner with the wife at 7PM tomorrow). Also included are SMS, e-mail, or web-based event alerts and a great service that will automatically e-mail your daily agenda each day […]

Techdirt Wireless:
While many, many people still feel there’s absolutely nothing wrong with piggybacking on someone’s open WiFi, the police don’t always agree. We’ve had a few stories in the past about people getting arrested for using someone else’s WiFi, or even threatening to arrest people for simply using a cantenna. The latest such story, sent […]

Engadget Mobile:
2006 is the year Sprint and Verizon upgrade their already relatively new EV-DO networks from Rel. 0 to Revision A, which will increase download speeds to 3.1Mbps (from 2.4) and upload speeds to 1.8MBps from the paltry 0.15Mbps we’ve been living with until now. Of course neither network has to enable the full pipe […]

Techdirt Corporate Intelligence: Techdirt Wireless:
For years, many people have been asking for “naked DSL” — the ability to get DSL without also having to pay for phone service. While Qwest became a supporter of naked DSL early on, the other big telcos refused to budge. They would either say there was no demand, or they […]

Engadget: China’s got some businesses to protect — landline phone businesses, that is — and it sounds like no Skype VoIP licenses (enabling, for example, SkypeOut calling) are to be issued for another two years over there per government intervention. That’s bad, but what’s worse is apparently China Telecom’s declared the software “illegal” (we assume […]

Engadget: Looks like those GPS add-on rumors were true. Now that Ken Kutaragi’s PlayStation business briefing has ended we can tell ya that a new GPS receiver (PSP-290) with game support will indeed drop this “autumn” with a new GPS-enabled Hot Shot Golf title loaded-up for first release. Sony also let fly a new USB-attached […]

An interesting patent has been filed by Agilent Technologies which would enable a cellphone to act in a manner not dissimilar to a wireless Mesh Network. The patent in essence allows a handset to communicate with a base station which is out of range, by hopping via another cellphone (or phones) which then transfer the […]