tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70682647527887673972024-03-13T15:48:41.028-07:00ELO's Digital StoryThe Digital News: Report, Analysis and Commentary by ELOWingman, aka BigBopper.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10799641111428538245noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068264752788767397.post-89735670302057139012007-12-19T06:38:00.000-08:002007-12-19T09:12:13.640-08:00Hot Hot HOT!!!<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/sold-out-kindles-going-for-1000-on-ebay/">From TechCrunch</a><br />Sold Out Kindles Going For Up To $1,500 On Ebay<br />================================================<br />http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/sold-out-kindles-going-for-1000-on-ebay/From TechCrunch<br />Sold Out Kindles Going For Up To $1,500 On Ebay<br />================================================<br />http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/sold-out-kindles-going-for-1000-on-ebay/<br /><br />I'm here at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bucket</span> with <a href="http://pbucket1.blogspot.com"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" >Sebastian.</span></a>Wingman, aka BigBopper.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10799641111428538245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068264752788767397.post-86792492594573992462007-12-17T05:57:00.000-08:002007-12-17T06:01:36.887-08:00Goodbye Star Trek Dot Com=============================================================<br />Top Stories Gleaned from SLASHDOT.ORG <a href="http://slashdot.org/">http://slashdot.org/</a><br />=============================================================<br />Startrek.com Shutting Down<br />Posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, @04:36AM<br />from the could-have-offered-it-to-fandom dept.<br />-----------------------<br />Filed Under: Sci-Fi<br />-----------------------<br />Curlsman writes to let us know that the fan site startrek.com, operated for 13 years by CBS, is being shut down and its staff laid off. Is this site worth a write-in campaign? From the (perhaps final) post: "Goodbye from the STARTREK.COM Team. Sadly, we must report that CBS Interactive organization is being restructured, and the production team that brings you the STARTREK.COM site has been eliminated. Effective immediately. We don't know the ultimate fate of this site, which has served millions of Star Trek fans for the last thirteen years. If you have comments, please send them to editor @ startrek.com — we hope someone at CBS will read them."<br />=================================================================================<br />Apache: Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor<br />Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, @10:08PM<br />from the confluence-of-interests dept.<br />-----------------------<br />Filed Under: Yahoo!<br />-----------------------<br />jschauma writes "Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)"<br />================================================================================<br />Linux: BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs)<br />Posted by kdawson on Monday December 17, @07:51AM<br />from the audi-vox-populi dept.<br />--------------------------<br />Filed Under: Television<br />--------------------------<br />h4rm0ny writes "After previously limiting their iPlayer to only the Windows platform (as we discussed earlier here and here), the BBC's content is now available to UK-based users of Linux and Mac OSX. From their site: 'From today we are pleased to announce that streaming is now available on BBC iPlayer. This means that Windows, Mac and Linux users can stream programs on iPlayer as long as their computer has the latest version of Flash. Another change is that you do not have to register or sign in any more to download programs...' It seems that the BBC have listened to people who petitioned them for broader support and an open format. Well, Flash isn't exactly open, but its a lot more ubiquitous than Windows Media and Real Player formats."<br />================================================================================<br />Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future<br />Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, @04:47PM<br />from the send-in-the-clouds dept.<br />--------------------------<br />File Under: Businesses<br />--------------------------<br />Hugh Pickens writes "There is a long article in the NYTimes, well worth reading, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/technology/16goog.html?ei=5088&en=51443a66d6584dc2&ex=1355461200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print">about the future of applications and where they will reside — on the Web or on the desktop</a>. Google President Eric Schmidt thinks that 90 percent of computing will eventually reside in the Web-based 'cloud.' Microsoft faces a business quandary as it tries to link the Web to its existing desktop business — 'software plus Internet services,' in its formulation. 'Microsoft will embrace the Web while striving to maintain the revenue and profits from its desktop software businesses, the corporate gold mine, a smart strategy for now that may not be sustainable,' according to the article. Google faces competition from Microsoft and from other Web-based productivity software being offered by startups, and it is 'unclear at this point whether Google will be able to capitalize on the trends that it's accelerating.' David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School, says the Google model is to try to change all the rules. If Google succeeds, 'a lot of the value that Microsoft provides today is potentially obsolete.' Microsoft used to call this 'cutting off their air supply."<br />================================================================================<br />Your Rights Online: Time Warner Wins Ohio-Wide Cable Franchise<br />Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, @02:48PM<br />from the bye-bye-local-access dept.<br />--------------------------<br />Filed Under: Networking<br />--------------------------<br />An anonymous reader writes "Time Warner Cable has received a state-wide franchise agreement in Ohio. Time Warner's agreement covers 260 communities in 60 of Ohio's 88 counties, for 10 years. AT&T was the first to earn a state-wide franchise contract, after a law was passed in September that allowed operators to negotiate a single state-wide agreement. In the past operators negotiated franchise agreements at the local level."<br />================================================================================<br />Science: Converting Light into Sound<br />Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 16, @11:50AM<br />from the do-you-see-what-i-hear dept.<br />----------------------------<br />Filed Under: Communications<br />----------------------------<br />prostoalex writes "Researchers at Duke are trying to solve the problem of speeding up fiber-optic connections by converting light into sound, then converting it back into light. From the Nature News article: 'To get the information from the acoustic wave out again, a third light pulse, the 'read' pulse, is sent in. When it reaches the part of the fibre being affected by the acoustic wave, the light scatters in such a way as to regain the information that was left behind by the initial pulse. The newly-formed data pulse leaves the fibre, resuming the journey in the same direction as the original pulse, taking the same information with it.'"<br />================================================================================Wingman, aka BigBopper.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10799641111428538245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068264752788767397.post-62600421142632980312007-11-29T09:11:00.000-08:002007-11-29T15:43:00.609-08:00Remember Reading a Book on a PDA?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2GLQCgJmErAbozVRCfuERTS5SDlPDEq6bHzcyzx2wnhgIWWbCo8l1j_3361J6Dg0iWZ6KhMzNunqeF5f4OAodlGGI5HlUng3ClRf2PTZ6LukPBBjWO9fq1iaGH9_qmoBsG1uBH2XQmRY/s1600-h/book_and_kindle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2GLQCgJmErAbozVRCfuERTS5SDlPDEq6bHzcyzx2wnhgIWWbCo8l1j_3361J6Dg0iWZ6KhMzNunqeF5f4OAodlGGI5HlUng3ClRf2PTZ6LukPBBjWO9fq1iaGH9_qmoBsG1uBH2XQmRY/s200/book_and_kindle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138409310858799346" border="0" /></a><br />Well, I do. Clunky but doable.<br /><br />And just <span style="font-weight: bold;">Last Week</span>, the latest incantation of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">that Idea</span> was released by <a href="http://amazon.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Amazon</span>.com</a>, and called, <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">for want of a better word</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Kindle</span>.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/search/la-fi-kindle28nov28,1,3672274.story?ctrack=4&cset=true"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">LA Times</span></a> had a review about it <span style="font-weight: bold;">This Week</span>, which must make it important, <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">this week</span>. </span><br /><br />Leo talked about it on <a href="http://twit.tv/twit"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">TWiT</span></a>, and <a href="http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=amazon%27s+kindle"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">DIGG</span></a> dug it <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">X </span>number of times.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The bottom line is</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">$399</span></span> is too much for an ebook reader. <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(<a href="http://elosopensources.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I'm reading online ebooks on my Sony PSP</span></a>).</span></span><br /><br />You <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DO</span> remember the <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">iPhone</span> incident a few months back, don't you?<br /><br /><a href="http://sony.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Sony</span></a> has a similar product, that it released over a year ago, called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sony Reader</span>, which is selling for <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">$299</span></span>. Still, <span style="font-style: italic;">way too much for an ebook reader</span>. It also doesn't have the features of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kindle</span> of not needing a <span style="font-style: italic;">computer</span> to use or have the ability to read certain <span style="font-style: italic;">newspapers or magaines.<br /><br />And they both <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Don't Do Color</span>, </span>which is not a deal-breaker for a eBook Reader, but for magazines it might <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">be nice</span>.<br /><br />The world is <span style="font-style: italic;">still waiting for a reasonably priced eBook reader. </span><br /><br />If you happen to be <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">"one of those"</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">*Early Adopters</span></span> type, I'd say (<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">smirk</span>), at least, wait a couple of months.<br /><br />*must be quite a few early adopters, Amazon's Kindle is currently "Sold Out".<br /><br />Even <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Leo</span> (you know who I mean...) is on the waiting list.<br /><br />ELO<br />november 2007.Wingman, aka BigBopper.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10799641111428538245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068264752788767397.post-51056574110304249182007-11-29T08:32:00.000-08:002007-11-29T09:08:47.380-08:00What's It All About Alfie?<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">What is <span style="font-weight: bold;">ELO's Digital Story</span> going to be <span style="font-style: italic;">All About</span>?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"> It's going to be about what is <span style="font-weight: bold;">happening in Computers</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">at the Moment </span>that strikes <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">my fancy</span> as being <span style="font-weight: bold;">interesting</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold;">important</span> to know about.<br /><br />Borrowing an <span style="font-weight: bold;">"old tagline"</span> from an <span style="font-weight: bold;">old L.A.Radio talk show</span>, I will be "opinionated, but lovable" .<br /><br /> In other words, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">this <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">IS</span></span> a Spin-Zone</span>, where the Items of interest have an <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">AFFECT</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">EFFECT</span> on the world, as to spinning it, in <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">a positive or negative way. </span></span></span><span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class="on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Bold" title="Bold" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 3);ButtonMouseDown(this);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /> Having been an observer of the "<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boffos</span></span>" and "<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blunders</span></span>" of the digital-age since the 1980's, where I started selling and using the <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">First TRS-80</span></span>, I will tell you what <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I Think</span> is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Really going on.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><br /><br />And in most cases, I will try to tell you <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">BOTH</span> sides of the story.<br /><br />Think of it as a Game we are playing in this Digital Age. A Game that has very serious consequences.<br /><br />Let the Game begin....<br /></span></span><br /><br /></span></span>Wingman, aka BigBopper.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10799641111428538245noreply@blogger.com0