Just a quickie. More later today...

Nokia Bets on New $700 Cell Phone
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4811318
>>>Frank Nuovo, chief designer for Nokia phones, discusses the company's new 8800 cell phone. Nokia is betting on the phone to reenergize its sales and compete against Motorola's hit phone, the Razr. Nuovo has been designing phones for Nokia since 1989.
-- audio!

Nokia Grabs Lead In 3G Phone Market
http://www.mobilepipeline.com/showAr...leID=169600110
>>>As it has with other types of mobile phones, Nokia has seized the lead in worldwide sales of phones that connect to 3G cellular data networks, according to a study released Tuesday by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

>>>The study notes, however, that the market for 3G phones is small, with only nine million of the devices shipped in the second quarter of 2005. However, Nokia was the leading vendor of the devices, selling 17 percent of those phones.

-- oops! forgot this --

BoingBoing finally catches on to something I posted a while back -- and doubts the report (as did some other people) --

Thieves use Bluetooth phones to target cars with laptops in them
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/23..._bluetoot.html

Am involved in a project that is consuming my time. Hence, this blog is of less immediate importance to me eight now. New entries might be sporadic.

Just the orthogonal? Or the 770 blog too?

The reason I ask is your pointers are really valuable to seeing what's going on with the 770.

-- Roger

It might bleed over to the 770 blog. Don't know yet.

Nokia to sponsor Virgin Radio's online music chart show
http://www.intellagencia.com/news.asp?siteid=4&id=68144

Why some "piracy" can increase overall revenues
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/24...racy_can_.html
-- BoingBoing tops me -- but I took some days off!

Google: Damaging Innovation?
http://google.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000053055785/
>>>Gary Rivlin has placed a NY Times piece about Google’s changing reputation in silicon Valley, and its actual influence on the ecosystem of innovation. Many frank and revealing quotes are incuded that reflect questionably on Google. ”Google is doing more damage to innovation in the Valley right now than Microsoft ever did,” said Reid Hoffman, the founder of two Internet ventures, including LinkedIn, a business networking Web site popular among Silicon Valley’s digerati. “It’s largely that they’re hiring up so many talented people, and the fact they’re working on so many different things. It’s harder for start-ups to do interesting stuff right now.” throughout a range of quotes, Google is portrayed as an evil empire, morphing into Microsoft as Microsoft morphs into IBM.
-- refers to --
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/te...gewanted=print
-- I *did* warn you lot to reg at NYT.

Digital competitors ready to take bite out of Apple
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082201229.html
>>>Apple points to the 500 million tracks downloaded on iTunes to date as a milestone. But dividing that figure by the more than 20 million iPods sold indicates that each iPod owner has bought an average of fewer than 30 songs from iTunes. Piper Jaffray estimates that only nine tracks are bought per month per iPod user.
-- this article points to Creative, Sony, and Samsung as The Great White Hopes for MP3. They have ignored Nokia. Fools.
-- if you can't get the article, summary here --
Apple’s reign "will collapse in less than a year"
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25646

Yahoo Video: The "Super" Network
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050824-084815
>>>The September issue of Wired is out and it features a very positive article about Yahoo's video search efforts focusing on the development of the Yahoo Media Group in Santa Monica and the work of Bradley Horowitz, senior director of Yahoo's Technology Development Group. Jeremy Zawodny is also mentioned in the article as the person who got MediaRSS going. More in the Wired article: The Super Network.
-- you can read this article online for free if you wait a while.

Securing Handhelds: Familiar Problems, New Challenges
http://nwc.networkingpipeline.com/sh...leId=170000094
>>>Ever since the first PCs with 5-1/4 inch floppy drives made their way into corporations, IT and security managers have been dealing with the possible corruption and theft of company data.

>>>And the security worry level has only increased in the past year with the introduction of a slew of varied handheld computers and devices such as the iPod, servers on a data stick, Blackberries, Web-access cell phones, and wireless PDAs and pocket PCs. Not only do all these new devices boast large storage capacities, they also can sustain high data transfer rates thanks to USB, Firewire, Bluetooth, or WiFi connectivity.
-- everyone has stuff they couldn't even imagine in the old 1960s James Bond movies!

Debian consortium takes on Novell, Red Hat
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/featu...ge=1&pagePos=2
>>>"A lot of people have been unhappy with the service they've been getting from a certain very large Linux vendor." That was Bruce Perens, speaking at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which took place in San Francisco earlier this month. You can fill in Bruce's blank yourself. But if you think he came to the conference to stump for more choice in Linux distributions, you're mistaken. In a sense, he was calling for fewer choices.

Diehards Refuse to Bury OS/2
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/45633.html
>>>"I look at it as, if it ain't broke, don't fix it," said OS/2 fan John Edwards, adding that he still has OS/2 running on a 64-bit computer as part of a network of three machines. Serenity Systems International, he noted, has indicated it will continue support for eComstation into 2007. "IBM may be dropping the ball, but that doesn't mean everyone is."
-- I mentioned GEOS the other day. Equal time...

New MobiBlu DAH-1800 Color OLED MP3 Player
http://www.i4u.com/article4068.html
-- I mention this because it might the first time most of us see an OLED screen. And future 770s might have OLED...

TV's Red Dwarf beams onto mobiles
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...io/4173466.stm
>>>Full episodes of cult TV sci-fi show Red Dwarf are being made available for fans to buy and watch on their mobile phone handsets.

>>>The Doctor Who special The Five Doctors, originally screened in 1983, is also part of the licensing deal.
-- I wonder what the price will be? Smeggin-A!
-- I found the answer, as well as just how *stupid* this is, here --
Red Dwarf and Dr Who go mobile
http://www.vnunet.com/articles/print/2141472
>>>Four shows will initially be made available, the classic 1983 Doctor Who special ‘The Five Doctors’ and three episodes of Red Dwarf including ‘Marooned’ and ‘Quarantine’ together with ‘Cassandra’, which was voted the best-ever episode by fans. The episodes will be sold for £16.99 on a 64Mb MMC card as a two-hour package, eliminating the need for any downloading.
-- duuhhhhhh. You smegheads.

Gmail’s New “Send As” Feature
http://google.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000020055780/
-- can GMail even work on the Java-less 770?

It's File Sharing Jim, But Not As We Know It
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/a...es/010052.html

Automatic Podcasting?
http://toprank.blogspot.com/2005/08/...odcasting.html
>>>I am testing a feature from Talkr that automatically converts blog posts to machine generated audio. Look for the "Listen" link at the bottom of each post on this blog.
-- I don't know about you, but I'm going to start to pray. Another sign of Imminent Armageddon.

UK Initiates First Trials for WiMax
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtm...story_id=37907
>>>WiMax has been discussed for the last few years in development and user circles, with varying degrees of accuracy in terms of its promise, said Graham Currier, Pipex wireless development director. "Up until now, the hype has been way ahead of the ability to deliver," he noted.

Hear What I'm Saying?

>>>Amazing Scene Two: This past Wednesday, a man was fatally stabbed in front of a New York restaurant. A witness who saw the blood-soaked victim lying on the sidewalk was quoted as saying, "People were just walking by with their iPod headphones on. That was tripping me out, that they kept on walking."

>>>Amazing Scene Three: A colleague recounted watching a bakery clerk struggle with a malfunctioning cash register and ask for help from a co-worker at the same counter -- unsuccessfully, it turned out, because the second woman was chatting away on her cell. "It's $8," the cell-phone user yelled before going back to yakking. Unfortunately, that wasn't the question that had been asked. The first cashier shrugged her shoulders apologetically and said, "She doesn't like it when I interrupt her call."
-- death is too good for such people. Bring back public flogging, says I.
-- if you can't get that article, summary here --
Digital Culture
http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/index.php?p=4109

Time Warner bets on mobile games
http://news.com.com/2102-1036_3-5842...=st.util.print
>>>Media conglomerate Time Warner has made a $7.5 million investment in Glu Mobile, the privately held mobile gaming company said Tuesday.
-- great. Now the nitwits above can walk by dying people while playing Doom. Oh wait a minute...

Finally - The Internet Can Do Something Useful
http://www.thehostingnews.com/article1552.html
>>>Mac-Gray Corporation, the largest supplier of card and coin-operated laundry facilities management in North America, has developed an Internet-based system called LaundryView. LaundryView provides a way for college students to communicate with washers and dryers in campus laundry rooms.
-- and they'll use their 770s, too!

WTF? I got this when trying to submit --

The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:

1. The text that you have entered is too long (12702 characters). Please shorten it to 10000 characters long.

So, I had to break it into *two* posts! The first part -- #0.5 -- is above this one.

Verizon lowers cost of high-speed Net
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/...ss/verizon.php
>>>Verizon Communications will start selling high-speed Internet connections for $14.95 a month to attract customers with slower dial-up connections and try to compete with cable companies, the company has said.

>>>The new service allows users to download e-mail, pictures and other information at top speeds of 768 kilobits a second, or about 10 times the speed of a typical dial-up Internet connection. However, its speed is only about one-fourth that of Verizon's other DSL service, which costs $29.99 a month.
-- in other words, DSL for Suckers! Hey, wait a minute -- this is about the same freakin "speed" I get from Roadrunner!

GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
http://www.kottke.org/05/08/googleos-webos
-- a long read with lots of links. Worth taking the time.

FOSS word processors compared: OOo Writer, AbiWord, and KWord
http://software.newsforge.com/print..../08/16/2038242
>>>OpenOffice.org receives most of the attention among free and open source (FOSS) office suites, but users shouldn't forget that free software includes at least two other word processors: AbiWord, part of a projected GNOME Office, and KWord, part of the KOffice suite. From their inception, both have been playing catch-up with OpenOffice.org's Writer. But now, after several years of development, AbiWord and KWord are both reaching early maturity. How do Writer, AbiWord, and KWord compare?

AJAX - beyond the buzzwords
http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2005/8/22/182159/251
>>>Since Google decided to use SOAP/XMLHTTP for their new map interface the geek web has been flooded with AJAX articles. Here I will discuss the importance of AJAX as well as some of the tradeoffs developers will encounter if they choose to use this technology. More importantly, I have also posted a version of this article with a running demo on my website (recommended). You can also download the article source and try it for yourself.
-- 770 devs, start your engines. Oh wait -- no Java on the 770. Dammit!

Apple Handwriting Engineer?
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/...24060819.shtml
>>>Apple has posted a job description for a Handwriting Recognition Engineer on August 11th, 2005.
-- 770 vs a Mac Net Tablet? Uh, um, ah....

This one is general --
Toshiba President: Two DVD Formats Staying
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050824/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-
>>>Toshiba Corp.'s president said Wednesday his company has no plans to revive failed talks with a Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news).-led consortium to find a unified format for next-generation DVDs, indicating that two rival — and incompatible — formats of the discs are here to stay.
-- you rat bastards. I hope everyone BOYCOTTS BOTH FORMATS and makes you sons of bitches work it out. I'm not reliving Betamax vs VHS, dammit!

This one is personal --
Firefly Movie Using Viral Marketing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...23234&from=rss
-- best damned SF series ever. Possibly better than Blake's 7, which has held #1 position in my mind for a few decades now... Go see the movie when it's released!

Linux companies set to launch Asianux 2.0
http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-5842...=st.util.print
>>>Software companies in China and South Korea are expected this week to release Asianux 2.0, an Asian Linux distribution.

Intel VIIV mystery apparently solved (updated)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050824-5235.html
>>>Update: We now know how to pronounce it--like it rhymes with "five." Intel officially launched its new Viiv brand today at the Intel Developer Forum. As we noted earlier, it's targeted at the living room PC, and is geared towards making the PC work like any other piece of consumer electronics.
-- I think it sounds, fittingly, like a rapidly-fatal disease...
--more--
Intel announces 'desktrino' home PC platform
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08...iiv/print.html

ISPs Finally Realize That People Understand The Word Unlimited
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050824/1056245_F.shtml
>>> Over the past few years there have been plenty of stories about ISPs who offered "unlimited" service that was actually quite limited.

This will be my last update to the Ortho blog for an unknown length of time. Roger -- with Mas, I hope -- will be taking over the ersatz 770 blog during my extended absence.

I'm not here.

Sources: Intel looking to develop Linux version of Viiv to reduce costs
http://www.digitimes.com/print/a20050825PR204.html
>>>According to unspecified Taiwan-based PC makers, Intel is currently working with software developers to design middleware application software for the Linux operating system (OS) for its Viiv (rhymes with five) consumer PC platform to reduce the cost and selling price of the PCs.

>>>Viiv-based PCs will initially be based on the Microsoft Window Media Center OS, which should drive up the costs, as a special OS authorization is needed. Currently, quotes for Media Center PCs are more than US$1,200, compared to US$400-500 for average PCs, the makers explained.
-- look at the Mac mini knock-off photo. Bastards. I just spent four hours at the Apple Store yesterday getting introed to video on Macs. This **** doesn't fool me. WMV is *no* Quicktime or H.264. Die Microsoft Die.

I'm still not here.

Don't Mess With The Finns...

Mieskuoro Huutajat

http://www.huutajat.org/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3454567.stm
>>>Take a group of men from the northern Finnish town of Oulu - population 100,000 - dress them in dark suits with black ties made from the inner tubes of car tyres.

http://www.publiscan.fi/cu22e-0.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieskuoro_Huutajat

Sundance Channel
http://www.sundancechannel.com/schedule/

Screaming Men
directed by Mika Ronkainen

2003 72 MINS Color

Mieskuoro Huutajat is an all-male choir from Finland that is noted for its rather eccentric repertoire of shouted performances of children's songs, national anthems, poems and texts like the Geneva Convention. Overseeing this bellowing ensemble of 20 men is their quirky conductor/arranger Petri Sirviö, a visionary artist with the soul of a prankster. Documentary filmmaker Mika Ronkainen (a veteran Mieskuoro Huutajat performer) presents a fascinating look at an intriguing blend of performance art, politics and music's outer limits. Stereo/Letterbox/Subtitles

Friday 09.09.05
12:00 PM

Wednesday 09.14.05
07:55 AM

Saturday 09.24.05
07:15 AM

Sue me. I couldn't resist this one.

Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality
http://news.com.com/2102-1012_3-5877...=st.util.print
>>>A decade ago, Microsoft worried that the Internet could become a software platform that threatens Windows. Ten years later, that amorphous nightmare has a name: Google.

-- edited to add:

>> Increasingly, Web surfers are finding alternatives to the PC for their Net access

RED ALERT!

Mammothmedia Phase Two wants to STEAL WHAT YOU OWN!

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/27...imes_wipo.html

Go read. NOW!