After two years of gloating over the iPhone, we finally might have something else to talk about: the Palm Pre, which is to be launched by Sprint on March 15. Both Palm and Sprint have been hit hard by the iPhone, or the lack of a good enough iPhone challenger. There are a lot of [...] .....

Je vais à Amsterdam fin avril et je viens de me rendre compte que la Thalys offrait le WiFi à bord du train (gratuit en première) Une raison de plus de "préférer le train"... Enfin, je suis impatient de tester si ça marche vraiment! Jusqu'ici, j'ai plusieurs fois tent&#...

Roundup, deals, Life Sciences Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It’s hard for any company to raise capital in this recession, but several San Diego life sciences startups disclosed last week they had done just that. A few bright spots also appeared during a local seminar on mergers and acquisitionsR...

We've known for some time that Verizon is fixated on dominating the global roaming market in the US -- or, at the very least, catching up to AT&T -- and to do that, they're going to need hardware capable of taking advantage of the very best speeds that those wild and majestic foreign lands have ...

Section: Communications, Computers, Wireless, Gadgets / Other, Features, Originals, Columns, Who's On Crack This week’s list is dedicated to the march of technology that continues to screw me over.  I’ll show you the things I’ve finally coughed up actual cash for only to have ...

Courtesy of James Duncan Davidson, here’s a snap from the Spectrum 2.0 panel at eComm09. Maura Corbett, Rick Whitt, Peter Ecclesine, Darrin Mylet, and Richard Bennett at eComm The general discussion was about the lessons learned from light licensing of wireless spectrum in the US, on the succe...

Continuing its effort to get by with a little help from its friends, Nokia released a new version of its Qt user interface framework and Qt Creator, an integrated development environment (IDE). The new software is offered under the Lesser GPL for the first time, as well as the main GPL and two comme...

One neat feature of Apple's new Time Capsule and Airport Extreme base stations is the ability to access them remotely via Mobile Me's Back to My Mac service (stop sniggering at the back -- we know Back to My Mac doesn't work, even with hard-wired drives). Previously, Back to My Mac would only fail t...

With the state of California recently making it illegal to drive while using a cell phone that has not been equipped as hands-free, finding a bluetooth earpiece I was happy with was a must. A friend of mine passed along a top name-brand product, thanks to his having one too many. And while when it w...

Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...