Archive for August 9th, 2005

So not podcast

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

If you are into Japanese gadgets you should check out Akihabara News. It is a website about all the new gadgets in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.
Akihabara News has choosen a different route from most other sites. Instead of offering a podcast it offers a weekly summary of its news formated for the PSP. […]

First reviews of the Nokia N91

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Infosyncworld has been able to get hold of a Nokia N91 and review it.
The review is positive. All features, and there are many, work fine. What sets the The Nokia N91 apart is a wifi and a builtin harddisc. There are two really nice gestures from Nokia, there is a standard mini-USB-port and a […]

News corp looking to buy very hyped Skype

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I never liked Skype. Skype is 99% hype. There are several reasons I do not like it:

It does not use standard protocols. There are perfectly fine protocols, namely SIP, that do the same thing.
There is a very high probability that it will crasch. Zennström is a dot-com crash kind of guy. He developed Kazaa.
There […]

Cisco interested in buying Nokia Enterprise

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Cisco is a company that does not develop products, instead it buys companies. One product category it is weak in is cellular infrastructure. There are no reports that Cisco is trying to buy Nokia Enterprise.
More than ten years ago another company was interested mergers, Ericsson. But that was when Ericsson was much larger than Cisco. […]