BluNA iPod Nano Adapter
BluNA iPod Nano Adapter
A company called ANYCOM Technologies Inc have just announced BluNa a Bluetooth adapter designed exclusively for the iPod nano. In fact this is the worlds first Bluetooth adapter for the iPod and has been approved to carrys the logo “Made for…
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“Not Two Tin Cans and a String” – A weekly Commentary on the Mobile Industry By Dan Blacharski
What’s Driving the Mobile Industry? When I got my first cell phone I felt like a big shot on the cutting edge of technology. I jettisoned the phone when my then-wife turned it into a ball and chain, but then…
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TomTom Go 910 GPS Video Review
>The cool guys at Pocketinfo.tv have just done a awesome video review of the TomTom Go 910. The TomTom GO is a very nice device with loads of features like a Bluetooth carkit, iPOD control, 20GIG harddisk and much more….
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Geoff Goodfellow, early inventor of wireless email, profiled
Filed under: CellphonesBack in the early 80s a man by the name of Geoff Goodfellow had an idea: to relay electronic mail from Arpanet to his alphanumeric pager. He published his concept on an Arpanet mailing list in 1982 (he called his piece “Electronic Mail for People on the Move”), and went on to found RadioMail in the early 1990s — a wireless email service (surprise, surprise). After working with such small clients and partners as Ericsson, Motorola, and RIM, Goodfellow left the biz in 1996 and moved to Europe. But he was contacted in early 2002 by James H. Wallace Jr., a lawyer of patent-holding firm NTP, who thoroughly researched Goodfellow’s contributions to wireless communications as they were gearing up to take on Research In Motion. In fact, Wallace once introduced Goodfellow thusly: “Geoff’s the inventor of wireless e-mail. My client patented some of its implementation workings.” The New York Times seems to think Goodfellow’s prior art should have been disclosed during the RIM / NTP dispute, but wasn’t; that Goodfellow should have been available as a fact witness, but wasn’t. So why has no one ever heard of the talented Mr. Goodfellow? Because NTP paid him close to $20,000 for “consulting” in 2002, which included several sessions with NTP’s lawyers in noteless meetings, as well as a contract and NDA that essentially barred him from discussing the case while it proceeded. You’ll have to read the Times profile for the full story, but whether or not NTP acted ethically (or illegally), or preyed on Goodfellow’s disdain for patents or his free-market attitude isn’t exactly making the bad taste in our mouths from the settlement taste any better.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Apple patents audio user interface
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable VideoAnother day, another Apple patent filing. This time, Apple calls dibs on an “audio user interface for computing devices.” Nothing new right? Afterall, we’ve had audio assisted navigation for years. The system described however, uses the relative power of a host system to auto-generate audio tags from text strings which can then be played by a hand-held device such as an “MP3 player, mobile phone, or PDA.” Still not following? Ok, imagine a system whereby your PC or Mac automatically converts the metadata stored on your iTunes Music Store purchases — you know, song or video title, artist, album, episode, etc — into audio tags which are then synch’d to your video iPod, iPhone, or Apple handheld via iTunes thereby allowing you to find and play your favorite song, playlist, whutevah without ever looking at the device and straining your eyes. And since this could likely be a software only enhancement to existing Apple ‘ware, implementing it could be just be a free, point-release upgrade away… hear that display-less Shuffle owners?[Via Unwired View, Thanks Staska]Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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