News
- $230 – vs. MUCH MORE for ruggedized specialized hardware
- Sheathed in a rugged case for Military purposes
- Soldiers = Swiss Army Knife
- Translation software – word translator and gesture translation (VCommunicator)
- Annotate Maps – In Dev – Take pictures of streetsigns and the Iphone will give intelligence about the location
- BulletFlight (Ballistics Calculator)
- Video Player
- Camera
- IPhone still a little too expensive for general deployment
- Oracle Buys Sun
- Oracle is the largest DB Vendor in the world
- Sun owns MySql, OpenOffice, Java, Large portion of Unix world
- Will Oracle still offer DB on Windows platform
- Will OpenOffice and Java still be free?
- Flash on TV’s
- Software already written
- Announcement at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention
- Set-top boxes by end of year, embedded into TV later
- TW admits defeat on Tiered Bandwidth
- Retracting Pilots for tiered bandwidth that were to start in fall
- Grass Roots, and Senators all went after Time Warner
- Claims of “Stifling Creativity” and Monopolistic practices (inability to stream video without exhorbitant pricing) were cited
- Last straw could have been when U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y got on board and threatened legislation
- Competitor Frontier communications was already in the process of retiring a tiered plan
- Will still provide tools so ppl can educate themselves on bandwidth
- No promise that program won’t go into place in future
- Google 3D Plugin
- How many failures before they get hint that the Internet is a commodity?
- They are still in WAAAAAY exploratory phase
- Mozilla and Google presented different applications, not compatible
- What level will it take before 3D will be acceptable on Internet?
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