Author: Vince Kimball

Desktop to Go. Keep Your Desktop in Your Pocket “If you’re really hardcore about traveling light, you might want to become the ultimate road warrior and dispense with your laptop or PDA altogether and get M-System’s Xkey 2.0, a USB key drive with a 32-bit processor inside it that lets you run programs right off… Continue reading Desktop to Go

New blogs come up. Lots of new stuff to look at. I'm having trouble keeping up with all the new information sources, aren't you? Tom Peters started a blog (yeah, that Tom, the guy who writes the famous marketing books). More accurately he turned his home page into a blog. Has an interesting question about… Continue reading New blogs come up

Truckers Early Adopters of Tech. Solid Washington Post story on truckers' use of Wi-Fi at truck stop hotspots: A few interesting new tidbits include the excellent observation that truckers are always early adopters of technology that has utility to their industry, like GPS and Wi-Fi, and that TruckStop.net reports 10,000 subscribers since October with just… Continue reading Truckers Early Adopters of Tech

Change Your Linksys WRT54G Admin Password Right Now!. Tech consultant discovers that Linksys WRT54G allows remote, over-the-Internet administration login even when remote management is turned off: Because all broadband gateway vendors ship their equipment with default passwords like public or admin, this vulnerability is moderately critical according to the Secunia security consultants. An automated attack… Continue reading Change Your Linksys WRT54G Admin Password Right Now!

The Wisdom of Crowds.  Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion points to James Surowiecki's new book, The Wisdom of Crowds: The book's premise is that “large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.” Though not mentioned on… Continue reading The Wisdom of Crowds

Pocket Rendezvous. Razvan Dragomirescu of Simeda writes: ” We have completed development for our Pocket Rendezvous project. It's a web server for the Pocket PC that advertises itself to other Pocket PCs in the neighbourhood wirelessly using ad-hoc WiFi networks and Rendezvous. Windows users can look here for a Windows Rendezvous browser/publisher. Pocket Rendezvous also… Continue reading Pocket Rendezvous

Wireless Unleashed Launches. Today, Kevin Werbach, Andrew Odlyzko, Clay Shirky, and David Isenberg launched a group weblog on unlicensed wireless issues. The site focuses on the benefits of reallocating low-frequency wireless capacity from broadcasting to unlicensed applications, both here and around the world. There is a huge amount of capacity which could be used for… Continue reading Wireless Unleashed Launches

Putting Dollar Signs on Solutions. Bjørn Lomborg has a brain trust and a blueprint to solve the world's problems. He also has (heresy!) a bottom line. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

Accessing conference content.  Yesterday I had a phone conference with Hadar Pedhazur of Opticality Ventures, during which Hadar mentioned that he's been using Asterisk, a Linux-based software PBX, with great success. Although Asterisk is VoIP-capable, Hadar's using cheap ($100) Digium cards to manage and route calls among his various business-related POTS lines. That really got… Continue reading Accessing conference content