Author: Vince Kimball

Grand opening of Apple Store in Boston (Northshore Mall in Peabody, to be exact) [MacNN]

Wired: Beam On. Bringing fiber directly to the home should cost carriers less than $1,000 per customer, positioning telecom carriers for a nice return on investment. So what will fiber to the curb mean, exactly? All the bandwidth you've ever dreamed of. [Tomalak's Realm]

All the Cool People Are Unwired I'm noticing a trend. All the cool people are unwired. Lately whenever I meet someone interesting, I say “have you put wireless into your house yet?” and they all say yes. This is a very rapid change over the past few months. I've gotta say that I'm enjoying my… Continue reading

All the Cool People Are Unwired

I'm noticing a trend. All the cool people are unwired. Lately whenever I meet someone interesting, I say “have you put wireless into your house yet?” and they all say yes. This is a very rapid change over the past few months. I've gotta say that I'm enjoying my backyard a whole lot more now than I ever did before. It's weird not being forced to be near your DSL line to do your work.

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TV Station in a Box I'm showing off Manila to my previous boss at Winnov. Winnov is doing for video and audio what UserLand is doing for words. Making the Web a fantastic environment. What Olivier showed me was a box, with four inputs, that can power an Internet radio station. It spits out four… Continue reading

TV Station in a Box

I'm showing off Manila to my previous boss at Winnov

Powerball: You Can't Win. The Powerball pot is $280 million. Your chance of winning is zero. [The Motley Fool] My chance of winning is zero, as I don't have a ticket.

Newspaper Duo Duels Monster. Publishers Knight-Ridder and Tribune strengthen their online presence in the job recruitment market, and hope the online-offline combination can challenge Monster.com. [The Motley Fool]

HP To Ship Combo DVD+RW/CD-RW Drives. New PC-drives should retail for $599 and are expected to be on U.S. store shelves in September. [internetnews.com: Product News]

PC World: Do Search Engines Tell the Truth? Some online search engines are yielding results that are less than you expect. The most prominent findings may surface not because they're the best fit, but because the subjects wrote the biggest checks to the search engine providers, industry participants acknowledge. [Tomalak's Realm]

Gov's Laptop Plan Approved. Every seventh-grader in Maine will have a laptop, starting in the fall of 2002. Governor Angus King talks to Katie Dean about his plans to get technology in the hands of all children in an audio interview. [Wired News]

XP Invasion Is Imminent. Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, works well enough that there's no reason to think it won't dominate the world. The biggest problem may be enduring the onslaught of built-in pitches to buy more MS software. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]