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Toshiba Is Making A Big Splash This Year. Toshiba's Mobile Answer to Workstation “The company's Satellite 1955-S801 weighs 9.6 pounds, sports a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor from Intel, a huge 16-inch display and a removable wireless keyboard. The new Satellite is meant to replace a high-end desktop PC with a more portable alternative. The… Continue reading Toshiba Is Making A Big Splash This Year

Home Networking Not Just For Geeks Anymore. Cool devices like network-compatible stereos will just spur growth in a market that is just now surpassing the early adopter phase of growth, analysts predict. [Internet Product News]

NY Times: “By the end of July, all of the Fairmont's 38 properties, including the Plaza, the Fairmont San Francisco and the Fairmont Dubai, will offer wireless Internet access in public spaces, enabling guests to check their e-mail messages while having cocktails in the bar, for instance.” [Scripting News]

The Economist.  Dirt cheap organic solar cells about to take off.  This is one more step towards a hydrogen economy.  Excess energy from solar cells on the roof of a home could be stored as hydrogen through simple electrolysis (as an adjunct to hydrogen extraction from natural gas).  This eliminates the need for expensive and bulky batteries. … Continue reading The Economist

Business Week.  Good news on the job front.   The number of jobs in the US is expected to grow by 15% by 2010. >>>As might be expected, jobs for geeks will grow the most, the BLS projects. Software engineering jobs should leap 95% by 2010 — to some 1.36 million from 697,000 in 2000, says… Continue reading Business Week

In a strange twist of fate, I had the opportunity to watch The Bourne Identity, Attack of the Clones, and Minority Report over my vacation (if you have four kids you know what I mean).  Ranking:  1)The Bourne Identity (I loved it — I kept thinking that this was an intelligence augmentation experiment in the black-ops… Continue reading John Robb's Radio Weblog

BTW.  If you like Franka Potente in The Bourne Identitiy rent Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, and Blow.  She is great in all three. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Microsoft, NNTP, and the mismanagement of knowledge management. Robert Scoble has a theory about why Outlook doesn't include a newsreader: … [Jon's Radio]

Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page “Jake Savin [jake@userland.com] posted in his comments pointers to: a macro: Drop listCategoriesForPost.txt into your Macros folder. the code for your Item template that calls it:   <%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.[“<%paddedItemNum%>”]); listCategoriesForPost (adrpost)%> Thanks, Jake! A better way than mine: logic pushed from the template to… Continue reading Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page

Bing! The first full lawfirm I've seen that totally grasps how the web will work for their business, which is ofcourse, information: “We try to undercut our tendency to self importance by making fun of ourselves. This website is one example, as is our earlier Bitches From Hell Reporter and our various firm announcements and… Continue reading lawfirm