Toshiba vs. Cometa for WiFi Uber Operator. Toshiba Ships Hotspot Hardware [via 802.11 Planet]   News item about Toshiba getting ready to ship their “hotspot in a box” offering.  Great quote from their general manager:   “Think of us as being like Cometa,” says Marston, “but cheaper and with a six month lead on them.”… Continue reading Toshiba vs. Cometa for WiFi Uber Operator

ISVs and Desktop Flash Apps. Kevin Werbach posted this comment in reply to my earlier post about Flash as solution to cross-platform desktop apps:  So, why do you think these developers don't use Flash today? Lack of awareness, cost, performance, missing features, compatibility, bad associations from cheesy animated Website intros… or something else? I know… Continue reading ISVs and Desktop Flash Apps

WiFi Hard Drive. The Martian NetDrive Wireless: 40 gigabytes of small, silent, 802.11b filesharing [via 80211b News] Excellent idea!  [Jeremy Allaire's Radio]

Glasshaus is dead.. This was posted to the Webdesign list today. It's bad news because Glasshaus made User Interface, Info Architecture and User Experience oriented books. The Ed books were pretty good too, I don't care about Wrox… [In My Experience]

From WorldCom, an Amazing View of a Bloated Industry. We now know in quantifiable, stupefying terms, just how much WorldCom overpaid for the telecommunications network it built. By Gretchen Morgenson. [New York Times: Technology]

Microsoft Mulls Self-Managing Technology. Microsoft said Friday it will offer technologies designed to help business customers automatically manage their flow of computing power and resources. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

I don’t know if you’re like this, but right as I’m falling asleep I think about what I’m doing with my life and what I’d like to be doing. Last night I thought “I’m writing too much about Microsoft.” Why not Apple? Well, I don’t really use their stuff anymore, so don’t have that emotional… Continue reading Falling Asleep

'Fixing Intelligence': Connecting the Dots. William E. Odom, a retired general, proposes a reform of U.S. intelligence gathering. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: Books]

3 approaches to intranets. Digital Web's IAnything Goes column tackles three approaches to intranets. Knowledge Management, Collaboration and Communication, and Task Completion are suggested as three popular and valuable intranet uses. [ia/ – information architecture news]

WorldCom to Write Down $79.8 Billion of Good Will. WorldCom said that it was writing down $79.8 billion of its good will and other assets in a move acknowledging that many areas of its vast telecommunications network are worthless. By Simon Romero. [New York Times: Technology]