Aug 23, 2006 | blog
MSFN is reporting that MS confirmed the online storage service at a blogger’s breakfast in Sydney, Australia.
Speaking at a blogger’s breakfast prior to the opening of Tech.Ed in Sydney, Microsoft Australia technical specialist John Hodgson said that the basic Live Drive was likely to include around 2G of storage for free. Additional storage capacity would be available for purchase, though pricing schemes and final release dates haven’t been announced.
It’d be nice if this were true, guess we’ll wait this one out to see.
Aug 14, 2006 | blog
So it looks like TMo is getting the UMA (Universal Mobile Access) thing moving! Good to see, they seem to be the first wireless carrier to move in this direction.
Of course with their T-Mobile HotSpot service, this is a natural fit to leverage the investment in both GSM and WiFi networks. At least the information I was presented with a few months ago alluded to using the phones on the HotSpot network as well as home & unsecured wireless access points.
This is also interesting because of Sprint’s latest announcement that they will be using WiMax as their 4G platform. Its not that WiFi and WiMax are that close in technology, its that true broadband networking solutions are being used for wireless communication services on a large scale.
And it further proves that the ubiquitous Ethernet standard is exactly what the information age needed during the 80s/90s to develop cheap, quality, plentiful networking capabilities.
HooHoo! Go TMo go!
Posted using Windows Live Writer!
Link to T-Mobile Begins UMA Trials (Phone Scoop)
Jul 31, 2006 | blog
The busy folks over at WordPress.org have revved up ver. 2.0.4 of WordPress. Mainly a security and bug fix revision, this is a recommended upgrade for every WordPress blog.
Jun 12, 2006 | blog
Paul Thurrott has posted a review of Windows Live OneCare on his SuperSite about a week ago (I know, I’m slow). Looks to be a good review of the product, as Paul gives some background information on the product and how it came to its current form.
Along with some shameless self-promotional plugs, Paul covers the product in detail, along with some good screen shots of OneCare in action. Performance, usability, and feature set are covered in this review.
Windows Live OneCare is a $50/yr. service provided by Microsoft. The OneCare product includes a managed firewall, antivirus, anti-malware, and performance tuner in one easy to use package. The annual service cost of $50 includes the license to run OneCare on up to 3 computers, so it ends up being a great deal. Compare this product to Symantec and McAfee’s products – it’ll run rings around them (my opinion).
I’ve been using this product for about 9 months, since some of the early betas, and have been continually impressed with the security it provides, and the performance compared with competitor’s products.
Jun 9, 2006 | blog
Daniel Berininger has a comparison piece over on Om Malik’s blog on the similarities of Vonage and MCI. Its an interesting piece, with interesting comments as well.
Though I would love to cheer for the underdog, I still think Vonage will not end up being a powerful competitor in the voice market. There are simply too many other options for voice solutions which I’ve talked about before.
Most people will end up using mobile phones only, others will switch to their cable company offerings, many more will simply stick with whatever former RBOC they already have, and finally others will simply use some type of free voice offering from the likes of Skype, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others.
Sorry folks, VOIP is where its at for landlines, its just that Vonage isn’t the heir appearent.
Via: GigaOM
