Hallo hoppy reader, This installment of the Bitstream mentions three IT items of interest to me and, hopefully, to you; a new public beta, a PDF SaaS and, green fish…lutefisk anyone?
Posted on May 11th, 2009 by OMas
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Jello happy reader, In this installment of the Bitstream, I wanted to let you know about a couple of different items that have intruded into my consciousness of late, the first being a granular rental feature from Amazon, a slick new bulk content delivery method, and an AI cloud service to help artists and labels [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy reader, A quick Bitstream post, not quite live from NAB as they were packet filtering on the show floor. In brief, all the wankers have left the building. This NAB was focused on essentials. Only those with budgets and pain points were in attendance, while tire kickers couldn’t justify the time and expense.
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy reader, Several times this month, I’ve been asked about USB, FireWire and which is “better” for audio. Because of the recent jive about Apple “dropping” FireWire to control costs on some of their consumer products, I cannah take it any longer and this Bitstream installment is a response.
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy reader, Once again, it’s Thursday and I’m at the Web 2.0 show listening to keynotes.
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy reader, Back in April of last year, I posted a Bitstream item about UWB. A UWB press release just came across my desk that I thought I’d share…The ZigBee Alliance and the RF4CE Consortium have agreed to standardize a spec for RF–based, specifically UWB, remote controls for consumer electronics. The main improvement would [...]
Posted on March 9th, 2009 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, This installment of The Bitstream simply aggregates a few news pieces that came across my desk, and makes a brain dead simple prediction about the future of computing. OK, let’s dive in…
Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, No, I’m not talking about the economy…I was parked at the Cloud Connect conference in Mountain View, home of the electronics industry. Since “the Cloud” was on my mind, it became the latest topic of The Bitstream.
Posted on January 21st, 2009 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, This time around, I’m writing about some of the stuff I found interesting at the show; storage, IT infrastructure, tools to aid creatives, and just plain fun stuff. Here we go… First up, The Omni Group had current versions of their apps at show special prices. I use their OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, Back in August, I wrote a bit about Intel’s IDF here at Moscone. There’s plenty of coverage out there about the then new Larrabee and Atom processors but, at Intel, nothing stands still for long. At the end of last month, the latest IDF in Taiwan played host to a demo of [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by OMas
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