Show #127

News

• Military Issuing ITouch
• $230 - vs. MUCH MORE for ruggedized specialized hardware
• Sheathed in a rugged case for Military purposes
  
• Soldiers = Swiss Army Knife
  
• Translation software - word translator and gesture translation (VCommunicator)
  
• Annotate Maps - In Dev - Take pictures of streetsigns and the Iphone will give intelligence about the location
  
• BulletFlight (Ballistics Calculator)
  
• Video Player
• Camera
• IPhone still a little too expensive for general deployment
  
• Oracle Buys Sun
• Oracle is the largest DB Vendor in the world
• Sun owns MySql, OpenOffice, Java, Large portion of Unix world
• Will Oracle still offer DB on Windows platform
• Will OpenOffice and Java still be free?
• Flash on TV's
  
• Software already written
• Announcement at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention
• Set-top boxes by end of year, embedded into TV later
  
• TW admits defeat on Tiered Bandwidth
  
• Retracting Pilots for tiered bandwidth that were to start in fall
• Grass Roots, and Senators all went after Time Warner
• Claims of "Stifling Creativity" and Monopolistic practices (inability to stream video without exhorbitant pricing) were cited
• Last straw could have been when U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y got on board and threatened legislation
• Competitor Frontier communications was already in the process of retiring a tiered plan
• Will still provide tools so ppl can educate themselves on bandwidth
• No promise that program won't go into place in future
  
• Google 3D Plugin
• How many failures before they get hint that the Internet is a commodity?
• They are still in WAAAAAY exploratory phase
• Mozilla and Google presented different applications, not compatible
• What level will it take before 3D will be acceptable on Internet?
  

Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)

• New Fallout IP game, New Vegas

Intarweb Goldmine

• 217k Texts, 27k bill
• Insurgent Truck Bomb

Reference

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