Microsoft's Portable Ploy
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Microsoft's Pocket Ploy
Microsoft's Pocket Ploy
07/09/2004 01:12 PMIs Microsoft about to pickpocket the iPod?
Microsoft's Portable Media Center
Microsoft's Portable Media Center
10/29/2003 03:28 AMMicrosoft plans to launch software for a new portable media device
next year. The device will allow users to listen to music and watch
movies on the road. Microsoft hopes the software, called "Portable
Media Center," will be an answer to Apple's iPod music device, which
is currently the best selling digital music device on the market. The
Portable Media Center will be manufactured by Creative, Sanyo and
Samsung, and will be on store shelves for the second half of 2004.
Microsoft's Media2Go becomes Portable
Media Center
Microsoft's Media2Go becomes Portable
Media Center
10/29/2003 01:14 AMMedia2Go, Microsoft's new operating system for personal video players,
isn't called Media2Go anymore. From now on the software will be known
as Portable Media Center. Now we know it's tough to let go of the old
name that we had all gotten so attached to, but if it's any
consolation, the first Portable Media Centers should start appearing
from ViewSonic, Creative, iRiver, Samsung, and Sanyo sometime in the
second half of next year. Read [Via eHomeUpgrade]...
RealNetworks Seeks Microsoft's Help In
Portable Music Foray
RealNetworks Seeks Microsoft's Help In
Portable Music Foray
04/29/2004 10:39 AMRealNetworks, which is suing rival Microsoft for $1 billion, said it
wants to use Microsoft's software to help it sell music over the
Internet for play on portable devices. By Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(via MyAppleMenu)
Microsoft's Portable Media Players Begin
Shipping
Microsoft's Portable Media Players Begin
Shipping
09/02/2004 02:12 AMMicrosoft Corp. on Thursday will announce that the first third-party
Portable Media Center media players will hit the streets.
Microsoft's iPod-Killer: Portable Media
Center?
Microsoft's iPod-Killer: Portable Media
Center?
01/06/2004 10:31 AMMicrosoft's PlaysForSure Logo Program
Attracts New Industry Partners and
Expands to Connected Televisions, New
Portable Devices
Microsoft's PlaysForSure Logo Program
Attracts New Industry Partners and
Expands to Connected Televisions, New
Portable Devices
01/06/2005 12:17 AMToday at 2005 International CES, Microsoft Corp. announced broad,
additional support for the PlaysForSure™ logo program - both for
devices and upcoming services. In addition to many portable music
players that are PlaysForSure-verified, there are now new televisions
and DVD players designed for PlaysForSure compatibility that feature
built-in connections to wireless or wired home networks for the easy
playback of photos, as well as subscription-based music and video via
a Windows® XP-based PC. At CES 2005, D-Link Systems Inc. and Digitrex
debuted connected high-definition (HD) TVs, HD displays and DVD
players designed to be part of the PlaysForSure logo program, and
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. demonstrated a concept plasma display.
In addition, a range of new color-screen, mini-hard-drive portable
devices supporting both music and photos are designed to be
PlaysForSure-verified, including the Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox, iriver
H10 and the Samsung YH-925 and YH-820. First announced at Microsoft's
Digital Entertainment Anywhere launch event in October, the
PlaysForSure logo is designed to help consumers with Windows XP-based
PCs choose devices and online music and video stores that work
together, taking the guesswork out of compatibility.
La-Z-Boy's Hazy Ploy
La-Z-Boy's Hazy Ploy
08/10/2004 09:03 AMThe recliner specialist continues to recline.
Bush's cynical ploy
Bush's cynical ploy
05/24/2004 09:39 PMLa-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy
La-Z-Boy's Clever Ploy
06/24/2004 01:05 PMThings may look bleak, but La-Z-Boy is showing signs that it will
right the ship.
Holy See my political ploy
Holy See my political ploy
06/14/2004 07:37 PMBin Laden ploy spreads IM adware
Bin Laden ploy spreads IM adware
02/12/2004 04:08 AMZDNet UK Feb 12 2004 8:22AM GMT
Sun hits out at Microsoft upgrade ploy
Sun hits out at Microsoft upgrade ploy
12/22/2003 05:34 AMSilicon.com Dec 22 2003 4:15AM ET
Arsons Were Notoriety Ploy, Defendant
Says (washingtonpost.com)
Arsons Were Notoriety Ploy, Defendant
Says (washingtonpost.com)
12/22/2004 01:21 AMwashingtonpost.com - One of six men charged in the arsons that ravaged
a Charles County subdivision told investigators that the fires were
intended to raise the profile of a local car club known alternately as
the Family and the Unseen Cavaliers, federal authorities said
yesterday.
Notes and Tips: Microsoft XML Patent
Ploy
Notes and Tips: Microsoft XML Patent
Ploy
01/26/2004 10:18 AMHow scary is this - Microsoft patenting XML-based MS Office DOCUMENTS
so you can't open them with other applications?
Virus ploy claims bin Laden's death
Virus ploy claims bin Laden's death
07/23/2004 04:29 PMZDNet Jul 23 2004 7:18PM GMT
Resident Evil viral marketing ploy
backfires
Resident Evil viral marketing ploy
backfires
08/18/2004 08:47 AMMobile virus hoax taxes support desks
Adware ploy dupes IMers with bin Laden
'news'
Adware ploy dupes IMers with bin Laden
'news'
02/11/2004 05:52 PMA Trojan horse uses bogus news of the al-Qaida leader's capture to get
AIM users to open a program that installs adware called BuddyLinks on
the victim's PC.
Iran Nuke Freeze Offer Just a Ploy -
U.S. Official (Reuters)
Iran Nuke Freeze Offer Just a Ploy -
U.S. Official (Reuters)
09/17/2004 06:56 AMReuters - Iran's statement that it may extend its
freeze on uranium enrichment to ease fears about its atomic
plans is an obvious ploy to prevent tough action by the U.N.
nuclear watchdog, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
Keynesis™ Announces the Release of
Keynesis Portable Sweeper™ - the World's
First Portable Privacy Protection
Software
Keynesis™ Announces the Release of
Keynesis Portable Sweeper™ - the World's
First Portable Privacy Protection
Software
06/22/2005 01:51 AMKeynesis Portable Sweeper is the world's first privacy protection tool
specifically designed for users of portable storage devices (such as
USB drives and portable hard drives), offering a simple, friendly and
intuitive way to remove any traces of private information that may
have been otherwise left behind on visited computers. [PRWEB Jun 20,
2005]
Is Online Registration For News A Ploy
To Make Online News Look Bad?
Is Online Registration For News A Ploy
To Make Online News Look Bad?
09/17/2004 02:31 PMThese days, I very rarely agree with anything written by John C.
Dvorak, who seems to be spending his time
not
really understanding what's happening in technology. However, his
latest column has an interesting theory. We've been talking a lot
about how many newspapers have a
backwar
ds thinking policy requiring registration just to read the same AP
and Reuters stories everyone else has. The public claim is that
they're doing this to give their advertisers more data about their
visitors, but the amount of dirty data that goes into these databases
suggests
that
doesn't make much sense -- and could get them in legal trouble.
Others point out that online editions are really doing this to get
email for the sake of selling their mailing lists to marketing
spammers, which does make some sense, though isn't a particularly well
thought-out strategy for long term success. Dvorak's take, however,
is that newspapers are doing this
to keep
people out on purpose. The idea is that newspapers want to play
down their online operations, to show that their paper editions are
still much more important. He believes they
don't want the
online editions to be profitable, as that would mean serious changes
for their business. If true, this is an incredibly stupid position,
basically trying to convince themselves that news isn't moving online
when it really is. It's even worse than just not believing what's
happening -- it's working to screw up the data they use themselves in
figuring out what's happening. Honestly, though, this seems unlikely.
It would involve too much thought. It seems, more likely, that the
push towards online registration is from newspapers who haven't really
thought the issues through, but who think this will somehow pay off.
A Portable Portable
A Portable Portable
06/17/2004 06:05 PM
By Marc Zeedar, MacOPINION (via MyAppleMenu)
CGI-Portable-0.50
CGI-Portable-0.50
06/07/2004 05:55 AMCGI-Portable-0.51
CGI-Portable-0.51
06/07/2004 11:39 PMPlayStation Portable Likely to Be Big
Hit
PlayStation Portable Likely to Be Big
Hit
12/24/2004 01:04 PMAbcnews.go.com - Wed Dec 22, 07:46 pm GMT
PHP Everywhere: Truly Portable DB
Applications
PHP Everywhere: Truly Portable DB
Applications
03/14/2005 05:04 PMPHP Everywhere has
a new
posting this morning about
Building Truly Portable Database Applications for
PHP (an article by Daniel Convissor), with a mention of using the
ADOdb database abstraction
layer to support
these ideas.
"Portable FireFox"
"Portable FireFox"
06/17/2004 06:48 AMOne of the best Xmases yet to buy a
portable PC
One of the best Xmases yet to buy a
portable PC
11/01/2003 01:56 AMSunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 0:24AM ET
Pockefami: Portable NES
Pockefami: Portable NES
08/16/2004 06:51 AM
From the Japanese company
that brought you bizarre products such as the Gameboy Advance TV tuner
and USB battery recharger (that also works from the Playstation 2 USB
port) comes the "Pokefami," or a portable version of the Nintendo
Entertainment System. Though this reeks of vaporware, I guess because
of the renderings rather than photographs, the specifications are,
let's say, "realistic."
It features a 2.5" LCD screen, meager 3 hour battery life, video
out for connecting to your TV, and even a port for plugging in another
controller. Cost? 13,000 yen, about $117 USD. Quite steep, considering
a sizeable flash cart for a normal GBA SP can be had for that price.
Not that I would encourage anything as quasi-legal as emulation, but
hey, just saying.
Read -
Product Information [FamiconPlaza]
Vonage Goes Portable
Vonage Goes Portable
12/18/2003 03:38 PMOm Malik breaks the news that Vonage will soon have laptop and
PDA-based software client for its service: It's not news that Vonage
has tens of thousands of subscribers, nor that they offer a
high-quality, full-featured hardware-based broadband voice-over-IP
service that allows you to map multiple incoming real phone numbers to
your virtual line. It also not news that you can get high-quality
software VoIP clients; I'm personally enamored of Xten's suite, which
work with Windows, Mac OS X, LindowsOS, and Linux. They're beautiful
and come in free and paid flavors, including a multi-line conference
version. The Xten clients can interface with any standard SIP (Session
Initiation Protocol) server, and many of the VoIP providers who offer
long-distance over the Internet use standard SIP gateways. But getting
from Xten outbound to the VoIP provider is a pain: I had to have the
CEO of Xten provide me the details for a couple of VoIP services;
those details aren't on the VoIP long-distance service sites. Then
there's the question of inbound service. Even though you can use Xten
as the default client with Addaline.com, it's unclear whether you can
receive inbound calls via their service. Most of the VoIP in software
is focused on making calls to the PSTN and receiving calls from other
folks using services like Free World Dial-up, which provides you with
a free non-PSTN VoIP number and SIP gateway. Om's scoop is certainly
that Vonage is going to package the software and PSTN offering into a
no-configuration package that will be as easy to use as their hardware
service. Vonage's hardware solution is pretty simple: open the box,
plug it in, wait a minute. You're done. Voice mail calls can be
alerted via email, and other features can be enabled through the Web
site's dashboard for your account. Because Vonage works over
broadband, a Pocket PC or a laptop equipped with their soft client in
turn connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot or access point means free phone
service everywhere -- it's another incentive to lower cell phone plans
(for roaming purposes) and increase the number of hot spot locations.
I'm a recent Vonage convert. I use my cell phone as my office and
roaming line, and although I'd switched to a $130/month plan from
Cingular because of their rollover minutes, I had $250 and $450 bills
in September and October during particularly intense work periods.
Yes, that's...
PlayStation Goes Portable
PlayStation Goes Portable
03/25/2005 07:17 AM580wdbo.com - Thu Mar 24, 11:29 pm GMT
What's up with the PlayStation Portable?
What's up with the PlayStation Portable?
06/17/2004 04:31 PMShould Sony have spilled the beans on the PlayStation Portable
already? Game.Ars doesn't think so and will tell you why.
First look at the PlayStation Portable
First look at the PlayStation Portable
11/05/2003 10:57 AM Here it is: Sony's released the first concept images for its
forthcoming PlayStation Portable....
TiVo Goes Portable
TiVo Goes Portable
01/03/2005 02:43 PMCBS News Jan 3 2005 6:40PM GMT
"PlayStation Portable"
"PlayStation Portable"
03/24/2005 11:33 PMAnother Portable NES: Game Axe
Another Portable NES: Game Axe
08/16/2004 12:41 PM
So
apparently that Pockefami portable NES machine we were talking about
is far from the first portable NES player. In fact, the GameAxe, from
Taiwanese grey market manufacturer Redant was created way back in '95.
Although never released in the US for obvious reasons, the GameAxe is
essentially an NES in portable form, with a 3.8-inch LCD screen and a
screaming 1.8MHz 8-bit CPU. They fetch high dollars, though, from
retro freaks; this one on eBay is probably going to go for well over
$200.
There was another portable unit that could play NES carts, as well,
called the "Top Guy." It reportedly had a general suck to it, but it
did have one cool feature: an FCC-be-damned low-power VHF transmitter
that made any TV within a few feet display the game you were playing.
(Thanks, Myron!)
Read -
The Game Axe Information Site [FortuneCity]
Read - NINTENDO GAME AXE SYSTEM PORTABLE NES
VERY RARE!!!!!!!! [eBay]
Related
Pockefami: Portable NES [Gizmodo]
Portable Firefox
Portable Firefox
12/22/2004 01:03 AMPortable
Firefox 1.0 (USB Drive-Friendly): If anyone knows what you'd use
this for, comment.
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox
optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected
optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your
USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your
favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
PlayStation Portable can do more than
you think
PlayStation Portable can do more than
you think
04/08/2005 08:26 AMModbee.com - Thu Apr 7, 02:32 pm GMT
C++ Portable Components
C++ Portable Components
04/09/2005 03:08 PMpoco 0.91.4 released
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