Bluetooth now lives up to hype

Grok Headline matches for Bluetooth now lives up to hype

The End User: Bluetooth now lives up to
hype

The End User: Bluetooth now lives up to
hype 09/10/2004 10:57 AM
IHT Sep 10 2004 1:56PM GMT

In Internet calling, Skype lives up to
hype

In Internet calling, Skype lives up to
hype 09/05/2004 06:35 PM
IHT Sep 5 2004 10:16PM GMT

Commentary: In Internet calling, Skype
lives up to hype

Commentary: In Internet calling, Skype
lives up to hype 09/06/2004 05:04 AM
IHT Sep 6 2004 9:28AM GMT

Tuned in, turned on How Bluetooth mobile
users spice up sex lives

Tuned in, turned on How Bluetooth mobile
users spice up sex lives 04/21/2004 03:35 AM
Independent Apr 21 2004 7:09AM GMT

Life without wires How Bluetooth
wireless technology could revolutionise
our lives

Life without wires How Bluetooth
wireless technology could revolutionise
our lives 12/13/2003 03:03 PM
BBC Dec 13 2003 1:45PM ET

Why The Google IPO Hype Isn't Hype

Why The Google IPO Hype Isn't Hype 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
Realty Times,TX-16 minutes ago ... You are being managed from the time you turn on your computer, and Google proposes to be one of the greatest manipulators of all time. ...

"American lives are the most important
lives"

"American lives are the most important
lives" 07/31/2004 03:41 AM

XEMICS Makes Bluetooth™ Easier New
Solution with Embedded Bluetooth
Controller and Programmable MCU

XEMICS Makes Bluetooth™ Easier New
Solution with Embedded Bluetooth
Controller and Programmable MCU 06/09/2004 02:30 AM
XEMICS today announces a new device based on the unique Embedded-Host Architecture in their EasyBlue™ family. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

* Bluetooth serial assistant - an
assistance for the ports Bluetooth
series on Smartphone

* Bluetooth serial assistant - an
assistance for the ports Bluetooth
series on Smartphone 03/22/2005 04:41 PM
Pocket PC Universe Mar 22 2005 4:51PM GMT

Strategy Analytics: Is There Bluetooth
in Your Ford?; In-vehicle Bluetooth
market worth $20 Billion by 2011

Strategy Analytics: Is There Bluetooth
in Your Ford?; In-vehicle Bluetooth
market worth $20 Billion by 2011 03/14/2005 06:28 PM
dBusinessNews.com Mar 13 2005 4:06AM GMT

TEN Technology naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R)
Stereo Adapter for iPod to be Bundled
with Hewlett-Packard Bluetooth

TEN Technology naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R)
Stereo Adapter for iPod to be Bundled
with Hewlett-Packard Bluetooth 01/06/2005 07:20 AM
Investors Business Daily Jan 6 2005 11:40AM GMT

Review -- Targus Bluetooth Mini Mouse
with Bluetooth Adapter

Review -- Targus Bluetooth Mini Mouse
with Bluetooth Adapter 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
NotebookReview.com Jan 3 2005 5:20PM GMT

Bluetooth iPod Adapter to be Bundled
with Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

Bluetooth iPod Adapter to be Bundled
with Bluetooth Stereo Headphones 01/06/2005 05:31 PM
Mac Observer Jan 6 2005 9:30PM GMT

SMC’s Newest Wireless Bluetooth USB
Adapter is First to Market with
Bluetooth 1.2 Compliance

SMC’s Newest Wireless Bluetooth USB
Adapter is First to Market with
Bluetooth 1.2 Compliance 12/17/2004 06:44 PM
SMC® Networks (www.smc.com), leading provider of networking solutions for the SMB/e, the ISP and all the way home, today announced the newest member of the EZ Connect™ family of home networking products, the SMC-BT10 EZ Connect Wireless Bluetooth® USB Adapter. The new Bluetooth USB adapter makes it easy to set-up a personal area network (PAN) that connects up to seven Bluetooth-equipped devices such as wireless phones or PDAs. And, Bluetooth 1.2-compliance means that it can take advantage of the better performance and faster connections, while retaining full backward compatibility. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

PDA News - Palm Bluetooth, PetFrogs,
Bluetooth Virus

PDA News - Palm Bluetooth, PetFrogs,
Bluetooth Virus 06/16/2004 12:46 AM
bargainPDA.com Jun 16 2004 3:07AM GMT

RSS Hype

RSS Hype 09/23/2004 05:15 PM

eWeek's Jim Rapoza's recent column "Don't Believe RSS Hype" is the latest in a series of high-profile articles downplaying RSS. I guess this is to be expected given the number of people overstating the importance of RSS, and in a way, I'm glad to see this happen because it means that RSS is starting to mature and be taken seriously. Here's a quote from the article:

"Much of the hype has been deserved, as RSS clearly eases the distribution and consumption of information and news. But when breathless observers predict how RSS will change all software—not to mention the way we work and live—they are doing RSS more harm than good."

Agreed. I'm obviously a big fan and promoter of RSS, but I can't say I'm happy to see RSS support tacked on to so many products. It reminds me of the early days of XML hype, when everyone wanted to put the word "XML" on their box just to get attention, regardless of whether the XML features made any sense.

"Many large sites that deliver RSS feeds recently started complaining that they are being hit every hour with a flood of reader requests that is, for all intents and purposes, the same thing as a denial-of-service attack."

Urgh. Here we go again. I'm assuming this quote refers to a recent InfoWorld column by Chad Dickerson that compared the hourly surge of RSS requests to a DDoS attack. What Rapoza fails to mention is that Dickerson posted a follow-up article in which he admitted that InfoWorld's servers weren 't configured to minimize bandwidth consumption. Or perhaps Rapoza is referring to Robert Scoble's oft-commented quote that "RSS is Broken" and failed to notice that the problem wasn't due to RSS, but instead due to the way Microsoft was building their aggregated feed.

Look, there obviously needs to be some more "plumbing" work done when it comes to serving RSS, but there have been way too many exaggerated claims about RSS eating bandwidth. A big part of the problem is that many high-traffic sites make a feed available without understanding how it works and what steps they can take to lower bandwidth usage. These sites then complain about the bandwidth consumed by RSS, leading to yet another round of uninformed RSS-bashing which is (thankfully) taken to task by those in the know.

"Another problem facing RSS is that it isn't really a standard. There are several competing versions of RSS on the Internet, which leads to incompatibility"

The differences between the various flavors of RSS are insignificant. Look at it this way: I've written an HTML editor, a CSS/XHTML editor and an RSS reader. Supporting every flavor of RSS - and Atom - was easy, but supporting every version of HTML and CSS is still a pain.

For the record, the vast majority of incompatibilities I've dealt with aren't due to the different versions of RSS, but instead due to publishers using badly -formed XML in their feeds. I've spent far more time trying to support mangled XML in FeedDemon than I have in supporting all the RSS versions combined.

"To those developing products that use RSS: Find ways now to address some of RSS' shortcomings—and dig for problems heretofore unknown—so the technology doesn't become a burden on those who decide to use it."

Agreed. While there has been a lot of press about the RSS vs. Atom feuds, the reality is that there are a lot of people - including myself - working together behind-the-scenes to resolve these shortcomings and make sure that RSS achieves its promise.

ETF Tip No. 1: Don't Believe the Hype

ETF Tip No. 1: Don't Believe the Hype 01/06/2005 12:18 PM
Exchange-traded funds are good alternatives to index funds. Or are they?

The end of the hype

The end of the hype 08/20/2004 01:02 AM
Usatoday.com - Thu Aug 19, 08:04 am GMT

Do You Buy Into The Hype?

Do You Buy Into The Hype? 06/10/2004 06:01 PM
WebDevInfo Jun 10 2004 8:55PM GMT

More Hype For Plaxo

More Hype For Plaxo 06/15/2004 03:32 AM
You can always tell when a lazy PR person has been given the job to hype up some random startup in Silicon Valley. That's when the "profile" piece comes out, focusing almost entirely on the 22-year-old founder of a company, rather than the company itself or what it does. It looks like that's the latest strategy to hype up Plaxo, with a story that focuses on its young co-founders and the similarities the company has to Yahoo and Google - namely founded by two Stanford students and funded by Michael Moritz. Of course, the article leaves out the differences - such as the fact that a fair number of folks find Plaxo's service both annoyin g and creepy< /a> - and they're still searchi ng for a business model. It also leaves out the fact that one of Plaxo's founders was recently forced out of the company, suggesting that not all is well at Plaxo central. I still fail to see how Plaxo is any more than a small feature of an email system - and the only thing I learned from this article is that the company likes to compare itself to multi-billion dollar companies that actually do have business models.

Don't Believe the VOIP Hype

Don't Believe the VOIP Hype 12/29/2003 06:39 PM
Fortune Dec 29 2003 6:18PM ET

Separating Hype From Hip at CES

Separating Hype From Hip at CES 01/10/2004 07:17 AM
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcases the latest and coolest tech gadgets, but often the new products on display fail to live up to the breathless promotion that accompanies them. Steve Friess reports from Las Vegas.

Scare-n-hype 411

Scare-n-hype 411 07/06/2004 08:37 AM
Free mandatory screenings of this upbeat, people-positive documentary improve America's economic outlook!

VoIP: A Look Behind the Hype

VoIP: A Look Behind the Hype 02/10/2004 07:55 PM
Internet.com Feb 11 2004 0:18AM GMT

kettlebell hype

kettlebell hype 03/31/2005 06:54 AM
With girya or kettlebell training you can hack the fat off without the dishonor of diet and aerobics.

MP3 Trojan Hype On The Mac Web

MP3 Trojan Hype On The Mac Web 04/09/2004 03:59 PM

Worth the hype?

Worth the hype? 02/10/2004 10:41 AM
Post-Super Bowl hoopla we have "Just a Little While," the first single off Janet Jackson's new record. Will the massive pr stunt payoff?

the return of hype?

the return of hype? 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
free drinks and food are flowing, so naturally Om is on the case

Hype and hypertension

Hype and hypertension 07/18/2004 01:57 PM
From many points of view, the release of PHP 5 has been very much anticlimactic. No release party, no major newspaper articles… only a few notes here and there. And, of course, the endless supply of blog entries. Another event—much more low-key—seems to have taken over all the buzz ...

Beyond the Safari Hype

Beyond the Safari Hype 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Apple's new Safari Web browser has taken off faster than a brushfire on the Serengeti Plain. Within 24 hours of its January 7th introduction, Apple counted more than 300,000 downloads. But how many people are actually using Safari for everyday Web browsing, and what do Mac community gurus think of it?

Should You Believe the VOIP Hype?

Should You Believe the VOIP Hype? 01/26/2004 04:09 PM
Fortune Jan 26 2004 8:08PM GMT

O2 shuns 3G hype

O2 shuns 3G hype 09/27/2004 05:24 AM
'3G is not just a new toy for watching video'...It's not?

Ringtone Hype

Ringtone Hype 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
I've written before about the wireless carriers' current obsession with ringtones. It appears to be a booming business, to the point that others are muscling in on the carrier's turf by offering "non-authorized" ringtones or even the ability to make your own ringtones (for a fee, of course). While it may be good money in the short run, I still don't see how it's sustainable. As mobile phone platforms are increasingly open and standardized, ringtones will go through the same Napsterization process, where many will be available for free. Meanwhile, I still don't understand what's wrong with the good, old-fashioned vibrate mode that doesn't bother anyone around you. However, the article does mention the growing popularity of the silent ringtone that we wrote about last week. Apparently, it costs $2. Incredible. We've reached the point where people are willing to pay to have their mobile phone not ring. Maybe the next step is letting people pay to have someone else's mobile phone not ring. "My goodness is your ringtone annoying. Here's $2. Go buy yourself a silent ringtone."

Thanks for All the Hype, Bill

Thanks for All the Hype, Bill 02/19/2004 08:41 AM
Business Week Feb 19 2004 1:27PM GMT

Bluetooth SIG Makes Bluetooth
Specification Available To China

Bluetooth SIG Makes Bluetooth
Specification Available To China 03/19/2005 02:31 AM
ChinaTechNews.com Mar 19 2005 6:44AM GMT

IEE holds talk about 3G Hype

IEE holds talk about 3G Hype 07/30/2004 11:01 PM
Borneo Bulletin Jul 31 2004 2:52AM GMT

Skype merits hype; now it's available
for the Mac

Skype merits hype; now it's available
for the Mac 09/01/2004 06:17 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 1 2004 10:30AM GMT

The Technology Hype Cycle

The Technology Hype Cycle 08/31/2004 11:55 AM

Google, a bargain or IPO hype?

Google, a bargain or IPO hype? 08/19/2004 06:05 AM
Standard.net - Thu Aug 19, 10:10 am GMT
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Bluetooth now lives up to hype

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