I See a Smarter SPOT Watch in Your Future …

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How to kill a SPOT watch

How to kill a SPOT watch 01/19/2004 11:43 AM
We hate to pile on with the problems/complaints about the new SPOT watches, but Peter Rysavy has some "tips" on how to kill your Abacus...

Suunto N6-HR SPOT Watch

Suunto N6-HR SPOT Watch 12/28/2004 11:13 AM

Suunto looks to be releasing the n6-HR Microsoft SPOT Watch soon, if the new pre-order list from a Suunto watch dealer is to be believed. Supposed to ship on January 6th, the new $400 watch is designed for the athletic, 401k-monitoring grandfather, with a built-in heart rate monitor, training logbook, and broadcast stock market information and other data broadcasts from the MSN Direct service. And unlike many SPOT watches, it doesn't suffer from tragic industrial design.

Suunto Watches Announces the New n6-HR Suunto MSN Direct SPOT Watch [WatchReport]

SPOT watch review

SPOT watch review 12/15/2003 10:29 AM
Over at Microsoft Monitor, one of the first reviews of a wristwatch using Microsoft's new Smart Personal Object Technology, or SPOT. SPOT uses FM radio...

More SPOT Watch Services in the Wings

More SPOT Watch Services in the Wings 09/01/2004 09:31 AM
Microsoft is continuing to expand its stable of MSN Direct services that it provides to SPOT watch customers.

SPOT Watch Service Blinks

SPOT Watch Service Blinks 02/19/2004 07:24 PM
Microsoft's MSN Direct service experiences its first official outage since it went live in January.

Microsoft Readies More New SPOT Watch
Services

Microsoft Readies More New SPOT Watch
Services 08/31/2004 05:00 PM
eWeek Aug 31 2004 9:31PM GMT

First Microsoft SPOT Wrist Watch Review

First Microsoft SPOT Wrist Watch Review 12/16/2003 02:01 AM
I4U Dec 16 2003 0:22AM ET

Tissot's MSN Direct SPOT Watch Reviewed

Tissot's MSN Direct SPOT Watch Reviewed 07/26/2004 02:17 PM

Microsoft SPOT and Suunto n3 Smart Watch
review

Microsoft SPOT and Suunto n3 Smart Watch
review 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Addict3d.org Dec 30 2004 11:21PM GMT

How to Kill your Abacus SPOT Watch in
One Easy Step

How to Kill your Abacus SPOT Watch in
One Easy Step 01/23/2004 01:26 AM
"Take off a sweater. Touch a thermostat. Have a co-worker touch your watch. All of those actions can at least temporarily disable your Abacus watch. Multiple users have already reported the problem over at the SPOTstop forums (here and here). And I have had it happen to mine twice already."

The Future of the 30-Second Spot

The Future of the 30-Second Spot 03/26/2005 09:33 PM
The TV commercial is becoming craftier. A host of companies are selling technology to customize ads by neighborhood, household and even by viewing habits.

PDA News - Bluetooth headphones,
PocketPC overclocking, SPOT watch
giveaway

PDA News - Bluetooth headphones,
PocketPC overclocking, SPOT watch
giveaway 07/06/2004 05:25 AM
bargainPDA.com Jul 6 2004 9:15AM GMT

Wireless Watch 2004: UbiButton Watch
Super Clapper

Wireless Watch 2004: UbiButton Watch
Super Clapper 07/22/2004 08:11 AM

WIRELESS WATCH 2004 is going on in Japan until Friday, and there are plenty of new product demonstrations as well as those currently in development on display. This year's hot sheet includes NTT DoCoMo's "UbiButton," a device similar in form factor to a wristwatch. By detecting the shock waves in the arm created by a simple snapping of the fingers, a switch is flipped that can, for example, turn a light on and off. In other words, DoCoMo has glorified The Clapper to now be called The Snapper. Actually, I know a couple people that can't snap their fingers...what the hell are they supposed to do? [Uhm, clap? - ed] Other highlights from the convention included a working model of a Bluetooth pen, and DDI Pocket's "Jacketphone," a SD card sized PHS module. TechJapan has full Day 1 coverage, with pretty pictures.
Read - WIRELESS JAPAN 2004, Day 1 [TechJapan]

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Nokia's Bluetooth digital pen [Gizmodo]

Crazy TokyoFlash watch: the Pimp Watch

Crazy TokyoFlash watch: the Pimp Watch 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
New on the killer TokyoFlash watch site, the Pimp Watch -- at $129, it's a little rich for my blood, but boy, that's some sweet watch action. Link

Smarter Than Me

Smarter Than Me 12/29/2003 11:44 PM
Sometimes I'm accused of being "smart," which bothers me since I don't know what it means. It's a comparative label: if this one is smart, then others are equally smart, smarter, or less smart. Yet all generalizations are false, all comparisons fail. There's no way to measure these things, not really. It's a bogus idea. That's not exactly right. I quickly identify folks smarter than me, but it's not empirical, just a cocktail party chat I have with myself. Probably...

Smarter Than the CEO

Smarter Than the CEO 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.

"One of us is smarter than all of us"

"One of us is smarter than all of us" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Buy smarter

Buy smarter 05/11/2004 11:56 AM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 3:24PM GMT

Why MSN is smarter than AOL

Why MSN is smarter than AOL 01/11/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Jan 11 2004 9:16PM ET

Living Smarter

Living Smarter 06/05/2004 10:24 AM

Meta-Efficient points to ways to live your life using up fewer resources -- doing right by the planet, and yourself.

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments 01/28/2004 12:06 AM
DÃœSSELDORF, GERMANY - Accepting the idea that many businesses aren't prepared to spend more on enterprise application software, Germany's SAP AG aims to help them spend smarter.

spambots get smarter

spambots get smarter 01/06/2004 01:03 PM

Since today started as a "spam kind of day"...

Something I noticed over the last few weeks is that I've started to receive spam that is way more targeted than before. In what sense?

Well, let's say this: I'm getting spam that not only knows my full name, but also my address. Okay, not my current address, but I've already gotten spam that explictly mentions both my New York address (from 5+ years ago) and my SF Bay address (from 2+ years ago). This is bad, not only they know my email address, but they also know where I live(d)! Yes, we know that with time and money you can get a lot of information on anyone, but this has to be done automatically and massively, or otherwise it wouldn't be a practical option for spammers.

Clearly, one way this could happen is if someone (say, buy.com) has been selling their customer information. Since I usually take care of buying online only when my privacy is more or less protected, this is unlikely, though certainly possible.

There's a more likely way in which this connection was made: Google.

Google not only knows the web, it also knows other information... like phone numbers (at least in the US). Jon mentioned this some time ago.

A spambot to get "connected information" would work like this. Say you write an automated script to go through phone numbers on Google. Then the script takes the address data and the person's name, and then googles the person's name. It takes the first few results (or maybe only the first one) and scans the resulting pages to match an email's name to the person's name. Sure, this won't be 100% correct, but spammers don't care about that. And Google's reach makes it reasonable to think that you'd have a reasonably high hit rate. You could even write a program that uses the GoogleAPI for it.

Sure, we could say, as Scott McNealy does, that "you're privacy is gone, get over it". Even if you don't agree with that statement (and I don't, at least I want to resist it!), this is nevertheless disturbing. And the question that follows is: does Google have any responsibility for this? They'd probably say that they're providing a service by integrating yellow pages information, which would be true.

I'm not picking on Google, rather Google is the example here because of its reach and pervasiveness, but I'm sure that similar things can be done with other search engines and if not it won't be long before you can. Can we fix this at all? If so, how?

Since this is the tip of the iceberg, my main thought at the moment is that I'm a character from Lost in Space and all I hear is "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!".

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter 03/22/2005 04:58 PM
Matt Neuburg (~210 words)

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages. I used Tinderbox to create the online help for the Perl editor Affrus, which blogger John Gruber has called "the finest software documentation," in part because it is "cross-linked out the ying-yang." Tinderbox 2.4 makes outlines smarter by permitting any entry to have a rule for updating itself periodically; for example, if you're using Tinderbox to maintain a to-do list, a parent item (representing a category or group of tasks) might have a rule that its "completed" attribute should be true if and only if the "completed" attribute of all its children (the actual tasks) is true. There are also many small bug fixes and aesthetic tweaks, and Tinderbox's Web-page export continues to evolve strongly. Tinderbox runs in both the classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9.2 recommended) and Mac OS X 10.0 and later. Tinderbox costs $165, plus $70 annually for free updates. A demo version is available for download. [MAN]

Why small companies are smarter

Why small companies are smarter 07/20/2004 09:11 PM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 1:27AM GMT

Designing a Smarter Shoe

Designing a Smarter Shoe 05/05/2004 09:28 PM
Adidas's new shoe, named 1, is sleek and lightweight despite its battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor.

Microsoft Word And "Smarter Than"

Microsoft Word And "Smarter Than" 08/30/2004 07:45 PM
What the Word team lacks, in my view, is an awareness that, when a user is trying to get his or her own work done, the user is always smarter than the technology. By Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Sleep makes you smarter!

Sleep makes you smarter! 01/22/2004 02:45 AM
An AP article says that the first "hard evidence supporting the common sense notion that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep" will be published in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Finally, proof that my nap habit is actually beneficial to my productivity! Link

ICT venture coaching just got smarter

ICT venture coaching just got smarter 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
Sunday Times South Africa May 12 2004 5:54AM GMT

Smarter Content Publishing

Smarter Content Publishing 08/26/2002 12:34 PM

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
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Why small companies are smarter than big
ones

Why small companies are smarter than big
ones 07/18/2004 08:04 PM
ZDNet Jul 19 2004 0:31AM GMT

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There 08/17/2004 05:32 AM
An LA Times reporter finally did what most people discovered long ago: the ability to search Google for your own name. However, he came to a horrifying realization: he wasn't the only Geoff Boucher. Even worse, in his opinion, it looked like the other Geoff Boucher might be smarter than he was. Once again, we discover the dangers of a combination of too much free time and Google.

E-mail viruses getting smarter

E-mail viruses getting smarter 08/18/2004 01:32 AM
CNET News.com Aug 18 2004 5:49AM GMT

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Record-breaking sales in 2002 put the cell-phone industry on top of the world. Manufacturers hope to stay there with a new crop of handsets that offer gaming, picture-taking, multimedia messaging and more. Elisa Batista reports from New Orleans.

Phishers using smarter hooks

Phishers using smarter hooks 04/20/2004 11:19 AM
Personal Computer World Apr 20 2004 3:20PM GMT

Man smart, voter smarter

Man smart, voter smarter 05/15/2004 06:56 PM
Mid-Day Mumbai,India-3 hours ago ... They can just do a Google search right there in their own villages. ... They’re all too busy doing Google searches for Infosys results. ...

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists 07/16/2004 06:47 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 16 2004 11:17PM GMT

SAP aims to encourage smarter IT
investment

SAP aims to encourage smarter IT
investment 01/28/2004 07:18 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 28 2004 12:07PM GMT

Older siblings are smarter (Reuters)

Older siblings are smarter (Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - First born children in Norway get better education and as adults are more successful in the job market than younger siblings, a Norwegian-U.S. study shows.
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