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Archive for October, 2004

Siemens Licenses Flarion’s OFDM

Siemens has signed a deal to sell wireless data infrastructure based on Flarion’s OFDM technology. Flarion will develop 450MHz OFDM infrastructure to Seimen’s specs, then the German company will begin offering the products to operators in Europe in Q2 2005, aiming to enable broadband wireless data services for users of notebook computers. Flarion’s technology is [...]

“We Have To Get Back To The Place We Were”

Read this. Every word. Two excerpts:
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about-Since you did support the resolution and you did support that ultimate solution to go into combat and to take over that government and occupy that country. Do you think that you, as a United States Senator, got the straight story from the Bush administration [...]

Golf Tale II: Cheating

( golf )

Dear Abby,
Last year the Handicap Committee at our club sent letters to several members essentially demanding that those members appear before the committee to explain their handicaps. It appeared to the committee that the handicaps were too high, given the performance of those members in handicap tournaments. To make matters worse, it was clear from [...]

Golf Tale I

( golf )

I mentioned earlier today that I played golf with JT and his roommate in Oxford on Sunday. JT played a little bit out there over the summer and started playing regularly, so we decided to go play when I came out for a visit. I didn’t take my clubs but did take my shoes and [...]

Weekend trip

I spent last Saturday through Monday in Oxford visiting JT, and generally having a great time. His hockey team lost its game Sunday night, but the golf Sunday afternoon more than made up for it. Oxford has two courses, an older one in Hueston Woods State Park and a newer one south of town called [...]

PalmOne Runs Around RIM and Good

PalmOne has signed a licensing deal with Microsoft under which users of ‘the next generation’ of PalmOne’s Treo handsets to access Exchange servers. The licensing deal covers Microsoft’s Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol; by deploying a system based on this protocol customers will be able to synchronize their email, calendar and other information directly between their [...]

Debate 1

Kerry wins the style competition. Looked good, spoke clearly and forcefully, and presented his “facts” assertively. His main problem: most of his “facts” were wrong. Examples: The US has not spent $200B in Iraq, or even in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. The New York Subway was not closed during the Republican Convention in New York. [...]

RIM Posts Another Solid Quarter

Research in Motion reported that it earned US$70.6M on revenue of $310.2M; quarterly revenue was up 15% over last quarter while profits grew 28%. The company said it added 317K subscribers during the quarter, which ended 31 August, and now has 1.657M users under contract. RIM said it is on track to pass 2M users [...]