According to the German publication, Technology Review, Siemens is developing a cell phone with a built in gas sensor. The phone (if it were to ever see the light of day) could be used to detect ozone, bad breath, and as a breathalyzer (detecting alcohol on your breath). And who said that cell...
The sites are back up. As DNS changes can take a while to propagate, I have the old server redirecting to a temporary host name. Aside from that, the move seems to have gone painlessly (too painlessly?). I have always self hosted, I was involved with a start-up and had access to a dedicated data...
I have slowly been moving my servers over to a new hosting provider. DNS has been moved, some sites are already cut over, and having successfully completed dry-run moves of my primary sites, I plan on cutting those over later today. Downtime should be minimal, and the only gotcha I foresee is DNS...
Details for MAX 2004 in Taiwan are now online (in Chinese) at http://www.macromedia.com/tw/macromedia/events/max_gc/. Speaker information (oddly enough, in English) is at http://www.macromedia.com/tw/macromedia/events/max_gc/speaker_bios/.
Hong Kong's Brando is selling lenses for phone cams, two sets of lenses to be precise, each with three lenses for telescopic view, softening, distortion, and more. As per the description, "camera lenses adapt to PDA/Cellphone which is built-in camera. The optical effect of each len[s] is readily...
T-Mobile is one of the largest providers of wireless voice, messaging and data services. The Developer Center is T-Mobile's online guide to developing for the T-Mobile network. From WAP to J2ME and more, you will find helpful resources and tools to assist you in your development process. And...
As ridiculous as it sounds, EspringUSA (the company who brought us the pop-up dressing room) has created The Talking Toonies, a line of teddy bears and stuffed animals which hold a cell phone "and once a call comes through, special circuitry enables the bear to move its mouth and head and appear to...
Oracle Application Server is NOT officially supported by ColdFusion, but Oracle has posted a Technical Note which "details the steps required to deploy and configure Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.1 for J2EE under Oracle Application Server (OracleAS) 10g (9.0.4)". See...
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has posted an interesting blog entry that makes the case that open is more an issue of portability than one of available source code (see http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040808#rewriting_history_and_vocabulary). I've read this one through several times, and it...
Here are links to some recent Blackstone stories: eWeek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1633483,00.asp InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/09/HNblackstone_1.html ServerWatch: http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3390611