Yahoo has just lost me as a Yahoo Mail customer. I\’ve been a paying customer for their premium email for a couple of years now. But they kill me. Lately, even when I am sending a single email to someone that I know, Yahoo Mail forces me to enter a CAPTCHA sequence before they will send my email. How could they possibly force me to do this?
Category Archives: Gadget Watch
Combatting Email Overload
Here\’s my latest Connect magazine column. I wrote it at the airport on my Blackberry. It\’s about how I try to solve the problem of email overload. Enjoy!
PaidContent.org: February 16, 2006 Archives
Amazon to sell branded mp3 players pre-loaded with content?
Now this could be very interesting…a low-cost subscription model for a player with pre-loaded content. That is exactly where I\’ve wanted to go with LDSAudio.com and mp3books.com. If Amazon does it first for the mass market, hopefully it will pave the way for us to do this in smaller, niche markets where we like to play.
Rivals circle as BlackBerry firm faces patent woes – Business – International Herald Tribune
Rivals circle as BlackBerry firm faces patent woes – Business – International Herald Tribune
An excerpt:
RIM controls 60 percent of the mobile e-mail market, estimated at about 10 million users by Strategy Analytics, a research firm based in Boston. Its closest competitor is Intellisync, owned by Nokia, which has about 9 percent of the market.
Dell bids adieu to hard-drive music players | CNET News.com
Dell bids adieu to hard-drive music players | CNET News.com
Apple\’s dominance in mp3 players continues…
Your Content Everywhere
Sling Media raised another $46 million to make your home entertainment content accessible wherever you travel.
I wonder what this means to Orb Networks, which I first saw at Always On in 2005, which also offers a way to access your home PC content (including TV) on your internet-connected PDA or mobile phone.
Here\’s an Alexa chart that shows how much web site traffic these companies are generating:
Music Kiosks
At CES I saw something about a music kiosk that allows anyone to record audio CDs or download audio content to their mp3 player at a retail location.
Early on at LDS Audio we explored pre-loading iPods with audio content, but we found that the pre-loaded content would be erased when someone hooked up their iPod to their own computer and registered it.
CES update
This is the Best CES I\’ve ever attended. I\’m blown away by how rapidly technology is changing everything I\’ve ever known about media, both mass media and my own content.
We are entering a world where anyone can produce audio and video programming and actually get it into the hands of consumers on any device.
Gmail for mobile phones
Can\’t wait to see how well this works — gmail on mobile phones. Since my Blackberry has email and phone, I don\’t have a separate mobile phone that mobile gmail will work on.
Low Cost Mobile Internet-Enabled Computers
AMD and DOL (the largest ISP in Turkey) are rolling out an internet-enabled 3 pound computing and communicating devices for $19.95 per month. Radio Shack sells a US version. AMD wants 50% of the world population to have computing devices by 2015. (See article)
