SOURCE: Beta news Apple Extends iTunes to Wireless By David Worthington, BetaNews July 28, 2004, 1:58 AM First came the iPod Mini; now comes iTunes mini. Apple is partnering with Motorola -- the world's number two phone maker -- to install a slimmed down version of the iTunes software on select wireless phones. iTunes equipped models will begin shipping in the first half of 2005. The announcement came on the eve of Motorola's annual analyst meeting as Motorola Chief Executive E...

SOURCE: Netscape Money and Business Google's Challenge of 'Froogles' Rejected WASHINGTON (AP) - Google Inc.'s right to use the name ``Froogle'' for its online shopping service came into question Friday when an arbitration panel rejected the company's challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com. Two of the three judges on the panel of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, rejected Google's argument that Froogles.com was ``confusingly similar'' to Google...

In today's world of computers, calculations, bosses, managers, knowledge workers and leaders what someone might say is how the heck do you keep all that together? (You try really hard using this sticky glue called Community Poop) There is an answer and it has allot to do with the people that surround you. if anyone has ever stayed on the message board of any site, you find that you learn something at one time or another sooner or later. I have been on the net hard core for about 2 - 3 year...

Source: CNET Tech, studio giants team on new DVD locks Last modified: July 14, 2004, 11:37 AM PDT By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com A group of high-profile technology companies and movie studios have joined forces to create a new copy protection standard for DVDs that could allow high-definition movies to be copied and used inside home networks. Dubbed Advanced Access Content System, or AACS, the technology--which has yet to be created--would replace the antico...

For me, TextBanners (Run by Stardock) is one of the best ideas to come out. Similar to Google text ads, yet in allot of ways more localized to a community. For example, TextBanners is the New York Daily News while Google is the New York Times. One is more local while the other is more national (or international). How do you use both at the same time? My solution is simple... I guess. I am actually carrying out this solution on my knowledge-base site I am creating for myself joeKnowledge ...

Source: New York times STATE OF THE ART The High-Definition Camcorder Enters the Picture By DAVID POGUE HIGH-DEFINITION television picture is so bright, sharp and clear, it's causing a minor upheaval in the way TV shows and movies are filmed. Talk-show and newscast sets must be rebuilt because HDTV reveals that the existing desks are nothing more than plywood and contact paper. Composing a shot is more complicated because HDTV displays a wide, sweeping rectangle of life like a...

Source: New York Times New York Times That's the Weather, and Now, Let's Go to the Cellphone for the Traffic By JOHN MARKOFF Published: March 1, 2004 AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 - The peer-to-peer world of the Internet is taking a step onto the nation's freeways in a cellphone application that aims to offer up-to-the-second traffic information. Until now peer-to-peer networks have conjured up file-sharing systems like Napster and Kazaa or social networking organizations l...

Source: New York Times ONLINE DIARY A Web Idea for Flipping Channels By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL Published: February 26, 2004 Big Ideas One of the hottest TV shows in Britain is a live digital satellite broadcast called "Flipside'' in which experts and call-in participants discuss what people should be watching at that moment on other channels. The concept, though, came courtesy of the Web. It first appeared at idea-a-day.com, a British site that has posted a new idea da...

First Post here for the JTB development blog. If your a person who is developing a business, technology or just interested here is the place to come. This blog will be loaded with links to organizations, tech sites, finacial information sites, education on specific topics and where to look for more, and so on. I arealy have a few hundred links on my computer right now... and some of them might actually relate to this blog. Here is the first; Neowin is a great site full of links to techn...

Well I am not sure actually. I made it thinking I would use it for science and tech since I am in a tech school. I would just post what I am doing in class and stuff. Now I am not sure exactly. I have a blog already at Modblog.com: http://joetheblow.modblog.com And basically I use that for saying pretty much everything I want including posting my homeworks and tech stories. But here I don't want to really post personal stuff I guess. I think I will keep it to mostly stuff I plan on develo...