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Today in Tech; 3/15
By Oliver Rist | March 15, 2007, 11:22 pm
We’re back from InfoWorld’s annual editorial retreat–well, I am. Sasquatch had to go to Baltimore and do geek things in someone’s basement. Lessons learned: If you repeatedly put salt & pepper and/or tabasco sauce in Sasquatch’s drinks when he’s not looking he’s liable to get cranky. Who knew?
- CeBit 2007 has lengthy landmark lane. Check out this roundup of all the new laptop tech being touted at this week’s CeBit show in Germany. Seems the ultra-portable is making a comeback, or still debuting or whatever you want to call it. But if they’re anything like that FlipStart thing I’m doing for InfoWorld, they’re going to have a short shelf life. (Source: CNET)
- Glide offering cell sync for Macs. Glide Digital makes a pile of online productivity apps (word processor, PowerPoint-style presenter, etc.). And they’re releasing Glide Sync and Glide Mobile technologies now, which will support Macs (Windows users have been able to use them since December). That means Mac users will be able to sync not just office-type stuff, but video and music and play them back just like their wimpy little iPods. Still doesn’t solve the cell-phones-don’t-have-enough-battery-life problem, but it’s one step closer to the iPhone before it actually gets here. (Source: ITWire)
- Vodafone tests Skype cell phone calls. Vodafone is at CeBit showing off an application code-named ‘Starfish’, which would allow its cell users to make calls not just via Skype, but also via MSN, Yahoo and AOL voice chat services. No word on an actual delivery date, tho. (Source: BetaNews)
- Microsoft pays folks for searching. Looks like Microsoft is getting a bit desperate for folks to use its Live Search engine. So it’s offering something it has plenty of: money. It’s testing a program that gives enterprise customers bucsk based on the number of Web search queries run by its employees. Not actual cash, mind you, just ‘financial incentives’. I was just hoping they’d build a better search engine than Google, but I guess that dream’s out the window. (Source: InfoWorld)
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