As frankps sees the world!

I couldn’t wait and upgraded the iPod Touch as soon as the upgrade was made available. The iPhone, bought in U.S., is still running the old ROM, as I guess I have to wait for a hack to be made available. My first impression was that this software upgrade should have been free for those of us that already had bought Mail, Todo and Google Maps. But ok, 10 dollars are not much these days … . There were not many noticeable changes for me, as wireless was already working and I was […] Continue reading →

It was a beautiful idea, almost to good to be true, or was that just what it was? A 100 dollar laptop with only free, open source software. It was to run Linux, a special scaled down version of Redhat. The foundation and Nicholas Negroponte for that reason turned down Steve Jobs’ offer of getting Apple OSX free of charge! Finally also children in the third world would get the chance to use a computer and the Internet, was my thought, just as so many others must have believed. But soon […] Continue reading →

Bookeen has just released the Cybook Gen3 Firmware Upgrade Version 1.1 (Build 685). I have just downloaded it, and I have started installing it. Honestly I thought that there would be more improvements: Improvement: new button management (faster and buffered key detection). Improvement: new event management (previous versions could miss events). Improvement: reduced power consumption. Improvement: Table support in Mobipocket files. Bug fix: large covers in PRC files. Bug fix: Asian […] Continue reading →

In Norway we have for a long time had an ongoing debate about digital radio, and then DAB. It is hard to see that DAB will succeed, sales figures says it all. Last year there were sold about 60. 000 DAB radios and 725.000 FM radios in Norway. I don’t doubt the numbers being correct, just imagine all the mobile phones that today are equipted with a FM radio! Recently I also read that also Germany is haivng doubt about building out their DAB network. I was an early adopter to DAB, I […] Continue reading →

Yesterday, my friend Daniel (DaaT) over at IsComputerOn, wrote that GoBe office solution was back. First I went wow, that’s cool, and I continued reading. It now had the support of a new company, investors and team, and it would be launched in India, by a company Blue Lotus Software Solutions Pvt Ltd. That was the first time I started laughing. The name confusion, “The Big Blue” is what IBM is often called and Lotus Software is an IBM company making office solutions. But […] Continue reading →