Google has launched a cool new service…check out local.google.com.
You can enter your address and ZIP code and search for businesses near you. For example,
you can type “restaurants” and see a listing of all restaurants in your
area.
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PSP, a
new gadget from Sony that play games, movies and music. Coming later on this year.
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After a few weeks haitus, we should have more up-to-date postings on the blog. We were having a small glitch with some of our posting software but we’ve since fixed it.
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The new 215-room luxury Amalfi Hotel in downtown Chicago, which was retrofitted from
a building that once housed flight crews, will be offering high-speed Internet access
(HSIA) free to customers. The service will be provided by StayOnline.
— May 12, 2004
[Wireless News]
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“Yahoo! announced that they are going to upgrade their current free storage mail users
to 100Mb of storage from a previous 4Mb (or 6Mb -depending on other variables). This
is most likely in response to Gmail’s 1G of storage space. Yahoo! is also upgrading
its premium members’ e-mail accounts to “virtually unlimited” capacity.” [LockerGnome]
So to compete, Yahoo decided to give users 1/10th of what gMail (free Google email
with 1 gig of space) offers? Doesn’t sound like a very good strategy…
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“Most computer consulting businesses stink. Their customers at best have a mild dislike
for how they do business. At worst, hate them with a burning passion.” [Michael
Cage]
Not TechAngels…that’s why we’ve been growing primarily through word-of-mouth since
Day 1. It looks like there’s a lot more opportunity to grow…
Thank you, TechAngels Customers!
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Too
cool! Sony is releasing this little video/mp3 player next month. At $563,
it isn’t cheap…but it sure is sexy! Oh and it’s being released in Japan, so it would
be helpful to know Japanese if you’d like to buy it. [The
Register]
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‘…Warner Brothers has begun charging video game publishers that license its brands a fee that fluctuates according to what reviewers think of their games.’ [ Original article from hollywoodreporter.com]
Interesting news from the increasingly high-profile world of big-budget videogame development. It seems like a good idea at first, but one can’t help but wonder exactly what Time/Warner hopes to accomplish.
Videogame developers certainly aren’t very pleased.
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Microsoft has once again delayed the release of Windows XP SP2. We’ve been using it internally for some time; it will be a worthwhile update to load…and it has had a lot of time to have it’s bugs worked out. One of my favorite features is the ability to disable Internet Explorer plug-ins; that feature will make it much easier/quicker to fix spyware-related browsing issues.
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“Comcast upgraded their modem’s firmware on their entire network and now some wireless
routers cannot connect to the Internet,” wrote one reader. [Read
More]
We’ve had a number of customers that have Comcast call in with Internet connection
issues. Most have been solved with a firmware upgrade to their router or just a reset.
The worst thing is if the customer calls Comcast directly first; Comcast inevitably
has the customer disconnect their router and plug their computer directly into the
line. This makes the customer’s computer a sitting duck for hackers and viruses and
disconnects any other networked computer from the Internet.
If your Internet ever goes out, try these
steps and call us before your provider!
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