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Sprint, Alltel, USC fined for missed e911 deadline

The FCC has fined Sprint, Alltel and U.S. Cellular a total of $2.83 million for not meeting the December 31, 2005 deadline for enhanced 911 services. By the end of 2005, all wireless carriers had to ensure that 95 percent of their subscribers had location-enabled handsets that could allow 911 responders to find them in an emergency. According to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, the three carriers "failed to meet this critical deadline by a significant margin, despite the clear requirements of the commission and the needs of their consumers."

Sprint, Alltel, USC fined for missed e911 deadline - FierceWireless - Wireless Industry, Wireless Technology News, Wireless Security News

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HP releases its first mass-market PC in Australia with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

It's not known what options HP will be offering with this system.

HP releases its first mass-market Linux PC

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The latest on Google's effort to reinvent the smartphone in a collaborative effort

"Ken Dulaney, an analyst who covers the mobile market for Gartner, said
the so-called Google Phone will most likely be manufactured by a
company that will bake special Google functions into the gadget, noting
that Google is unlikely to release a phone aimed at competing with
phones from market leader Nokia."

Rumors of a Google Mobile Phone Swirl

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The semantic Web enabled by new software technologies

One of the verbs Merlin Mann talks about in dealing with incoming information is "Delegate." The goal is to take 3 actions for every single attempt at reorganizing or reclassifying an item to store and look at later.

It would be great to have a secretary who could be hand to accept these delegated items. But he is how the Economist reports on new gains in achieving a semantic Web:

You can, however, delegate some things. At least, you can if you are Rael Dornfest, a technologist and entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon. When Mr Dornfest e-mails his business partners about meetings and interesting tidbits worth archiving, he copies the e-mail to his assistant, Sandy. Though she cannot yet organise his evenings in foreign cities, she can run his diary. She also runs his address book and forwards reminders from his wife to his mobile phone without being asked.

Sandy is really a bot.

The article mentions a trio of new technologies that will empower these bots: "the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and the SPARQL query language. Together, they allow computers to group objects and their features—from prices and measurements to locations and user ratings—into meaningful relationships and hierarchies, by analysing their associated metadata."



Improving the internet | The web: some antics | Economist.com

Technorati Tags: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, semantic Web, Merlin Mann

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Worldwide PC industry has an upturn

This report from the latest Economist shows that "There's life in the old dog yet."

"When the personal computer (PC) turned 25 last year, many anniversary articles read like obituaries." Certainly, consolidation will continue to be the story, the latest examples being Acer's takeover of Gateway.

Personal computers | There's life in the old dog yet | Economist.com

Technorati Tags: Economist, PC, Acer, Gateway, Dell, Toshiba, HP, Lenovo

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See you in Oulu, Finland for ISMICT 07

This is the Second International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology hosted by the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. [Because they designed this Web site in Flash, I can't copy and paste a blurb about this. One of the reasons I hate Flash.]


Technorati Tags: ISMICT 07, Finland, medical wireless, ICT

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Mobile Internet connectivity rate

This shows the standing of the US in the use of mobiles to connect to the Internet.

Graph courtesy of Garr Reynolds, who was making an entirely different point about PowerPoint presentations on his blog, Presentation Zen. There's no particular reason South Korea is a different color--it was just the example Garr was using.

Economist: Google is more JPMorgan than Microsoft

For this blog, my interest in Google is its strategy in supporting search capabilities for connected handhelds and smartphones. It's in a fierce battle with Yahoo to see who will dominate the mobile search market.

In the cover story of the latest Economist, "Who's Afraid of Google" (A snowclone referencing Disney and Edward Albee?), the continuing fear of compromised privacy is mentioned:

Google is often compared to Microsoft (another enemy, incidentally); but its evolution is actually closer to that of the banking industry. Just as financial institutions grew to become repositories of people's money, and thus guardians of private information about their finances, Google is now turning into a custodian of a far wider and more intimate range of information about individuals. Yes, this applies also to rivals such as Yahoo! and Microsoft. But Google, through the sheer speed with which it accumulates the treasure of information, will be the one to test the limits of what society can tolerate.

The article does talk about the security of ersonal medical information, and it might be worthy of discussion to think about how this might impact about the concept of a nationwide EHR.

The internet | Who's afraid of Google? | Economist.com

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URBivore: digital photography and NYC culture

I'm putting of the digital lifestyle topics on this new blog, URBivore.

The big news for digital photography is the announcement by Nikon of their new models, D300, the prosumer APS, 12 mp, CMOS sensor DSLR, and the D3 their portable pro camera which is 35FF that can boost up to ISO 25,600. Pretty amazing.

World Healthcare Innovation Congress, Dec. 9-11, Wash, DC

They're featuring Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This posting is basically a note to self to see if this is worth attending.

Third Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress: WHIT 3.0 Innovation to Transform

Technorati Tags: WHIT Congress, Berners-Lee, WHIT 3.0, EHR

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