Posted on February 1, 2006 8:43 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Media and bloggers everywhere reported Microsoft’s release yesterday of the Internet Explorer 7 beta with its tabbed browsing, built-in support for RSS (including enclosures), and improved security. I’d love to see how it all looks, but I can’t get it installed. My PC meets (and generally exceeds) all the requirements, but midway through the installation I get an error, something to do with a…
Posted on January 18, 2006 1:13 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
I’ve been pondering the lack of discussion about the potential PR applications for SMS (short message service for wireless/cell phones). This thinking has been prompted by several news items I’ve read, such as word from a German company called Smartmachine that it has developed a system that lets cell phone users buy and receive tickets to events using SMS. According to an
Posted on January 13, 2006 12:48 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Dave Winer, who is just about single-handedly pushing OPML into mainstream consciousness, likes the fact that Rick Ellis has added OPML support to Expression Engine, and points to Ellis’s use of the outlining language on his blog. Ellis, by the way, is CEO of pMachine, the company behind Expression Engine, the lightweight content management system behind my blog.
I was amused at…
Posted on January 12, 2006 5:17 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Teleflip has appraently been around for a while, but I hadn’t heard of it. Now that I have, I’ll probably use the hell out of it.
Innovated by a fellow who was tired of not being able to send text messages to cell phones from his computer, Teleflip lets you use your email to do just that, and it’s completely free. I just tested it,…
Posted on January 10, 2006 12:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology | Web
From all quarters you can hear the pronouncements of the death of Microsoft Office. Steve Gillmor insisted that Office is dead in a podcast conversation with Robert Scoble. The subject also came up on This Week in Tech. Bill Gates, the consensus goes, should be quaking in his boots since so much of Microsoft’s business is wrapped up in sales of…
Posted on January 9, 2006 10:18 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Technology
TechCrunch reports that Toshiba has come up with an intriguing marriage of blogs and bar codes. Let’s say you’re wondering thorugh an electronics store and you see a product you’re interested in, but you’d like to know what people are saying about it. Using your cell phone, you snap a picture of the product’s bar code, upload it to a service running Toshiba’s software,…
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