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- Nokia rejoins WiMax.
- Wi-Fi on Amtrak could be useful. $9.99 for a trip is quite reasonable. It’s probably a better deal than my pay-as-you-go T-Mobile hotspot account at $6/hr.
- Gizmodo and others linked to a way to boost the power on you Garmin iTrip to roll your own pirate radio.
- Moto buys embedded computing company Force Computers.
- Intel has delayed Centrino 2 until 2005. By then you’ll be ordering a jumble of things called a Centrino 2 with a Pentium M 775 and Intel Pro Wireless 2400 with Bluetooth. I can’t imagine how that can make any sense to a non-techie customer.
- Engadget covers details uncovered from the FCC about the new HP iPAQ h6300 with GSM/GPRS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
- Sleepycat ships Berkeley DB Java Edition.
- OSNews announces that Gnomefiles.org aims to be your one stop Gnome shop.
- CNet: tablets take their time. They’re still too damned expensive. Scoble: how can we get Tablet PC prices down? I really want to be able to afford one.
- US mobile carriers only get 3% of their revenue from data services. I’m trying to boost that figure personally, but so far no luck. A lot more than 3% of my monthly bill goes to paying for data and SMSes.
- Broadcom is buying 3G chipmaker Zyray Wireless.
- Rome 0.2 is out.
- WASTE 1.5 beta 1 is out. Three cheers for the GPL!
- ASP.NET on Linux using Mono sounds sadistic but fun.
- Slackware 10.0-RC1 is making the rounds.