PocketPC Thoughts notes a Samsung press release announcing a 533MHz mobile chip.  PocketPC’s and smartphones should be seeing this chip around Q4 2003.

Keith Devens:

Code Reading looks like a fantastic book. I happened to see it when I was in Barnes & Noble tonight, and I flipped through it for a few minutes. Check it out.

That’s eerie.  I was at a Borders last night and flipped through this book.

CNet:

The N-Gage is scheduled to go on sale Oct. 7, priced at $299. Nokia announced Friday that specialty retailers GameStop and Electronics Boutique will begin taking advance orders in stores and online starting Saturday.

This month (actually two days ago) is the birthday of Amazon Web Services.

I’d point to the original press release that Dave referenced, but unfortunately it has expired:

Yahoo – Document Has Expired

The requested document, `/bw/020716/160329_1.html‘, is no longer available.

It’s little things like this that remind me how temporary the web can be.  Here’s a little disclaimer for todays entries:

Content freshest if viewed before 18 Jul 2004.

El Reg:

Who cares what operating system a phone uses?

I do!

I’ve become a Symbian Junkie.

An interesting tidbit about the “Handheld Engine,” the processor behind the new Sony Clie PEG-UX50.  CNet:

The device is also noteworthy because it is the first handheld to use a chip developed by Sony in the same Nagasaki plant where it is manufacturing the chip that will power the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 game console.

The chip itself isn’t the speediest thing on the planet, but considering what Palm devices used to run on, isn’t shabby at all:

The ARM-based chip tops out at 123MHz and includes a graphics engine, camera interface and Memory Stick interface.

Scott Johnson has posted a great article about the tech of Feedster.  It’s definately worth a read, especially if you think that Feedster is a bunch of PHP scripts thrown together.

Glenn Fleishmann’s article at the New York Times pointed out something about the Kensington WiFi Finder is only $30!  Not bad at all, I was expecting it to cost much more.  It might be fun at that price point.

CommsDesign:

TTPCom is using this week’s Wireless Japan show in Tokyo to demonsrtae a Class 12 Edge reference design that can achieve downlink data rates up to 236.8 kbit/s over an Edge wireless link.

Obligatory PR fluff warning.  It is a nice achievement though.  The earliest anyone might see production hardware using TTPCom’s technology would Q12004.  Of course EDGE is a hack at best, but speed is speed.  It might not be true 3G, but it’s better than vanilla GPRS.

It’s also interesting to note that high speed isn’t limited to only the downstream (in theory):

For example, Matthews said designers can allocate three slots for the downlink and two slots for the uplink to achieve a 180/120 kbit/s downlink-to-uplink data rate ratio.

This is all theoretical pre-production stuff, but it might be a nice crutch until 3G arrives in the US.

Charles Miller:

The maximum number of significant tasks I can work on concurrently is two.

There’s always a difference between your optimal number of tasks and the number of tasks that you are required to work on.

developers.slashdot.org points to slides and notes from an introductory workshop and parallel computing systems hosted by the Center for Advanced Computing at the University of Michigan.

I’m not in front of a machine that can read PowerPoint files right now, but I’ll definately be checking these slideshows out.