Truphone ist vergleichbar mit Skype und spezialisiert sich auf VOIP Kommunikation über Mobiltelefone. Neben der reinen Sprachunterstützung werden auch Textnachrichten unterstützt. Truphone Mitglieder können untereinander kostenlos telefonieren, für Festnetzgespräche gibt es entsprechende günstige Tarife. http://www.truphone.com Less

Software, innovation, management Brent Frei wrote: I’m attracted to the market opportunity within large, established markets. These markets already have huge spend, they have established dominant players with an inertia resistant to major change, most of the innovative talent and money is off in new market spaces, and innovation within these spaces tends to be evolutionary in nature and follow predictable paths. Identifying a large market that can serve as an appropriate target is often as simple as listening for the drumbeat of consistent comments like: — “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” — “I wish there was a…” — “Why doesn’t somebody invent a…” The revolutionary innovation that occurs in many of these markets is often serendipitous. That means someone isn’t looking to solve the end problem, but something they did is applicable to it. See, for example, Viagra or Post-Its. More often than not, however, the real revolutionary innovation is in line with the evolutionary. Therefore, pick a really big market and do something revolutionary within the natural evolution of the space. So the key question becomes: what is it that successful inventors do to be revolutionarily successful within an evolution? The current modern wonder of revolution within evolution is the Apple iPhone. Apple’s formula for innovation in mature markets is the gold standard. How do they do this? My assessment is that they follow two simple principles: —Design for how people work. —Consolidate and reduce core concepts to a ridiculous minimum; a core concept is anything the customer has to learn or understand in order to successfully use your product. Mobile phones, e-mail on Blackberries and Treos, MP3 music players—all of these existed separately and with ever-expanding feature sets. The race toward consolidation had been going on for some time; but it carried with it the complex, rich feature sets of each independent device. Apple, with its special magic, stuck with the less-is-more approach and let’s make the …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

This week our guests Francisco Gonzalez, Dave Gilbert, and Erin Robinson present their favorite indie games: Dirty Split: http://tinyurl.com/dirtysplit Garden of Coloured Lights: http://tinyurl.com/gardenofcolouredlights The Chef: http://tinyurl.com/thechef Less

A pesar que estoy rodeado por incendios y respirando humo ya estoy mejorando de salud al igual que mi familia. Hoy les converso acerca de los incendios en el area de Los Angeles y del hackeo que nos hicieron a las tarjetas de debito y credito. La cosa esta peligrosa. Less

On the gamerwok hour this week, Nguy fries up some topics on E-waste, Richard Garriot, Mini-Netbooks, Sony Ericsson and their iPhone killer, the fastest computer on Earth (that still dies on crysis), carbon fibre macbooks, SNIF tags, and the launchs of Gears 2 and Lich King, with an impression of Quantum of Solace, all this and more in Episode 12 of the GamerWok Hour. Show Notes Wok My World: E-Waste and 60 minute’s Expose as reported by engadget Richard Garriot leaves NCSoft for…Space?? Circuit City finally rolls over and die: beware of great deals! Hot Off the Wok: UMID Korea introduces a 5″ Netbook that can run XP - the email junkie’s wet dream. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1 takes on the iPhone Cray XT Jaguar - fastest computer on the planet (that we know of) but can it run Crysis?? Rumor: Apple could be going Carbon Fiber for the next Macbook Air - Ricers start lining up. Windows 7 Pre-Beta benchmarks by InfoWorld - more of the same. SNIF Tags, how technology can find your pooch and enchance DogBook nVidia wants $3500 US for their latest video card, great if you were drilling for oil Gears of War 2 hits 2.1 million units sold day one, but can it beat Lich King? Nintendo flips second hand games market the bird while releasing a overpriced USB Mic NPD data for October: 360 and Wii doing well while PS3 slowly dies in a lonely corner with Atari IBM announces ThinkPad USB portable secure HDD that even Maxwell Smart would approve of Wok or Not: Quantum of Solace: thinking man’s bond but see Casino Royale before you watch Quantum and you’ll enjoy it more Star Trek 11’s newest Trailer makes you wonder if you are watching Serenity 2, but still exciting WoW Lich King launch: rock star baby! I won’t be playing since this xp really caters to 70+ Pomegranate Phone: this will truly be the end all and be all of smart phones, make sure you check out when it’s being released! Wokie Talkie: What if the Matrix Ran on Windows?  WHOA! The Onion, your source for the most reliable news on the Internet, compares Snow Leopard and Windows 7 features, must read! Less

This week we look at Bento 2, Mail Act-on, RunKeeper, Flick Fishing plus much more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more. You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you. Receive 25% off of all Devon-Technologies software by going to http://www.devon-technologies.com/podcasts Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast: Skim: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net TinkerTool: http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html LiveStation: http://www.livestation.com Camouflage: http://www.briksoftware.com VLC Media Player: http://www.videolan.org Onyx: http://www.titanium.free.fr Lola Wong joins us with her review of: Bento 2 http://www.filemaker.com David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews: Mail Act-on 2: http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html Gazmaz Joins us again this week with Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com and talks about. Flick Fishing: http://www.freeverse.com Tom Piraino from MacinTomBlog.com looks at: RunKeeper: http://www.runkeeper.com Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week. We talk about iPhone and iPod cases, his favorite for the iPhone? This one… Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast: And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! … You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to “download linked file”. That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes.The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically. Please Click Here to vote for us on the PodcastAlley Website. Thank you! techpodcasts.com Technorati Tags: software, review, mac, apple, iTunes, Mac mini, podcast, Macreviewcast, podcasting, maccompanion, OSX, iPhoto, Exposure 2 Less

This week we look at Bento 2, Mail Act-on, RunKeeper, Flick Fishing plus much more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more. You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you. Receive 25% off of all Devon-Technologies software by going to http://www.devon-technologies.com/podcasts Here is the freeware and shareware I look at during the podcast: Skim: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net TinkerTool: http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html LiveStation: http://www.livestation.com Camouflage: http://www.briksoftware.com VLC Media Player: http://www.videolan.org Onyx: http://www.titanium.free.fr Lola Wong joins us with her review of: Bento 2 http://www.filemaker.com David Sparks from MacSparky joins us this week and reviews: Mail Act-on 2: http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html Gazmaz Joins us again this week with Darren Rolfe from MacWingNut.com and talks about. Flick Fishing: http://www.freeverse.com Tom Piraino from MacinTomBlog.com looks at: RunKeeper: http://www.runkeeper.com Chris Marshall from ChrisMarshall.ws joins us this week. We talk about iPhone and iPod cases, his favorite for the iPhone? This one… Try the new ENHANCED version of the MacReviewCast: And now we have the Podcast in Bit-Torrent Feeds! … You can either click on the podcast link on the left and listen to it via QT from the browser, or you can right click on the podcast link and choose to “download linked file”. That will download the mp3 and you can play it from you hard drive with iTunes.The right link below is the URL for the podcast RSS feed. Just right click it and choose to copy the address and then paste it in your podcast reader, or ipodder, or newsreader that will download enclosures automatically. Please Click Here to vote for us on the PodcastAlley Website. Thank you! techpodcasts.com Technorati Tags: software, review, mac, apple, iTunes, Mac mini, podcast, Macreviewcast, podcasting, maccompanion, OSX, iPhoto, Exposure 2 Less

iPhone apps might some day be the gold mine for advertising.  In the meanwhile, we are seeing the emergence of a new trend: iPhone apps as ads. Hollywood studios are the first ones to react and using free applications to promote its movies. We are totally loving the new app for the latest Bond flick, Quantum of Solace.  More than just a micro-site, the Bond application lets you watch the movie trailers and read up about the movie. It also pushes you out to the iTunes music store if you want to you want to purchase Jack White’s throbbing theme song from the film. Of course others have more immersive apps. The Dark Knight, for example has come up with a way to add some Joker-style graffiti to photos of your friends. Use the touch screen to drag and rotate elements and then save and send them as you like. Bolt, Disney’s forthcoming animated canine adventure has released an app which is essentially a free stripped down Super Monkey game for a very subtle hand. All three apps, however, lack the seemingly most obvious feature - the ability to actually purchase tickets for the movie. That much imagination would be too much to ask from Hollywood, but we are happy that they are thinking about ways to promote their movies on screens that matter. Less

Today on the show I take a look at some cool websites and tools as listed in Cool Websites and Tools (edition #197). Listen to the podcast for some more information and insight than what’s available in our quick reviews. This podcast is available through iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, or in another podcatcher if you have a different MP3 player. .muo_af_style { background-color: #B4D0E1; border: 2px solid #4275B8; } (By) Jason Mayoff is a dad, a tech geek and a Canadian radio broadcaster (CJAD 800). You can also find Jason at his photoblog or over at Flickr. Enjoyed the article? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think about it New here? Get your cheat sheets and freebies at MakeUseOf Downloads. Enjoy! Tags:iphone, meetings, Podcast, writing Related posts Slide, Don’t Type On Your iPod Touch or iPhone (1) Make Use Of Podcast #25: Geeky Fun - iSong (0) 7 More Fantastic Podcasts for Geeks (10) What Are QR Codes? Digitize your World & Back Again (4) Welcome to the MakeUseOf.com Podcast #1 (19) Less

Life Sciences, IT, energy Ryan McBride wrote: It’s too early to know the full impact of the economic meltdown on executive compensation at private technology and life sciences companies. Alas, 2008—or at least the first three fiscal quarters of it—could be viewed next year as the end of the good old days of executive compensation. Still, for those of you who want to know how much your executive peers’ at said private tech and life sciences companies were compensated this year (or at least the pre-meltdown part of the year), your cup runneth over with the recently completed 2008 Compensation and Entrepreneurship Report in Life Sciences and a similarly titled report in information technology. The annual studies—conducted by the J. Robert Scott executive search agency, law firm WilmerHale, Ernst & Young, and academics at Harvard Business School [disclosure: the first two are Xconomy underwriters]—showed a continued trend that Bob noted last year of steady growth in executive compensation across the board in both life sciences (which in this post means medical devices too) and technology. And an interesting feature of the technology compensation study is the inclusion of clean technology companies for the first time. (Read on to see how their pay compared with executives in other segments of the tech industry. A hint: not great.) Xconomy isn’t big on covering studies, because many lack the depth to draw serious conclusions, but these compensation studies appear to be quite thorough. The reports are based on compensation data from multiple private companies (342 from tech and 189 from life sciences), with a wide swath of executives (1,600 executives with 10 different job titles on the tech side, and 1,000 executives with 13 job classifications in life sciences). And all U.S. regions are accounted for—so our communities of readers in Boston, San Diego, and Seattle can see where they stack up next to each other (again, see our chart of the results on the next page). Also, the figures were gathered from April to June 2008. I don’t want to touch the argument on whether electrical engineering courses are more difficult than microbiology, but the studies show that life sciences CEOs typically earn more than their tech counterparts, with average 2008 base salaries of $300,000 for top life sciences executives, up 6.7 percent from $281,000 in 2007, and $236K for the tech chief executives, a 4.2-percent increase from $227K last year. Though not explicit in these reports, perhaps it should be noted that the smaller size of the life sciences industry compared with IT, and the high degree of scientific/technological variation among life sciences firms, could make this compensation gap between the two camps a matter of supply and demand. I’m just speculating, though. …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Life Sciences, IT, energy Ryan McBride wrote: It’s too early to know the full impact of the economic meltdown on executive compensation at private technology and life sciences companies. Alas, 2008—or at least the first three fiscal quarters of it—could be viewed next year as the end of the good old days of executive compensation. Still, for those of you who want to know how much your executive peers’ at said private tech and life sciences companies were compensated this year (or at least the pre-meltdown part of the year), your cup runneth over with the recently completed 2008 Compensation and Entrepreneurship Report in Life Sciences and a similarly titled report in information technology. The annual studies—conducted by the J. Robert Scott executive search agency, law firm WilmerHale, Ernst & Young, and academics at Harvard Business School [disclosure: the first two are Xconomy underwriters]—showed a continued trend that Bob noted last year of steady growth in executive compensation across the board in both life sciences (which in this post means medical devices too) and technology. And an interesting feature of the technology compensation study is the inclusion of clean technology companies for the first time. (Read on to see how their pay compared with executives in other segments of the tech industry. A hint: not great.) Xconomy isn’t big on covering studies, because many lack the depth to draw serious conclusions, but these compensation studies appear to be quite thorough. The reports are based on compensation data from multiple private companies (342 from tech and 189 from life sciences), with a wide swath of executives (1,600 executives with 10 different job titles on the tech side, and 1,000 executives with 13 job classifications in life sciences). And all U.S. regions are accounted for—so our communities of readers in Boston, San Diego, and Seattle can see where they stack up next to each other (again, see our chart of the results on the next page). Also, the figures were gathered from April to June 2008. I don’t want to touch the argument on whether electrical engineering courses are more difficult than microbiology, but the studies show that life sciences CEOs typically earn more than their tech counterparts, with average 2008 base salaries of $300,000 for top life sciences executives, up 6.7 percent from $281,000 in 2007, and $236K for the tech chief executives, a 4.2-percent increase from $227K last year. Though not explicit in these reports, perhaps it should be noted that the smaller size of the life sciences industry compared with IT, and the high degree of scientific/technological variation among life sciences firms, could make this compensation gap between the two camps a matter of supply and demand. I’m just speculating, though. …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Free Information on EVault 1-866-928-0735 Cell Phone Boarding Pass Classmates.com Gets Sued Veins Replace Fingerprint ID SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Apple’s New Opportunity by Andrew McCaskey Apple’s Second Chance Apple has a chance to make another big contribution to the world of podcasting. And, it’s not for any altruistic reason - it is another revenue point just waiting to be tapped. The iTunes Music store happened at the right time to build the base of podcasting - a podcatcher or receiver that interfaced directly with an extremely popular portable player, within a trusted user interface. Apple immediately benefited from a wealth of user generated content, available for free that would draw people to the iTunes music store. The music discovery process on some podcasts undoubtably drove business to the Apple iTunes Music Store. And, as time passed, the independent podcasts were generally replaced (at least in the Top 100) by corporate produced content. Here’s a chance for Apple to make some more money The rumored podcast download capability on the next iPhone software upgrade could be an opportunity for Apple to cash in on a large part of that user generated media. Very simply, use the App store ecommerce engine (already tied to the phone number and credit card) to process monthly subscription payments for podcasts. Say $2 or $3 a month. Then, the podcaster could present two feeds- one feed including advertising content, the other paid subscription being ad free. A listener could make the choice, the podcaster (just like the iPhone app programmer) could receive payment for those listeners who chose to upgrade, Apple could rake 30% off the top, and the listener could elect to listen to the regular program, including ads, just as before. End of the month, the timer points back to the version with ads - or the podcaster could set up annual subscription plans. How About It ? Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network IR Vein Viewer at NEXTfest Watch Today’s Video Episode Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… Slashdot Review by Email - Sign up here: Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz Less

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. MoTR 154 is 36 minutes long and is a 33.1 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on Time v2.1 by Meta Sektion, additional mixing by James Kendrick. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matt Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Thanks for the shoutout WebUser magazine! A mobile tech wedding took place last week. Matt bought a BlackBerry Bold on the *way* to the wedding. James and Matt get a first look at the Telenav Shotgun. First look at the Richard Solo 1800 battery for iPhones and iPods. And an odd case. CONTACT US: E-mail us or leave us a voicemail on our SkypeLine! SUBSCRIBE: Use this RSS feed with your favorite podcatcher or click this link to add us to iTunes Less

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. MoTR 154 is 36 minutes long and is a 33.1 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on Time v2.1 by Meta Sektion, additional mixing by James Kendrick. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matt Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Thanks for the shoutout WebUser magazine! A mobile tech wedding took place last week. Matt bought a BlackBerry Bold on the *way* to the wedding. James and Matt get a first look at the Telenav Shotgun. First look at the Richard Solo 1800 battery for iPhones and iPods. And an odd case. CONTACT US: E-mail us or leave us a voicemail on our SkypeLine! SUBSCRIBE: Use this RSS feed with your favorite podcatcher or click this link to add us to iTunes Less

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. MoTR 154 is 36 minutes long and is a 33.1 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on Time v2.1 by Meta Sektion, additional mixing by James Kendrick. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matt Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Thanks for the shoutout WebUser magazine! A mobile tech wedding took place last week. Matt bought a BlackBerry Bold on the *way* to the wedding. James and Matt get a first look at the Telenav Shotgun. First look at the Richard Solo 1800 battery for iPhones and iPods. And an odd case. CONTACT US: E-mail us or leave us a voicemail on our SkypeLine! SUBSCRIBE: Use this RSS feed with your favorite podcatcher or click this link to add us to iTunes Less

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Free Information on EVault 1-866-928-0735 BPL Raises From the Grave iPhone 2.2 Release in ten Days DeepDybe into Dark Web SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Broadband Over Powerline by Andrew McCaskey Why Does This Thing Keeping Coming Back ? Om Malik compares Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) with cockroaches. Both are equally desirable Yet despite trials and failure in both Virginia and Michigan, IBM has now accepted almost $10M for a study that could result in construction of $70M BPL trials in several states, eventually serving 340,000 homes. If you could call 256kb/s Broadband and if you could get past the destructive effect that it has on amateur radio emergency communications - it still is a technology that Google has tried and ignored. It’s still a technology that even the companies backing the proposal in Manassas VA decided to withdraw, and concentrate on remote device control. The FCC bears some culpability, having been an enthusiastic backer of the technology since the days when Michael Powell was FCC Chairman. I think there are two reasons: The cost of the project is covered by $70M from the Department of Agriculture - and that is not even rounding error in today’s subsidization world. Secondly, IBM is a services business. If you wanted the study the practicality of Tesla Coils driven by computerized Solar Collectors, IBM would help you study it for $9.6M. If you were really smart, you would call it Banking Over PowerLine (BPL) and move the decimal two places. On second thought even $7Billion is a footnote. Need another zero. Is IBM up to the task ? Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network How holograms are mades (with laser) Watch Today’s Video Episode Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… Slashdot Review by Email - Sign up here: Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz Less

Hoy hablamos de algunas mejoras que van a salir con el firmware 2.2 para el iPhone. Les cuento sobre street view y otras cosas. Tambien recibo una llamada de mi esposa en el iPhone mientras estoy grabando el podcast usando el mismo donde ella me cuenta que le han hackeado la tarjeta del banco. Less