Rui CarmoCatching up with three days' worth of news is killing, to say the least. But since the weather is acting up a bit, it's a perfectly sensible option for this Saturday morning.
- Nokia is apparently going to own only 49% of Symbian, thanks to SonyEricsson, Siemens and Panasonic buying in a little more. They have also released a time limited beta of Nokia/Lifeblog - I honestly can't imagine people paying for this, but I've been known to be (spectacularly) wrong on occasion.
- This doesn't work for Portugal but is nevertheless interesting. Especially considering MSN already does it if you're offline.
- Airport as repeaters using WDS. Not really very scalable, but I expect it to be easy as pie.
- Johansen is at it again, having released a tool that lets you retrieve FairPlay credentials from Apple's servers. We'll see what happens next.
- Unofficial Windows Mobile 2003 Upgrade for the Motorola/MPX200. If this is possible, I'm surprised people haven't tried running Opie on it yet.
- The Newton not only lives on, but can now sync with Mac OS X. And apparently palmOne is investing in Mac connectivity (unless it's just for show).
- For a laugh, I suggest watching this great LEGO Spiderman movie. The bit with the elephant is hilarious.
- Wi-Fi to 3G access points are starting to appear. Told you so.
- A couple of interesting presentations from Michael Meeks on OpenOffice and Gnome 2.6
- SIPphone now supports Mac OS X. Hmmm. The softphone looks ugly as sin (I guess they haven't done much market research where it regards UI acceptance), but it's nice to know it exists.
- Meshed networking is causing a stir. I'd say nobody is right at this point, because nobody has really tried to deploy it on a large scale - that's when the bugs show up.
- Facetop looks really interesting.
- An in-depth review of Linksys' new USB-to-SMB storage server. It doesn't use ext2 like I supposed - even better, it uses ext3.
Finally, not one but two moments of Zen: iMac Covers, Gucci ice cube trays. What next, Prada fruit bowls?