Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Of course Microsoft would be involved in this, of course...... Slashdot: Teese writes "According to this Bangkok Post article, in December the USB Forum renamed USB 1.1 to USB 2, and USB 2 stayed as USB 2. They did this because consumers were demanding that the computers they buy have USB2 on board. The story also claims that both Sony & toshiba have released laptops with the USB2 that is really USB1.1. This was the first I had heard of this and the article said the change took place in December, has the USB Forum really been able to pull a fast one on us?" This is crazy.  This also peeves me off.  If I had been in sales still when this happened, I can guarentee that I would have had peeved off customers coming back into the store yelling at me.  This is most definetly not the best way to treat customers.  As a consumer of a whole lot of USB 2.0 stuff, I'm glad all the computers were purchased before December. 9:33:38 PM    Talk to me! []

Ohh, for want of a SmartPhone Punch Behind Palm Deal: Treo 600. Handspring's latest Treo device has analysts excited and talking. In fact, industry observers say the new Treo 600 was the driving force behind the Palm-Handspring merger two weeks ago. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News] I had one of the early Smartphones, the first really useable one, in my opinion, the Kyocera 6835 (I think that was the number.)  This was one sweet phone.  It was somewhat large, but had a full palm operating system, linked to the phone componants.  I could be on the palm, and click a contact in my contact list, and it would automatically call the number.  This was also over two or three years ago, when there weren't any other smart phones of that calaber.  Unfortently the Sprint service sucked, so I had to give up the phone, but ever since then I've wanted a smartphone again.  This one may be the ticket. 5:16:21 PM    Talk to me! []

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