A fairly accurate timeline, er, from some points of view, of the progression that the internet has taken over time.

Enjoy!

The Lemon: History Of The Internet

I just recently upgraded my sprint phone to a Sanyo 8100, so I've been playing around a lot with the phone's data capabilities and related technologies (WAP, WML, GPS, etc). Here's a great FAQ on how to interact with some of the basic components of 3G PCS phones.

CraigGiven.com 3G & PCS Phone Files & Resources

A nice little piece by Cory Doctorow, even if it is
archival and a littledated. Here's an excerpt which --while not really representative-- I found to be keenly observant.

,----
| Take eBay: every seller there has a damned good reason for
| double-checking their listings for typos and misspellings. Try
| searching for "plam" on eBay. Right now, that turns up nine typoed
| listings for "Plam Pilots." Misspelled listings don't show up in
| correctly-spelled searches and hence garner fewer bids and lower
| sale-prices. You can almost always get a bargain on a Plam Pilot at
| eBay.
`----

Metacrap

I just discovered a rather interesting tool. This appears to be a site devoted to allowing wireless carriers the ability to colocate equipment at existing cell tower sites. But it's also a handy tool for locating the towers and mapping out coverage.

http://www.sprintsites.com/?

Not only will the database give you lat and long for each tower, but there are actually pictures of both the tower and the enclosures. That's pretty kick ass if you ask me.

] For the first time ever, consumers and game enthusiasts
] will get a first-hand virtual look inside the Electronic
] Entertainment Expo (E3Expo), the world's preeminent
] interactive entertainment trade show, the Interactive
] Digital Software Association (IDSA) announced today. The
] Web site, E3Insider (www.e3insider.com), will launch on
] May 14th at 10am when E3Expo's doors open to thousands of
] industry professionals at the Los Angeles Convention
] Center.
]
] "With the launch of E3Insider, we've opened E3Expo's
] `virtual doors' so that consumers and game enthusiasts
] from around the globe can experience the excitement of
] E3Expo," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the IDSA,
] the trade association that represents U.S. computer and
] video game publishers and the owner of E3Expo. "E3Expo is
] a trade-only event, established specifically as a venue
] for the worldwide interactive entertainment community to
] showcase new products and take care of business. With
] that said, we felt it was important to be able to offer
] the millions of gamers out there who support this
] industry a way to see what's going on at the show, and
] E3Insider will do just that."

The new site will capture the show's action and excitement through interactive coverage, news from exhibitor booths, interviews with industry professionals, video clips, photo galleries and stories about the show.
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Hmmmmm. With over 3,000 international journalists at E3 2002, I'm surprised that show mgt started E3insider because consumers were being under servered. Comdex, CES and NAB have published content rich websites during their huge trade shows. Last year, Comdex even had an online forum that only a few people used. I was one of them. It will be interesting to see if E3insider captures the coolness of the big three day event.

E3Expo Launches Web Site for Consumers

] Every so often, the author of everyone's favorite network
] reconnaissance tool, nmap, runs a survey to determine
] which security-oriented software products are most
] popular

blogged for future reading

Slashdot | Nmap Security Tool Survey

] Old-school R&D was strictly in-house. The new model for
] success requires collaboration with many innovators.

blogged to read later

Reinventing R&D Through Open Innovation

Kinda adds new dimension to the tech term "fat pipe", no? :]

] The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long,
] so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000
] base pairs.
]
] Each side of these base pairs can either be an
] adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can
] be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.
] Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully
] represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine,
] and so forth.
]
] The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a
] human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million.
] I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells,
] but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.
]
] Putting these together, the average amount of information
] per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which
] comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000
] terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the
] entire text content of the Library of Congress to be
] scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20
] terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five
] seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In
] comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up
] much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s.
] Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th
] of that.
]
] If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come
] out much differently. If only t

Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems

] Earlier this month, I described a friend of mine who was
] responsible for a corporate network notable for its aging
] applications infrastructure. At the end of the column
] I proposed a contest and asked you all to send in your
] own entries to qualify for the "oldest living software"
] application. Needless to say, I got some great entries.

classic.

Winners Of The 'Oldest Software' Contest

] The Baby Bells may have bilked consumers out of billions
] by inflating the cost of their networks. Regulators seem
] content to overlook the matter.

um, Hello? People have been saying this for years! When is DC going to wake up and finally JUST SAY NO to the telecom lobby? At what point do we stop paying the universal service fee, so that the Bells can fatten their margins and stranglehold the market instead of providing Grandma Jones out in the country with affordable service?

Shortchanged by the Bells