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Tuesday, November 05, 2002
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In 1997 I attended the Palm Computing Developer Conference. This was around
the time that they first started talking about Bluetooth. Last week they
finally unveiled a Bluetooth capable handheld. Amongst other things, this
completely indicates to me that Bluetooth is getting a little too old in the
tooth to seriously consider as a viable networking technology. Anything that
takes that long to start to get traction can't possible stay relevant long
enough to be considered a serious contender. This week, Cyrix tested this
theory with the introduction of its WirelessUSB technology that operates on
the 2.4GHZ spectrum and boasts latencies that should make BlueTooth device
manufacturers green with Envy. Did I mention that this means that no new
device drivers will be required? Every single computer that sits within 50ft
of me could be retrofit with this new technology in, oh say, 15 seconds. I'm
betting on Cyrix with this one. 
3:11:58 PM
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Enough with the self-imposed sleep deprivation. I was hoping to finish off my final thoughts on the Shanghai meeting, but the eyes are getting heavy and the info-mercial is over. I'll get to it tomorrow night.
1:45:54 AM
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I gotta start wearing shades... Interesting. An info-mercial for the online banking services offered by a major Canadian bank. Omigosh - they have a great feature called "I forgot my password" - wow. I wonder if they are giving away a George Forman Grill with every new account signup. As if that isn't cool enough, the commercial is chock-full of Star Trek Communicator-like noises guaranteed to keep *everyone's* attention.
Apparently it's very easy to use and allows you to access your bank balance from *any place* in the world that has Internet access. This web thing might just catch on. Just wait until some smartass gets everyone else to adopt a standardized machine readable data format that allows for some basic security. I'd bet my new George Forman Grill that it might actually get some traction.
Unfortunately, like most commercials, it's not totally realistic. I just watched a segment where two 40 somethings excitedly find out that they will be able to retire in just under ten years. Not a bad dream, but chances are pretty good that they, like most other Canadians, stuffed their RRSP with Nortel during the hey-day making their Freedom-55 plan look like a Freedom-92ish plan.
1:12:01 AM
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Ross Wm. Rader. The opinions expressed in this weblog are solely those of the respective authors.
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