In my mailbox yesterday, addressed to "Resident": You probably got one too! Apparently, it's Next-Week-Is-Census-Day Day! Once the initial "you have got to be kidding me" response subsided, I called up the folks at the Census Bureau and they were kind enough to send me their canned response to the "are you freaking kidding me? […]

Did you know that Garmin has a fleet management interface so you can turn the Garmin GPS device into a messaging terminal. Whether its delivery vans or taxi cabs, we team with many third parties in order to provide PND-based offerings that help operators make sure their vehicles are achieving maximum efficiency. Today, Navtrack announced they will use Garmin […]

netbuzz writes "When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was below 2000. Gone were such poster children of the era as Pets.com, Kozmo, and — who could forget? — Who […]

If the terrorists could vote, they'd vote for Candidate X—this argument is America's greatest rhetorical treasure. So let's apply it to smartphones, right now! I've got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! UpdatedThe man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Za […]

Jonathan Schwartz: In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.”  ★  […]

Yesterday when she got off the bus, G told us we had to lock all the doors and windows because there were bad guys on the loose in the neighborhood. I told her that we didn't have to worry about it because I'm a superhero. "But how do *they* know that?" she asked. "Because my secret identity is not so secret." […]

The FCC is considering dedicating a portion of the wireless spectrum to "free or a very low cost wireless broadband service," according to Reuters. They didn't offer much in terms of details, and you can file this one under the believe-it-when-we-see-it category, but it's a nice thoHTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:43:56 GMT Server: Apache X-Pingback: http://www.abulsme.com/xmlrpc.php Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

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