Tuesday, November 16

Sony is the latest licensee of the Palm OS. In return, Palm will include support for Sony's Memory Stick in an upcoming version of the OS, allowing manufacturers to support the stick-of-gum-sized cards in their designs.

DSL news

The FCC is considering a change that could cut $20 per month off the price of DSL. Currently, DSL ISPs must rent the local loop from the phone carrier. If the FCC has its way, the phone carrier and the ISP could share the loop, eliminating the charge.

Electronic Buyer's News reports "G.Lite losing appeal as mass-market communications standard." The biggest problem: too may customers have phone lines that won't support it.

Confused by ADSL, IDSL, and ADSL? Read "The Alphabet Soup of High-Speed Access."

PairGain Technologies is selling the division that developed its DSL technology. Forty engineers are on the auction block.

InternetWorld looks at the cable-DSL race in the second of a three-part series on broadband technologies.

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Friday, November 19

V.90 may be improved on with the V.90 Plus extension. Currently, V.90 is limited to an upload speed of 33.6K. V.90 Plus would boost that to 45K, and would reduce the time needed to make the initial connection from roughly 15 seconds to about five seconds. The ITU will consider changes to the standard, and products incorporating it may appear next summer.

Zoom's Channel 2 feature will allow incoming calls to get through while you're online.

Comcast, Lucent and Motorola are experimenting with making telephone calls through cable modems, using IP (Internet Protocol) traffic.

Dell closed their factory in Ireland for two days in order to remove the FunLove computer virus. Dell recalled some of its computers, but none of the recalled computers were infected.

CNET looks at competition for wireless web services. Cell phones are quickly becoming the modems for the wireless age: with digital cell phones, you can connect to the Internet without even using a modem, because no digital/analog conversion is needed on your end.

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