In the May issue of Business 2.0, there is a gatefold in the centre of the magazine. Iotum has been featured as a company to look out for. Again, congrats Big Brother.

These are great. I particularly like the iLife and networking bits.

Apple Ads.

My brother's company, Iotum was referenced in the March issue of Business 2.0 under a feature entitled, "the new phone". Congrats Big Brother!

Our original Roomba robot vac died a couple of months ago. Best Buy had a great instant rebate deal on a Roomba Scheduler. The orginal Roomba was a fabulous tool. It worked well, although it had a relatively short battery life. Anyway, we bought the new model, which is far better than our original.

1) It has at least twice the battery life
2) When its low on charge, if finds its dock and recharges itself
3) You can set it on a schedule to regularly clean ON IT's OWN.

Very very cool.

Yahoo! announced that they are offering DVR software for PCs. You need a PC with a TV card and it appears that they are giving it away for free. This is all part of the Yahoo! Go suite of products.

I appears that it is based on meedio software--which Yahoo! acquired recently.

Unfortunately there is no support for OSX or Linux.

Still, its free.

The Intel conversion continues. Apple has just announced the 17 inch Macbook Pro.

I personally wouldn't want a laptop this big. It becomes a pretty significant burden to carry around. If they had come out with the 12 inch model of the Macbook Pro, that's what I would have bought rather than the 15 inch model. For me, mobile computing is just that...it needs to be easily portable.

I'm sitting at a restaurant with my handy dandy Treo 650 and I thought that I would have a go at using it to post to the blog. blazer does an adequate job of rendering blog spot although, as one might expect, elements on each page are a little off. I will say that, on balance, it isn't as onerous as I thought it could be. I'm going to see if it's possible to upload an image from the phone's camera as well.

CNN has a really interesting series of audio slide shows that reveals some art products/projects that were spawned by the horrible hurricanes this past year. I found Art in an emergency and "The Human Stain" the most interesting of each of the slide shows. Paula discovered these little gems and said I needed to watch them. She was right.

CNN Article

I've been reading many articles, comments, and blogs regarding Apple's announcement.

This appears to be the opposite strategy that Apple attempted in the 90s. The company licensed its OS to be loaded on hardware produced by other companies. It wasn't successful and Apple ultimately bought back the rights from the companies in question.