Imagine a scene in the not-too distant future… after a frenzied period of leaks, rumours, claims and counter-claims, interspersed with no-comments, denials, and increasingly reliable and suggestive evidence emerging from component and sub-assembly manufacturers, Apple Inc announce the imminent release of The Perfect Gadget.
The mainstream press attend press conferences and briefings where Apple proclaim that [...]

Google Calendar has now entered it’s public beta testing phase. The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used GMail and any other calendar application before – it’s basically a hybrid of the two.

Yesterday Google launched Google Desktop 2 beta, an extension of their existing Google Desktop application that indexes personal computers so their information is as easy to find as the rest of the web. This beta release introduces a pluggable sidebar, and introduces some interesting possibilities about what will come next.

This morning I talked to palm technical support who’d never heard of the problem I was describing – perhaps because I mentioned the graffiti issue first rather than the power-on problem. This afternoon I put a link to the problem on the palm user forum and got an instant response.

It appears that the problem has something to do with a corrupt entry in my address book (obviously; duh!). If I entirely delete the contents of my address book then the Grafitti problem goes away.

I’ve had a PalmOne Tungsten T5 for about three weeks, and I must say that in addition to being a staggering improvement over my old Palm V it is also starting to get rather irksome.

I was pondering the rapidly decreasing price of handhelds and wireless hardware today, for example 802.11 enabled PDA’s, when a potential attack technique came to me.