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I just saw the first mobile-phone-watch… impressive ! Although it’s worth 650$, must be a pain to dial a number, and has a small 100 contacts memory, I still would love to toy with one and pretend being James Bond The only thing I’m not sure is .. is it a hoax or is it true ?

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You know about Free Software ? What about free hardware !? A few months ago Sun Microsystems released its OpenSPARC T1 processor core… and the community gazed upon it and started the srisc project !

One of the main purposes of Simply RISC was to keep the S1 Core environment as simple as possible to encourage developers: most of the simulation and synthesis activities are now performed with simple push-button scripts and system requirements are very easy to meet.

The environment can run on any Unix/Linux box and no commercial tools are required, since both simulation and synthesis of the Verilog files of the design can be performed using the free software Icarus Verilog.

Due to its Wishbone-compliant bus interface the S1 Core can be easily interconnected to several cores freely available on OpenCores.org to build up a System-on-a-Chip.

Due to the collaborative nature of the GPL license Simply RISC plans to add new features to the S1 Core and test them extensively over the next months with the help of the community.

Humm … yummy ! It really gives me so many ideas ! To see more, check opencores.

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Ctrl+s are the most used keys on my laptop’s keyboard … am i using Windows or what !?

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I was interviewed today for a short film being prepared for a business angels conference. I’ve been talking about how great an asset it is to have experienced & skilled business angels in the team. The
reporter enjoyed shooting at the techies toying working behind me

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At CTIA last week, Nokia presented the v2 of its Safari-based mobile web browser. I didn’t have the chance to try it yet but basically the updates include :

• “rotate display” feature
• offline mode
• Wap & Web compliance
• Enhanced toolbar
• RSS feed reader with auto-updates
• …

Technorati Tags: mobile, nokia, safari, browser

You might have seen that on the interview I gave to CanardWifi last week, Starbucks France has chosen to install WaveStorm HotSpot management solutions µHotSpot & SiteNexus to provide WiFi in their cafés. WaveStorm and Starbucks teams made a flawless integration to the Micros Fidelio machines enabling the hostess to provide
a 30 minutes wifi for 2€ by pressing one single button on their terminal.

I’m very proud of this service as i think it’s really good value for money, low installation costs, easy to use, flawless service, enhanced reporting… there will be more to come soon about the µHotspot & SiteNexus tandem !

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Thomas pointed out worldspot.net, a free online hotspot management service providing:

It is based on free software chillispot and on you upgrading your WRT router with dd-wrt firmware.

I tried it and apart from te fact that setting-up the whole stuff must be a pain for a non-professionnal, the features seem to lack eanough reporting modules, and look a bit like a geek stuff.

Anyway, it’s a nice initiative, but it really cannot be compared to professional hotspot management solutions.

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Freescale, a semiconductor fabless manufacturer providing advanced RF Chips including UWB & pre-802.11n which was spin-offed from motorolla in mid-2003 was sold last thursday to private equity firms led by BlackStone Group for $17.6 … the biggest technology buyout ever !
Freescale says they have made more than 17 billion semiconductors, embedded in automobiles, computer networks, communications infrastructure, office buildings, factories, industrial equipment, tools, mobile phones, home appliances and consumer products.

I believe very much that technologies like the one provided by Freescale are going to be implanted and every single device by 2010… opening up on a huge 50 billion devices market ! No wonder that company valuation is so high …

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I just read this news on Flash Devices, and I had to report that, as I’ve been talking a lot about Flash & Flash Lite, and as I’m pretty convinced that Flash can bring more user-friendly UIs to the mobile world …

I’m very happy to announce that we now have a preview release of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices - including Smartphones and Pocket PCs. You can get all of the details on Adobe Labs including release and developer notes, documentation and installers.

We also have created a new discussion forum, Flash Lite: Windows Mobile where you can post your questions about developing Flash Lite content for these devices.

Some things you should know:
- This is a preview release of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5.0. We’re providing this to the broad developer community to allow you to test and provide feedback before it becomes final.
- We’re working on some new device profiles for Flash Professional 8 to allow you to test your content. These should be available within the next few weeks.
- Both standalone and ActiveX plug-in are supported so you can view SWF content either way.
- We’re working on some sample files for you to reference and will have those available soon.

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Well … I had an excuse : we needed one at WaveStorm, so i happily bought one on ebay (160€ including 1GB MemoryStick & Spiderman 2 UMD in the box)… and it rocks ! I immediately hacked it and installed WifiSniffer, this soft rocks, it lets you check on the available WiFi networks right from you PSP ! I’m so excited about all these WiFi devices popping around, so many nice services can be deployed
on those … so many opportunities !

Btw: I was home when I took this screenshot … all the “WANADOO-XXX” stuff are Orange’s ADSL boxes… the spectrum really is getting overcrowded in Paris!

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