Panatech PX-500 PCMCIA Sprint EVDO BroadBand Card

Paul

[ad#tmi-right-1-1]The Pantech PX-500 wireless mobile broadband card for Sprint gives you data communication access for your PC laptop anywhere you roam on the Sprint network at faster speeds than ever before. EV-DO rev A compatibility gives you download speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps and beefy upload speeds of up to 1.8 Mbps. Simple to use, the Pantech PX-500 wireless mobile broadband card lets you surf the Internet, send and receive email and text messages, and connect to corporate networks from just about anywhere.

Technical Specs:

  • Dimensions – 4.57 in x 2.13 in x 0.51 in

  • Weight – 1.8 oz

  • Data Download Speed – EV-DO rev A (Up to 3.1 Mbps Down/1.8 Mbps Up), EV-DO rev 0 (2.4 Mbps Down/153 Kbps Up), 1xRTT

  • Download Protocol – CDMA 850, 1900

  • Compatible Carrier – Sprint PCS

  • Network Compatibility – CDMA 850, 1900

  • 3G Data Speeds – Yes

Compatibility Features

  • Device Supports Data Plans – Yes

  • Available For Purchase Without Service Plan – Yes

Saw this card and did a little digging.  I looks like the newest updated software and drivers for this card can also make it Vista and Linux compatible.   Although with any card you will use up more battery life but it is a small price to pay to check email and surf the web. Also if you have an newer laptop or am about to upgrade I’d suggest Getting a Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB Modem from Sprint! This is good for anyone who wants to surf the web and not have to buy the hardware to do it with.  Both are free to buy and ship with a two year contract. If in doubt please get the USB card that way you know you know you will be able to use it.

Loic don’t depend on that “authority” site, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be!!

Paul

In my most recent post Loic was wanting to be able to search by authority and be able to find information that is really high on “authority”. I will guess he is happy with “Twitority” because now you can search base on the so called “Authority”.

[ad#tmi-right-1-1]I say this will not show the really juicy stories out there. You see, most really good juicy stories might not be picked up by twitter for a few to a couple hours. If you want to find the really good stuff on twitter you won’t find it with authority but by the people who might not have any or little authority.

So if you think Authority is all that and more, I say it’s nothing to “write home about”. I just worry people will see this and start flocking to this system. Once people start searching by authority that will get people to want to be higher on this so called authority idea. So what will happen, people will want to get more authority and possibly buy Authority. This is a far far possible outcome of having this so called authority.

[ad#cricket-1]I don’t think it will happen once people see how flawed it is and see it. They will flocked to something else, you see that all the time on twitter. I will wait judgment on this new site and see how it goes but I don’t think it will work. One thing I wonder is the how this site will keep going with it just been created so rashly and without much thought. There has to be a revenue stream coming from somewhere? Could of been Loic who made the VC happen? I’ll let you decide for yourself although I think it points to him.

I think Scoble is thinking the same thing?  Could of been something to make even more controversy or could it been just happen stance?  What say you Robert?

Scoble is Right and Arrington, and Loic are wrong about “authority”?

Paul

This weekend the blogosphere flared up over twitter having “authority” search functions.  I say this is totally not going to work because some factors.  I am not saying they have the right idea but I do see a really major downfall.   Loic wants to be able to search for content that has more “authority” and because he is looking for good content.   I understand where he is coming from because he wants to look for content for his Seesmic Company.   I can see he wants to find the best videos to offer to his users for his company.  I totally understand and really appreciate that he wants to work for his company.

[ad#cricket-1-1]Now being that Arrington talked about this on Techcrunch, and agreeing with Loic over this.  I have to wonder why he wants to agree.  You see he is also into content and understand that if the “authority” for searches in twitter from his blog post means people will flock to his site and he gets more pageviews.  I say this is the wrong for him to agree because there is nothing going to stop people finding his content.   Also that would mean his blog post would have more “authority” then the common person who might not like this blog post and you wouldn’t see that until you get to the next page or even a few pages back.   So we have these two wanting more “authority” and more content.

Then we have Scoble and his blog post.  Now let’s talk about this from where scoble says it’s a bad idea.  Scoble talks about gaming the system, and if you think back to Digg killing all the high number of members because they were using scripts.  Here we are again with regards to twitter.  Now if we have authority people are going to game the system because no matter how hard we try it will be a competition.

We have botnets and we have bots on twitter.  It really isn’t hard to have a bot on twitter, and that is where we have a problem.  You see if we have “authority” and we want to game the system.  We just have bots with authority and by having other bots subscribe to each other.  There lies the problem.  People will easily be able to game te system and create even more trouble finding the content they are so dearly looking for.   Now I don’t usually get into the whole “he’s right and he wrong” disputes but this one has to be brought to people attentions.

I say this when did “Authority” stop people from talking about the really important stuff happening in the world.   We have people from Friendfeed talking about this and we have people from twitter talking about this als.  Loic and Arrington need to learn content isn’t hard to find, it will always be there.  You just have to open your eyes to see.   The way I see it, we have a coin and we have the good and bad.  We should just keep the bad out of there and keep the good stuff we already have.   This goes in the bad idea bin for the time.

Everglide S500 White Gaming Headphones

Paul

  • White Gaming Headphones

  • Optimal Noise Isolation without Compromising on Audio Quality

  • Unique Circumaural Earmuff Design Provides an Extremely Comfortable Fit

  • Optimized for Millisecond Feedback to Provide Gaming Response

  • 2.0 Lbs (WxLxH) 7.5 x 9.0 x 4.0

List Price: $79.99

Customer reviews

Excellent headphones  5
I bought these headphones off of woot.com, and they are just simply amazing. They are very comfortable, and I have never heard my music sound this good. I bought a pair on woot for 20 bucks, and they are definitely worth a lot more than that. These come with a nice thick extra long cord, a nice carrying bag, and a microphone to clip on and hook up. No problems so far, I am really satisfied with my purchase.

I saw this and wanted to let people know just how nice these look.  I saw this on Amazon.   These are great for Gamers they aren’t as portable as the smaller headphones but they will at least give the gamer the best chance of surviving a game due to the feedback that it provides.   It also has a great noise isolation so you don’t have to worry about hearing a lot of outside noise.   I thought this was so cool for gamers.

Everglide S500 White Gaming Headphones (EG04-04E022-02)

Upcoming CES 2009 — Juicy Stories

Paul

So we are getting close to CES or Computer Electronics Show to some.  This is going to be a very interesting year, due to the depressing economy.   So I wanted to talk about some of the upcoming announcements at CES so people could get ready for the upcoming 2009 Show:

  • Skype will announce free US and Canada calling to cellular numbers or land lines.  This will undoubtedly be an Ad supported service and have a limited amount of minutes per call.  This will be good for people on the road who need to make a quick call here and there without having to pay for anything.  They have given some of the tidbits out already but I can’t wait to find out what else they will announce at CES.

  • [ad#cricket-1-1]Windows 7 Beta — People seem to think they will release the beta the same day they announce just like they did at the PDC(Professional Developers Conference) and also give it out to people at CES.  Although that might work to a point it will be very hard for people to get in the BETA.  There is a list brewing of people wanting to get onto the beta in the Microsoft Connection Community Site.  I can’t wait for next month but I am sure it is going to be nice.

  • Windows Live Beta — Here is another Microsoft product that might also be combined with Windows 7, it is a possibility and might be intergrated into Windows 7 for some but I am not sure what will happen all to much.  I am sure they will announce something about this at CES and only time will tell.

  • IE 8 Beta — Although this isn’t something unexpected.  It however will be interesting to see how they throw this one out to testers because they will undoubtedly test it on Windows 7 and they will be sending these out in the same time.   I think they will be also intergrating this into Windows 7 Beta release as if it will be on the new system.  I do not know what they are going to do but I am sure something will happen.

[ad#ad2-left]This is just a small bit of possible out comes, and there is still more to come.  I wanted to point out that these are not confirmed and should be considered as a rumor nothing more nothing less.  Don’t put to much money on what will happen to much.  We do know that the Betas are probably going to come out due to Microsoft announcing these to be out by the first of year.   Only time will tell for what will happen in the coming year though.  I can’t wait to find out what happens.