RSS Reader for iPhone

I have been looking in the Apple App Store at the various RSS readers that are out there. The free ones I find things lacking and I haven’t felt like wasting money on the paid ones to only find they do not suit my needs.
Then it hit me. Google Reader works very well [...]

Apple’s MobileMe Adventure

I recently decided to give the Apple MobileMe system a try.  I mean the promises they make sounds wonderful.  Except for the $99 a year price tag.
So far the only thing I really like about it is that it syncs my contacts and email between the iPhone and the iMac in the downstairs part of [...]

The PXI Bus Hits its Stride

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by Jon Titus, Senior Technical Editor
As you might guess from its name, the PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation bus, or PXI bus, takes advantage of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) technology developed for personal computers. Just as the original PCI bus lets users add cards to a PC motherboard, the PXI bus lets instrument-system developers connect [...]

DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #1:

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DX Bulletin 1 ARLD001
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT January 8, 2009
To all radio amateurs
SB DX ARL ARLD001
ARLD001 DX news
This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar [...]

ARRL 500 kHz Experiment Shows Increased Activity

In the 500 kHz Experiment quarterly report for the period ending November 2008, Experiment Coordinator Fritz Raab, W1FR, reported that 21 participating stations are currently active since the experiment began in late 2006. The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology granted the WD2XSH experimental license to the ARRL in September of that year. The FCC [...]

Slow iPhone sales may lead to early refresh, says analyst

Although we haven’t heard Apple’s financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 just yet, early analyst reports suggest that lower consumer spending levels have had at least somewhat of an effect on Apple. In a report covered by AppleInsider, Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner suggests that despite a relatively good fourth quarter for the rest [...]

New browsing apps available for the iPhone

We’re guessing that they won’t surpass iBeer in popularity any time soon, but this is big news for the App Store: Apple has quietly started allowing Web browser applications in.
According to MacRumors, a small bunch of browser apps were recently let into the App Store. They include the free Edge Browser, the historyless Incognito ($1.99), [...]

Nortel files for bankruptcy

Nortel Networks, once a high-flying telecommunications equipment maker, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday.
Nortel has been recent credit crunch appears to have been the death knell for the company, making it difficult for Nortel to fund its operations. At the same time, customers have also pulled back drastically on spending for the company’s voice-only equipment.
For the [...]

Julius Genachowski Reportedly Picked to Head FCC

Characterizing Genachowski as “not a radio guy,” ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, said, “We can only hope that under the new chairman, the FCC bureaus and offices that deal with Amateur Radio issues will be empowered to do their jobs without clearing every detail through the Chairman’s office.”

FCC Chair: Delaying DTV Transition Would Be Worse

Postponing the turnoff of analog TV broadcasts beyond the scheduled date, Feb. 17, could confuse consumers, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission warned Saturday.
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team on Thursday asked Congress to delay the shut-off.
The main reason the team cited was that the Commerce Department earlier in the week ran out of money [...]