Japanese cellular company DoCoMo’s new handsets support 3GPP, an open standard technology built on MPEG-4—and thus can play video or audio content using Apple’s QuickTime 6. That’s right, you will soon be able to watch QuickTime movie trailers and more on your cell phone. According to Ryan Jones, an analyst with The Yankee Group, this… Continue reading

A reading of many Greater Boston newspapers as well as listening to some of the commentary on radio talk shows leave little doubt that the media is building a campaign to force embattled UMass President William M. Bulger to resign his post as head of the Commonwealth’s sprawling system of higher education. The cozy relationship… Continue reading

My first official book review of the QuickTime book, by digital media veteran Clifford VanMeter.

Jay Fitzgerald blogs a great new addition to the dictionary: “Introducing a new word (and not just a nickname) into the local vocabulary: ‘big-dig’ (v. — to swindle money from feds, to shamelessly loot, to hoodwink non-Massachusetts residents into paying for local boondoggles — big-digging, big-digged — We sure big-digged them again — / …… Continue reading

Gregg Easterbrook in the December issue of Wired: In 1965, another sort of big bang echo—the cosmic background radiation—was discovered. Soon, it was assumed, cosmologists would be able to say, “Here’s how everything happened, steps one, two, and three.” Today cosmologists do think they know a fair amount about steps two and three—what the incipient… Continue reading