Mira and Windows XP incompatible. Mira, a portable wireless flat-panel display designed by Microsoft for home users, will not be compatible with the Windows XP Home Edition, a company executive says. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Um, Ooops? I was looking forward to having a third LCD here in the office that would allow me to roam and still connect to the internet etc, especially so that I can sit in the living room with my wife and spend time with her, without being isolated here in the office. Get it together MS! This is inexcusable!

1:05:49 PM    

The secret ingredient is no longer beef. The secret ingredient is now a mixture of love and fear of the courts.. McDonald's will pay out #6.85MM to vegetarian and Hindu groups by failing to report on the beef tallow used to flavor their french-fries. More suits are pending. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]

If you go into McDonalds, I don't care if you are ordering a salad, figure a cow is somehow involved in your eating experience.

10:47:33 AM    

Blue Skies for Bluetooth Now?. "Texas Instruments has announced the BRF6100, the 'first single- chip Bluetooth(TM) solution to integrate a digital Radio Frequency (RF) processor and Bluetooth baseband on one chip.'

By designing a digital RF CMOS architecture, TI has removed many of the challenges associated with current RF devices. The BRF6100 Bluetooth chip will consume as little as half the power of current solutions and will occupy the smallest board area of any product available today. The BRF6100 will allow mobile device designers to easily integrate Bluetooth functionality -- a high value-added feature -- for a total system cost below $4 in volume quantities." [The Bluetooth Weblog]

This may be the drop that overflows the river banks because price point has been such a huge obstacle to Bluetooth adoption. Getting the price of a chip below $5 was a necessary step to mass production.
[The Shifted Librarian]

Great news. Can't wait for the bluetootch card for my Clie.

10:20:56 AM