iPhone Problems

That appears to be the headline of the day and only 3 days after it's release.

To be fair to Apple, it should probably be AT&T iPhone activation problems.

There does not seem to be a lot of actual iPhone problems, but rather a slew of problems based on AT&T not being ready for the amount of activations.

It will be interesting to see if and when Apple can get the iPhone on other carriers.

CEA Surveys US Households

There's an interesting article from Media Center PC World, quoting a study by the Consumer Electronics Association. It says the average U.S. household owns 25 consumer electronics and the average adult spends $1,200 a year on these products. Gee, I spend that much on my cell phone alone!

The article continues with the top five most owned products; TV, DVD player or recorder, VCR, cordless phone and cellular phone.
Source: www.mediacenterpcworld.com

So do I fit the average profile? Let's count 'em up and see...
3 cell phones
2 TV's
2 PC's
2 monitors
2 external hard drives
2 flash drives
2 sets of external speakers for PC
telephone with digital answering machine
surround sound speaker system for TV
component stereo system
DVD player
DSL modem
Cisco router
scanner
printer
VCR
iPod
Total = 25
Yep, I'm just an average guy.

50 Best Tech Products

PC World has an interesting article on the 50 best tech products of all time. Some of these names sure bring back memories. Plus it shows just how fast technology is moving along. Let's take a look at their Top 10...

#1 Netscape Navigator, first introduced in 1994, popularized the world wide web browser (based on Mosaic)
#2 Apple II Computer, the original personal computer, first appeared in 1977
#3 TiVo HDR110, introduced in 1999
#4 Napster, also introduced in 1999
#5 Lotus 1-2-3, introduced in 1983, was the PC's first critical application
#6 Apple iPod, which debuted in 2001, now commands a 73% market share of the music player market
#7 Hayes Smartmodem, in 1981, introduced the first 300-baud modem
#8 Motorola StarTAC, 1996, was the first clamshell design cell phone
#9 WordPerfect5.1, introduced in 1989, was one of the last DOS based applications
#10 Tetris, introduced in 1985, was one of the first puzzle based games to cross over computing platforms from PC to MAC to GameBoy.

Source: www.pcworld.com/article

OneSearch Yahoo Mobile

Highbrid Nation writes about Yahoo's new mobile search initiative, OneSearch. Starting on April 3, you can submit your mobile content to Yahoo for inclusion into their mobile search engine. Cool. Maybe now those cell phone web services will be useful for something. But please, no pop-ups.