CDMA hacking

Welcome to BitPim
From the site:
BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones.

Apple Rumored to be building Mini into a set-top-box

Think Secret – Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room
The living room is HOT!

From the site:
Apple’s Mac mini will be reborn as the digital hub centerpiece it was originally conceived to be, Think Secret sources have disclosed. The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality.

is Apple’s remote control and television like display functionality that they are currently building into iMac’s.

Searching Podcasts

Wired News: Podcast Chaos Be Gone
Wired article about two new companies dedicated to searching podcasts.

From the article:
Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching. It’s a significant step above traditional search engines that identify only keywords in a podcast’s metadata, such as the headline and introductory notes describing the audio file’s general content.

Why? Really, why?

“DeoZones” Screenshots
If this is all people can think of for interactive TV, it will never fly. Unfortunately, this is par for the course in iTV thinking.

Click the link above to see sample images.

From the site:
To get more information about items appearing on the screen, the viewer mouses over objects on the screen with their mouse. “Deozones” (clickable items) are highlighted as the viewer mouses-over them. If interested, the viewer clicks on the object for more information and/or to purchase the item.