Tag: Technology

I wish Wired Magazine would publish more articles like Vinod Khosla’s essay about his investments in the biofuel industry. Reading someone’s thoughts firsthand, rather than through a mediator, makes for more compelling reading. Sort of like a blog.

TalkCrunch is the new podcast by Mike Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch. I’m downloading the first episode now. I’ll let you know if it’s any good.

Engadget has the answer (via Gabe):

In a GSM system in particular, the pre-ring chirps you see are the phone negotiating with the serving tower for a traffic [voice] channel on a particular frequency band and timeslice (versus the pre-allocated and shared control channel) to carry your conversation.