Live from SIFMA: The i-Phone
Traders know a few things, but they apparently don’t know how to spell iPhone. Remember, folks: the iPhone isn’t out until June 29th, so I guess the winner gets a rain check.
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Posting is a bit light as I grapple with remote access from the twisty perils of Caddillac Mountain in Bar Harbor, Maine. But even as I attempt to relax, technology and the hustle of modern Wall Street is no farther from my mind.
What has my goat today (mountain goat if you will) is the issue of remote access to live and performant network systems.
Blogging has been hard enough from such a distant region, to say nothing of trading. I think a number of things conspire to keep high performance computing from reaching the mainstream. One is a lack of powrful handheld hardware. The Audiovox XV6700 that I am typing on is so underpowered that it borders on painful.
Yet we know that economies of scale enable the minds at Nintendo and Sony to provide millions of people the realtime gfx needed to power intense 3D graphics in the hand. Conversely Wall St. is still building hand held apps on weak pocket devices that use software to render graphics, save for a few emmerging devices that leverage the new mobile OpenGL spec.
I’ve often felt that Wall St. needs to demand more in the way of hardware innovation that goes beyond the cost of trasactions per minute.
If I am getting frustrated just typing this just imagine trying to manage trades on a device like this.
I will leave it that for now, but will extend this commentary when I recede to the bottom of the mountain in order to make you aware of some innovative technology to relieve us from this problem, ironically using broadband pipes and minimally powered hand devices. Would you be surprised to learn that it comes from NVidia?
More to come.
SPOT Watch for $59
Just in from Overstock.com, a Swatch Paparazzi SPOT watch for $59. The kit comes with a one-year subscription to the MSN Direct service, so it might just make some sense.
* News, weather, stock quotes, sports, diversions, lottery, horoscope, daily diversions, glance, traffic
* Swatch city
* 5 different watch faces and animations
Might be fun to get one to play with the potential messaging applications. I’ve used one for just weather and news, but the technology could be pretty exciting when/if MS starts offering APIs for programmers.
Product Page [Overstock]
LG Chocolate Phone
From TheSportingLife.net - Now that the RAZR is old hat, the LG Chocolate phone is going to be what’s hot for the rest of this year. It’s got a slick black (chocolatey) face with red buttons and a slide out dial pad. Yes, it’s a slider and not a flip, so flip-only fans like Jack Bauer may have to pass on this one.
The LG should hold you over until the end of the year, when the new Moto KRZR and friends hit the scene to retake the fashion phone crown.
Product Page [Verizon]
How to Get Your CFO to Pay For a Sidekick 3
“How to Get Your CFO to Pay for a…” is a recurring feature on WSTDaily and will discuss convincing the firm’s money czar to buy you the toys and gadgets we most want. That said, let’s discuss the SK3 from T-Mobile.
T-Mobile’s SK3 is a powerful - but not very smart - messaging device. Designed for the “young and the young at heart,” according to T-Mobile execs, the SK3 will look great at the club and ensure that you get emails and IM messages on the road. Best of all, the SK3 has a terminal program for logging into remote servers though secure sockets or telnet.
