{"id":59,"date":"2011-03-23T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-12-26T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T17:28:53","slug":"xooming-thunderbolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/xooming-thunderbolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Xooming Thunderbolts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Motorola XOOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Motorola XOOM is a terrible name. When I hear it, the last thing I think of is an Android tablet. It&#8217;s just another entry in the long parade of Android tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Xoom will always be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xoom_(web_hosting)\">free web hosting service<\/a> I used to use back in the mid-90s. My first web site was hosted at members.xoom.com\/peroty. This was until NBC bought them out and turned it into nbci.com and eventually killed off the hosting side of the business in 1999 and NBCi folded in mid-2001. The domain now redirects to NBC.com. Xoom as a web host still lives on in an <a href=\"http:\/\/xoom.it\">Italian version at xoom.it<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/xoom.com\">Xoom.com<\/a> is now a money transfer site, which looks like a PayPal clone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thunderbolt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/us\/products\/thunderbolt-verizon\">HTC Thunderbolt<\/a> is a 4G Android phone coming soon to Verizon. The phone has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/02\/24\/htc-thunderbolt-launch-next-week-further-supported-by-best-buy-stores-claim\/\">delayed according to Best Buy<\/a> and in the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/thunderbolt\/\">Apple has used the name Thunderbolt<\/a> as their name for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/technology\/io\/thunderbolt\/index.htm\">Intel LightPeek<\/a> technology.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the XOOM that had about a decade between usages, the competing Thunderbolts seem like more of a coincidence than anything else. I find it interesting that the two Thunderbolts are being used and released so close together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorola XOOM The Motorola XOOM is a terrible name. When I hear it, the last thing I think of is an Android tablet. It&#8217;s just another entry in the long parade of Android tablets. Xoom will always be a free web hosting service I used to use back in the mid-90s. My first web site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,49,48,46,47,45],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-intel","tag-thunderbolt","tag-web-hosting","tag-xoom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}