For consumer electronics industry, digital home is the next big pot of gold, a pot so big that it has everyone from Apple (AAPL) to Microsoft (MSFT) to Intel (INTC) licking their chops. But it is Linux could emerge as one of the biggest winners in … Read More »
Archive for July 2006
If you happen live in Northern California, (and most many of you don’t,) then you might have noticed that after a few days of scorching heat, the climes have become a little cooler. More seasonal as they say. Why you can even see some fog on … Read More »
John Gruber, arguably one of the best writers on all things Mac puts Microsoft’s Zune under the microscope and says … Is that not the epitome of metastatic corporate bureaucracy? One division within Microsoft spending $100 million or more to launch their own closed media player … Read More »
I was reading about the $100 laptop on MobileMagazine and, in deference to those who are wiser than me, I have a question regarding the power. To keep the costs down and … Read More »
I thought I was cool in college with a scientific calculator (I wasn’t), but Saint Mary’s University really puts me to shame. The school has adopted several mobile technology methods … Read More »
On a day when most normal people would head to the beach, yours truly decided to head down to the sprawling GooglePlex, in Mountain View. This past Friday driving down Highway 101, you could feel that it would be the kind of day when the mercury … Read More »
I love Hibernate on my Tablet PC and ultra-mobile devices. I like to eke out every last drop of juice from my batteries and using Hibernation throughout the day really helps extend how long I can run before heading for the wall plug. One thing about … Read More »
MySpace, the largest social network in the world went dark this past weekend, thanks to a large-scale blackout in downtown Los Angeles, according to company officials. The outage that left nearly 80-million users without access to their pages for a few hours, has galvanized MySpace’s … Read More »
Seattle-based real estate information service, Zillow.com raised $25 million, nine months after it raised $26 million. Think about it this way – Zillow has raised $3 million (or about $57 million) for every month of its 19-month existence. The new cash comes from Boston-based Par Capital … Read More »
For someone who doesn’t drive, I am not the one who should be talking about live traffic information on the mobiles. But still, given the time I am riding shotgun giving directions, live traffic data makes perfect sense for mobile phones. In recent past I have … Read More »
It’s great to see more services and features on standard mobile phones; don’t get me wrong, I love my Smartphone, but why should I have all the fun? Google … Read More »
Ever since I caught whiff of Songbird — a sexy (and shiny!) black, cross-platform, Firefox-based, open-source music player — I have waited with bated breath for the OS X download. When I discovered that they have finally released a (very) beta version, I eagerly … Read More »
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