October, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2006

SuperDuper! – Backups the easy way

SuperDuper is fast becoming everyone’s favorite backup utility. I have been using it on a constant basis for the last few months, and it has definitely earned its place in my must-have apps list. The most impressive feature of SuperDuper is the ease-of-use that is evident… Read More »

Slingbox on your Mac, finally

It has been a long time coming, but Mac lovers can get on the place shifting bandwagon, and get Slingbox mojo on their Macs. Read More »

 
 

I just took a quick glance at my RSS feeds before setting in for Monday Night Football; big game tonight as I’m down by a point this week in Fantasy Football.… Read More »

French newspaper giant Le Monde has relaunched their blogging services based on WordPress. It must be the themes, that did the trick Read More »

Fidelity’s Personal Finance Search Engine

Fidelity, the mutual fund giant has its own tech lab, and they have developed a cool personal finance search engine that uses flash-based UI. Read More »

Win a HP tc1100 Tablet PC from PalmAddict!

PalmAddict is a great website that covers all things Palm and PDA and right now they are giving away an HP tc1100 Tablet PC in what might be the easiest contest you’ll ever run across.  They are only running this for another day so you’d… Read More »

While we’ve been somewhat skeptical about the market for certain location-based applications for mobile devices, the market for GPS-navigation services is actually taking off. Nokia is betting big on the GPS market, and today the company announced its first dedicated GPS auto-navigation device, the… Read More »

Big shout out to GottaBeMobile for writing about and then getting picked up for the news on a possible Dell Tablet PC entry in 2007! Folks are buzzing… Read More »

Broadband in the Boonies

Faced with the ridiculous cost of living in urban tech hubs like San Francisco, Seattle and New York, it’s no surprise that web workers would take advantage of their mobility and move where they’ll get a better value for their dollar. But as they fan… Read More »

Am I the only one who doesn’t use or need a WiFi finder? (Probably) I can’t think of a single WiFi device I’ve owned that couldn’t find and then use (with configuration) a hot-spot. Then again, this WiFi dongle from E-Let provides WiFi via… Read More »

Do you feel alone in your web browser, separated by time and space from all the other people out there exploring the internet? A startup called Medium thinks it can help make web browsing social by telling you what pages your friends are on at… Read More »

I wish we saw more Windows XP Embedded (XPe) solutions; I really like the quick boot for AVSNow on the Q1, which uses XPe on a small drive… Read More »

More Must Reads

Local television advertising startup Spot Runner said today it had raised $40 million from television advertising buyers Interpublic Group and WPP, television advertising seller (among other things) CBS, as well as Allen & Company, Tudor Investment Corporation, Capital Research and Management, Lachlan Murdoch, Vivi… Read More »

Google will develop a mobile search engine tailored for South Korean cell phones in partnership with Korea’s largest wireless operator SK Telecom, says the Korea Times. Google has search deals in place with carriers like Japan’s KDDI, but has recently… Read More »

At only 15.5 millimeters thin, the E-TEN X500 just might deserve the billing. You won’t get an integrated thumb-board, but you should see GPS and WiFi in this… Read More »

Today you might notice a slight change here at jkOnTheRun. At the top of the right sidebar you’ll see a link to the jkOnTheRun Mobile Tech Store, courtesy of our Amazon storefront. What got us thinking of doing this was the great Amazon… Read More »

Verizon reported a mixed bag of earnings this morning: company’s wireless and broadband business are doing just fine, in fact better than most expected. The wireline business is well, becoming a bit of drag. Verizon Wireless added 1.9 million net customers in the third quarter 2006,… Read More »

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