November, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for November 2006

Check out this video by Ryan Carson, a super-organized guy who often blogs earnest explanations of his work methods. For his to-do list, Carson uses a combination of OmniOutliner and Hipster PDA. His method requires quite a bit of dedication on a… Read More »

Free movies from AOL

AOL Video is running a promotion Saturday, giving away more than 30 free movie downloads. Can’t find the press release they emailed us online, but here’s a summary. You’d think all the competition in this space would bring prices down. Well, for one day… Read More »

 
 

I’ll be darned if I can find a change log, but apparently those sneaky Skype folks put out an upgrade yesterday for the Windows client. I was rebuilding a Tablet PC today and of course went to install the free P2P voice client; sure… Read More »

TAB Giveaway!

We’re having a sweetness giveaway here at TAB! We’re giving away over a dozen prizes to people for participating in the new forums! The Prizes AppZapper Disco Overflow On The Job NewsFire Acquisition Griffin Technology Products Be sure to check out the full details and then Read More »

It’s hard to escape hearing about the launch of Microsoft’s Vista operating system for business customers today — especially with Steve Ballmer calling it “the biggest launch in our company’s history.” The consumer version won’t be widely available until January. With all the delays… Read More »

Time for more freeware and once again, it’s courtesy of Microsoft. Have they been sniffing the packaging glue from Vista or is it me? If you have… Read More »

I’ve been a Verizon Wireless customer for at least five years, but I still don’t get the VCast service. Literally. I have a hard time paying $15 a month for limited content, when I can use the Broadband Access service I’m already paying $45… Read More »

Jeremy has a humdinger of a post with his 15 suggestions to Microsoft. Jeremy raises a good point: why do we have to wait for Vista to even hope to get certain simple upgrades? Ranging from simple productivity boosters to general common sense ideas,… Read More »

Cingular get the Pearl for the holidays

I just received word that Cingular is now offering the Blackberry Pearl.  The Pearl is definitely a hot Blackberry and in my opinion the first one that truly looks like a… Read More »

MacBook Pro vs. MacBook/iMac vs. MacBook/Mac mini

I will be in the market for a new Mac in early 2007. I currently use a PowerBook G4-1.5GHz, 2GB ram, 15 inch screen; 80GB hard disk. I use this for tons of stuff, including but not limited to: podcast production (Audacity and iTunes); Office apps… Read More »

Yahoo Gets Mixd

Yahoo emailed us and said they are testing a mobile messaging and social networking site aimed at the youth market called Mixd. One aspect of the site is the ability to start a group from a cell phone and use “reply to all” for… Read More »

Microsoft launched its new Vista operating system, Office 2007 suite, and Exchange Server 2007 today, for corporate customers. The consumer version is scheduled to be offered in January of 2007. Even if this were the consumer launch, would it matter to web workers? Is Microsoft… Read More »

More Must Reads

Samsung has put the holiday marketing in to high gear with this marketing site specific to the Samsung Q1 UMPC. The approach is appealing: you can question "Sam", played by a huge, fluffy dog wearing a Q1 around his neck. Sam will then… Read More »

Close on the heels of its partnership with YouTube, the second largest US mobile carrier, Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, announced a distribution with Revver, a Hollywood, CA-based video start-up, that has received a lot of attention for sharing… Read More »

Google and Europe somehow don’t get along. A few weeks back, Google got into a spat with a Belgian company. Now, a French documentary producer has sued Google, both in US and France. Flach Film, producers of TK, a movie about George Bush and… Read More »

Mobile computing users in Japan just reduced their Duracell budget: Toshiba updated the Dynabook notebook line and one model is rated for 13.5 hours of battery life! The Dynabook S30 is the judicious juicer thanks to the 4200 RPM drive and miser-like Intel Core… Read More »

We’ve written a few times about the startup Meraki Networks, which is building a business off of wireless mesh hardware and software based on the MIT’s Roofnet project. Google has been very interested in the Mountain View-based startup as a way to… Read More »

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