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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 30, 2006, 10:43am PT
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 »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 30, 2006, 9:25am PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 30, 2006, 8:49am PT
By Om Malik
Nov. 30, 2006, 7:45am PT
A hyper-hectic visit to New York, coupled with news breaking thick and fast, I almost forgot to blog about my recent book review of Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu and Richard Schmalensee for the Wall Street Journal. The book looks at … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 30, 2006, 6:34am PT
Vinod Khosla, who recently set up his own venture firm, Khosla Ventures, has invested $6.2 million in iSkoot, the Cambridge, MA-based Skype-to-mobile extender service, according to PE Hub. Khosla has become quite active lately and has invested in companies like Slide and … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 30, 2006, 6:11am PT
I’m getting more and more impressed with the Fujitsu P1610 each day. Tonight I took the opportunity to play around with the speech recognition using just the one external microphone on the … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 30, 2006, 6:06am PT
First it was Ciena, and now Nortel is doing a reverse split, hoping to add some respectability to their stock price. The beleaguered telecom equipment maker which has been constantly resetting itself since the telecom bust, is going for 1-for-10 reverse split. The current share … Read More »
By Louis Gray
Nov. 30, 2006, 1:12am PT
If you believe that you have the most hip or most eclectic collection of music on the planet, then what better way to showcase your musical preferences than to let people scroll through your iTunes library through the Web, browse your playlists, or even see what … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 30, 2006, 12:01am PT
There’s yet another report on location-based services from the offices of ABI research this week, stating that 20 million cell phone subscribers in North America will be using “personal locator services” in 2011 — that’s up from 500,000 this year, they say. Whoah, that’s a pretty … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Nov. 29, 2006, 11:23pm PT
Text editors are great if for no other reason than that you can execute a search and replace function. This little tool has saved me countless hours of tedious, mind-numbing text replacement exercises. But what happens when you need to alter several items outside … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 29, 2006, 3:40pm PT
Skype, a leading VoIP services provider and a division of eBay, went through a major reorganization this morning, which included axing of the entire business development part of the company, barring a handful of country heads.
Our sources say the a meeting was organized earlier today and … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 29, 2006, 3:36pm PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 29, 2006, 3:22pm PT
The joint venture between the cable industry and Sprint Nextel launched Comcast’s Mobile Access today. The service is available in Portland and Boston. The turf wars continue.
Though the service is available to those with a Comcast cable connection, the broadband provider says … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Nov. 29, 2006, 1:45pm PT
The comparisons between the booming Yahoo Answers and the shuttering Google Answers (see our initial reporters’ log post from last night) are pretty stark. Google Answers wasn’t bad — it was an extremely cheap way to outsource random research questions and get a … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 29, 2006, 12:45pm PT
I wish every digital audio player would come with integrated wireless capabilities; those earbuds on the iPod and Zune are nice, but the cord always gets tangled. Even better … Read More »
A Forbes article today touts French video site Dailymotion as the recipient of much of the the copyrighted content recently driven off YouTube. That’s pretty accurate; Dailymotion is home to a lot of unauthorized videos. But Forbes treats the site as if it’s some … Read More »
By Todd Baur
Nov. 29, 2006, 11:00am PT
I gone into reviewing Mouseposé with the idea of using it in the classroom where I teach introductory Mac classes. It’s a simple app in its function and design and so I thought a good approach to this review would be to discuss the scenarios … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 29, 2006, 10:11am PT
We’ve had several comments around yesterday’s "Freeware of the Day"; several folks are skeptical if the offer was real. In case you missed it, here’s the gist: register on-line, participate in 3 webcasts or video labs and you get a free DVD of … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 29, 2006, 9:41am PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 29, 2006, 9:24am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 29, 2006, 8:51am PT
By James Kendrick
Nov. 29, 2006, 8:21am PT
Techdirt has published a post that pinpoints the problem that dedicated ebook readers face in the marketplace. The author looks at it from the holiday gift perspective- would you give a reader to someone for a gift? I know I wouldn’t for most of the … Read More »
By Richard Neal
Nov. 29, 2006, 7:59am PT
How many of you Mac users out there have ever attempted to persuade someone to Get a Mac? How many of you have ever engaged in a debate or argument with a user of a certain other operating system over the virtues of your respective … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 29, 2006, 7:58am PT
With several years of iPod hype and more recently, the Zune touching down, it’s easy to overlook digital audio playback on a handheld device. Actually, with the watered down version of Windows Media Player for Windows Mobile, it’s even easier, but that’s another post for … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 29, 2006, 7:30am PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 29, 2006, 7:17am PT
By Liz Gannes
Nov. 29, 2006, 6:00am PT
The web isn’t based around topics anymore. On an increasing number of web pages, it’s hard to align content along a tidy vertical and sell ads against it. Social networks, especially, are full of users chatting, musing, and relating to one another – and rarely does … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 29, 2006, 5:21am PT
