December 21, 2006 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for December 21, 2006

I can’t imagine I’m the only person who’s ever spilled a drink on my laptop. And if you’re hauling your deck from dining table to cafe to conference, then you might want to think about getting something a bit more rugged. To be released… Read More »

India has become the next big battle ground for global mobile giants. Vodafone is said to be mulling a $15 billion bid for local mobile carrier, Hutch Essar. Not quite “3” of Europe, but still a big player in the local market. Hutchinson Whampoa,… Read More »

 
 

Dashcode Beta

Apple has officially released Dashcode, an application for developing Dashboard Widgets. It’s in beta, but from what I can tell from using it, it seems to be pretty feature complete, and very stable. This application is really cool, I must say. It allows anyone, even… Read More »

What’s On GigaOM Network

Heavy.com is easily most mature online video site in terms of venture capital funding. According to PE Hub, the company has just raised its fifth round. The round, which came out through one of PE Week’s signature habit of rifling through regulatory files, is valued at… Read More »

Raph Koster, co founder of MMO Areae interviewed.

Raph Koster the lead designer on such games as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies recently started Areae Inc., and MMO with John Donham. He talks about his strategy in this special interview. Read More »

A new article in The Economist details a transition by Arizona State University IT director Adrian Sannier from the school’s application infrastructure to Google’s “Apps for your domain:” For Mr Sannier, however, a bigger reason than money for switching from traditional software to web-based alternatives has… Read More »

iBank 2

For years, the realm of personal finance on the Mac has been ripe for a small, independent kick-butt developer to come in and win everyone over. Anyone who is a mac fan and has ever launched Quicken can attest to that fact. And so, in 2003,… Read More »

I installed Vista on the Fujitsu P1610 (Miyagi) over a week ago and thought I’d share the state of the system.  When I first installed it I was only playing around with it and didn’t try to do anything productive, rather I was getting familiar with… Read More »

What’s this? InformationWeek is talking about how Microsoft botched the marketing for UMPCs? Great…another MSM-type article of someone who probably doesn’t even use a UMPC. Who wrote this thing?!? Oops….the byline says "James Kendrick"! Ah, I knew it along and was just playin’ ya.… Read More »

Microsoft Questions Wii and PS3 Online Strategy

The Nintendo Wii has taken off like a rocket and is a seriously hot commodity this holiday season. The PS3 is also very popular, but it’s hard to find due more to a relatively small launch than an overall desire by consumers (not to say it… Read More »

More Must Reads

As we reported yesterday, Earthlink officially launched its New Orleans network today. The company is offering its standard for-fee service as well as a temporary free service. Read More »

It’s that time of year again — time for Christmas television specials. And thankfully the tradition has carried on into cyberspace. The latest episode of “Will it Blend?” answers the age-old question of whether you can blend an entire Christmas dinner into… Read More »

Ex-Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon will launch the next of her projects, a “a behind the scenes look at her life in L.A. as she juggles new projects in the traditional and new media,” tomorrow. Details here. Read More »

CNN is reporting that Emirates Airlines is planning to allow cell phone usage on its planes, beginning in January. Fliers have long been able to keep in touch with those on the ground by using phones built into the backs of airplane seats. But the… Read More »

While Verizon and Sprint are busy in an EVDO Rev A standoff, Cingular is occupied with expanding its 3G network. Cingular says it now offers 3G in “more than 160 markets, including most of the top 100 major cities in the… Read More »

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