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 »
Archive for December 21, 2006
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 »
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 »
GigaGamez Microsoft Questions Wii and PS3 Online Strategy Study Shows In-Game Ads Not Effective Q&A With Raph Koster NewTeeVee ‘Starring Amanda Congdon’ to launch Friday Are ISPs Throttling BitTorrent? Top time-shifted television programs of 2006 Web Worker Daily Managing Your Identity on the Web Are We Ready for … Read More »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
It was almost two years ago today that James featured a review of True Launch Bar. Back in 2004 James named it a … Read More »