Archive for December 2006
Now that Christmas is over, all eyes are on CES and of course, Macworld 2007. We hope Santa Jobs brings us the new iTV gizmo. More
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This should come as no surprise to anyone, but, according to Videogame Charts, Nintendo has sold over 3 million Wiis worldwide. The Wii has been selling out almost instantly from every store, and this trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down after Christmas. Nintendo … Read More »
A press release I just received might just be the big news coming out of the forthcoming CES in Las Vegas. Charging mobile devices without power cords has long been a dream for many of us and Fulton Innovation, a company backed by Motorola (among others) … Read More »
Apple’s been riding high for so long, they had to be knocked-down a peg sooner or later. News from Forbes is that some former Execs from Apple may have forged documents that would effect the stock options pay-out. While Apple is cooperating with … Read More »
Lou Cabron of 10 Zen Monkeys offers a list of the five worst vlogs of 2006. The choices are all over the map, with gratuitous swipes at Rocketboom hosts past and present. It’s deliciously harsh.
Amanda Congdon’s new show is the equivalent of deciding that Lite … Read More »
I filed this under "Cool Stuff" because it is, but it took all my willpower to do it. See, this post cost me $115 in parking violation fines, but here at jkOTR, we’re always willing to take one for the readers and find all … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 27, 2006, 11:36am PT
It’s not a myth that any piece of hardware, no matter how small or efficient, will eventually lock up under the right conditions. One of the most common conditions for a hardware failure is heat, and it will do it every time. Most people have seen … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 27, 2006, 11:35am PT
Converting, transcoding, re-encoding — these are just some of the words to learn when it comes to collecting and viewing your favorite videos. Want a YouTube clip on your Xbox? Convert and re-encode. How about DVD video on an iPod? Convert and … Read More »
By Paul Kapustka
Dec. 27, 2006, 10:23am PT
When the big ball finally drops on 2006 Monday morning, it will end a tumultuous year in broadband, an industry well out of the telecom-bust doldrums and revving up alongside the Web 2.0/online video/new telephony mini-booms. Here’s a quick list (with even quicker takes) on some … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2006, 9:50am PT
Burger King experimented with Advergaming. Will this become a big trend in 2007? Find out.
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Retail stores are where you sell things, right? Not in this century, they’re not! Verizon has opened two mall-front properties to showcase its FiOS IPTV offering “with little advertisement or fanfare,” says this AP story.
FiOS is the fiber-to-the-home service Om reported on yesterday, saying … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 27, 2006, 9:44am PT
By Anne Zelenka
Dec. 27, 2006, 8:51am PT
The 2007 predictions game has been underway for more than a month now, as bloggers turn prognosticators and read the coffee grounds at the bottom of their mugs. At Web Worker Daily, we’ve been imagining what might make 2007 really great for our work … Read More »
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 27, 2006, 8:30am PT
As I’ve mentioned before, the Burger King games have sold very well. In fact, they sold over 2 million total copies via the Burger King drive-throughs. Why did this ridiculous scheme work? How did Burger King manage to make people not only want, but … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 27, 2006, 8:25am PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 27, 2006, 8:21am PT
By James Kendrick
Dec. 27, 2006, 6:10am PT
Steve at Carrypad picked up on a device that was displayed at Computex 2006 that everyone missed. The mystery device is from Tatung and looks like a UMPC with one major difference– it is running Windows Mobile. This Tatung handheld joins the HTC Athena … Read More »
By Guest Column
Dec. 27, 2006, 6:00am PT
I’m not sure whether it’s becoming fashionable to not have any stock or if the world has just gone nuts over consoles, but it seems that the console shortage is going to last. I drove around to a few stores tonight, looking for a Wii (yes, … Read More »
Three months ago in San Francisco, Steve Jobs did his “One last thing…” trick and the prototype Apple has codenamed the iTV emerged from behind the curtain. The world was assured they could get their grubby hands on them in the first … Read More »
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 26, 2006, 10:44pm PT
As if Nintendo hasn’t been getting enough press lately, here comes the DS with the highest sales numbers on Amazon. The DS has been wildly popular since its release in 2004, taking over for the wildly popular Gameboy Advance. In true Nintendo form, the DS has … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2006, 9:56pm PT
By Judi Sohn
Dec. 26, 2006, 8:11pm PT
I have a love/hate relationship with my Windows Mobile 5 Phone Edition cell phone/PDA. The image to the left is what my phone’s Today screen is looking like these days. I like my phone’s interface to be very clean and functional. Everything I need quickly is … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2006, 7:05pm PT
Second Life, the virtual world might go open source in 2007. More
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By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2006, 7:02pm PT
Jobster, a Seattle-based job-focused vertical search engine, is mulling a big round of layoffs and may cut up to half of its 145-strong workforce, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
Well known for having raised gobs of venture capital, about $48 million from the … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 26, 2006, 4:33pm PT
Lora Heiny of What Is New reports that the Tablet PC/ UMPC meetup is now set for those attending the CES in Las Vegas this year. The venue is the same as last year:
Cheeseburger Las Vegas, in the Aladdin Casino Desert Passage. Tuesday, January 9, … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Dec. 26, 2006, 3:06pm PT
Cingular is pushing its new MySpace deal pretty aggressively. I’m a Cingular subscriber and this weekend I received a “WAP-push” marketing message for the MySpace mobile application. The message included a link to a WAP site where I can download and purchase the MySpace … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2006, 2:44pm PT
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 26, 2006, 2:23pm PT
Anyone who is faint of heart, please find a seat. Electronic Arts has announced that it believes that, of all things, Madden NFL is going to take the honor of highest selling game for the year of 2006. This news is doubly shocking, since EA … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Dec. 26, 2006, 1:49pm PT
If you listened to the latest MobileTechRoundup episode you know that I won the right to buy a Zune from Amazon for $90. I picked up a white one and decided to give it to my wife for Christmas to replace her aging iPod. … Read More »
Is building better video backbone technology a story that will play on Wall Street? That’s what BigBand Networks hopes, as the company filed for an IPO on Dec. 22. Previous reporting from Light Reading said BigBand may seek to raise $120 million or so; according … Read More »
By Wagner James Au
Dec. 26, 2006, 12:51pm PT
The announcement occured just before the final Christmas crush, so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t totally missed in the interim: during his last “town hall” appearance in Second Life, Cory Ondrejka, Chief Technology Officer for Linden Lab, the company behind SL, let loose … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Dec. 26, 2006, 12:29pm PT
Have you ever been in an audio chat (whether with iChat, or Skype, etc, etc) and had the speaker output from your mac picked-up by the built-in mic? Those who haven’t taken the plunge to get an external microphone, or headset are sure to be … Read More »
James Brown’s signature funk is so ubiquitous that the scent will likely linger on the winds of the collective consciousness forever. Enabled by mass media, he became the root rhythm of remixer turntablists and samplers. One of the great cultural capitalists, he’s produced a … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 26, 2006, 12:03pm PT
This thin and flat little number from Brother only prints on post-card sized A6 paper, but in addition to the USB connection, you can print without wires thanks to the integrated Bluetooth and Infrared support. According to Akihabara News, the MW-260 weighs about a … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 26, 2006, 11:43am PT
Developers have to make some hard choices when it comes to deciding what gaming console platform to embrace. Wii or PS3?
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