January, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2007

Great news for Motion Tablet PC owners: Tracy Hooten over at The Student Tablet PC found a great Vista driver update page along with other key Vista information over at … Read More »

We often get reader e-mail questions about portable printers and I know we originally mentioned the Pentax line of printers early in 2005. I decided to briefly research what their offerings were today since back then we had very limited details. Mobile printing is nice but … Read More »

 
 

Vista Excitement…

This is what I was alluding to in yesterday’s post. People showing up for deals on other stuff – and checking out Macs! – rather than lined up to buy Vista. Even a comparison (with photo) of the Tiger launch a couple years back. Read More »

While web shows like Rocketboom (and the Amanda Congdon show), ScobleShow, Ask a Ninja and lonelygirl15 pull down cable television numbers, and a million others on YouTube are busy making faces on camera for a few friends and family, there’s a … Read More »

Google, now more web worker friendly

Google has always been at the forefront for those that do work online. From their easy to use free 2GB of email storage with Gmail, to Google Talk for chatting and voice calls, and most recently creating and storing Docs and Spreadsheets online. Google definitely makes … Read More »

Nickelodeon Launches Online World

It’s true that this generation of kids is the most technologically advanced, as have been generations before. I know I’ve had to set the time on many a flashing VCR, but today’s kids are pretty savvy, and Nickelodeon seems to be aware of that. … Read More »

OK, it looks like either everyone got a 60% discount on the $4.99 802.11n activation fee or Apple carefully judged the harsh reactions folks gave on spending $5 for something they … Read More »

My Twitter experiment from last year has actually turned into an adoption of the social tool. Since I started using it, I’ve found it to be entertaining yet informative as well; I’ve even seen some semi-breaking news as a result. What’s the value? Well, … Read More »

Vonage’s 911 Bill: $500,000

In an arrangement that does not admit guilt of any kind, VoIP provider Vonage nevertheless has agreed to pay Texas and five other states a total of $500,000 to settle deceptive trade-practices lawsuits brought against the company in 2005. The lawsuits were spurred … Read More »

The Story Behind Vista’s Wallpaper Selections

On the Flickr blog, I found this story about the way Microsoft selected their wallpaper images that were to appear in Vista. The story is interesting enough (consider how you’d choose only a handful of images to be the defaults!) and worth a … Read More »

5 Tips For a New Mac User?

Microsoft’s Windows XP successor, Windows Vista launched today. As it seems some in the world of blogging feel, it should be driving more people than ever to the OS X platform. Sure, that’s poking some fun at Microsoft, but behind every joke there’s some … Read More »

So you don’t have hundreds of thousands of viewers per episode. If you can’t get a Ninja-level deal, there are a growing number of alternatives. For starters, if you’re willing to do a little shilling, you might be able to bring in a cool $25,000. Jeff … Read More »

More Must Reads

If you just can’t make the transition to a fully digital shopping list on a PDA, cell phone, UMPC, or full-sized Tablet PC with MindManager, how about a little … Read More »

Devicescape, a San Bruno company that makes Wi-Fi software put out a press release that is basically a whole bunch of lies. They claim that their software “enables effortless network access for Wi-Fi Devices – Any Device, Any Network, Any Time.” Talk about … Read More »

Have you heard of that new program from Microsoft that launches today?  It’s called Vista and I hear it has a lot of cool features.  You may want to check it out.  I almost forgot– there’s another new program called Office available today.  Boring … Read More »

Blanketed wifi, what’s better than that for a web worker. The ability to work absolutely anywhere without using a piece of equipment like Cingular’s wifi access card. The City of Atlanta is another city about to enter the muni-wifi program. They have teamed … Read More »

Though Nintendo may have a problem with follow-through, they sure know how to hype up fans for initial sales. In fact, Nintendo always sells plenty of hardware, though most of it may eventually lay in a corner, forgotten, because of lack of software support, but that’s … Read More »

This morning Apple announced the release of 4 new iPod shuffles (each of differing color). 3 of the colors are identical to colors available in the iPod nano line. They have also added a new orange color for the shuffles. Apple has also changed it’s shuffle tag line … Read More »

OK, so I’m still playing Hold Em on Vista….while I’m waiting for the River card, go hit up the Giveaway of the Day site we mentioned a few short weeks back … Read More »

Recently a gallery of images of a basement that is part lounge and part museum surfaced on Flickr. I recently had a chance to talk to the man behind this undertaking and ask him a few questions. Could you please tell us a little … Read More »

I didn’t see much on the mobile front, but there were a few Ultimate Extras available today; very appropriate since it’s Vista launch day. Aside from several standard updates in … Read More »

Sprint this morning announced that it is adding three more markets – Miami, Portland and Puerto Rico – to its list of 21 cities where it is currently offering EVDO Rev-A wireless broadband access. EVDO Rev A has higher speeds – 350-500 Kbps (compared with 50-70 … Read More »

Al Chappaz just got a Fujitsu P1610 Tablet PC and in true geek form has posted his unboxing experience on his blog.  Al took a LOT of photos so we can all enjoy his experience.  Ahh, memories.  Read More »

Widgets, or embeddable slices of outside information that update automatically (displaying anything from a picture slideshow to current weather conditions) have their lovers and their haters. We like the way they bring a little bit of the outside world to a page, and have been … Read More »

Part one of a five-part series where I sit down to talk about the web video scene with the people who are both making it and making it possible in Los Angeles. I made two mistakes planning my trip to LA: One, I’m staying downtown, which is … Read More »

JGUI has been producing software for Windows Mobile devices for some time now and they sent me a notice about a new interface for Windows Mobile smartphones and Phone Edition devices that is so cool I jumped right on it.  With all the mania surrounding the … Read More »

According to Alec Saunders, who apparently never sleeps and was awake to see an early press release, Adtran COO Danny Windham is moving over to Digium to be CEO of the open source IP PBX vendor. Asterisk inventor Mark Spencer will become CTO and chairman, … Read More »

Windows Vista is finally here. But how will it perform with current and older games? This is an issue that many gamers are hinging their purchase decision on, and it doesn’t look all that great for Microsoft right now. Continue reading Read More »

Fox Interactive Media, after a period of relative quiet, is getting acquisitive again. The company is said to be in talks to acquire Strategic Data Corp., a company based in Santa Monica, California, that helps online publishers optimize their online advertising yields. Talks are at an advanced … Read More »

Last Friday, Slashdot’s Zonk confirmed rumors that eBay was delisting RMT items from their service. Short for “real money transfer”, RMT is a gray market means for gamers to buy and sell an online world’s precious items. GigaGamez has more details. Read More »

Making and taking notes is a daily occurrence for most people. These notes are sometimes shared between co-workers or clients in one way or another. Whether we use online note taking solutions, or transfer them between paper and online, there has to be an easy way … Read More »

Update: John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media, emailed to deny that any payments have been made to Ask a Ninja. Our sources maintain that a portion of the ad revenue guaranteed by Federated Media is to be ‘floated’ up front to the Ask a … Read More »

Windows Vista is finally here, and one of its big selling points is the inclusion of DirectX 10, but what does that really get you? We all know that DirectX 10 is the next big thing for graphic programming, but how will it perform with current … Read More »

The Midnight Release “Parties” are being plugged everywhere I look (or listen), for Microsoft’s Vista release on January 30th (tomorrow). It makes me long for the chance to go wait in line at the local Apple store for Leopard’s release – now that’s a party, … Read More »

The first DEMO convention of the year starts Tuesday night down in the So Cali desert, where 68 startups will try to get noticed by the 700 or so expected press, VCs, and industry execs. For every Skype or Ironport that have launched products … Read More »

jkOTR reader Gabriel tipped us off over the weekend: the SonyStyle store has the UX-390N handheld available for $2,499. This is the 32 GB flash drive version of the UX-series, running a … Read More »

Although there are plenty of good wallpaper backgrounds in Vista, I just grabbed this picture off of an SD card earlier today. I’ll never claim to be a photographer, but this … Read More »

Reid Hoffman has left a long response to what LinkedIn is going to do with the money in the comments. Here is a quick link, if you want to understand where LI is going. Read More »

Call it a predictable move — during Verizon’s conference call today, Verizon said the company will unveil a wireless-wireline bundling plan Tuesday. While no details were offered, it will most likely be a stay-with-us plea that answers AT&T’s Unity offering of no-extra-cost calls between in-house … Read More »

Last Friday, Slashdot’s Zonk confirmed rumors that eBay was delisting RMT items from their service— and now GigaGamez has more details. Short for “real money transfer”, RMT is a gray market means for gamers to buy and sell an online world’s precious items. … Read More »

Although some would call me ‘relentless’, I’d prefer ‘passionate’. Just this morning I was lamenting the lack of Vista drivers and my missing screen resolution … Read More »

Remember when cable television was still new and exciting, with crazy new niche networks popping up all the time? “A whole network with nothing but cooking shows — it’s madness!” Well, Bruce Springsteen might have to change the lyrics to his song, “57 Channels (and … Read More »

Hitwise’s Bill Tancer reports YouTube is already seeing the benefit of parent Google indexing it into its Google Video search last Thursday. Week to week, YouTube’s market share of U.S. internet visits rose to .64 percent from .54 percent, an increase of 18.5 percent. How … Read More »

UPDATE: According to the latest version of the PR Week story, Hitachi, and not their PR firm, is responsible for the Mr. T video below. Which may or may not be why the two have split. From our point of view, who cares as long … Read More »

If the PS2 was a license to print money, so far the PS3 has been a license to burn money. According to a Bloomberg article that was released today, Sony could be looking at a 50% loss to its third quarter profits. Other than … Read More »

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