Archive for February 20, 2007
Just a short programming alert: after three days of no-sleep, jet lag is beginning to take its toll. You all know how lack of sleep is injurious to one’s grammer, so instead of inflicting more spelling-mistakes on you, I’m calling it an early night. See you … Read More »
The iTunes Store beefed up its Audiobook selection this week with the addition of Star Wars novels.
There are a total of 67 titles available for download, from the Timothy Zahn-penned trilogy of the mid-’90s, which re-ignited interest in the Star Wars franchise, to the more … Read More »
Motorola has just announced a new contest, looking for new developer talent. Between the Virgin Airlines developer contest and this new offering from Motorola, you’d think this is contest season. Either way, it’s apparently a good time to be an indie game developer who’s … Read More »
Update 2: NHL now says the problem was a glitch/miscommunication on their end. The conclusion to the story (hopefully this is it?) got so long, we wrote it up in a separate post.
Update: NHL tells us: “We’re trying to determine why this happened…it wasn’t at … Read More »
A tiny MicroSD can storge many gigabytes – a miracle when compared to say five years ago. But given the size of our files, videos and what not, even that might now be enough. Answer to our growing need for storage is bacteria-based storage. I am … Read More »
As I move between multiple devices, I’ve come to realize many efficiencies. There’s something to be said for using a hosted Exchange server and having access to all … Read More »
When given the choice between sex and violence, sex would generally seem the preferable option. Instead, if you take a look at YouTube and other popular video sharing services, it seems violence is okay, but sex is not. Continue reading at NewTeeVee.com
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You kids these days have it easy. I can remember hauling Jaz disks – as well as a Jaz drive and a PCMCIA SCSI card – around in my carry-on luggage, just to get a decent amount of portable storage with me to client sites. Now, … Read More »
It’s like déjà vu all over again. Last month, Paul had reported that Vonage will start a wireless service, reselling Earthlink’s MuniFi offerings. Vonage Chairman Jeffrey Citron told us that “bundling Wi-Fi will make it easier for customers to sign up for Vonage VoIP.” … Read More »
With the slight exception of my Halo addiction, I’m really not much into playing video games (anymore). These days I’m more apt to play something along the lines of Minesweeper, or Zuma or something. But even those tend to hold my interest only so … Read More »
Megan over at Valleywag tipped us off to a project from Meetro‘s co-founder Paul Bragiel’s brother, Peter Bragiel called “The Walkstars.” Peter and his friends Josh and Sean are taking a week off and walking from Los Angeles to San Diego. That’s … Read More »
More Must Reads
Motion Computing just launched their newest product: the Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant. This 10.4-inch, 3.1-pound handheld runs either Windows Vista Business or XP Tablet Edition on an 1.2 GHz Intel Core Solo processor and the Intel 945 GSM integrated graphics. Motion worked with thousands … Read More »
By Brian Warren
Feb. 20, 2007, 1:00pm PT
The land of iPod accessories is nothing if not a very crowded space. In the speakers area alone there are a ton of companies competing for the coveted shelf space in Apple’s stores. New players in the market compete with trusted brands and things can get … Read More »
When the Puritans landed on Plymouth Rock, and subsequently repaid the kindness of local tribes with wholesale slaughter, they bequeathed upon America the birthright of double standards. And lest you think that nearly 400 years later we’ve figured out that when given the choice between … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 20, 2007, 11:35am PT
By Om Malik
Feb. 20, 2007, 11:10am PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 20, 2007, 11:05am PT
Do you live in Outlook? Want a way to have all of your Outlook information available on the desktop without it being too obtrusive? You might want to have … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 20, 2007, 9:18am PT
Craig McCaw knows two things about wireless – building a network is a long, tedious and expensive process, and you can never have enough spectrum. That is why he has raised around a billion dollars from investors for his latest wireless broadband network operator, Clearwire.
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By Jason McMaster
Feb. 20, 2007, 9:00am PT
Console games are what keeps us going during the dead times of the year. Now that we have three new toys to marvel over, what can we expect to see in the cold months before all the magic starts to happen? Let’s take a more in-depth … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 20, 2007, 8:29am PT
OpenID, the open decentralized user centric digital identity platform is getting big awfully fast. A few days after AOL announced its support for the system, Digg, the San Francisco-based social news website is looking to jump on the bandwagon, and start supporting OpenID.
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Joost, the P2P TV venture from European hit makers, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis has signed on Viacom as a content partner, a move that will bring content from various Viacom properties – MTV, Comedy Central and Showtime – to the P2P service, reports … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 20, 2007, 7:21am PT
This morning, I need help to get back into the groove, set a schedule and get back to the grind. WWD has tips that help.
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Still think Viacom is stuck in the old media mud? Robert Young would beg to differ in a post over on GigaOM Tuesday where he details why he thinks Sumner Redstone and the folks over there have a good thing going, especially with their made-for-online-sharing … Read More »
When I first saw the announcement for the i-Mate Ultimate 7150 the first thought that crossed my mind was that it looked like what you’d get if you took a Sharp Zaurus and made it better looking and more functional. I still think that and … Read More »
By Minic Rivera
Over the weekend, Lisa Donovan, better known by YouTubers as LisaNova, made her network television debut on FOX’s MADtv.
If it wasn’t spectacular, neither was it a pratfall, and it might not have even been noticable as anything out of the ordinary had we … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Feb. 20, 2007, 5:45am PT
The Metadata Screecast that I posted yesterday generated enough questions that I felt it necessary to address them in a post, rather than a HUGE comment, buried at the end of the comments. So here it is. Each Answer references the number of … Read More »
Kevin and I both have a fond place in our hearts for the first VGA Pocket PC, the Toshiba e800, and I think the fact that the Toshiba G900 announced at the 3GSM reminds us of the e800 makes us so excited about … Read More »
By Matthew Reinbold
Feb. 20, 2007, 4:00am PT
March Madness is much more than a some spring college tournament. It is the nail biting, single elimination tour de force that, by months end, has crowned the NCAA’s top team. The winning squad has to out perform 63 of the nation’s other top performers.
While the … Read More »
Old media offers vids, blogs for Oscars — A slew of popular magazine rack titles are devoting sections of their Web sites to Oscar night in the hopes of converting viewers to subscribers, reports the New York Times. People magazine, Vanity Fair, The Los … Read More »
By Robert Young
Feb. 20, 2007, 12:40am PT
There has been much debate about the merits of Viacom’s recent decision to demand the take-down over 100,000 of its copyrighted video clips on YouTube, which included video assets from MTV, Comedy Central, and other Viacom-owned brands. Well, ‘debate’ is probably not an accurate … Read More »
