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Archive for March 2007

Can’t wait until April 8th for the final story arc on The Sopranos? Neither can I! The good news is, we don’t have to. There’s a leaked copy of the first new episode on Mininova, being tracked from Demonoid‘s servers. … Read More »

Xcerion makes Internet OS real

Internet OS sector seems to be getting increasingly crowded. Start-ups such as YouOS, EyeOS are vying for mindshare with Internet giants like Google. The seriousness of market is reflected by the fact that earlier this month, Microsoft set up an all-star group to tackle … Read More »

 
 

GigaCal: Influencing New/Old Channels

Now that the technology conference March Madness is over, how are other mediums using that technology to achieve more? Learn how to videoblog, or just collaborate on projects with other vloggers at SuperHappyVlogHouse. The gathering commences with a Creative Commons talk at 4pm on March 31, … Read More »

Windows Home Server beta goes public

Wasn’t I just wondering where my Windows Home Server beta disk was? Looks like it’s already outdated as WHS Beta 2 is available….for the public! You’ll have to be … Read More »

Today’s freebie at Giveaway of the Day might be useful for the small screen; Hide Window Plus hides windows or groups of windows in a moment’s notice. This is one … Read More »

Experts: OS X still safe but ‘does it matter?’

Between the Month of Apple Bugs, the ‘Hacking a MacBook in 60 seconds’ controversy and Bill Gates’ Newsweek interview where he claimed “security guys break the Mac every single day,” one could be forgiven for thinking that maybe Macs are insecure and unsafe. But InformationWeek’s Sharon Gaudin … Read More »

Highlights from the World of Virtual World Business

This week, New York City was the white hot center for discussing the business of marketing in online worlds. I wasn’t able to attend, but I’ve been following the copious notes of Mark Wallace, who live blogged many of the sessions at 3pointD. … Read More »

I almost forgot about this pic I snapped while watching ’24′ on Monday night. The situation was quite comical actually; we have friends come over to watch the show … Read More »

Data is good, but not without voice

RANT: The U.S. wireless industry’s annual fiesta, CTIA 2007, is finally wrapping up. By all means it looks like a successful show, capped by a news release from CTIA that boasts that data revenues of the industry jumped 77% in 2006 to $15.2 billion, representing … Read More »

Making Games for Fun and Profit: Interview with Cellufun

One of the newer companies that’s making a splash in the mobile gaming scene is Cellufun. Founded in 2005 by three men, Arthur Goikhman, Stave Dacek and Cary Torkelson, Cellufun has managed to up their download from 300 a day to 20,000. So, with … Read More »

I’ve had my refurbished and repaired MacBook Pro for one week today and it looks like we’re right back to where we started. A few days ago, apps started randomly … Read More »

Most vloggers make an effort to create their own sites and feeds as opposed to relying exclusively on the features of video sharing services, according to Mefeedia. While a vlogger could certainly use YouTube or Blip.tv tools to get audience feedback and syndicate his … Read More »

More Must Reads

With a pen-like stylus and a “physics-enabled” virtual workspace prototyped by BumpTop, you can organize electronic files into piles just like you do on your real desktop. I’m not sure whether this shows radical innovation or utter insanity; either way, it’s impressive. We’ve considered the … Read More »

Among the first apps I install on my Windows Mobile devices is Resco Explorer, a powerful combination of multiple functions. Resco Explorer beats the pants off of the native File Explorer and … Read More »

Now this is a good reason to buy the AppleTV. The Major League Baseball video highlights for the 2007 season will be available on iTunes Store and will include a daily 25 minute “MLB.com Daily Rewind” highlight show and two weekly “Games of the Week,” featuring … Read More »

In his latest Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek, Arik Hesseldahl dissects the latest efforts by Greenpeace to “shame Apple into taking what it considers corrective action on environmental practices.” Greenpeeace has been focusing on Apple because of how the company rates on the group’s environmental … Read More »

But I didn’t know it was this simple! All I had to do was ask a friend for their PowerBook and I could’ve gotten one for free. Or not. Does anyone know somebody like this? I’m getting ahead of myself. In case … Read More »

Now that the Apple TV and other devices from Microsoft, TiVo and Netgear promise to move video from your laptop onto your living room set, the definition of ‘online video’ could begin to expand from the current craze for three-minute sketches and ‘wowee’ shorts, and longer … Read More »

Cnet says the iPhone will be available on June 11 according to a customer service manager at Cingular. I’ve tried to follow news stories by calling my carrier’s customer service line and asking questions — often I’ve found the results to be unreliable. But who … Read More »

HiTask is a spiffy-looking new web-based task management application that I really want to like. The user interface is full of Ajaxy goodness and well-thought-out functionality that makes it both easy and fun to use. But alas, in the current run of web applications a … Read More »

Earthlink and Nokia are working on a promotion, looking to increase interest in Earthlink’s muniFi and boost the sales of Nokia’s new Internet tablet in the U.S. Earthlink plans to offer free muniFi to users of Nokia’s N800 Internet tablet until the end of 2007. Earthlink … Read More »

I have been on a search for the perfect podcatcher for some time now. I watch video podcasts as an alternative to traditional television programming since I have a Mac mini connected to my television. I choose the larger versions of video files because … Read More »

Google might be the king of web-based search, but the field is still wide open when it comes to mobile search. Many a few companies are taking different approach to mobile search, and Nokia is one of them. The company filed a patent search application for a … Read More »

Download Squad featured MySchoolog yesterday and I thought the concept was great. It’s a free, web-based organizer for students at any level of education; yes, I think even The Student … Read More »

I know we told you that the OQO Model 02 started shipping the XP version of the UMPC but we have to request a do-over.  The iCube blog is claiming that OQO is delaying the shipments of the XP devices for at least a … Read More »

Earlier this week, the US government announced that it had selected three former Bell Companies – AT&T, Qwest and Verizon – to be the only ones who can bid for the individual federal contracts over next ten years. The total value of these contracts will be … Read More »

It must be small peripherals day here on jkOnTheRun and the Slimouse from ThinkGeek certainly qualifies.  The little mouse is only 1 x 3 inches in size and sports a single button and a scroll wheel on the side of the mouse.  It’s designed to … Read More »

Bluetooth headsets keep getting smaller and smaller that one day someone’s going to make one so small it will get lost in someone’s ear.  The gadget wizards at MoGo have just released a headset that may not be the smallest out there but I’ll bet it’s … Read More »

One of the functions I most miss on the Mac is the ability to stream music from my Zune Pass subscription. Sure, I could fire up Parallels, but I don’t want … Read More »

A few short months ago, I bought Samantha, my Samsung Q1P, for $1,299. She came with XP Tablet Edition 2005 pre-loaded but today, her Vista siblings can be had … Read More »

You may already know that you can tune your productivity with music — why not make it easy on yourself and do so with your cell phone? I get excited when I see announcements about fancy new music-playing mobile phones like the twistingly cool Read More »

How do you measure the success of an online show? According to Kathleen Grace and Thom Woodley of The ‘Burg, you can count the approximately 10,000 viewers and the heaps of press from fellow New Yorkers at the Observer, Times, Paper … Read More »

If you are one of the select few who gets broadband via Verizon’s FiOS fiber pipe, and you live in the Washington, D.C. area, on Friday you will get to watch the telco giant’s leap into the content business, courtesy of its new channel … Read More »

Earlier this month we had reported that Sean Parker, an entrepreneurial fella whose past affiliations have included Napster, Plaxo and Facebook, was working on a new start-up, that was looking to apply viral marketing with activism. We met with Parker earlier this week for dinner where … Read More »

After their meeting this afternoon, the Take-Two shareholders who were threatening to oust CEO Paul Eibeler did just that and they’ve appointed a new Chief Executive. According to Reuters, Strauss Zelnick, former chief executive of BMG, has taken the spot as the chairman of … Read More »

Now that the government’s plans for the digital TV transition are finally in place, it’s time for the second wave — the panic! — to begin. Since the cutover date (Feb. 17,2009) is just under two years away, it makes sense that now is the perfect … Read More »

While we’re guessing that it might get pulled down rather quickly, we can’t help but pass along pointers to a well-crafted mashup that gives you most of the meaty parts of the Sopranos storyline in a bit more than 7 minutes. A great catch-up for … Read More »

As web workers, most of us are steeped in Web 2.0 throughout our working day (never mind that we can’t agree on what “Web 2.0″ means). Many of us have embraced online applications from Google, Yahoo, and elsewhere to do the bulk of our work, … Read More »

Why am I writing about online video when I could be creating yet another Chinese P2P-powered on demand video site and raking in venture capital? First Xunlei, then UUSee and now the unfortunately named PPStream have all closed funding rounds in the … Read More »

I never gave in to the Sony PlayStation Portable urge, but I know James did, and I suspect many of you did too. The PSP continues to become much more … Read More »

Tony Dunaif, VP of content partnerships at Brightcove, has no opinion, really, about Blip.tv. If you don’t believe me, just ask Tony, who told the audience at the New York video 2.0 meetup last night “I have no opinion, really, about Blip.tv.” To which the audience … Read More »

Belkin has a new product coming soon. It is an iPod dock that fits in a standard grommet hole in your desk. The device has a stero-out jack and of course, you can charge your iPod with it. Seems like a pretty smart idea … Read More »

Michael Eisner’s Prom Queen has a new home: MySpace. The site will have a twelve-hour exclusive on each episode of the show, which should be a shot in the arm for MySpace Video. Traffic to the popular social network’s video section has been meandering in … Read More »

Peer-to-Peer file exchange is nothing new. Enthusiasts have been getting their media (and getting sued over getting their media) via P2P services for years. What’s a more recent trend, and one that keeps the lawyers away, is P2P-like services that are personal and direct. Instead of … Read More »

Jon Westfall from Pocket PC Thoughts got tired of looking for his USB cables and decided to script a process that syncs files between … Read More »

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