Archive for March 15, 2007
At CeBit tradeshow in Hanover, Germany, Vodafone, world largest mobile carrier (not including China) showed off a new mobile VoIP client, code named Starfish, that allows people to call their Internet chat buddies including those on the Skype service. It supports MSN, AOL and Yahoo … Read More »
Jeff Atwood argues that web applications, as limited as they are, may be good enough in most cases:
The typical user only touches a fraction of the functionality in most applications. Switching to an online spreadsheet like EditGrid or WikiCalc is hardly a catastrophic loss … Read More »
As I recently discussed with Hovr, most cell phone games are too risky for most users. Either having never heard of the particular product, and/or being put off by the unusually high prices, people just aren’t interested in blindly paying for something that will … Read More »
IBM announced Monday that it’s shrinking the size of the current PS3 cell processor by 25% to a 65-nanometer version. The company, together with Sony and Toshiba, has spent an estimated $400 million to design and develop the “supercomputer on a chip” that powers the PS3 … Read More »
Leave it to the fans of the original Star Trek to not only spend the kind of time and money it takes to recreate the original show, but to bring back some of the groundbreaking storylines and characters that made the original so compelling to a … Read More »
With plenty of start pages on the market, it’s about time one gets back to the simple things that life needs with no distractions. Our former favorite simple active desktop application for PCs that we reviewed in January called Wallnote has since been upgraded … Read More »
If I had to come up with my ultimate videoblogger, living or dead, it might just be Jack Black. Luckily, Nacho Libre himself has become aware of his calling, and is launching a video show to be shown both online and on TV (on VH1).
The series, … Read More »
OK, so you’ve got the ExpressCard slot but don’t want to reuse an old PCMCIA card. No worries, we don’t judge here. It’s all good, especially if you want fast EV-DO in the Rev. A flavor for that ExpressCard port; you can do that starting … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Wagner James Au
Mar. 15, 2007, 12:10pm PT
By Eddie Hargreaves
Mar. 15, 2007, 11:21am PT
By Blake Snow
Mar. 15, 2007, 11:00am PT
Rumors of an upcoming PSP redesign have existed largely since the DS saw its first hardware upgrade last June. According to sources close to 1UP, some retailers aren’t happy with the soft selling PSP, suggesting they may pull the system unless Sony revitalizes its sales … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Mar. 15, 2007, 11:00am PT
By Paul Kapustka
Mar. 15, 2007, 10:35am PT
Looks like the empire is finding new ways to fight back — according to FreeConference.com, another rural-ISP free-calling operator, major carriers Cingular, Qwest and Sprint are actively blocking users trying to call FreeConference.com, claiming it might be a violation of those carriers’ acceptable use … Read More »
All hope is not lost if you own a PCMCIA card of some type but have a sparkly-new ExpressCard slot on your mobile device. Duel just announced the Read More »
All good things must come to end I suppose. The next one is the free usage of the Times Reader, that wonderful app that brings the New York … Read More »
Are a surge of spam videos turning up in search results on sites like YouTube, Revver, and Break? That’s the contention of Kevin Delaney at the Wall Street Journal (no reg req).
It seems he’s basically talking about tag spam — when videos are mislabeled with … Read More »
By Om Malik
Mar. 15, 2007, 8:58am PT
Cisco Systems announced this morning that it is buying web conferencing company, WebEx for $3.2 billion – another sign of the router maker’s ongoing software makeover. For the price of two YouTubes, Cisco just bought a company that had sales of $380 million, and … Read More »
By Jason McMaster
Mar. 15, 2007, 8:37am PT
The DS is one of the best things to ever happen to Nintendo. Since its initial release, the DS has sold over 38 million units worldwide, and sales aren’t really slowing down. In fact, Nintendo has now shipped over 15 million units to Japan alone. Now, … Read More »
Pursuers of moral rectitude, you have no better friend than online video.
The latest head in the pillory belongs to none other than Michael Crook, the ironically- and aptly-named ne’er-do-well who, in an attempt to have embarrassing photos of himself removed from 10 Zen Monkeys … Read More »
By Anne Zelenka
Mar. 15, 2007, 8:35am PT
Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr proposes that we might move beyond email some day:
I am starting to think that there may be such a thing as a post-email era, a time when we have forgotten about the entire concept of an Inbox, when there’s … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
Mar. 15, 2007, 8:30am PT
I’ve used GeekTool for quite a while, and it’s become one of those things that I just take for granted on my system. It monitors everything under the sun, and sticks it right at Desktop level on your screen so you can always reference … Read More »
Comvu’s Pocketcaster has been around for a good two years, but I never got around to playing with it. After watching Jonathan Greene’s video, I just might find the time to give … Read More »
Good news for our UK readers; word on the web is that the T-Mobile Ameo, aka: the HTC Athena handheld might be available in the next few days. The device has surfaced on some T-Mobile T-Zones accessory pages, which usually means an imminent launch. For … Read More »
I’m a bit behind due to a heavy workload and a not very local viewing last night; always hate to see a friend lose a parent. Now that I’m up’n'atem with a … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Mar. 15, 2007, 5:46am PT
With seemingly the entire web worker world being a-twitter these days, it’s sometimes tough to remember that a phone was originally an instrument for sending voice messages. If the folks over at BrainCast have their way, though, you’ll find new uses for your phone … Read More »
By Om Malik
Mar. 15, 2007, 5:00am PT
Start-up founders by nature are risk takers, willing to face insurmountable odds in their attempt to disrupt the old guard.
But no company faces more adversity than Slacker Inc., an Austin, Texas-based personal music start-up that launched late Wednesday. It is hard to shake … Read More »
Forget Y2K, Forget the new Daylight Savings Time. If anything is going to crush the innerwebs, it will be March Madness, and all the well-educated desk-job jockeys who sign on to CBS starting Thursday to catch the NCAA men’s basketball tournament online.
Never mind CBS’s lame … Read More »
By Raymond Padilla
Mar. 15, 2007, 2:04am PT
Epic Game’s vice president Mark Rein (affectionately known to some as “Purple” Rein) is known for making strong (and sometimes controversial) comments and for doing a masterful job at promoting the company’s Unreal Engine. He’s been at the forefront of Epic’s burgeoning success— Gears of War … Read More »
