March 15, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

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 »

Mat Balez is predicting the demise of Twitter in 2007. He’s not the only one who doesn’t see the value in it: many people wonder just what’s the big deal. We already wrote that though Twitter isn’t necessarily a great way to manage your… Read More »

 
 

I was so happy to post that Windows Mobile 6 emulator only to quickly find that most of you likely couldn’t use it. You do need Visual… 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 »

Over 1/3 of Cell Customers Willing to Accept Ad-supported Content

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 »

Newer IBM Cell Processor to Enable Early PS3 Price Drop?

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 »

It was about a month and a half ago that Verizon Wireless made its EVDO Rev A network official, announcing the first markets and a Rev A USB card. Now the company says it will offer a Rev A ExpressCard, the V740 by Read More »

Is Apple secretly working with Miglia?

When I was at Macworld Expo in January, I witnessed an unexpected meeting between a Miglia executive and an Apple executive, but didn’t think too much of it until this week. What happened this week is that Elgato, home of the EyeTV software that Miglia uses… 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

… and the Web 2.0 marketing mash-ups keep coming! To promote her latest video, the Internet celebrity who rose to fame almost entirely through her insanely popular MySpace page is becoming a Second Life avatar next week. This according to an announcement… Read More »

If this morning’s Samsung Q1 Ultra news roundup didn’t whet your Origami whistle, check out these bits from Infoworld as there’s some additional info on the Ultra… Read More »

Apparently rock stars and record companies aren’t the only ones who can renegotiate their contracts. In an article for USA Today headlined Cellphone users set their sights on Apple’s iPhone, Jefferson Graham details how many cell phone users are currently looking for ways out of… Read More »

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 »

Back in January I started using Calorie King’s Nutrition & Exercise Manager (NEM, from here on out) on a daily basis. I’ve never dieted before, let alone watched what I was actually putting in my body, so I wasn’t sure how I’d fair with… Read More »

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