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 »
Archive for March 15, 2007
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »