March, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2007

What’s on GigaNET

NewTeeVee: Mark Cuban vs EFF … almost NewTeeVee: Karina’s Capsule: young american bodies WebWorkerDaily: Why you might need an online persona. WebWorkerDaily:A different kind of a switch GigaGamez: MTV GameTrailers go mobile Read More »

Skype 3.2 beta now out

Skype has released new Skype for Windows version 3.2 (beta). You can download it here. The new software allows you to import contacts from web based email applications such as MSN Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. You can also take your video snapshots and … Read More »

 
 

Nothing here about mobile tech, just a nice way to get over the hump of the week on a Wednesday. Musical group “OK Go” won one of the inaugural YouTube Awards, and I can see why. The music video is choregraphed with the band members … Read More »

Does your house VoIP?

The looming VoIP patent mess not withstanding, In-Stat, a market research firm says that 9% of US households were using VoIP at the end of 2006, up by one percent at the end of September 2006. By In-Stat’s estimate, there were about 10.6 million … Read More »

Deal on Default Folder X

As silly as it sounds, I still keep track of macZOT! deals. The site has definitely seemed to fizzle in excitement since its inception, but there are still the occasionally attractive deals being offered. In today’s case, you can get 30% off St Clair Soft’s … Read More »

Zune Firmware update due out today

Looks like I need to read ALL of my feeds before posting something. In the prior post on converting text to .jpg for e-book reading on your Zune, I pondered on the Zune firmware update that we had expected by now. Turns out, today is … Read More »

I’ll be the first to admit that this isn’t the most elegant or workable solution, but you have to give credit for the try. Some enterprising folks created … Read More »

Not sure when they updated it, but 4Smartphone.net now offers a licensed download of Outlook 2007 with their top two hosted Exchange plans. What this means … Read More »

Why You May Need an Online Persona

Employers are realizing that what people do online can actually prove their value as potential hires, not just rule them out based on drunken photos or revelations of other past missteps. Last year we saw articles like Overexposed in the Blogosphere warning how people’s online behavior … Read More »

Anyone who tells you that the online video world is a wasteland of cringe-worthy pop culture clashes and overblown science fair demonstrations obviously hasn’t visited Nerve.com lately. The decade-old destination for smut-loving smarties recently launched a satellite site called Nerve Video. … Read More »

Computerworld has an interesting article, "Why the FlipStart will fail, or why History is important" that sounds like a bad review of the Vulcan FlipStart, but it isn’t.  In fact, it’s not about the FlipStart at all rather a harsh look at the ultra-portable device … Read More »

We’re always all over flash drive announcements here on jkOnTheRun because having used a UMPC with one of the flash drives I can tell you the performance boost you get foregoing the traditional hard drive is tremendous.  The Samsung Q1 SSD I used had a … Read More »

More Must Reads

After months of disavowing rumors that a souped-up Xbox 360 was on its way, Microsoft officially unveiled what was already confirmed last week: a new black premium 360 dubbed Elite. The system hits stores on April 29 at an $80 increase to $480. … Read More »

It’s a simple question that is anything but simple because quite frankly what makes a device mobile varies from person to person.  Some people are eagerly awaiting the pocket-sized OQO while others (myself included) find the 8.9" screened Fujitsu P1610 to be highly mobile.  Bob Russell … Read More »

When Democrats took control of Congress last election, the lobbyists for all the big technology and telecom companies in Washington pulled out their wish lists, ripped them up, and re-arranged their legislative priorities. Gone was the push for sweeping telecommunications legislation, hemispheric-wide free-trade agreements and limitations on … Read More »

TurnHere, a video site founded a little over a year ago, has pretty drastically changed its model, culminating in a relaunch last month, we learned at the San Francisco Video 2.0 Meetup Tuesday night. The company, which launched with the premise of commissioning and … Read More »

StreetAdvisor, a site housing local reviews, recommendations, news, and information, becomes publicly available today. The difference between this startup (which happens to be based in Australia) and the competition? It wants to do it all on an individual street basis. That brings the critical mass … Read More »

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held its 16th annual Pioneer Awards Ceremony yesterday in San Diego, with a special treat for all those tired attendees of the Emerging Technology Conference who had been listening to keynotes and presentations all day: Internet billionaire Mark Cuban … Read More »

CTIA 2007 — LG says it will pre-install Google’s mobile apps, including Maps and Gmail, on millions of LG phones that will be sold in North America, Europe and Asia starting in the second quarter of 2007. In February, LG announced a similar … Read More »

The wait is over for Palm users: tomorrow morning will bring the long awaited Sling support in the form of a public beta! Initially for the Palm … Read More »

When I saw Geeks of Doom spouting off about the forthcoming Lego Batman videogame I had to make sure Marc Orchant was aware of it.  Marc is the biggest Batman nut on the planet and I’m sure he’ll snap Lego Batman up as soon as … Read More »

The British have gone crazy for the PS3. So much in fact that the new platform has become the fastest selling home console in the country during its debut. According to MCV, Sony sold 165,000 PS3s, or 75% of its launch stock, in the UK … Read More »

Oh, if only the online dating services made it this easy to pair up: I just caught wind of the new Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR spec announcement over at Read More »

Unlike some of the free-calling concerns who folded their tents at the first sign of legal pressure, FreeConference.com is going to fight for its rights, shown in part by its filing of an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T. The lawsuit, filed last Friday in the U.S. District … Read More »

Since starting a fulltime webworking job in August 2005, I’ve found that 90% of my non-talk time on my smartphone is spent in email, and too much of that time is spent struggling with the email application. I’ve been a Windows Mobile user on my phones/PDAs … Read More »

TiVo today added support for personal video, partnering with web-video-editing startup One True Media to introduce a “Home Movie Sharing” option to its lineup. The joint project will allow home movie makers to establish channels of their own content and invite friends and family … Read More »

The hotly awaited OQO Model 02 that I had the good fortune to play with at the CES earlier this year is beginning to ship today so you first … Read More »

Say what you will about new show BikiniZero‘s use of bikini-clad female anchors to read technology news items, but at least it’s self-aware about what works and what doesn’t online. No offense to the women in front of the camera at Rocketboom, Read More »

YouTube will launch its own mobile version of its site this spring, GigaOM writer Katie F. has learned. The site will be ready and live to European users in May, and open to U.S. users in June after YouTube’s exclusive relationship with Verizon Wireless is … Read More »

CTIA 2007 — YouTube will launch its mobile website in June 2007 for U.S. users, according to a spokesperson. The mobile YouTube site will go live once the exclusivity clause on the company’s mobile video deal with Verizon Wireless expires. The service will be live … Read More »

GameSpot announced stronger than expected quarterly results today citing an increase in sales for games, consoles, and portable handhelds. The largest US gaming boutique saw its shares increase by almost 12% to $129.8 million, or 81 cents per share up from $85 million, or … Read More »

After fighting it out with the big boys for nearly half a decade, and being in business since 1994, Speakeasy has decided that it was time to sell. Who can blame them… they were fighting it out with AT&T, Comcast, Qwest… the telco rogues … Read More »

Thomas Edison did it all the time. So did Winston Churchill. And just about every one of us had childhood training to be a star in the field. What field is that? Why, napping, of course. Yet despite these famous examples and early practice, most of … Read More »

Gameloft, mobile game developer, has told the NY Times that they’re now working on products for the BlackBerry. The BlackBerry, a mobile email and web browsing device, was developed by Research In Motion, a Canadian firm, and introduced into the market in 1999. So … Read More »

Everyone has a connection to voicemail. You’ve left them. You’ve heard them. You’ve saved some of them for posterity, revenge, or just to share with your friends. But if you’re Michael Wilde, ABC’s new online show co-creator, you collected them over the … Read More »

It is with an increasing regularity you come across news items that point to a new sub-sea cable being plotted or another old one being upgraded, a trend that could add up to a boom in the optical sub sea sector. For now it may … Read More »

Though the Apple TV has only been available for a few days, a few folks have already pulled it apart and successfully swapped out the default 40GB hard drive for a more spacious one. Now TechRestore is offering to do the work for Apple TV owners … Read More »

By now you know all the rumors of HTC entering the UMPC market are true. Yesterday’s announcement of the HTC Shift from CTIA made for a very interesting splash in the small … Read More »

In the tradition of Nobody’s Watching, a canceled pilot called “Three Strikes” developed for Comedy Central has found its way onto YouTube. The show, as the Los Angeles Times points out, is properly pedigreed: produced by Jon Stewart, written by writers from “King … Read More »

You’d think nothing could be less risky than sitting at a desk and working at a computer all day. Web workers do face health challenges though. Whether it’s eye strain, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or the steady emergence of love handles to tote your disappearing six … Read More »

Like a cat with nine lives, the desktop once again manages to survive and extend its life. And while most of us (including yours truly) have heralded the coming wave of web-applications, some nagging practical matters are keeping the future at bay. The biggest problem, of course … Read More »

Can a realistic space exploration roleplaying game inspire an interest in the real thing? Last week, NASA announced they were calling for proposals to develop an MMO for the young that would be “the front-end of a larger synthetic environment”, with a budget approaching … Read More »

Each web video sharing service has its strengths and weaknesses, and each has also developed niches amongst content creators. YouTube is the favorite of your neighborhood camkid; vlog scenesters can generally be found on Revver or Blip.tv. Brightcove, the Cambridge, Mass.-based online video service started in March … Read More »

CTIA 2007, Orlando: It seems like the iPhone and the hits-driven handset business has prodded cell phone makers to move a bit further out of their comfort zones. And it is all on display at the CTIA wireless trade show that started Monday. As we walked around … Read More »

CTIA 2007: From Alltel’s Celltop to Nokia’s WidSets, mobile widgets are becoming increasingly popular, and becoming a preferred way to consume web services on handheld devices. ZenZui is the latest to jump onto the bandwagon. The startup is being officially spun out of … Read More »

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