November 16, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for November 16, 2007

OmniFocus: Dropping in January

The Omni Group has been working feverishly on their version of a GTD (Getting Things Done) application for the Apple platform. They’ve been letting 16,000 individuals play with their “sneaky peek” of the application and enhancing the code daily for months. Well I just heard … Read More »

A Complete Tune-Up for Your Ailing Computer — Free

You know the routine. That computer you bought two years ago was a speed demon and never encountered problems. Now, it’s slow as molasses and ties you up in bizarre, inexplicable routines for which you have no idea what the cause is. You need a tune-up, … Read More »

 
 

So I’m rocking this afternoon with the iPod Touch and a knock on the door of Mobile Tech Manor brings more gadgety joy to the scene.  You can’t get one until next week but Verizon was good enough to get their new Voyager in … Read More »

Reviews: Music Games for the iPod — Phase and Musika

Two acclaimed boutique game studios recently released music-based games for the iPod, and I hope they are pioneers of a new frontier. The iPod interface offers such intriguing possibilities for play style, and with 100 million versions of the iPod sold, the install base … Read More »

I had to run out to pick up a *gasp* paper book that just came out so I’m sitting in the Barnes & Noble Cafe with a … Read More »

iPhone Goodness (and Gotchas) from Google

Apple did something very evil this summer: they timed the launch of the iPhone to almost perfectly coincide with the start of our familial migration to Seattle from Pennsylvania (for a new job opportunity). Knowing that we would need to be interacting remotely quite frequently for … Read More »

The market for online games in China shows no signs of cooling off as NetDragon, an online games developer, this week reported a nearly 2,700 percent profit increase, to $35.8 million, over the same nine-month period last year. NetDragon’s earnings growth is based on three popular … Read More »

FCC Chair Math Might Be Off; Kevin Martin’s original estimation that he could regulate the cable cos might falter due to some inaccurate data. (MultiChannel News) Magnify.net Releases Vlog in a Box; toolset promises to let users set up a video blog page with just a … Read More »

Watching the big-money players take the stage at NewTeeVee Live yesterday, I was a little sad I wasn’t there, networking up a storm. I had to settle for watching the event on Mogulus (which, despite a few technical difficulties and some “live TV” … Read More »

LongJump Wants to be Your Online Office

There’s certainly no shortage of online office applications these days. You can find anything from general-purpose office suites (such as Google Docs or Zoho‘s ever-growing suite) to dedicated CRM solutions at a variety of price points. If you’re running a small or medium … Read More »

I scored an iPod Touch this week and have been having a blast with it.  This video overview shows why I like the iPod Touch so much, from the … Read More »

Yup, we’re a pair of early adopters ’round these parts, but this little MADtv humor is very appropriate me thinks. Enjoy!(via Gear Live) Read More »

More Must Reads

MySpace recently launched two original web series: the high-minded (and high-priced) quarterlife, about 20-nothings in existential crises (check out Karina’s review), and the blatantly low-brow Roommates, about slender women lounging in bikinis. While the two take very different approaches to webisodic entertainment, they … Read More »

My alternative power projects continue, although today’s entry won’t power or charge either a laptop or UMPC. However, I can charge my iPhone, Dash and various Nokia devices with … Read More »

The wheels of a $500 million academic and industry collaboration to fight carbon emissions with bio-energy, are starting to turn. On the 1st of December Christopher Somerville will officially start his work as the Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, (EBI), a first … Read More »

The market for non-phone PDAs continues to decline, but that doesn’t mean new products won’t impress. After watching the Pocket PC Thoughts video unboxing and overview, I think … Read More »

Perhaps a Little Too Social – Shoeboxed.com starts off by letting you upload all your scanned and electronic receipts, and then takes care of organizing and categorizing them for you. But it doesn’t stop there: this is a social web site, where you can show … Read More »

Reader Brook Zerihun just sent me this snipping from the Best Buy online store: Read More »

Next week, those of us here in the U.S. will celebrate our annual Feast of Gluttony…er, I mean Thanksgiving, a time devoted to expressing gratitude for all the good things in our lives, including — and in some cases especially — really yummy food. And thus … Read More »

Got a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone or Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition device? If so and you always wanted Agendus Smartphone Standard Edition but didn’t have the coin to … Read More »

DigiTimes has a piece this morning indicating that FIC plans to bring their CE260 UMPC to the U.S. in both a Windows XP and Linux configuration. They further speculate that the sub-notebook would … Read More »

In my Nov.5 post called 8 Steps to running your business on (mostly) free apps, I explained the value of using off-the-shelf software as opposed to costly custom builds, and the frequently unrecognized high value of free alternatives. This article will provide a more specific … Read More »

Boise, Idaho-based biomechanics startup M2E Power announced today that they have raised $8 million in Series A funding. The 22 month-old company’s investment was led by OVP Venture Partners with particiaption by @Ventures and Highway 12 Ventures. M2E has … Read More »

Copper, some telecom insiders joke, is like a cockroach – it never dies and keeps coming back. Someone always comes up with a way to use the copper in a new sort of a way. When we are all dreaming of a fiber to the … Read More »

DivX  acquired Aachen, Germany-based MainConcept for $22 million with another $6 million in earn outs and placing a big bet on  the H.264 video compression technology, which unlike DivX’s own technology is an open standard. With the deal, DivX is acknowledging that the … Read More »

DivX, a video codec and software company based in San Diego, Calif., announced yesterday that it was acquiring Aachen, Germany-based MainConcept for $22 million with another $6 million in earn outs. For DivX CEO Kevin Hell the acquisition is a bet on the future of … Read More »

The Wall Street Journal’s report about Google’s big mobile plans is one that covers all bases, and leaves you where you started from: scratching your head. The Journal says Google may or may not buy a carrier; invest in a carrier; partner with … Read More »

Cleantech Fringe Photo Spread: CNET has an eye-candy photo essay of cutting edge photogenic clean energy tech. Purdy — CNET Yum, Fat in a Box: Pacific Natural Energy (PNE) has developed FatBox which can transform fat into fuel. I’m sure it’s very useful but it sounds … Read More »

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