November, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for November 2007

Are Web Forums an OK Way to Sell?

There were a pair of stories this weekend about divShare co-founder David Altschul’s unusual decision to put his company’s assets up for sale on an auction site called DNForum. Founded in December 2006, DivShare is a site where users can share all kinds of… Read More »

Things aren’t going terribly well for the “One Laptop Per Child” project, reports The Wall Street Journal. The project, which started as a noble effort to educate the children of poor nations via $100 laptops computers, has run into stiff competition from… Read More »

 
 

After taking a rare four-day break from the connected world, I’m ready to tackle XP on the Asus Eee PC. As I mentioned prior, some folks on the Read More »

Community Activity: November 26, 2007

I’ve been using Google Docs for the past few weeks on one of my other writing projects and found it to be great for basic word… Read More »

Here’s something to chew on following your 4-day weekend of successive holiday meals: Recently departed BP CEO John Browne gave a talk at BusinessWeek’s European Leadership Forum in London this weekend and the magazine reprinted the talk in its entirety. Browne is… Read More »

WWD Coffee Break – GCal, Humor & Twitter

Google, Meet Google – YAGCG is a strictly unofficial gadget for adding Google calendars to your iGoogle home page. It has pros and cons compared to the official gadget, but according to its developer the chief reason for its existence is that it actually offers… Read More »

Monday Morning Link-O-Rama

Having trouble finding a gift for someone? Giftoscope, a new web service will help with some quirky suggestions. Add Siberia to the list of places where Microsoft is building data centers. Chicago and Dublin are two recent locations of Microsoft’s data center build outs. Contrary to… Read More »

The LG Viewty

This so called “iPhone killer” is probably going to kill itself. The Good Based on the LG Viewty’s microsite alone, the most touted feature is clearly the 5 megapixel camera on its back. It has flash, a manual focus, and an image stabilizer as well.… Read More »

I have been happy to be able to sync my Windows Mobile (WM) device over-the-air (OTA) with my Exchange Server without needing to connect the WM device to my Vista… Read More »

Zoho Seeks to Replace, Not Embrace, Microsoft Office

Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of… Read More »

Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of… Read More »

More Must Reads

When Khosla Ventures and Netherlands-based biofuel startup BIOeCON announced their joint biofuel venture KiOR earlier this month, the partners kept the size of the Series A investment hush-hush. But according to a regulatory filing picked up by PEhub.com, KiOR has raised just over $1.4… Read More »

As you might have guessed from my past articles here, I tend to heavily customize the appearance of OS X on any machines I use regularly. Looking at my desktop, I see no default icons, my dock isn’t much better, and every time I… Read More »

BrightSpot Media, a startup that was trying attract people to watch ads in exchange for goods and services, last week shut down its consumer-facing site. Over the holiday, we got in touch with BrightSpot CEO Aaron Martens, who confirmed the Brightspot.tv shutdown but said the company… Read More »

You read that correctly, EverNote slipped a technical preview of a Windows Mobile application in a couple of weeks ago and reader Gordon Cahill sent me an email and said… Read More »

Policy-makers want to split the Universal Service Fund, which brings in around $7 billion or so every year and is used to subsidize the old-fashioned phone systems in rural areas, into three distinct parts: one to subsidize wireless services, another for the old-fashioned phone services,… Read More »

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