I think I’ve had my new Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC for around six weeks now. In that time, I’ve run Windows XP Tablet Edition (which came pre-installed), Windows… Read More »
Archive for April 2008
The U.S. economy may be sputtering, but there was some good news coming out of the cleantech world this morning. First Solar, the poster child of cleantech IPOs and the so-called “Google of solar,” reported a sharp rise in its profit and revenue… Read More »
We’ve covered picking the ideal office chair, fixing up your workstation with a treadmill, and choosing the right office desk. But there’s another alternative for the web worker that we haven’t touched on yet: standing while you work. While the idea of standing –… Read More »
Sonic Solutions Buys Simple Star; Sonic’s Roxio to incorporate platform that allows people to turn video clips into shows that are shareable to PCs, TVs and social networks. (VentureBeat) Comcast iGuide Time Shifts Itself; glitch made guide listings off by two and a half hours for… Read More »
I doubt I can turn my 120-pound frame into an Ultimate Fighting Championship contender with this tip, but with the power of the iPod, you never know. Men’s Health… Read More »
It’s all smoke and mirrors until the products launch, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt promised untold wonders of coming YouTube advertising innovations — “not just putting in-line ads in the things” — in an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo that will air at 4 p.m. ET… Read More »
I’m here in Las Vegas for the annual Interop show for IT professionals, and I’m finding it to be far livelier — and better attended — than I had expected it would be. In fact, I may need to rethink my belief that Web 2.0… Read More »
Can Twitter help you turn your lights off? IBM’s “Master Inventor” Andy Stanford-Clark has rigged up his home to twitter its energy use, and if you follow the tweets you can see in real time when Stanford-Clark has turned his lights and fountain off… Read More »
CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 131 is 34:20 minutes long and is a 32.1 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion,… Read More »
Just because web workers have done away with the traditional office, it doesn’t mean we’re also rid of the stress that comes with working. We encounter equipment failures, personal problems, and a scary client every now and then. Still, we need to keep our cool despite… Read More »
The big news coming out of Time Warner this morning was that the company is finally selling off its cable division, the second largest in the country (our pal Stacey at GigaOM says its the beginning of Time Warner’s death by 1,000 cuts). But… Read More »
The CEO of California utility PG&E, Peter Darbee, recently said that he’d like to use the company’s deep pockets to buy solar thermal plants. Turns out that’s just the beginning of the things he’d like to change about how utilities operate. Check out Earth2Tech’s… Read More »