August, 2008 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for August 2008

Top BitTorrent TV Downloads Week Ending August 25, 2008 Rank Last Week Title 1 2 One Piece 2 1 Lost 3 3 Prison Break 4 4 Bleach 5 5 Stargate Atlantis 6 6 Heroes 7 28 Masters of Horror 8 10 Grey’s Anatomy 9 24 Generation Kill 10 14 Top Gear (2002) 11 9 Desperate Housewives 12 12 Naruto 13 15 South Park 14 27 How I Met Your Mother 15 20 Battlestar Galactica 16 25 My Name Is Earl 17 16 Family Guy 18 8 Doctor Who 19 26 Las Vegas 20 7 Kyle XY Masters of Horror is the big news on Big Champagne‘s list of… Read More »

As Hurricane Gustav bears down on the city in the coming hours – a potential redux of the 2006 disasater – T-Mobile has opened its wifi networks for all to use, helping residents stay connected in a time of emergency. Read More »

 
 

It’s always good to see companies step up in times of need and T-Mobile is doing just that with Hurricane Gustav threatening the Gulf Coast.  To aid those in the affected areas T-Mobile is opening up their WiFi hotspots so that connectivity can be maintained.  Hotspots… Read More »

As the rumored release date of September 17th gets closer we are seeing more information about and photos of the Google Android-powered HTC Dream handset leak out.  These new photos uncovered by engadget have me getting really excited about the Dream as it looks… Read More »

The fourth generation of the great Fujitsu 8.9-inch touch screen Tablet PC has hit the FCC according to our friends at jkkmobile.  The P1630 looks to be another incremental refresh with nothing… Read More »

My post, How to standout in a sea of storage startups resulted in a spirited conversation, including some really insightful comments here and else where on the web. Raghu Kulkarni, CEO of Pro Softnet, a Woodland Hills, Calif.-based company said not only… Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 145 is 34:30 minutes long and is a 31.8 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion,… Read More »

Long Weekend Tuneup

If you’re the sort of web worker who doesn’t take vacations, you may not even have noticed that this is a long weekend in the US (hint: we’re celebrating “a day off for working citizens” on Monday). If you’re not heading out for a… Read More »

First I didn’t know about the Jonas Brothers. Then The Hills started dominating Google Trends. Does one have to watch MTV in order to write about online trends? The longer I do this, the more likely that seems. The Aug. 18th premiere of its… Read More »

It’s not a new idea to make hay by seizing the messy business opportunities no one else wants. Innovating the distribution of a technology, rather than inventing the technology itself, isn’t novel either. This is the model that made founder Michael Dell a billionaire. Now,… Read More »

TechCrunch started a big buzz with their call for a $200 web tablet that they started as a real project to get built.  Things quickly got awfully quiet for a while and speculation grew that it was just another hopeful idea that wouldn’t see… Read More »

Recently on jkOnTheRun

Another week has flown by and lots of good tech has made the news.  Netbooks dominate the news as they have for months and lots of movement in the smartphone area was noted.  There are lots of highlights from the past week which are conveniently grouped… Read More »

More Must Reads

Three touch screen phones that you can try if you don’t like iPhone. Read More »

Liz met a zombie at Thursday’s Pier Screening in Los Angeles, but rather than eat her brains, as is customary, he offered her a brain dump on GameZombie.tv, a scruffy but popular multi-platform game industry news/interview site with an interesting background, unique premise, and ambitious… Read More »

Broadband service providers are looking to add higher-value services to their offerings, services that could soon include a virtual desktop for consumers. Indeed, the idea of a service provider offering a PC as a Service (PCaaS), essentially a PC in the cloud, may be coming to… Read More »

V-P nominations and the Democrat’s supposedly green convention clogged the airwaves this week, but what does it all mean for cleantech? Here’s our take on the running mates and the other headlines from the week. 10 Things to Know About Sarah Palin and Energy: Presumptive Republican… Read More »

  College football has begun and I MUST get a TV in here soon. Any recommendations? UPDATE: Good comments coming in as I knew they would and I now know evough to put some criteria in place for what I think I need.  The house has a… Read More »

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