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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 »

Carbonite CEO: Online Backups Sell

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 »

F|R: What Startups Can Learn From Michael Dell

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 »

I had a nice e-mail chat with reader Michael Connick this morning regarding the MSI Wind that I should be receiving next week. Michael recently upgraded from an … Read More »

With the tech conference season upon us, Found|READ thought some tips for how to master conference marketing on the cheap would be useful. Today’s tips are courtesy of serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo, currently founder of iterasi, a one-and a-half-year-old startup in Portland, Ore., that … Read More »

Now that Internet Explorer 8 is in serious beta, web workers who develop or design web pages are faced, once again, with a knotty question: which browsers (and which versions) do you design for? The basic problem is understanding your market: browser usage statistics … Read More »

Reader Stephen Wallace just told me about a very useful web utility that will send a text message to anyone for free.  "Oh, don’t forget" has a simple web interface where you enter in the phone number to send the text message, the date and … Read More »

Web video is starting to mirror traditional TV, like it or not. Case in point: the distribution strategy and release schedule of LG15: The Resistance. EQAL, the production studio behind the show, will release new episodes just once a week, starting Sat., Sept. 20. Hmm, that sure … Read More »

Since we’re getting in a huff over Comcast’s 250 GB cap, we thought it would be helpful to lay out why capping broadband is a bad idea today and a worse one for tomorrow, how it can benefit ISPs, and why it’s not really necessary on … Read More »

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, bringing to the GOP ticket a full-throated call to drill, drill, drill. What we’d like to see is a little more action on developing Alaska’s “huge supplies of renewable … Read More »

Comcast’s new 250 GB bandwidth cap is that, as Om points out, is metered without a meter — Comcast doesn’t provide you with a central tally of all your data use. The company instead suggests its customers install bandwidth metering software on their machines and … Read More »

I’ve written before about TweakGuides.com, and the truly extensive guides for customizing both Windows XP and Windows Vista offered for free there. Recently, I’ve been diving into the free TweakGuide for Firefox that the site offers. It’s not as extensive as the Windows … Read More »

I have been using computers since the Apple II and the Tandy 100.  I have marveled at the evolution of the operating system and the increasing capabilities that have come with that evolution.  I have delved into the inner workings of each version of Windows since … Read More »

iPhone Life is a print magazine launching in early September by the former publishers of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, Thaddeus Computing. Available by subscription and on newsstands nationwide iPhone Life magazine hits the newsstands on September 9, chock full of  news, reviews, and tips … Read More »

One of the problems with Comcast’s new 250 GB bandwidth cap is that, as Om points out on GigaOM, it’s metered without a meter. Comcast doesn’t provide you with a central tally of all your data use. The company instead suggests … Read More »

Comcast has come clean about their plans to cap usage on its broadband service. Starting in October, if you use more than 250GB of bandwidth in a month, you’ll get a talking-to. Cross that threshold twice in six months and they’ll kick you off the service, … Read More »

CIA Director-turned-venture-capitalist Jim Woolsey (who is advising John McCain on energy issues) says that our power grid is so vulnerable to cyber-hacking that 10- or 11-year-old hackers could get through. In an interview on the Blog Talk Radio Show, Woolsey said: “The systems that … Read More »

There is no question that the one single device that has stoked my gadget lust more than any other recently is the UrbanMax.  This is the concept notebook/ slate device that Intel rolled out at the IDF to get OEMs interested in making one of … Read More »

The thing that strikes you about meeting Tom Green is how…polite he is. The same guy who walked around interviewing people with a piece of poo on a microphone apologized to us (repeatedly) for being late to our 9:30 a.m. tour of his studio and offered … Read More »

HTC surprised many people with their recent announcement of the Touch Diamond look-alike, the S740.  It’s an interesting phone with both a keypad on the front and a sliding keyboard inside for messaging.  The original HTC-supplied photos made it look like the S740 was all … Read More »

Redefining stop motion, this high-speed assembly of 3,038 photos, taken over the course of three days, creates a fascinating portrait of creator Robbie’s life in Boston, perfectly scored to Lightspeed Champion’s Dry Lips: 3 Days – 3,038 Photos from Robbie on Vimeo. And Jill … Read More »

Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache I choose a theme, pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here. Mozilla Labs shakes things … Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/98r7l3pgsCA&hl=en&fs=1 I’ve covered Dial Directions in the past; it’s a useful mobile service that offers directions to you over your phone. You don’t need a smartphone or GPS-enabled handset, you simply call the automated service, speak your location and destination and you quickly recieve a … Read More »

Mazda is supposedly jumping into the green car game, with plans to build a range-extended electric vehicle that will debut in 2010, according to a report from Autocar via Wired. So if two’s company and three’s a crowd, GM, with its Chevy Volt, and Toyota, … Read More »

Huzzah! We had just finished recording this week’s podcast late last night when I saw an update for eReader on my iPhone. Version 1.2 hit last night and … Read More »

OK, so you work on the web. That’s a given. But what are you doing when you work on the web? Most likely, interacting with some application on your computer. Now drill down one more level: are you using the mouse … Read More »

With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those caps. Obviously we can’t verify if someone … Read More »

Tesla Motors will be charging up Daimler’s electric Smart ForTwo cars with its own lithium-ion battery technology, the German edition of the Financial Times reports (hat tip Autoblog Green). According to the report Tesla will supply the batteries for the 150 cars Daimler plans … Read More »

With all of the netbook talk these days, it’s no surprise that we’re also talking about various Linux distros. While many netbooks are offered with Windows XP, most are offered in a … Read More »

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