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Archive for December 2008
2008 should have been a good year for P2P startups. The FCC ruled that ISPs can’t block BitTorrent and other distributed protocols, the growing importance of HD was increasingly making P2P look like a viable solution, and the P4P folks even came up with… Read More »
As 2008 takes its final breaths, I am sitting in my apartment, which is enveloped in a thick fog that’s hiding both the ugly high-rises and the beauty that is the San Francisco Bay. The fog is also muting the sounds of the city —… Read More »
As 2008 comes to a close, Liz Shannon Miller and Jill Weinberger look forward to improving themselves and the Internet in the New Year. Find out their New Year’s resolutions and their recommendations for others in online video in today’s Station Conversation! Liz: Happy… Read More »
Oh boy, it’s that time of year when we put ourselves out on the front line and boldly make our predictions for what we’ll see in the world of mobile tech in 2009. I say “we” but that’s only to put Kevin’s butt on the line… Read More »
When French student Axel Peju wanted to use his Mac to track his finances and manage a budget, he couldn’t find an application to meet his needs, so he created his own. He developed Squirrel, a personal finance program for the Mac (and soon,… Read More »
In addition to the production version of its plug-in hybrid sedan, the Fisker Karma, Fisker Automotive plans to show a concept car called the Fisker Karma S (for “Sunset”) at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month. What’s unusual about the Sunset… Read More »
Quite the conundrum over possible restrictions using Intel’s Atom CPU if Digitimes has the facts straight. Today they’re reporting that HP is negotiating with Intel so that they can use the Atom chipset in notebooks with display sizes larger than 10.2-inches. Allegedly, HP wants… Read More »
Twitter is now rumored to have between four and five million users, varying from the inactive and curious, to hardcore life-streamers, though it still lacks some useful features like groups. The company appears to be pursuing growth over immediate revenue streams, such as the Read More »
Today, IDG World Expo (the folks behind Macworld), announced that they will be holding a Town Hall Meeting at next week’s show. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 7 at 5PM PST in Moscone’s Gateway Ballroom, room 102. All Macworld attendees are free to and encouraged… Read More »
Year-end prognosticators have their work cut out for them. Most predictions made a year ago were undone by events few actually foresaw. Now things are as uncertain as ever. 2009 could bring a healthy recovery, or another financial crisis could set us back even further. So… Read More »
I brought my Inbox to zero over the weekend, but the barrage of CES pitches has me buried again. Rob Bushway is doing better than I am at managing the endless e-mails because he’s actually reading some. He notes that the Digital… Read More »