I’m late to the game on this news, but recently the StyleTap folks announced full support for Symbian S60 devices. StyleTap is basically an emulator that allows you to run older Palm OS applications on a non-Palm device. The S60 version joins the Windows Mobile… Read More »
Archive for January 2009
Sling.com Getting Viacom Content; video from MTVN, BET and Paramount pictures coming to the video portal, deal was struck separately from distribution agreement with Sling’s parent company EchoStar. (paidContent) Extreme Reach Gets $1.5 Million; video ad firm’s first round led by Village Ventures and Long… Read More »
At the Clean-Tech Investor Summit in Indian Wells, Calif., this week, Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute and one of Wired magazine’s 15 people President Obama should listen to, compared the global water situation to that of oil and said that… Read More »
The impact of declining desktop and laptop demand on the PC industry became that much clearer this morning, as Microsoft reported lower-than-expected second-quarter earnings driven, in part, by a deterioration of its client PC business (sever software sales are flat) and said it would cut… Read More »
Oh, admit it. Some of you are here solely because the phrase “young lesbian love” caught your eye. But this isn’t about that sort of Internet clip. Anyone But Me is a coming-of-age lesbian drama in which teen protagonists in NYC dare to live… Read More »
We have been warning everyone for months that the mass appeal of low-cost netbooks was going to hit the major players hard. You’ve probably heard today that Microsoft plans to lay off 5,000 employees over the next 18 months due to the hard times. Details are… Read More »
For quite a while (heck, pretty much forever), the knock on Apple has been that it’s overpriced, that the same thing can be had for much less elsewhere. A much more recent complaint is that somehow Apple never gets any critical reviews, it’s all just shoddy reporting.… Read More »
In a rare change of pace, this piece will deal with software you actually download and install on your computer, instead of a web or cloud-based solution. The tool is Collanos Workplace, and it allows you to set up different Workplaces (note the key… Read More »
Today must be the day for updated devices. First we saw the next MSI Wind netbook go on sale and now HTC has an updated Touch Cruise smartphone to offer. The integrated GPS isn’t exactly new or unique, but the HTC Footprints feature is for… Read More »
Nielsen reported today that more than 6.5 million U.S. households (5.7 percent) are not ready for the national switch to digital TV that is less than one month away. These latest numbers mark an improvement of 1.3 million homes from Nielsen’s December report on… Read More »
Apple’s quarterly earnings call is primarily a retrospective affair. They report their numbers for the previous quarter, discuss strengths and weaknesses (and what made them strengths and weaknesses), and spend a little bit of time talking about how they plan on continuing and repeating success next… Read More »
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Tips and Tricks for Running QuickBooks for Windows In a VM
Running QuickBooks for Windows in a virtual machine (VM) on your Mac is often the best way to get all the advanced features of QuickBooks that are only available in the Windows version and still have fun using your Mac the way nature intended, running OS… Read More »