January, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2009

California’s stricter air emission standards just got a nod from a friend in the White House, but are California residents clamoring for more stations where they can pump biofuels into their cars? Propel Fuels, a startup that recently moved its headquarters to Sacramento, Calif.,… Read More »

iLife ’08 Updates Land Along With iLife ’09 – The big story might be the release of iLife ’09, which features major additions to iPhoto, iMovie, and Garage Band, but iLife ’08 also got some lovin’ from Apple. Those updates include stability improvements and… Read More »

 
 

A trend we’re really excited about here at NTV HQ is pocket HD video. Both the Kodak Zi6 and the Flip MinoHD have been on the market for awhile, but it wasn’t until recently that we got to test them out side-by-side. We’re not… Read More »

When Toyota Prius sales sank more than 40 percent last May compared with the same month a year earlier, the automaker blamed it on a global battery shortage. But while the 7 percent drop in fiscal 2009 sales Toyota forecast this week has… Read More »

We don’t always like to wait until we know everything about a startup before we post on it, so think of this as a placeholder. Euclid Media is another one of these nifty video ad insertion companies that’s looking to shake up preconceived notions of… Read More »

Google is long overdue to add their own Gears support to their apps, but they can cross another one off of their to-do list today. Gmail now supports an Offline mode, although it’s experimental for now. That means you’ll find it within the Labs settings… Read More »

Cox Communications, the third-largest cable company and broadband service provider, is joining Comcast in traffic shaping and delaying traffic it thinks is not time-sensitive. They call it congestion management, making it seem like an innocuous practice, though in reality it is anything but. Chalk this… Read More »

I’m not as fashion forward as any of the women in my life, but I am man enough to watch many sartorial shows with my wife. Her background is fashion, so I gave up picking out new clothes some time ago. Even with my limited knowledge… Read More »

A group of seven investment bodies, including the New York City Pension Fund, have teamed up in an effort to get major U.S. Internet service providers to detail their privacy practices through the power of the shareholder resolution. As powers go, shareholder resolutions are far more… Read More »

When I sat down to watch last week’s episode of Lost on a mobile phone, I thought the hardest part would be squinting to see the video on a 2.8-inch screen. Turns out I was wrong: The hardest part was getting AT&T’s CV video serviceRead More »

Nearly a year ago, 400 Denver residents and city employees had their vehicles rigged with greenhouse gas-tracking systems in order to find out whether online feedback regarding how idling, sudden braking and rapid acceleration increase carbon dioxide emissions and fuel costs would change driving habits. Today,… Read More »

More Must Reads

I’ve been playing a bit with the Moblin for Netbooks alpha build on my MSI Wind today. It’s not bad, but after two hours of nosing around, I can’t see what it currently or will offer that Ubuntu doesn’t offer today. [Note: feel free… Read More »

QuickBooks is a critical tool for many small businesses, and one of the more frustrating issues for switchers to figure out as they come to the Mac from a Windows PC. While the options for running QuickBooks on the Mac are improving in 2009, there are… Read More »

On the OStatic blog today I covered some of the early benchmarking results appearing for Release Candidate 1 of version 8 of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.  The speed results from ZDNet Australia that I discussed there are corroborated by other testers, including DownloadSquad. Depending on… Read More »

You may not agree with all the tactics of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), but you gotta appreciate their online marketing moxie. The organization said it created the sexy “Veggie Love” ad to run during this weekend’s Super Bowl, only to have… Read More »

We’ve been predicting (and waiting for) the appearance of numerous Android-based phones and a very sweet one from General Mobile seems ready for lift-off.  This sleek keyboard-less iPhone-esque Android phone (DSTL1) made by Sharp certainly looks very nice and is expected to be announced next… Read More »

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