Saving up the $379 or so to get an 80GB Intel X25-M Solid State Disk drive? It’s great that you want to help the global economy with more spending, but you might want to hold up that purchase. PC Perspective has an extensive,… Read More »
Archive for February 2009
As most savvy technology readers know, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits “circumventing” digital rights management (DRM) and “other technical protection measures” used to protect copyrighted works. While this ban was meant to deter copyright infringement, many corporations have misused the law to chill competition, free… Read More »
Stimulus Sweepstakes: — The stimulus package may revive the fortunes of OptiSolar, Abengoa and other renewable energy companies stalled by the financial crisis, but the clock is ticking. — Fortune’s Green Wombat Getting Smart with Biofuels: Key policy reforms can accelerate the transition to cellulosic feedstocks… Read More »
A provision in the economic stimulus package may funnel up to $2.5 billion through the Department of Agriculture to provide broadband service to people who live in rural areas and lack access to high-speed Internet. But any money spent on Broadband Over Power Lines, or BPL,… Read More »
NewTeeVee has learned that video platform startup Ooyala will soon power video portal Joost. Representatives for the two companies confirmed that Ooyala would be providing its technology for Joost, but declined to offer further details until they are formally announced. For now, it was… Read More »
Much is being made lately of Microsoft Windows 7 and it’s new taskbar. I’ve been running the beta myself and consider it a nice improvement over Vista. One of the improvements is in the area of window management. The new taskbar shows previews of all the… Read More »
We were so excited about the news that City CarShare would be getting a new plug-in Prius in San Francisco that we logged into our account this afternoon to see when the car would be available. Once there, we discovered a list of cars that… Read More »
I’ve had a long and storied love affair with the Samsung Q1 series of Ultra Mobile PCs, but I think it’s time to break it off. After all, I’m recently married, so affairs understandably don’t sit will with the spouse. With the netbook craze upon… Read More »
Yesterday, when I confessed to being fond of Heidi Klum, I didn’t mention that it was because I think Project Runway is one of the best reality shows on television, as it combines the dramatic personalities of the fashion world in a setting that spotlights… Read More »
A day after millions of consumers were excited to read that the top cell phone makers were rallying behind a universal charger, ComputerWorld has killed the buzz by writing that it will never work. And why is that? Because Apple, with its 1.1 percent… Read More »
Congratulations to Xavier of Notebooks.com as well as Rob, Warner and all of our good friends on the GottaBeMobile team. Today, both sites jointly announced that Notebooks.com has purchased GottaBeMobile. We’re obviously big fans of both sites, so we’re excited that… Read More »
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