Archive for February 2009
Working online, you probably need to share documents with clients, partners and coworkers. You also probably wouldn’t mind having a resource at hand whereby you could search, preview, and download a wide selection of documents to use as templates, research material, or benchmarks to help further … Read More »
Or at least it feels that way every time it happens.
Gmail, including Google Apps, went down for about four hours or so this morning (or this afternoon, depending on where you are). It says a lot for Gmail’s reach that when it does go offline, … Read More »
We’re always looking for new sources of information about the major players in the mobile tech space and will be watching a new site just launched by the folks at Via. How To Be Mobile promises to offer tips and advice on how to better … Read More »
Solar companies have spent the past few weeks reporting their latest quarterly results, and the sector is looking battered. Many big names reported discouraging financials for the last three months of 2008, then followed up with even less cheery forecasts for 2009.
But after the stock market … Read More »
High school students are Facebooking, MySpacing and Twittering on their own time, but many public high schools have yet to fully incorporate teenagers’ native tools –- digital media -– into their classrooms. To change that, teachers from the San Francisco Unified School District are slated to … Read More »
We’ve talked time and again about how functional you can be with a smartphone or if it can be a computer replacement. And when you want a bigger screen, desktop software functionality or need to type more than 10 words at at time, we … Read More »
The thought of a smartphone that never has to be replaced is certainly an attractive one. We’re all guilty of tossing out a phone after a few years, even though it’s still working fine, because the technology has evolved and left our clunker in the … Read More »
Broadcom said today that it would make sure content from Chumby, a nascent widget syndication effort for televisions, would run on its chips for digital televisions and set-top boxes. Shriraj Gaglani, a senior director of business development for Broadcom, thinks Chumby will get Read More »
More Must Reads
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 23, 2009, 5:30pm PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 23, 2009, 5:00pm PT
By Josie Garthwaite
Feb. 23, 2009, 4:04pm PT
No More Mashed Potatoes: Top Gear America’s car fanatics are fed up with gas sippers that look like “lumps of cold mashed potatoes.” So they’re trying to build a 70 mpg car that does zero-to-60 in seven seconds. If that makes you think of Tesla and … Read More »
How does an old media guy do new media? With big budgets, but not too big. And with his eyes on the prize of crossing over any one project onto all sorts of platforms.
In his “old world” experience of producing young adult media properties, Albie … Read More »
By Samuel Dean
Feb. 23, 2009, 4:00pm PT
I’m always on the hunt for freeware and open source applications and utilities, and one of my favorite finds from last year, which I wrote about here, was Startup Delayer. I’ve been steadily using this utility, and recommend it highly to Windows users frustrated … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 23, 2009, 3:13pm PT
You know how you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover? Well, when it comes to smartphones and netbooks, a semiconductor research firm is predicting that in fact the cover — or rather, the device casing — may soon be one of the only … Read More »
By Josie Garthwaite
Feb. 23, 2009, 2:30pm PT
Congressional wrangling over the stimulus package helped take the ideas of a national smart grid and utility decoupling out of wonky obscurity, but stopped short of mandating their implementation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to go further, to bulk up the federal muscle behind a … Read More »
I’m exceedingly happy to tell you all about a brand-new series of articles we’re launching here at TheAppleBlog, entitled: The App Review.
Every other weekday, I’ll be sticking my big hands deep into the gaping jaws of the App Store and pulling out a fresh app for … Read More »
It’s a sad fact that those who devote themselves to the world of paranormal investigation are oftentimes rational society’s punching bags, rarely taken seriously by those with more pedestrian outlooks on the natural world. True believers find themselves routinely mocked and ridiculed — even Fox … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 23, 2009, 1:39pm PT
By David Ehrlich
Feb. 23, 2009, 1:01pm PT
Mark Sigal at GigaOM wrote a nice article that questions if, essentially, “open” is all it’s cracked up to be.
I’ve written about this before, and agree with Sigal’s take. He sums up one aspect of it especially well when he says:
The reality is … Read More »
Quick: How much did you spend on smartphone applications last year? We’re halfway through tax season here in the U.S., so I have this info at the tip of my fingertips right now. I actually didn’t spend much: under $20 in 2008. I tend to use … Read More »
By Judi Sohn
Feb. 23, 2009, 10:41am PT
When telecommuting, how do you stay connected to your peers?
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By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 23, 2009, 10:22am PT
By Edit Staff
Feb. 23, 2009, 10:19am PT
Samsung recently outed a follow-up to their Omnia handset with the Omnia HD, a SymbianS60 device that can record 720p video. The phone is jam-packed with lusty features like a 640×360 AMOLED touch display, HSDPA/HSUPA 3G, 8MP camera, and more. One of the “and … Read More »
Report: Video Cord-Cutting a Myth; Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says television subscriber additions grew by 441,000 in the fourth quarter of 2008. (Telephony) Bernstein’s research follows LRG’s data showing online video is not impacting TV subscriptions.
IAB Working to Develop Best Practices for … Read More »
By Simon Mackie
Feb. 23, 2009, 10:06am PT
If you use Outlook and sometimes get replies to your emails saying, “I think you might have forgotten the attachment,” you should check out Outlook Attachment Reminder, a simple VBScript macro. When you click the Send button it checks the body of the email for … Read More »
Subversion (also known as SVN) is a popular version control system. Accessing SVN repositories with OS X is easy – and there are numerous options to do so. In this article we’ll cover 12 different applications that let you access and use Subversion in OS … Read More »
By David Ehrlich
Feb. 23, 2009, 9:24am PT
We joke often about MobileTechRoundup host Matt Miller’s staggering phone collection. Matt has more phones than probably anyone you’ll ever see and as he travels a lot it’s always a fun process to try and guess how many phones he’ll take with him.
A new … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 23, 2009, 7:35am PT
By Josie Garthwaite
Feb. 23, 2009, 7:04am PT
Jockeying will be the name of the game for smart grid companies over the next several months as funding from the economic stimulus package rolls out to state and federal agencies. As Bloomberg notes this morning, now that the $787 billion has been divvied up … Read More »
