RIM just launched its BlackBerry App World (BAW), a competitor to iTunes App Store. I download the App World app over my WiFi network and installed it on my my T-Mobile Curve 8900. The download and installation process was painless and relatively smooth — in a … Read More »
Archive for March 2009
Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater offers a neat, easy way to take the content from your PC and view it on your TV. But, while it supports HD content up to 1080i, it lacks support for HDMI — which is sure to turn off many videophiles. The FreeAgent … Read More »
It might be up for debate whether smart meters — electricity meters that provide real-time information about energy consumption and enable two-way communication between a utility and a consumer — will solve the U.S. power problem. But regardless, over the next couple of years an … Read More »
In case you weren’t sure that today is officially SBOW Day, this ought to convince you. What, you don’t know what SBOW Day is? It’s Sharing Broadband Over WiFi, silly! C’mon, everybody’s doing it! Case in point: we showed you earlier today how easy … Read More »
Apple released the second version of the iPhone 3.0 OS and SDK Beta today, bringing developers a number of feature improvements and stability fixes. It’s good news for people like me who are using the beta on their primary phones — against their own good judgment and … Read More »
Now that GPS chips are becoming must-have hardware on cell phones, location-based services for mobile devices have finally arrived. They’re even infiltrating the desktop. So it’s time to start sifting through the location-aware company pitches, from newly launched apps to platforms (there’s always … Read More »
Yesterday, New York-based startup incubator Betaworks raised $2 million in funding for its URL-shortener project, Bit.ly, and spun it out as an independent company. The funding raised some eyebrows, with some speculating if Bit.ly, one of the dozens of link-shortening services, was worth a … Read More »
I doubt I had anything to do with this, but I recently mentioned that I felt a specific bit of software was priced a tad high. I’m talking about Wrike’s ContactsCalendarSync for Android handsets: It synchronizes Calendar and Contacts between a T-Mobile G1 … Read More »
Given that most of the world’s data centers are built smack in the middle of large swaths of land, the notion of powering data centers with tidal power sounds about as smart as tapping into solar power undersea. But some early adopters, like Read More »
While everyone in the game industry was following the latest news from GDC last week, I happened to notice an MMO milestone happening on Facebook: a casual virtual world called YoVille passed 5 million monthly active users. Launched in May of last … Read More »
In an effort to better understand the inner workings of a coworking business, I spoke with Eva Schweber, co-owner of CubeSpace in Portland, Ore. Schweber is CubeSpace’s Chief Cat Herder, policy wonk and fount of obscure nonprofit information. She brings more than 15 … Read More »
Movie-based titles have not enjoyed a favorable reputation in gaming on the whole. There have been exceptions, of course, like Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64, and the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games for the Nintendo and Super Nintendo. The Watchmen MMO for the … Read More »
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