I am having a lot of fun playing with the Sony VAIO P ultra-portable notebook. One feature that Sony has included on the VAIO P is the InstantON mode, which lets you boot into a stripped Linux environment without having to boot into Windows. InstantON has… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
Toshiba Delays Fuel Cell Launch: Toshiba said today it will not begin selling its first fuel cell product — a battery charger that produces electricity from a reaction between methanol, water and air — before the end of this month, as planned. The launch is now… Read More »
In the world of online video, once you’ve secured the support of a large and generous fanbase, there’s very little you can’t do. For proof, look no further than Felicia Day: Loyal viewership has been a big factor in the success of her show… Read More »
OK, fans of e-books. How many times have you wanted to purchase a digital title but weren’t sure you were getting the best deal? Obviously, the content format plays a part in your decision making process, but the price might have something to do with… Read More »
When it comes to speculation about hardware, I like going to the code. Code doesn’t have “sources,” questionable or otherwise, and if something turns up there, you can be relatively sure it isn’t a ploy to deceive you (unless we’re being subtly manipulated, but that’s… Read More »
President Obama last week visited an electric vehicle R&D lab in California where he called on battery developers to step up and innovate. Today, back at the White House, the President once again reached out to cleantech entrepreneurs, this time at an event dubbed “
Infinera has been one of the optical industry’s disruptors, helping to boost capacity and lower the costs of both inter- and intracity networks. Now the company is turning its attention to subsea networks, as evidenced by its demo of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based DTN… Read More »
The many insecurities of the smart grid. (Earth2Tech) Hulu grew 33% in February, now 4th-largest video site. (NewTeeVee) Can Twitter help reduce the email glut? (WebWorkerDaily) Personal clouds + netbooks = Mobile Supercomputing? (jkOnTheRun) iPhone 3.0 OS holds keys to new hardware. (TheAppleBlog) Read More »
After reading my review of uTodo and seeing that I was looking for a Windows equivalent of the Mac GTD app, Things, I was contacted by Richard Watson, developer of Tudumo. Richard wrote, “I wondered if you’d heard of Tudumo? It’s fairly similar… Read More »
I’ve been following Dave Winer’s trials and tribulations with Amazon’s EC2 of late and I think I just had an epiphany. Either that or I just spilled coffee on my lap, an unfortunate but common occurrence these days. Here’s the skinny on what Dave… Read More »
Landline losses at large (U.S.) phone companies such as AT&T and Verizon have become so routine that we stopped paying attention. This graphic in a research report by Leichtman Research brought them back into focus. In 2008, phone companies lost about 7.94 million lines, while… Read More »
News “broke” over the weekend via a leak from Apple itself that the company still offers the low-end iMac model with a smaller, 17-inch screen, though it is available exclusively for education customers. The news came via the Apple eNews for Education newsletter for… Read More »
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