March, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2009

Cha-Ching Touch Finally in App Store

If you follow Midnight Apps on Twitter, you know it’s taken the better part of a month. But they’ve finally navigated the App Store approval process, and Cha-Ching Touch is now available for purchase via the App Store. We gave Read More »

Hulu Grew 33% in February

Though we’ve worried that Hulu’s success might make it a victim, by driving its content providers to limit their offerings and provoking cable companies to get in the game, the site keeps growing its wedge of the American audience. If Hulu can keep moving up the… Read More »

 
 

Locale For Android Homes in on Skyhook Wireless

Tomorrow, Skyhook Wireless will be announcing their next service partnership in a press release that follows. The company offers a huge database of WiFi access points, which provide additional location information to software services using it. Locale for Android is the next feather… Read More »

With the U.S. tech conference season – TED, ETech & SXSW – behind us, the European scene is starting to warm up for spring with the Futuresonic festival, Thinking Digital, Future of Web Design and, more immediately, Amsterdam’s The… Read More »

With many companies cutting costs everywhere they can, Ustream has managed to infiltrate the corporate webcast market pretty quickly. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup let us know it has signed Oracle, Duke, Sun, UC Berkeley and Sling as customers for its paid white-label live video… Read More »

As we’ve pointed out recently, the power grid will increasingly be adding computing and intelligence, and will in turn be susceptible to the security issues that are currently plaguing the Internet. One of the smartest ways to address these concerns is by following the security… Read More »

Earlier I referenced a report by Australian news site Smarthouse’s David Richards saying Apple is close to launching a touchscreen “netbook type” computer according to unnamed Asian sources. Richards is now citing sources… Read More »

P2P video platform Vuze today announced that users can now watch content downloaded to their Mac or PC on mobile and TV screens. The Vuze software update supports viewing via iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PS3, and Xbox 360. In the latest version of Vuze, there… Read More »

This is sure to kick up the ol’ “what’s a netbook and what’s a notebook?” debate. The macles* blog says that Acer isn’t content with their 8.9- and 10-inch netbook models, so they’re outing an 11.6-inch Aspire One. Hmm… it probably should be the… Read More »

Dell has been rumored to be entering the smartphone market for a while, and rumblings as recently as January gave that rumor some teeth.  The rumors had the PC giant readying both a Windows Mobile-based phone and an Android phone for release later this year.… Read More »

Twitter’s meteoric rise in popularity – particularly over the last year – has been widely covered, and indeed the simplicity and flexibility of the 140 character-based microblogging platform continues to attract people all over the world in huge numbers, while a thriving community of developers build… Read More »

My patience was rewarded over the weekend: the GrandCentral beta account I opened in July of 2007 is now a Google Voice account. I can now use one single number for centralized voice communications, routing calls to various phones. I tested the voicemail and… Read More »

More Must Reads

The growing popularity of Twitter and Facebook’s news feed functionality has made everyone embrace life streaming — essentially a way for us to broadcast our daily digital lives via photos, videos, postings and status updates — as a way to consume information. In a matter of… Read More »

Updated: Skype has announced it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). While details thus far are fuzzy, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Skype-for-SIP product will be introduced as a beta product and will be tested by a… Read More »

I love Netflix streaming and have never had an issue with it. Other people, however, are not so happy with the quality of the streaming service, and have become quite vocal about it in the blogs and forums, aiming their ire at Microsoft’s Silverlight player in… Read More »

Imagine if the damage caused by Internet viruses and worms — such as downed web sites and snatched credit card info — were unleashed on the critical infrastructure of the power grid. The results could include targeted blackouts, tampering with power generation (nuclear!), or using energy… Read More »

The metered bandwidth malaise that is spreading across the U.S. — Internet service providers such as Cox, Comcast, Charter, Time Warner and AT&T are all dabbling at restricting your monthly bandwidth — is taking root in other parts of the world. In India, two major… Read More »

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