Earlier this week, Apple showed off iPhone 3.0, a sorely needed upgraded to the software that powers its iPhone and iPod touch devices. Part of the new upgrade is the ability to attach a payment system to the apps, content and other related services.
Archive for March 2009
Nichelle Stephens calls herself a “multiblogger, bookkeeper, cupcake enthusiast, and social media strategist.” She blogs about personal finance for freelancers at Keeping Nickels and co-founded and co-produces the comedy blog Chicks and Giggles. Stephens explains why she likes Twickie. What’s… Read More »
In a story outlining the challenges faced by Palm’s Pre, The New York Times reports: “David Owens, a Sprint marketing executive, said that he understood that ‘consumers don’t perceive Sprint as having the best network,’ but that if they were to ‘look at actual network… Read More »
Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Open Neptune… these are some open source projects that are being pursued by web technologists in order to deal with explosion of digital data in a post-terabyte world. The traditional way to deal with unstructured data isn’t working. What we need is… Read More »
Gmail Labs has been busy lately, it would seem, and has introduced a number of new features for the web-based email service that have me, once again, considering going back to it (I generally use my MobileMe account, because it allows me to sync… Read More »
Aylus Networks is not a name familiar to consumers, but that’s fine — Aylus is looking to sell media-sharing and live-streaming services direct to mobile operators. The Westford, Mass.-based startup has $25 million in funding from Matrix Partners and North Bridge Partners and is in… Read More »
Amazon looks set to start selling HD video downloads any day now, hot on the heels of Apple’s iTunes HD movie offering, which was unveiled yesterday. Amazon’s web site already contains links to HD versions of TV show downloads, but while the actual… Read More »
The Sony VAIO P notebook is easily the smallest notebook I have used with a keyboard that allows touch typing. In this video, I give a tour of the VAIO P that shows off all the features of the little notebook. I demonstrate how easy it… Read More »
It’s the weekend, traditionally a time for quiet contemplation of the freshest iPhone releases, welcome to the App Store Pick. Hang on there one moment though because before we run headlong in to a stack of apps, we’ve got but a few moments to look at the… Read More »
The ability to tether a 3G phone to a laptop is always desirable. Phones with 3G make dandy modems for laptops, and owners like to do that as they are already paying for that phone data connection. Carrier rules aside (at your own risk), utilities have… Read More »
Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, today reminds us that it’s Twitter’s birthday. Michael Arrington, too, writes about the third birthday of the service that everyone is tweeting about. It was three years ago that a chance meeting with Noah Glass… Read More »
MoTR 166 is 32:45 minutes long and is a 30 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: March Madness = sleepy hosts who meant to discuss… Read More »
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