April, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2009

We’re trying something new here on the site since it’s been requested at various times over the past several years. See that Daily E-Mail Newsletter bit in the sidebar? It just appeared today and it sends our content to you through e-mail. If you sign… Read More »

Clearing The Cache: Tasks & Time Edition

Like many of us, I spend a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache I pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here. Have some… Read More »

 
 

[appreview] title=Fist of Fury image=http://gigapple.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/appicon_fist_of_fury.png price=$2.99 url=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299388619&mt=8 rating=avoid [/appreview] Don’t let life get you down, put your punchin’ gloves on and show the world you’re a champion in this retro boxing game. In these economically egregious times, we all need a little release from the fiscal pressures dumped upon on our already strained shoulders.… Read More »

The folks at Google must to be pretty pleased with themselves — G-1, a moderately useful phone using their Android mobile operating system, has sold a million handsets since it launched last October. Of course Apple, by comparison, sold a million handsets around the planet… Read More »

YouTube and the music industry have a complicated relationship. Warner Music Group yanked its artists from the site and user uploads that contain tracks from the company’s albums are automatically muted. But rival Universal Music Group recently announced a planned new joint music… Read More »

Sweden Racing to an LTE Future

Sweden is fast becoming the epicenter of the LTE universe, with three of the country’s four major wireless carriers — Tele2, Telenor and TeliaSonera — racing to build 4G wireless networks. These carriers bought spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band in 2008 and are looking to… Read More »

With Microsoft’s Windows 7 beta on my netbook at various times since October of last year, it’s easy to overlook alternatives. After all, the general consensus in netbook-land is that Windows XP works great on computers where Vista is less than optimal. So when Read More »

Starting next week, the meaning of “green building,” at least in a technical sense, will change depending on where you live. On Monday, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) will launch the third version of its LEED rating system for green buildings,… Read More »

Weeks after Australia announced its grand plan to build a $31 billion super broadband network, tiny Estonia says it will spend $374 million to build a broadband network with speeds of 100 Megabits per second. The fiber optic network will be 6,640 kilometers long… Read More »

I was recently shocked to discover that a friend of mine who is quite a few years (and jobs) into a successful career in engineering sales not only doesn’t use any kind of customer relationship management (CRM) system or application, but actually had never heard… Read More »

Reports about a Microsoft presentation for advertisers bring word of some exciting new web series in the works, at least if you’re a fan of The Office, Kids in the Hall or Arrested Development. Microsoft revealed the following about the series, which do not… Read More »

As reported recently all over the blogosphere, the world’s first Mac-based botnet is active after infiltrating people’s systems in January by way of a trojan hidden inside pirated iWork’09 installers. If you… Read More »

More Must Reads

Over a year ago, we commiserated in your Microsoft OneNote frustrations. A key feature, the “Send to OneNote” function, simply didn’t work if you were running a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Vista. We heard from the OneNote team way back then and although… Read More »

The California Air Resources Board, that thorn in the sides of automakers and the Bush-era EPA, has just approved the country’s first mandate for low-carbon fuels. The new rule, which won a landslide 9-1 victory yesterday at the state agency, will require producers, refiners, importers and… Read More »

[UPDATE: Seems we need to start adding a graphic of a cheek with a tongue planted firmly in it for articles like this. Lighten up folks.] My opinion might be slightly skewed, thanks to jealous rage, but I can’t help but think that Apple’s big billion-app prize… Read More »

MoTR 170 is 32 minutes long and is a 29.4 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: Apple throws stones, calls netbooks “junky” Did he or didn’t… Read More »

North Korea to Indict Current TV Journalists; state news agency says after an investigation of the two American reporters, N. Korean officials will indict them on “hostile acts,” if convicted, the two women could face five years in prison. (CBS News) Analyst: TV Upfront Sales Could… Read More »

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