April, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2009

I’ve been using a Nokia E63 on-and-off for the past few weeks now. My SIM card tends to gravitate back to my iPhone, but the E63 is a solid bit of hardware. IntoMobile caught sight of Dell selling this Symbian S60 handset for… Read More »

The Open Mobile Video Coalition said today that it will begin broadcasting over-the-air mobile television to devices in Washington, D.C., later this summer. Also today, Qualcomm, which operates a competing over-the-air television technology, said it’s licensed its FLO software to ProTelevision Technologies (formerly Philips TV… Read More »

 
 

The Open Mobile Video Coalition said today that it will begin broadcasting over-the-air mobile television to devices in Washington, D.C., later this summer. Also today, Qualcomm, which operates a competing over-the-air television technology, said it’s licensed its FLO software to ProTelevision Technologies (formerly Philips TV… Read More »

It won’t be long before we’ll see a carrier-subsidized netbook for free based on the price war that is just beginning. With Verizon and AT&T both beginning to offer subsidized netbooks, it’s not surprising to hear that a netbook from AT&T is just $79.99. Sure… Read More »

TiVo to Launch Local Commercial Ratings; will provide second-by-second data for programs and ads, service will roll out in as many as 10 markets, depending on client demand. (MediaWeek) Susan Boyle: Approaching 100 Million Views in Total; Visible Measures reports that there are 650 video placements… Read More »

Get your tweet on and shake your verbs, Tweetie — the much-celebrated iPhone Twitter client — has hit the Mac OS X desktop. As regular readers will know, I adore my iPhone and I’m an avid tweeter. A few months back, I weighed the… Read More »

Today marks the 113th running of the Boston Marathon: a race I came close to qualifying for about 10 years ago, but missed by a smidge. Now I’ve seen hundreds of races where folks run with a phone, but this might be the first time that… Read More »

Gear6 today released Web Cache in an effort to commercialize the Internet’s predominant (de facto, for Linux) distributed caching protocol, memcached. Every Top 20 web site not owned by Microsoft uses memcached (Facebook has almost 1,000 servers dedicated to its memcached tier)… Read More »

A lot is written about the things you don’t miss when you telecommute — the cube farm, having to wear a suit, the politics, and so on. But, believe it or not, working in an office delivers a few benefits, too, and I’m not just talking… Read More »

Rocketboom has gone old-school YouTube, bringing Caitlin Hill on board to helm the web-based news program after Joanne Colan hosted her last episode on Friday. (Show creator Andrew Baron must be a sucker for women with accents.) Hill has been a YouTube sorta-celeb since… Read More »

The smart grid is being touted as the Swiss army knife of cleantech — adding energy efficiency to the power grid, saving consumers money on energy bills, and creating jobs. That’s the way Florida utility FPL Group sees it, and today FPL, Cisco, GE, Silver Spring… Read More »

Updated with AT&T response: Time Warner Cable may have backed off its plans to meter broadband for now, but AT&T still has tiered broadband trials going on in Reno, Nev., and in Beaumont, Texas. And judging from one consumer’s experience with the trial, AT&T… Read More »

More Must Reads

Well, bless my buttons, is it true? Has J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth finally arrived in a digital format for e-books? It’s not myth or legend: it’s true! I normally wouldn’t call out a specific title or series, but I can’t help myself this morning. See,… Read More »

Not one to be baited into a direct reprisal of Microsoft’s latest “laptop hunter” series of commercials, Apple is firing back in their own way with the release of four new installments of their “Read More »

Way back in 2005 I reviewed an on-screen keyboard utility for the Sony U that was great. UBoard was a keyboard designed by Nostram Studios, now defunct, that made text entry on the 5-inch screen of the Sony U very easy to do. This weekend I… Read More »

More than 66 million U.S. consumers are using their computer while watching TV, according to new research from In-Stat. In-Stat’s survey also found that more men than women are creating these so-called two-screen experiences, with 33 percent of male respondents saying they sometimes use a… Read More »

Solar-Powered Cell Phone: Japan’s No. 2 wireless carrier, KDDI Corp., said today it will start selling a waterproof, solar-powered cell phone made by Sharp Corp. this summer. — Forbes Guv to Join Detroit Green Car Talks: This week’s Society of Automotive Engineer’s conference, titled “Racing to… Read More »

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