Compared to a capacitive touch display, I found the resistive touchscreen of Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic phone to be harder to use. Although Nokia has moved more than 3 million 5800 handsets, they appear to be moving towards the more precise and easier-to-use capacitive displays… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
Come Wednesday, it will be Apple’s turn to discuss its results for the first three months of 2009. But among the crowd of Apple watchers, the discussion has been simmering for months, with the tone shifting from pessimism about recession-whacked sales to cautious optimism — especially… Read More »
The one thing that we all have in common is that we spend our days sitting behind our computers. For me, this often means sitting for hours at a time with only an occasional break to walk upstairs to get more tea. A meeting with a… Read More »
Venture firms doled out $3 billion to 549 portfolio companies in the first quarter of the year, a 61 percent drop in total dollars and a 45 percent decrease in deals, according to the latest Money Tree report. That’s the least amount of funding offered since… Read More »
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MacBook Air, the skinniest of all the Apple machines, has been my computer of choice since the day I bought it. Rarely have I regretted owning the featherweight laptop, but when those regrets do crop up, they’re typically around the lack of storage space —… Read More »
Mary Jo Foley, a veteran technology reporter, says that Microsoft will release Windows Mobile version 6.5 on May 11 at the Redmond giant’s TechEd 2009 conference in Los Angeles. Though not a complete overhaul (that comes with Windows Mobile 7.0), it is a vital… Read More »
Wow, talk about surprised! The Viliv S5 that left Korea only yesterday showed up at Mobile Tech Manor this afternoon. This video gives you a first look at the S5 along with me as I had only just received it when this was shot. I will… Read More »
Security scares seem to be coming up all too frequently for Mac users these days. First, there was the devastatingly fast hacking of a Mac thanks to a Safari exploit at PWN2OWN, and now the first-known botnet to exploit OS X appears to
General Electric is hoping to tap into $2 trillion worth of government stimulus spending over the next three years to beef up revenue in its energy infrastructure division, including renewable energies such as wind and thermal power. GE said Friday its toal revenue fell 9 percent… Read More »
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