Yesterday, people registered as paid iPhone developers received an email alerting them to the availability of a new version of the Associated Press News app via a temporary, exclusive code. The purpose of the app is to test high-volume live push notification and its effect on… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
If you want to keep up with a specific brand, for whatever reason (they’re a competitor in your space, your job is related to their activity, or you just really like what that company’s doing), to date there’s been no easy way to keep track of… Read More »
The long-awaited launch announcement from Palm concerning the Pre release has been received and June 6 is the day. The Palm Pre will be available from Sprint, Best Buy, RadioShack and select Wal-Mart stores for $199.99 (after $100 rebate) and will require a… Read More »
Daimler AG has invested a “double-digit million-dollar sum for about a 10 percent stake” in Tesla Motors as part of a new strategic partnership between the German automaker and the Silicon Valley electric sports car startup. Speaking at a press conference in Stuttgart, Germany… Read More »
If you want to convey that you’re a generic vendor of live-streaming services, then sure, why not change your name to LiveStream? Just forgive us if, having known your company for two years with the quirky if ambiguously pronounced name Mogulus, we have a… Read More »
We’ve seen a flurry of announcements in the last week as electric vehicle battery makers prepare to request grant money under a Department of Energy program created as part of the stimulus package. There’s $2.4 billion available in all — not nearly enough for every ambitious… Read More »
Pacific Ethanol, the corn ethanol producer whose future once seemed so bright it attracted a big investment from Bill Gates, continued its downward spiral today, a long and unprofitable journey that has now taken the company into bankruptcy courts. And things could get worse before… Read More »
Earlier today, I stopped by at the Social Graph Symposium at Sun Microsystems’ Menlo Park campus. The event, which attracted some of the most well-known experts on social networks and social graphs, was organized to look at the various challenges and opportunities being presented by… Read More »
Call it cosmic balance — earlier today I was griping about Google Tasks on mobile devices, and now I’m happy to see labels come to Gmail Mobile. The new function is only supported on Apple’s iPhone and Google’s own Android handsets. The
Please pardon the self-indulgence, but I made a kick-(expletive) chocolate cake (from scratch) this weekend. So after that successful initial foray, I’m into all things cooking, which is why this announcement about Fox’s upcoming show Gordon Ramsay’s Cooking Along Live caught my eye. At first glance,… Read More »
T-Mobile is teasing us with free Cupcake for our Android phones, but then pulling it away at the last minute. It seems it is taking a bit longer to finalize the 1.5 build (Cupcake) than previously thought, and it is being pushed back a… Read More »
Quite a few folks are reporting problems in getting the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update installed and working properly on their officially supported Macs, while “hackintosh” netbook users are finding they’re getting dramatically improved battery runtime with 10.5.7 — one of those ironies. I’m… Read More »
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