May, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2009

Netbooks have taken the PC world by storm, as indicated by big sales numbers. The genre grew from a single ground-breaking (not wallet-busting) model, the EEE PC, to the dozens of models shipping today. There have been discussions claiming that netbooks are stealing notebook sales, and… Read More »

 
 

The transition to delivering software, services and compute infrastructure via the web will change the dynamics of the IT industry, shifting power away from the services players such as IBM and HP and toward companies running monolithic data center operations such as Salesforce.com, Amazon or… Read More »

Daily Sprout

Lutz on Musk on Letterman: Former GM Vice Chairman and Chevy Volt frontman Bob Lutz is scheduled to go on the Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday to refute attacks that Letterman and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk lobbed at the Volt last month. —… Read More »

P2P video startup Vuze quietly launched an adult video download service called StudioHD earlier this year. StudioHD offers an unlimited number of HD porn video downloads for a monthly fee that are subsequently facilitated through Vuze’s BitTorrent client. The company told me that StudioHD is… Read More »

HP has recalled 70,000 notebook PC batteries due to concerns about overheating and subsequent hazards. Notebooks with the affected batteries were sold between August 2007 through March 2008 and are listed by HP: HP Pavilion Compaq Presario HP HP Compaq dv2000 dv2500 dv2700 dv6000 dv6500 dv6700 dv9000 dv9500 dv9700 A900 C700 F700 V3000 V3500 V3700 V6000 V6500 V6700 G6000 G7000 6720s Only minor incidents due to overheating have been reported, but the… Read More »

Verizon will start selling the MiFi 2200, a nifty, credit card-sized 3G router this Sunday, May 17th. It’s definitely worth checking out, especially if you use more than one device on the go. The MiFi is a pocketable, battery-powered combined 3G modem and Wi-Fi router that… Read More »

Better Place may be making the most noise in the electric car charging field, but it isn’t the only game in town. And now there’s a new player — one-and-a-half-month-old GreenlightAC, which unveiled plansRead More »

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: How to Mine Twitter for Information Dawn shares three great apps she uses to mine Twitter for information. 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks If you’re new to Windows… Read More »

More Must Reads

We recently polled readers on the whole non-removable battery scenario for netbooks. I don’t think I’d buy one, but at this point, 46 percent of the respondents say they would. This question came about with introduction of the slim ASUS Eee PC 1008HA netbook and… Read More »

As the deadline for funding requests under a new federal program for plug-in vehicle battery manufacturing draws near, companies large and small are jostling to get a piece of the $2 billion in Department of Energy grants allocated as part of the stimulus package. Following announcements… Read More »

Two rebel ballroom dancers perform a forbidden and exquisite paso doble. The class nerd overcomes his shyness and delivers the speech of a lifetime. The unsung hero of a massive undertaking finally gets her due. What’s the cherry on these classic moments of cinema? The… Read More »

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[appreview] title=Rockchinko image=http://gigapple.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/appicon_rochinko_.png price=$1.99 url=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=314329575&mt=8 rating=silver [/appreview] A bag of metal balls, a rockabilly soundtrack, exploding pegs: Rockchinko is the pachinko machine from hell. Harking back to the old American parlor game Corinthian Bagatelle, pachinko has captured the imagination, and yen, of Japan. While the game may not have invaded Western casinos, there’s a… Read More »

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