Is it coincidence that around the same time that the trailer for the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic The Road comes out that Google and Netflix experience their own breakdowns? You can check out Stacey’s coverage of #googlefail over at GigaOM, but Netflix… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
Gadget maker Sony has reported its first annual loss in 14 years, according to The New York Times. Sony has been hard hit by the economic slowdown, and it is looking at factory closures to stop the bleeding. Notebook shipments were down 26 percent… Read More »
Last last night, I ended up updating my MacBook to Mac OS X 10.5.7, the latest version of the software. It’s caused two problems: The first is that it’s killed the audio output on the computer; in the preferences pane, the only option I have… Read More »
The 2008 election saw a major rise in grass-roots political activism on both sides of the fence, but how much of that Capra-esque enthusiasm for democracy has lingered? And now that those who showed up in droves to campaign for their candidates have returned to… Read More »
This morning, Google somehow rerouted some of its vast hordes of web traffic through Asia, causing service delays, interruptions, and a bit of craziness on Twitter. But it also managed to slow down a few retail web sites, and cause a noticeable gap in… Read More »
While some users are experiencing unpleasant issues thanks to Apple’s recent 10.5.7 update for OS X, others have plenty of reason to rejoice after updating. Specifically, hackintosh netbook users are reporting that battery life is seeing major improvements thanks to the update. Wired’s Read More »
Bandwidth caps are forcing at least one startup to adjust its business. Last month when I was in Houston, I met Shion Deysarkar, chief marketing officer of Plura Processing, a company that harnesses the CPU cycles and bandwidth of participating gamers (it… Read More »
I am sitting here in Starbucks happily working away on the HP Mini 1000 with the 6-cell battery. The Mini 1000 is showing it wants to provide me with six hours of juice, which is a princely amount, and in spite of what some have… Read More »
Calling Digeo‘s Moxi HD DVR a DVR is sort of disingenuous. Sure, it can record and play back TV, but it can do so much more than that. The fact that the Moxi can do so much, however, is both its greatest strength and its… Read More »
When cell phones and laptops get as small, powerful and efficient as current technology and materials allow, Denver, Colo.-based startup ZettaCore wants to be there to put Moore’s Law — which dictates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 24 months —… Read More »
With so many invoicing web apps available (many of them covered here on WebWorkerDaily), choosing one can be a daunting task. Even limiting your options to the most popular services doesn’t help that much, as the costs of the various plans vary so little. So… Read More »
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Performing Live: London’s iPhone Orchestra
Over in London, the experimental electronic music scene is positively flourishing. Having lived in the UK’s capital city for the latter part of 2008, I discovered a bubbling sonic subculture — a community of creatives hijacking ice cream vans, reappropriating medical EPGs, and hacking instruments… Read More »