It’s been said that the apps that break out at Austin’s South by Southwest festival are those that help festival-goers navigate and orient themselves within the sprawl of parties, panel sessions and gigs. The 2007 edition of SXSW was Twitter’s big moment, the tipping point… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
The FedEx guy brought me something unexpected this morning, the Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 notebook. I have just gotten it unboxed and set up for a quick look so here are some quick photos. The Y450 is a thin notebook configured as follows: Screen: 14-inch, 1366×768 Processor: Intel… Read More »
Web Video-enabled Devices to Quadruple by 2013; according to iSuppli, 376.5 million devices capable of supporting web video will ship annually by 2013. (Multichannel News) Study: DRM Drives People to Piracy; research shows that people get fed up with the heavy restrictions on content and find… Read More »
How quickly we forget the way things used to be. It was only in early April when Apple introduced variable pricing in the iTunes store, and already we’ve learned to accept that nearly every “popular” song costs $1.29. If you’re not… Read More »
Apple has made significant steps towards cornering the mobile gaming market (though that “premium” games section so far hasn’t come to pass), and both Sony and Nintendo have likely been forced to re-examine their portable offerings in order to try to regain ground. I doubt… Read More »
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers wants a bigger piece of the green car pie than the slim slice it could get through its investment in Fisker Automotive. While Fisker aims to produce affordable cars for the mass market if DOE loans come… Read More »
How many people are watching Internet-delivered content on their TVs? Only a few million, and not many more than last year, determines analyst Dan Rayburn, in a guest post for our parent blog GigaOM. Here’s a quick summary of Dan’s collected estimates. For more analysis, see… Read More »
If there’s anything that deserves to be made fun of, it’s the hacky sitcom. Bad jokes followed by overly enthusiastic laugh tracks, punctuated by moments of treacly sentiment so thickly sweet your teeth rot. But all those elements are played up to perfection Yo Teach, a… Read More »
Compete, the web research company, has come up with some interesting findings about location-based services and their use among smartphone users. According to a survey of 1,000 such people: 1 in 3 currently use a LBS at least once a month. Smartphone owners who use LBS are likely… Read More »
How to monitor real-time information on Twitter (WebWorkerDaily) QtMobility aims to take Qt’s API dev tools beyond Nokia (OStatic) Why VCs heart the smart grid: IT (Earth2Tech) Apple changes its One to One sub program (TheAppleBlog) Windows Home Server nirvana: one step closer (jkOnTheRun) NBC’s… Read More »
In earlier posts, I provided some tips for improving your Twitter efficiency and mining Twitter for information. While both of these provide useful ways to use Twitter, you also need to be prepared to respond to other people quickly. Twitter is a short attention span medium… Read More »
Dell is looking to make acquisitions, according to one of its executives, who made the comment a day after the computer maker reported dismal earnings for its latest fiscal quarter, IDG News said today. Steve Felice, president of Dell’s small and medium business… Read More »
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