http://www.youtube.com/v/m4Q9MJdT5Ds&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Good news if you’ve signed up for a Google Voice invite. The company announced today that those invitations are now starting to trickle out to new users. Didn’t sign up for an invite yet? No worries, but you should run, not walk, to the… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Is there a need for business specialty-focused clouds or should we stick with the current one-size-fits-all cloud model? GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham posited this question to a panel today, who unanimously supported the move towards specialized clouds, but agreed that some uniformity is needed among… Read More »
It’s one thing for the federal government to commit billions of dollars for smart grid technology and transmission infrastructure. But it’s quite another for the spigot to actually open with a clear set of criteria for applicants — and that’s where we are today. The Obama… Read More »
It might just be a burst of people playing with their new, fancy toy, but it appears the the new iPhone 3GS, the first Apple phone to enable mobile video capture, is already affecting web video in a big way. YouTube, the world’s biggest user-generated video… Read More »
[appreview] title=circuit_strike.one image=http://gigapple.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/cs1_01_icon1.png price=$0.99 url=http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313665457&mt=8 rating=silver [/appreview] Mixing neon visuals and techno music with top-down shooting action and inertia-based movement, circuit_strike.one pushes the limits of Apple hardware, and possibly the patience of the casual gamer. Setting The player is pilot of a virtual ship that hacks network nodes, in a stylized metaphor for a computer… Read More »
I’ve been struck by the recent proliferation of audio microblogging or micropodcasting (or micro audioblogging?) apps out there. In addition to Jott (read one of our reviews) and Utterli, there is now Trottr, Chirbit and AudioBoo,… Read More »
Given escalating ticket prices and equally rising summer temperatures, the concept of attending a summer music festival has lost some of its appeal lately — for me, at least. But that’s because I didn’t know there was the slightest chance of getting free ice cream… Read More »
Although Windows Upgrade Program details are trickling out from OEMs, the more important news may be the actual pricing for Windows 7. Microsoft announced the prices this morning for both full licenses and upgrade packages: Windows 7 Home Premium: $119.99 upgrade, $199.99 full Windows 7… Read More »
Nielsen put out its How Teens Use Media report today, which, the research firm says, dispels some myths about the ways teenagers are using media. Bottom line: The kids still love their oldteevee. Contrary to conventional wisdom, teens are not abandoning TV — in fact, they… Read More »
GigaOM does some nice one day conferences and our cloud computing focused Structure09 conference is happening right now. The conference is being streamed live and it’s looking pretty darn good. The conference stream can be accessed for free here. Read More »
“The real reason we talk about the cloud so much is that everyone can draw one,” said Russ Daniels of HP, VP and CTO of HP’s cloud services strategy, who’s now been put in charge of technology for HP’s EDS division. Daniels joked that since the… Read More »
One of the newest features in the iPhone 3GS could be a big boon to the visually impaired. VoiceOver is a screen reader that is pretty cool — it reads aloud anything displayed where the user taps. This provides instant feedback of text displayed right… Read More »
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