“L” is for “Laptops,” says Toshiba. The company just launched its new Satellite L Series devices, which start at $549.99 and are aimed at back-to-schoolers and those on a budget. That price begins to approach the netbook market, although these devices aren’t quite as… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
From chip makers to mobile phone giants to tiny upstarts, location-based services are seen as the wireless world’s pot of gold. Among those looking to dip into that pot is Geodelic, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup that this week announced $3.5 million in… Read More »
Remember when you’d plop down in front of the television to veg out and do nothing? Well, those days are numbered as TV manufacturers cram more interactive features into their sets. Case in point: Vizio today announced that consumers will be able to access eBay,… Read More »
Having used Microsoft Office for many years, despite my utter distain for them, nobody was happier than me when Apple launched the iWork applications. For my light office application needs, Pages, Keynote and Numbers are just perfect. Here are a few tips I use to make… Read More »
Oil and gas behemoth ExxonMobil has thrown its weight behind a project that combines two gas-saving initiatives: electric vehicle technology and car sharing. Before you celebrate this as a new push to cut reliance on fossil fuels, we should be more exact: If you think of… Read More »
The iPhone 3.0 update brought turn-by-turn navigation ability to the phone, so it was only a matter of time before AT&T brought out an app for that. AT&T Navigator is free but will cost you a subscription fee of $9.95 per month, which puts it… Read More »
Texas Instruments is betting that a more powerful cell phone, one that uses identical computing cores working in parallel inside the application processor, a setup it calls symmetric multicore processing, will be here as soon as 2011. Such phones, which will be built with multicore… Read More »
Having received confirmation from Apple PR, TheAppleBlog can now confirm that the official name for Apple’s latest phone is iPhone 3GS (no space). While this might not seem like a big deal to you, for those of us having to write about the formerly awkward name, the… Read More »
The original The Show With Ze Frank was described by one of Frank’s many “sports racers” as “one wacky conversation and one hell of a fun ride,” thanks to a lethal combination of high-end interactivity and Frank’s askew sense of humor. And like a wannabe… Read More »
AT&T announced an inexpensive little 3G handset with a full QWERTY keyboard this morning. The Motorola Karma hits hot hands in a few days, on June 28, for $79.99 after a mail-in rebate and with qualifying voice and data plans. What’s interesting to me… Read More »
Most business books on the market cover the gamut of how to make more money, gain fame, grow, get work done, and manage people. But few talk about business from the perspective of “family first” like Marc Warnke’s book “ONO, Options Not Obligations.” Many web… Read More »
Continuing our Dig Into Unix series, we’ve now covered the absolute basics of launching Terminal.app, moving around the file system, looking at files with cat, and learning about commands with man. Now, I’d like to introduce you to the power of vi. vi (pronounced vee-eye) is… Read More »
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