California’s capital, Sacramento, has one of the most progressive of the smaller utilities in the U.S.: the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). For example, SMUD says it expects to be the first utility to meet the state clean power mandate, and says it will exceed California’s… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
If the growing number of games being played on it are any indication, then San Francisco-based micro-messaging service Read More »
Intel is making a “big announcement” today and rumor has it that it will involve selling processors to handset giant Nokia. Nokia has made it clear they want to enter the netbook world and Intel’s announcement could be about a deal to supply chips to… Read More »
In an interesting business move, Socialtext (previously covered on WebWorkerDaily) today opened up its enterprise organizational collaboration software to smaller organizations with its new Free 50 offering for groups of up to 50 people. Previously, Socialtext did not have a freemium model (just a… Read More »
Updated: Intel is expected to announce today that will sell its chips to Nokia for use in the Swedish Finnish handset maker’s mobile devices, according to a report from Bloomberg. The deal may be a coup for Intel’s low-power Atom chips, which it… Read More »
Lenovo has just announced the ThinkPad T400s, a 14.1-inch laptop that is only 0.83 inches thick and less than 4 pounds in weight. I have been using the T400s for a couple of weeks and I am very impressed with this no-compromise notebook. In this 10-minute… Read More »
IBM’s “smarter planet initiative” seeks to connect everything from railways to the power grid to buildings with sensors, software and communications gear. And to accomplish such a feat (to basically act as a platform to connect various infrastructure), the computing company needs friends… Read More »
I’ve never been as organized as I currently am with the combination of my MacBook Pro, iPhone and Google Calendar. Sure, before I crossed the line to Apple, I had tried to use Thunderbird (with Lightning’s Calendar plugin) to keep organized, syncing to my Windows Mobile… Read More »
Updated on 6/23: Thanks to those of you who emailed or tweeted back, the Clear fiasco is a much bigger problem than most people realize. This email pretty much sums it up: They just sold me a renewal. Worse, they sent lots of solicitations to buy… Read More »
MoTR 175 is 31:35 minutes long and is a 29 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: iPhone 3GS first impressions. Comparisons to the Palm Pre. About that Nokia… Read More »
Earlier this month, when I wrote about Telecom’s Titanic Shifts and the decline of the once mighty service providers, in passing I noted the slow-mo descent of Western equipment makers. With the mega-growth registered by non-Western carriers as dominant equipment buyers, we have seen… Read More »
A week after reports first surfaced of a downgrade in SATA bus speeds, Apple has issued a fix that both solves the problem and puts an end to conspiracy theories about it. The issue centered around new MacBook Pros having a SATA speed of 1.5 gigabits,… Read More »
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