Travelers know that trips abroad can go much smoother when you can convey your needs in the local language. Phrase books have been popular for years but an electronic version that sits in your phone would be just the ticket. ConveyThis, which offers simple translation… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
In the two days since her death, a young Iranian woman has already become a legend, a martyr and a focal point for those in and outside the ongoing Iran election protests. Information about Neda Agha Soltan, including the most basic details of her first and… Read More »
Google has recently announced that it can index external files called from Flash sites. While I understand why Google wants to do this — it has been working on indexing Flash content for over a year — I hope the news doesn’t tempt web… Read More »
OK. I give up. Why do people like True Blood so much? In a brutal experiment, I watched all of season one to see what the big deal was. It’s got horrible acting, it’s poorly conceived, and pays no attention to itself. So why are so… Read More »
Over the weekend, it finally stopped raining long enough for me to use the new iPhone 3G S video recording function. After 64 seconds of recording our deck and backyard, where I often work in the summer, I published the video to YouTube right from the… Read More »
Verizon today boosted its upload speeds across its FiOS fiber-to-the-home broadband packages, which leads me to wonder if upload speeds are the new download speeds in a saturated market for broadband. Om and I both have complained about anemic upload speeds, which… Read More »
Iran is using European telecom technology to track all Internet data moving in and out of the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. The equipment that was sold to Iran by Nokia Siemens Network was done so under the concept of “lawful intercept,” or… Read More »
While the tech blogging community may have made much of the Palm Pre’s potential ability to take on the iPhone 3G, the world at large didn’t seem to be aware of any competition, since they went ahead and purchased a staggering 1… Read More »
Welcome to Round 2 of the latest Tesla Motors feud. The electric car startup’s CEO, Elon Musk, has just written a post on the official company blog countering the claims of founder Martin Eberhard, who alleges that Musk has libeled and slandered him, and… Read More »
The consumer love affair with Apple’s iPhone shows no signs of ending. Three days after launching the iPhone 3G S, the company sold more than a million units, Cupertino said today, on par with the number of iPhone 3Gs sold within the first three days of… Read More »
The T-Mobile G1 has been a pretty solid first Android effort for T-Mobile in the U.S., and now the carrier is getting ready to release the next-generation phone, the myTouch 3G. The new phone is thinner and lighter than the G1, but retains much about the… Read More »
Where to watch the (delayed) U.S. Open (NewTeeVee) Problem & solution: iPhone 3G S video and the not-so-fine whine (TheAppleBlog) Quick tip: remotely log out of Gmail (WebWorkerDaily) Opinion: If I had to pick a phone/carrier combo… (jkOnTheRun) Survey: Americans would choose the iPod over… Read More »
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