June, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2009

WWD Weekend Reading List

A hand-picked selection of the latest releases for iPhone? Plus, a handy summary of Apple news from the past seven days? We’ve got it all, you lucky person, you. Despite the deluge of announcements at last week’s WWDC, we’ve had no time to rest this week, either.… Read More »

 
 

Ever since Netscape started storing cookies in its browsers, there has been a Jekyll-and-Hyde nature to the web. The Jekyll web promised a more personalized experience, with sites serving ads for products and services that you would actually be interested in — ads that are more… Read More »

Avoiding Latency in the Cloud

The cloud promises to change the way businesses, governments and consumers access, use and move data. For many organizations, a big selling point in cloud infrastructure services is migrating massive data sets to relieve internal storage requirements, leverage vast computing power, reduce or contain their… Read More »

My 13-inch MacBook has been a great workhorse for me with one recurring problem — the Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse would lose its connection every so often. Not a major problem, but annoying for sure. The solution has been to manually disconnect the mouse once… Read More »

A Home Office for Two

It seems so alluring — you, your computer, your home office, and all the silence/Bach/Led Zeppelin you can handle. This is the home office ideal, right? Right. But what happens when you put someone else in the picture? What if, right next to the potted palm in… Read More »

Android so far is only on a few phones, but some want to put the Google OS on bigger devices. Yet just as analysts are starting to believe in the suitability of Android to run netbooks, chipmaker Nvidia is backing off the OS for the newly… Read More »

The war on piracy can be a scary thing, especially if you’re a creative caught between the front lines. Hollywood would love to rid the world of file-sharing. Your audience, on the other hand, seems to consist mostly of pirates that download movies for free, watch… Read More »

Like some of you, I’m quite the “Apple purist.” I’m not a fan of fancy cases that junk up my Macs. I don’t like skins for my iPods and those plastic snap cases for my laptop. We all know that Apple designs beautiful products, so we… Read More »

The founders of Viddyou, the small site that focused more on the creator than the video, are exploring options to get out of the video-sharing business. Co-founder Aaron Wadler explained via email that Viddyou was always an “underdog,” but believed it competed by rolling… Read More »

More Must Reads

Palm is moving quickly with updates to WebOS for the Pre as the second one is now available. This is a 13 MB update, according to my Pre, and it installed in just a few minutes. It addresses a number of issues and looks like it… Read More »

Jason Shellen, founder of Thing Labs, the startup formerly known as Plinky, is keeping details about its new social media product tightly under wraps — except to say that initially it will only work in conjunction with Twitter. While other application developers… Read More »

I’m not a lawyer and I don’t keep one on speed-dial. Just the same, though, there are often legal documents — such as contracts — that I routinely need for my work. Between consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements and other legal documents that have become standard parts… Read More »

Quest for Corn-Free Gas: Some SUV and boat owners in Florida are more than willing to drive out of their way to fill up at stations that sell biofuel-free gasoline, looking for “the extra mpgs that come from ditching ethanol.”Autobloggreen, Florida Today Co-Ops Strike Out… Read More »

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