Where to watch the U.S. Open (and Tiger Woods) online (NewTeeVee) Poll: How are you managing data on netbooks with other computers? (jkOnTheRun) Is TweetDeck for the iPhone the best Twitter client yet? (TheAppleBlog) Firefox 3.5 RC: stable and fast (WebWorkerDaily) Make your desktop do… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
NBC announced a deal with Microsoft today to implement technology that will make selling broadcast and cable TV commercial time more akin to selling online ads, The Wall Street Journal reports. This is the second such ad deal for the NBC, which also has an… Read More »
While there are plenty of 20-something, ramen-eating entrepreneurs coding into the wee hours of the morning, the demographic with the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity consists of those between the ages of 55 and 64, according to a study released today by the The Kauffman… Read More »
The iPhone 3G S is going to start hitting eager owner hands shortly, and the iPhone 3.0 update has already hit iPhone 3G owner hands. CNET Asia decided to put those two phones up against the Palm Pre in a video test comparing “real world”… Read More »
Part of me wishes people would stop making great Twitter clients for the iPhone so that I can just pick a horse and stick to it, but another, far larger part of me is thrilled to see TweetDeck (free, iTunes link) come to the… Read More »
The protests in Iran that have come in the wake of the country’s June 13 election results, which returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power, have showcased the rise of social media like Twitter, Facebook and even cell phone video taken in the streets and uploaded… Read More »
Many of the services we use now will eventually be web-based or “in the cloud.” People who use services like MobileMe will increasingly see more of their data and “work” being done out there in the cloud.
The GigaOM Network will be hosting the second annual
Firefox 3.5 is a superb browser — the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine’s performance and memory management mean that it’s great for working with resource-heavy web apps. The Mozilla team has now released the first Release Candidate (RC1) of Firefox 3.5 to beta users, which… Read More »
UPDATE: The rains delayed play. You can watch the action here. Don’t expect much work to get done today, as the U.S. Open Golf Championship is underway and streaming live online. Will there be a nail-biting finish that generates millions of views like last year?… Read More »
We have been all over Google Voice lately, as it has turned my four smartphones into one great big one. We hear every day from people who are wondering when Google will turn the switch on and provide the service to everyone. Information (rumor, really)… Read More »
For the past few years I have been saying that we are amidst a Titanic shift in the telecom landscape; the center of gravity moving away from the U.S., leading to the rise of new telecom giants which in turn is fueling the rise… Read More »
It’s a question we hear all the time: Why doesn’t California have a German-style feed-in tariff for the solar industry? German utilities pay a high price for any solar electricity fed into the grid, with the cost distributed among the country’s ratepayers. The much-esteemed policy made… Read More »
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