One of the great things about technology these days is that we’re no longer tied to a physical office space or even a desktop computer. We’re quickly becoming a completely mobile society, especially in the business world. With Fuze Meeting for iPhone, business… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Norwegian carmaker Think has had a rough year, having hit a big financial pothole at the end of 2008 that forced it to halt production just about two months after it started. Since then, the company, which has long aimed to bring its electric Think… Read More »
Update: The new OS is available for download, reports TheAppleBlog. AT&T is also offering more subsides for iPhone 3G S even if you still have not met your contract obligations. I guess we should thank Ron Lewis for this lowering of surcharge. The world (or at least… Read More »
Kevin reminded us that today is the big day that current iPhone owners get updated to 3.0, at least that’s what Apple said when the iPhone 3G S was announced. I just checked for the update for my iPhone 3G and, according to the message,… Read More »
Despite all the advances in “Cloud Computing” over the last year or two, a large part of most people’s work is still contained in individual files like documents (Word, Pages, PDF), spreadsheets (Excel, Numbers), text files (HTML, text, notes), delimited data files (CSV), presentations (Powerpoint, Keynote),… Read More »
Like most people, I’ve worked on both sides of the remote working fence — as a remote worker, and as an office-bound staffer working with remote colleagues. From the latter perspective, there are three things that I really found difficult about working with remote colleagues. If… Read More »
When you’re on vacation in Yosemite National Park, a GPS can only help you out when you’re driving to and from there. But what about when you’re trying to navigate Yosemite’s winding trails on foot? Denver-based Intermap Technologies is launching a GPS mapping iPhone… Read More »
Technically, those iPhone 3G S handsets are likely coming by plane from Shenzhen, China, but color me impressed. Like many others, I received a shipment notification from Apple in the wee early morning hours today. Actually, I received two notices, because Barb’s phone is on… Read More »
I was recently helping a colleague prepare for a presentation that included a slideshow, but instead of using a PowerPoint presentation, our designer chose to make a PDF of the presentation. Using a PDF over a PowerPoint has a couple of advantages: The font doesn’t need… Read More »
Realizing that the phone is now a computer, or possibly that ubiquitous wireless networks mean that computers can go anywhere, IBM said today it would spend $100 million on research over the next five years to improve mobile communications for businesses and consumers… Read More »
Thin film solar maker HelioVolt could be a contender for the chronoptimist crown. Earlier this year, the Austin, Texas-based company pushed back shipping its commercial thin film solar material until at least early 2010 (with production to start “in the second of 2009″)… Read More »
Toshiba waited for a while before entering the netbook market and according to a review on Laptop Magazine, the company must have spent the extra time figuring out how to get 8.5 hours on a single charge of the 6-cell battery. The Toshiba mini NB205… Read More »
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