YouTube is much closer to breaking even than widely thought, says a firm with intimate knowledge of global infrastructure costs. A widely publicized Credit Suisse report that said Google would lose $470 million on the site this year neglected to account for factors such as… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Palm has pulled a pretty cool feat by figuring out a way to get the Pre to sync with iTunes. I have done it and it works pretty darn well as the Pre identifies itself as an iPod to iTunes. Many in the tech world… Read More »
Hillcrest Labs threw its hat into the motion-control game this week with the release of its Loop pointer to the consumer market. Up until now, the Loop wasn’t meant for the average Joe. Hillcrest was going to just continue licensing the Freespace technology built… Read More »
I never thought it would be one of the most used services on my phone, but it’s true. I’m often checking Twitter and posting tweets when away from my computers, and a handheld device is perfect for me to do that. The arbitrary 140-character limit… Read More »
I love those web sites that share readers’ home office arrangements; they are a great source of ideas for my own home office. I am strongly leaning to the philosophy that less is better when it comes to the home office. Less distractions, less clutter, better… Read More »
The iPhone has sure brought a lot of whiners out of the woodwork. Today Sen. John Kerry joined them by publishing a blog post on the Save The Internet blog arguing against exclusivity of certain phones on some wireless networks. Yesterday, Kerry sent… Read More »
Laptop stands are widely heralded as a great solution for a more ergonomic workstation and better positioning of your computer. They come in all manner of shapes and sizes, from the downright awful to very slick and stylish. I recently took the plunge and purchased the… Read More »
Solar from space: It may sound like a bad sci-fi movie, but a growing number of companies think it could solve the world’s energy crisis. Among them is Everett, Wash.-based PowerSat Corp., which said today it’s filed a provisional patent for two technologies it claims… Read More »
Joost Labs launched a version of its web TV service for the PlayStation 3 today, making it accessible on your television set via the game console. Well, making some of Joost’s content accessible on your PS3 — just not anything from Viacom, Warner Bros.… Read More »
ukdiveboy offers proof that you can charge your Palm Pre with a Minty Boost. The device is a homebrew USB charger that uses standard AA batteries to provide a boost to your mobile devices, like the iPod shown here. You can build one yourself… Read More »
Riversimple Aims to Launch Open Source Hydrogen Car: Riversimple will make engineering designs for the hydrogen car it unveiled today in London available online in order to allow local manufacturing in small plants. — BBC German Solar Firms Eye North African Solar Project: A consortium of… Read More »
Time flies so fast when you’re having fun that we totally missed an important date here on jkOnTheRun. That date would be our fifth birthday, as the site fired up for the first time on May 10, 2004. That’s a lot of years in blog years,… Read More »
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