While many don’t see the Mac as the ideal game platform, it still holds its own against Windows PCs and console systems. Many hardcore gamers love to trick out their systems with beefier graphics cards, extra controllers and special, high-performance input devices, and Mac users are… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Updated with more service related details : Comcast, the largest U.S. cable company and one of the country’s biggest broadband service providers, says it has started to sell a new wireless broadband service called High-Speed 2go across cities in its cable footprint. Here are… Read More »
Facebook said today that former Genentech executive vice president and CFO David Ebersman will join the social network site as its new CFO in September, succeeding Gordon Yiu, whose departure was announced at the end of March. Ebersman will direct Facebook’s strategy,… Read More »
Cablevision can do a victory lap today as the Supreme Court decided to not hear the appeal over the cableco’s remote storage (or “network”) DVR. The decision paves the way for DVR functionality and storage to move from a set-top box in a user’s home… Read More »
A common complaint we hear from consumers is the plethora of phone charger types that cause those with several phones in a household to often have different chargers. The problem is that many phones use different connectors that OEMs adopt for their own phones, often to… Read More »
Cablevision today got further blessings from the Supreme Court, which decided not to hear an appeal in the networked DVR-related litigation. We have been following this story pretty closely, and frankly, it is good to see an end to litigation around this technology.… Read More »
The fact that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, now a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, isn’t a big fan of the current energy bill that passed the House on Friday is hardly a shocker. A cap-and-trade system can be “easily abused,” particularly on… Read More »
One of The Pirate Bay’s long-discussed side projects, video streaming site The Video Bay, finally has posted a couple of public test clips and revealed a bit of a game plan. But for now it’s in “extreme beta” and may not go live for potentially… Read More »
The OLPC is certainly an innovative computer for kids that is comprised of nice hardware coupled with special software to make it easy for children to operate. No doubt some parents could benefit from the special operating environment of the OLPC without having to buy the… Read More »
Palm Pre quality issues continue to emerge (jkOnTheRun) How bandwidth caps hurt your Mac (TheAppleBlog) YouTube launches reporters’ center (NewTeeVee) Round-up: Reactions to the energy bill (Earth2Tech) Android NDK could help usher in more useful apps (OStatic) How do you gear up? (WebWorkerDaily) Read More »
A couple weeks ago, we profiled a secretive Canadian company called Lixar SRS whose energy management software had been impressing utilities and IT companies. While the company wouldn’t tell us about their technology or partners, we had heard that the company had been working with… Read More »
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