Netvibes, a Paris-based web startup that lets users create personalized start pages, is rolling out a new feature called Talk to Me that recommends widgets to users based on their personal preferences, the latest example of the company’s goal of hyper-personalizing web content. “People… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
We’d like to say thanks to this week’s GigaOM sponsors: PEER 1: Fully Scalable Hosting Solutions RackSpace: Experience fanatical support StrataScale: It’s your infrastructure – On Demand Fuze Meeting: HD Meetings – From Fuze Meeting Mozy: Back up your photos, music, and files with Mozy for… Read More »
The iPhone 3GS has a few new features that the older models lack. One of those features is the compass, which is pretty useful in mapping apps. Compasses use magnets to point out where the heck north is and it only makes sense that cases with… Read More »
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has just cleared its biggest hurdle yet, winning approval from the House of Representatives in a close 219-212 vote late on Friday. The bill has already had a long and bumpy ride since a draft began circulating… Read More »
YouTube has doubled the size of standard uploads for regular-Joe account holders to 2 GB from 1 GB. The company told us this afternoon the move was in order to accommodate users’ HD uploads. But despite the size increase, non-partner videos are still limited to… Read More »
I’m in the middle of moving to new computers. Two of them. The laptop is easy. The desktop, well, that’s a story for another post. New and faster computers with a fresh install can compel a person to look up applications, plugins and other tools to… Read More »
Free Trade and Climate Change: Making trade more free could lead to more carbon dioxide emissions as a result of increased economic activity, but more trade could also help to curb climate change by increasing the availability of clean technologies, according to a new report from… Read More »
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Gateway may have been sold, but the name lives on in the netbook market. DigiTimes makes note of the LT3100, which isn’t your typical 10-inch Intel Atom device. The LT3100 offers an 11.6-inch display capable of 1366×768 resolution. An AMD single-core Athlon CPU powers… Read More »
We’d like to say thanks to this month’s sponsor of TheAppleBlog: HD Meetings – From Fuze Meeting: Wunder Radio provides access to thousands of streaming Internet radio stations and on your iPhone or Windows Mobile Phone. Mozy: Back up your photos, music, and files with Mozy… Read More »
Totally Sketch, a weekly series of comedy videos running on YouTube, lives by one creed: making comedy that’s funny. Which honestly is a tall order for a series producing a new sketch weekly — after all, it’s hard enough to make one good sketch,… Read More »
The Android news this week isn’t all about the HTC Hero, although it feels that way. A rumor has appeared that has Sprint planning to release an Android phone this year or next that is CDMA/WiMAX-capable. This is certainly an interesting proposition but given the… Read More »
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