Sony’s entry into the crowded netbook field got tongues wagging. The company is known for its VAIO premium notebook brand, and the VAIO W crossed firmly into the low price category. On paper, the VAIO W is a fairly standard netbook, although the colorful Sony styling… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
The much-anticipated online version of Microsoft Office will roll out into Technical Preview later this summer. While Microsoft has announced that it will be free to everyone with a Windows Live account (and thus free to anyone), it looks like the free version will not… Read More »
Something, perhaps an Apple tablet or maybe a need for speed, has lit a fire under Verizon, which is expecting to complete its rollout of its fourth-generation wireless service faster than previously reported. In its second-quarter conference call yesterday, Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl… Read More »
As I mentioned in the My Netbook: The iPhone article, my iPhone is central to my life. But one area that’s been a challenge is getting text to and from it. As I mentioned in the article, most of what I write on the iPhone… Read More »
At Comic-Con this year, I joined the line for Saturday’s 11 a.m. Lost presentation at 8:30 a.m., for two reasons. One, I wanted to see what the producers had planned for their final appearance at the San Diego nerdfest, and two, I was curious… Read More »
Updated: This morning’s tempest in the teapot involves Google Voice apps being rejected by Apple’s iPhone store. iPhone App Developer Sean Kovacs says his GV mobile app was pulled and since then several others have been rejected by Apple as well. Even Google’s… Read More »
YouTube’s not just for posting silly videos of sleepwalking dogs and other embarrassing moments — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. You can use it to show off your expertise, share knowledge, market your products and connect with customers, colleagues and… Read More »
The security of the smart grid is going under the microscope this week. As Patricia Hoffman, the acting assistant secretary for the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability said in a testimonial last week, the DOE may refuse to hand out… Read More »
Earlier this year, Acer announced plans to create a dual-boot netbook capable of running Microsoft Windows XP and Google Android. But while that might have made sense at the time, that was before Google announced its Google Chrome OS. And so I’ve I questioned… Read More »
Updated – Quite a ruckus is stirring over the Google Voice application getting rejected from the Apple iTunes Store. Some are pointing the finger — I won’t say which one — at Apple, but it’s reasonable to believe that AT&T has some influence on… Read More »
First it was just apps that gave users access to Google Voice features, but now it seems as though even an official app from Google, who have traditionally been very close with Apple, will not (for now) see the light of day. GV Mobile and Voice… Read More »
blip.tv held a press conference this morning to unveil a slick creator dashboard and a host of new content partners that span old and newteevee including YouTube, Roku, WNBC and Verizon FiOS. The new blip dashboard offers a raft of features including single upload to multiple… Read More »
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