Pop-unders, Hover ads and the like can be jarring interruptions to your online experience, but advertisements are necessary because ad revenue is why most web content is free. Since companies are continually developing new ways to advertise online, we decided to compile a list of the… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
I have stirred up a bit of interest with my coverage of the little UMPC setup I use occasionally. The portable keyboard and mouse I use gets a lot of attention in particular, as folks are definitely interested in portable wireless versions. The folks at… Read More »
Going behind-the-scenes of a real iPhone app’s development, in this installment I investigate several methods for cutting development costs and adding value to the game. I have to admit that I’m still working on the Game Design Document. Something which I thought would take only a few… Read More »
Last October, we published a post about Aviary, a suite of graphics-focused online applications that, at the time, consisted of three basic tools. Aviary has expanded since then to become a very popular, award-winning graphics suite — much more than the simple photo editor… Read More »
Motorola yesterday sent out an invitation to what many bloggers assumed to be the launch of its hotly anticipated Android handsets, and which Om noted also happened to fall on Sept. 10, the date of our Mobilize 09 mobile Internet… Read More »
It’s been a rough year for file-sharing sites, legally speaking. Today a Dutch court ordered Mininova to remove all torrents of copyrighted works in the next three months or pay up to $7.16 million in fines. Copyright holder group Stichting Brein had sued Mininova… Read More »
An Android-Based VoIP phone (OStatic) Better Place targets Tokyo taxis (Earth2Tech) Windows 7 hurts netbook battery life? Maybe not entirely — or at all (jkOnTheRun) Rumor has it: Apple to refresh MacBook (TheAppleBlog) YouTube to stream Outside Lands music festival (NewTeeVee) Keeping in sync (WebWorkerDaily) Read More »
Electric vehicle infrastructure company Better Place chose Yokohama, Japan, to show off its first — and the world’s first — battery swapping station. Now the startup is planning to work with the Japanese government to build a pilot project in Tokyo that will create… Read More »
The music player integrated into the Palm Pre is pretty good. I have a big music collection on the Pre and I enjoy listening to music whenever I can. The music player does have a few missing features that make using it more difficult than I’d… Read More »
Kiosks to Make up 30 Percent of DVD Rentals Within the Next Year; that’s up from 19 percent this year; in the first half of ’09, video rental stores made up 45 percent or the rental market and subscription services accounted for 36 percent. (NPD… Read More »
A new GigaOM Pro report from Analytico’s Tom Trainer, “The Future of Data Center Storage” (subscription required), could not have come at a better time. The report examines key storage trends, as well as what overall IT initiatives are driving them and what industry leaders… Read More »
When the Internet was first being built, its early development was shaped by a select group of people — such as Vint Cerf, Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. Now an equally important group is emerging in the nascent smart… Read More »
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