Archive for August 2009
It doesn’t matter how brilliant your mouse trap is if it doesn’t catch any mice. Same goes for technologies. Witness femtocells, those small, in-premise devices that help with spotty cell phone coverage by piggybacking on wired broadband connections. According to The Wall Street Journal, femtocells aren’t… Read More »
For any web worker with a blog, web site or online portfolio, knowing how to optimize it for search engines is a must. After all, what’s the point of having an online presence if no one can find it? By using some simple Search Engine Optimizations… Read More »
Over on Apple’s web site are the latest ads in its “Get a Mac” campaign. The new commercials, titled “Top of the Line” and “Surprise,” continue the tried and trusted “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” theme featuring John Hodgman and Justin Long. “Surprise” sees… Read More »
Google Wave is an incredible technology that is hard to fully understand. It is messaging, email and real-time web collaboration all rolled into one, and the implications are far-reaching. I have been trying to imagine the full ramifications of using Google Wave on a team basis,… Read More »
The tennis flavor of the U.S. Open kicks off on Monday, Aug. 31, but if you can’t make it to New York or are stuck at work, just turn on your PC. The U.S. Open announced yesterday that USOpen.org will be live streaming more than… Read More »
Data storage can account for up to 40 percent of the energy consumed by a data center. Yikes — but at the same time, it’s not hard to see why storage vendors are busy building technologies that can help data center operators trim energy costs… Read More »
The line has blurred that separates the smartphone from the feature phone. Feature phones are those cheap carrier phones that don’t have the capability to download and run sophisticated apps. Microsoft has blurred the line even further, and announced a new cloud service, dubbed OneApp,… Read More »
Sprint’s $483 million purchase of prepaid phone services giant, Virgin USA, has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The deal still needs some minor clearances from the Federal Communications Commission. The megamillion-dollar purchase highlights the importance of the prepaid and budget… Read More »
PC Mag’s Sascha Segan posed an intriguing question the other day: “If you put a smartphone in a dock, it could replace a netbook. So why hasn’t anyone succeeded at doing that?” Good question. Now that I’ve been thinking about it, the idea of a dock into… Read More »
Some of the biggest hardware efficiency boosts we can get are either completely free, or nearly so. Sure, a maxed-out new laptop would be great to have, but these are tough times. If you spend a little time with the hardware you have or pick up… Read More »
As platforms pop up everywhere, the API, or application programming interface, is the bridge linking data on Salesforce.com to an app built in Google’s AppEngine — or it’s the link between Twitter and your ability to tweet using TweetDeck. No matter what type of… Read More »
