Chippy over at UMPCPortal took a look at Google Trends to graph some mobile computing terms, and his findings are worth checking out. Plus they got me to thinking about the same trends for the major smartphone players, so I ran a graph of my… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Southwest Airlines said today that it will begin a fleetwide rollout of its in-flight Wi-Fi service in the first quarter of 2010, putting it on track to be the first major airline to offer broadband access in all of its planes. The service, in partnership with… Read More »
OK, last one! This time, GigaOM wants to know a little bit more about your habits at work. And by taking the survey, you’ll be entered to win a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Thanks for participating! var host = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "http://secure." : "http://");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript… Read More »
Remember Gene Munster? He’s Piper Jaffray’s Senior Analyst, and has been talking about tablets for most of this year. Well, now he’s got a new string to his bow and is talking about an Apple TV. Not ‘Apple TV’. An Apple TV. An actual, hardware, big-screen… Read More »
The party’s over: Obama administration officials have announced that the cash for clunkers program will shut down on Monday at 8 PM (EDT). That’s the deadline to trade in an old gas guzzler in exchange for a rebate of up to $4,500 on a… Read More »
“Sunday Night Football” to start streaming in September (NewTeeVee) Top Google trends for smartphones in 2009 — so far (jkOnTheRun) A toolkit of back-to-school open-source apps (OStatic) Solar thermal heating: quietly ramping up (Earth2Tech) The web worker hotel room of the future (WebWorkerDaily) MacBook Pro:… Read More »
You know that scene in practically every movie when Bobby Darin’s version of Beyond the Sea comes on? Well, there are at least 20 of them (including TV episodes, too), a bit of trivia I was able to quantify this morning using a cool mashup called… Read More »
A few recent experiences on the road left me feeling like I was doing my 21st century job in very 20th century hotel rooms. It got me thinking about what my wish list would be for the web worker hotel room of the future. Power The typical hotel… Read More »
Amyris Biotech, a startup that’s developing synthetic biological organisms to produce chemical compounds and biofuels, and hopes to commercialize its technology in Brazil by June 2010, is raising a Series C round of $62 million, according to peHub.com. The company had previously raised… Read More »
One sure sign that the summer is coming to a close? People are gearing up for football. And while the NFL may be behind some of its sports league brethren in terms of online video, you will be able to watch all 17 Sunday Night… Read More »
The Federal Communication Commission yesterday afternoon released a notice of its open meeting to be held next Thursday. The two most significant items planned for the meeting is an attempt to gather more information on competition in the wireless industry and… Read More »
Many of us are consuming video and audio content as part of our working lives; some of us are broadcasting it and encoding it, too. For both types of tasks, one of the best applications that you can get is the free, open-source VLC Media… Read More »
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