Picture dialers on phones are useful tools — just glance at your faves, tap a picture and you’re either calling or texting them. But while the Palm Pre is missing such a photo dialer, once again, the homebrew community has come to the rescue. Quick… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Twitter plans to launch a location-based feature that reveals the latitude and longitude from which an individual is tweeting, co-founder Biz Stone revealed in a blog post today, signaling that the micromessaging site wants to hop onto the hot location-based services trend (a topic… Read More »
Fans of Project Runway were happy to see the series continue, if on a new network, when the Lifetime network managed to wrangle the show away from Bravo. And now the network has announced that “ProRun” will be made available for free, with… Read More »
With only three weeks to go before Mobilize 09, it’s a great time for entrepreneurs to mark their calendars. Why? The growth of mobile data from $23 billion to $45 billion in revenues in two years is reason enough for tech entrepreneurs to get their… Read More »
According to Bloomberg, former Palm CEO Ed Colligan rejected an offer by Steve Jobs to refrain from hiring each other’s employees. Similar allegations have been made regarding Apple and Google recently, though in that instance the policy was supposedly an informal and undocumented one, but with… Read More »
Rounding off our week of features on the Future of Work, I thought it appropriate to consider methods of exploring the future, in particular ways to help you think about your career trajectory. Perhaps one of the most well-known and used mechanisms for understanding possible… Read More »
In another sign that greentech investments could be back on the rise, organic electronics company Plextronics said today it has raised $14 million in financing. Pittsburgh, Penn.-based Plextronics has developed technology to make conductive inks and materials for printed electronics, specifically for organic plastic solar… Read More »
I have been netbooking all day today, at a few different places, and I am really liking Windows 7. It’s running just as fast as Windows XP but it looks prettier. After just a few hours I have to admit I don’t see what else… Read More »
My friend and Low End Mac’s publisher, Dan Knight, posted a nearly 3000-word essay recently positing a “what’s the perfect Mac” conundrum: MacBook Pro or iMac. I share Dan’s enthusiasm for examining and debating such hypothetical questions, and I thoroughly enjoyed the piece, but for… Read More »
Obviously Apple is not oblivious to the fact that television as we know it is undergoing a dramatic shift — but as the Apple TV set-top box just languishes with no apparent direction, we wonder what exactly is the company’s living room strategy is. Piper Jaffray… Read More »
In this age of big-time celebrities dominating web video, what’s a YouTube old-timer to do with his or her massive fanbase and years of video-making experience? Team up with their fellow vloggers for their own comedy channel, I guess. Hence, The Station, a… Read More »
Windows Mobile is old. The basic UI and underlying technology is the same today as it has been for years. Microsoft understands this and lately has been talking up its upcoming version 7.0, prompting Om over at sister site GigaOM to call the chatter… Read More »
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