A prevalent sentiment often heard in discussions about the lowly netbook is the desire for a higher resolution display. For many, that measly 1024×600 display just doesn’t show enough on the screen at one time. The problem is that most netbooks are physically pretty darn small,… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Collectively, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Google are rewriting the handbook for big data. Startups intending to reach these proportions must also change their thinking about data, and enterprises need this model for internal deployments as a way to retain an economic edge.The four leading web… Read More »
Phones running the Android operating system have been available worldwide since April late 2008/early 2009, starting with the T-Mobile G1, which is known outside of the U.S. as the HTC Magic Dream. The HTC Android phones have been good sellers globally, including the… Read More »
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu caught on with the advent of cage fighting in the early ’90s. Now, some 20 years later, we associate this martial art with the brute strength and violence of Ultimate Fighting Championship television shows. But the core practices of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu… Read More »
The Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi flick District 9 opens in U.S. theaters this weekend, and while it features no big stars, the clever ARG and great outdoor advertising campaign have helped give the film some solid buzz. Doesn’t hurt that it’s also getting a… Read More »
Earlier this week, I shared a method to stream digital media from my Windows Home Server to handsets like the iPhone and Palm Pre. One of the first questions came from Luscious — he asked if I have my WHS running 7 by… Read More »
News has appeared of a new patent that actually sounds as if it might come to market, and soon. Smartphone maker HTC has patented a simple stylus that works with capacitive touch screens. These are the touch screens in the iPhone and other… Read More »
Without the Universal Serial Bus standard we’d live in a world that Apple, with its infinite variations of specialized port formats and cable changes, would love to make possible. Think of the margins! But even the design-centric Apple has succumbed to the lure of… Read More »
Canada’s Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has decided that incumbent Bell Canada can charge its wholesale ISP customers based on the bandwidth usage of their end users, as first reported by CBCNews.ca. This decision puts pressure on smaller ISPs that are using… Read More »
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The adoption of cloud services on the part of enterprise IT is still in the nascent stage. Enterprise IT departments continue to see cloud services as more appropriate for applications being written primarily by the Web 2.0 crowd –- if you want to build a new… Read More »
MoTR 180 is 34:50 minutes long and is a 32 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Hands on with the T-Mobile Touch Pro2 Palm Pre… Read More »
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