The e-book space has never been hotter with a new electronic reader seemingly announced every day. Amazon certainly has made the e-book game popular and everybody seems to be interested in it currently. I have been reading e-books since the early PDA days, and it is… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
I recently came across a video by Jon Larkowski entitled, “The Way I Get Things Done,” in which he outlines his personal productivity system. He offered several useful tips for increasing productivity, but the two phrases that really stuck out to me were that you… Read More »
I’ve always wondered if everyone else with an iPhone was as susceptible to the urge to buy apps as I myself am. According to GigaOM’s look at the App Store’s revenue figures, I’m definitely not the only one succumbing to impulse shopping. The average amount spent by… Read More »
Norwegian carmaker Think, which hit a financial pothole at the end of 2008 and was forced to halt production of its electric vehicles just two months after it started, says it’s back and ready to start up production again. The Norwegian courts have approved the… Read More »
Updated with additional comment from Facebook: Facebook, as expected, will implement changes to its privacy policies within the next year in order to comply with Canadian law, the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, confirmed this morning. The changes — which will be applied across… Read More »
More tweeting smart meters! This time outta Mississippi (Earth2Tech) Why I’ll wait on Snow Leopard, and why maybe you should, too (TheAppleBlog) A tale of three e-book readers (jkOnTheRun) Colloquy for iPhone keeps you in IRC while you’re out (OStatic) Read More »
No one escapes TV Everywhere! It’s an unstoppable force that, like Star Trek‘s The Borg, is assimilating every corner of the cable, satellite and telco world. Verizon and Time Warner Cable are the latest to jump onboard the authentication bandwagon and announced their plans today. Verizon… Read More »
Word about the next Nokia Internet Tablet has been bouncing around for a while. The rumors had the N900 firmly trying to straddle the smartphone/MID fence, with a full Maemo 5 implementation under the hood. The N900 is now official, with the company planning… Read More »
Microblogging is hot right now. While Twitter dominates the space, Facebook and Tumblr are very much in the game. I recently wrote about the preview of the next-generation TypePad platform, and hot on the heels of this new release, SixApart… Read More »
Never rains, but it pours, eh? As if Apple doesn’t have enough on its plate with the FCC, the latest patent infringement accusations are in, this time courtesy of BTG International. BTG claims some of Samsung’s flash chips violate patents it owns on multilevel NAND Flash memory,… Read More »
Some of our favorite buzz words keep meeting — smart meters and Twitter. Smart meter startup SmartSynch says it’s partnered with the University of Mississippi to help cut campus energy consumption by publishing the university’s smart meter energy consumption data to Twitter, Facebook and RSS… Read More »
If I were to tell you that Apple’s app economy was worth more than $2.5 $2.4 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes? Surf on over to some other web site? But here I am… Read More »
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