September, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for September 2009

The wonderful and also terrible thing about the Internet is that everyone’s free to share their beliefs with each other — and everyone else is free to make fun of them for doing so. This week, Kirk Cameron, former child star and current born-again… Read More »

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Earth2Tech Week in Review

The week of A123Systems: A123Systems upped its estimated share price on Tuesday, and then ended up pricing its shares even higher late Wednesday for its Thursday morning Nasdaq debut. At the end of the day on Thursday the battery maker saw its share price Read More »

MoTR 183 is 35 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) TOPIC: What’s wrong with Windows Mobile and what can… Read More »

It’s been a busy September for the digital music business. Steve Jobs reappeared onstage to introduce the iTunes LP format and a series of new iPods. Anticipation grew around European streaming music service Spotify, which is due to arrive on U.S. shores in the… Read More »

As another week draws to a close, the App Store expands even further with a torrent of new toys and tools. As ever, I’ve hand-picked four recent iPhone releases for you to take a look at. This week I’ve given our picks a creative vibe, selecting four… Read More »

The week marches on and today being Saturday means it is time to recap the recent happenings in the world of Windows Mobile. The biggest news this week had to be the statements that Microsoft Steve Ballmer made to a group of venture capitalists about Windows… Read More »

Raising $100 million is newsworthy for any company, but when it happened to Twitter this week, it also seemed to raise a hundred million eyebrows. Most notable was the company’s $1 billion valuation, which was labeled “exospheric” and “a new manifestation of… Read More »

Yesterday brought me a simple memo: live life. It didn’t came on a piece of paper. It was more like a series of disjointed scenes from a movie reel lying on the floor, waiting to be clipped together. It didn’t come as a revelation; instead it came… Read More »

So you’re a web worker, but you still meet people in meatspace that you want to network with, and making them type an email into their phone or handing them a plain jane business card either feels awkward or isn’t getting results. There are other things you… Read More »

It’s been quiet on the Android front this week, as the industry took a much-needed rest following the frenzy surrounding the unveiling of the Motorola Cliq phone earlier this month. The biggest news this week was a leak of some internal T-Mobile promotional materials that… Read More »

It’s that time of the year again: TV networks are debuting new shows and hoping that established names will bring in huge ratings. These numbers became even more important than usual after Techcrunch published an internal email of CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith… Read More »

More Must Reads

Yfrog now lets you send photos and video to Twitter via an MMS message on the iPhone, which is in accordance with the Apple device’s new MMS capability going live today. If you’re new to Yfrog, sign up for an email address on the… Read More »

Last week ARM, the company that licenses its low-power cores to those building everything from mobile phones to consumer home devices, announced a new iteration of its A-9 family of processor cores that can achieve speeds of 2 GHz. Dubbed Ospery, ARM hopes this… Read More »

Installing a new operating system on Day One is often a foolish undertaking. Yet, there I was, installing Snow Leopard the night of the 28th. I took the plunge day one for two reasons: as a tech journalist specializing in the Mac, I felt I owed it… Read More »

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