We first heard of an e-book reader from iRex a month ago, and today the company has officially announced the DR 800SG. The reader will be launched in affiliation with Barnes & Noble, and the integrated Verizon 3G connectivity makes this a solid competitor… Read More »
Archive for September 2009
Poor old Microsoft. You can’t blame them for trying, can you? Back at the start of the decade it gave us its vision for tablet computing in the form of Windows XP Tablet Edition and (via its OEM friends) a series of bulky, underpowered, overly-expensive machines. Now… Read More »
Time for our new Wednesday feature that highlights some of the latest iPhone news! Outside of San Francisco, the place I most see iPhones is in the local Starbucks. The coffee company must see the same because today they outed two new iPhone apps. myStarbucks… Read More »
OK, so the funniest, most zeitgeist-y new web series of the fall is out already, and it’s by…The Washington Post. For realz, yo. Created and directed by Liz Kelly, the blogger behind WaPo’s Celebritology blog, Twits does its very best to transform the Twitter… Read More »
Many users have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft Outlook — it’s the standard email and calendaring application in many organizations, yet it often doesn’t enable them to work as productively as they’d like, spawning a veritable cottage industry of add-ins. The Microsoft Office 2010… Read More »
My Windows Home Server side project is still going on, but like Apple TV, it’s “just a hobby.” ;) I haven’t done much new to the box since setting up Orb to stream music to my various phones and using Lights… Read More »
At our Mobilize 09 conference, someone joked that Nokia was the Yahoo of the mobile world. I’m sure he meant that Nokia was bereft of direction and purpose. You can also extend that argument to Nokia’s acquisition strategy. The company has been buying up tiny… Read More »
iPhone coma. Two words you never want to see in the same sentence! Yesterday I went to pick up my phone, and it wouldn’t unlock. Weird. I figured maybe the battery had died. That’s a common problem with the 3.1 iPhone… Read More »
When we first met Hunter Walk a few years ago, he was product manager for Google Video. That’s ancient times in online video years! Now Walk heads up product for YouTube. He works on things like making YouTube more of a social network, improving… Read More »
The Microsoft Courier is all over the news today, no doubt due to the two screens and special interface. Our readers quickly pointed out that they had seen a prototype of this before, and from Microsoft Research at that. It turns out they are… Read More »
The mobile phone shopping experience is plagued with uninformed retail staffers and intolerably long wait times at the sales counter, according to new figures from Amdocs. The St. Louis-based provider of software and services to the communications industry found that while 60 percent of respondents… Read More »
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