September, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for September 2009

It appears YouTube has made a video trivia game called Vidicule to drive viewers to its content. A demo of Vidicule is live on the site’s home page tonight, at least for logged-in members. If you click to play there’s a sample game hosted by… Read More »

One of the biggest challenges on the web is discovering new types of content. Last week, I wrote about similar-site.com, a web site that helps you find web sites akin to ones that you’re currently viewing. We came across two other services that… Read More »

 
 

The HTC Hero on the Sprint network in the U. S. takes the Android platform to the next level with the special user interface. In this video you will see the “chinless” Hero and see for yourself how much the HTC Sense interface adds to the… Read More »

We’ve heard hardly a peep from BioFuelBox, a 3-year-old biofuel startup backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Element Partners, since it raised its first round of $9.46 million back in 2007. But now the San Jose, Calif.-based quiet company says it’s ready to hit… Read More »

Quick — what’s invisible, weighs 79 MB and just magically appeared? If you said a small, virtual elephant, you’d be close. But if you guessed webOS v1.2.0 for the Palm Pre, you’d be even closer! I’m pulling down the update as we speak,… Read More »

It was one of the apps shown off at Apple’s WWDC Keynote speech talking about iPhone OS 3.0 back in June of this year, but Zipcar has taken its sweet time making an official appearance in the App Store. The application is finally Read More »

The days of the pocket calculator may be in the past, but someone figured out a way to keep them alive. Awhile back, we told you about HP porting several of its sophisticated calculators to the iPhone. It was a move that made sense —… Read More »

Well, the latest comScore numbers are in, and it looks like the summer months were a clean sweep for online video — August saw the largest U.S. video audience and number of videos watched ever recorded. August had 161 million U.S. Internet users watching 25.4… Read More »

Just about every presentation app works the same way: Whether you rely on Powerpoint, Keynote or another presentation application, you’re sharing a series of slides that progress in a linear fashion. While you can craft beautiful presentations, you’re up against a format that never changes. One… Read More »

How the world has changed. When my father was my age, there was nothing more cool or impressive than driving an Aston Martin, toting a Walther PPK and ordering your dry martinis shaken, not stirred. That’s what James Bond did. And Bond was seriously cool. Bond was… Read More »

I am entrenched in my evaluation of the HTC Hero Android phone, but another HTC phone is looking more interesting by the minute. The HTC Leo is slated to appear soon, and it will have the Snapdragon processor onboard, running at 1 GHz. This processor… Read More »

Research In Motion shares took a beating on Friday and several analysts cut their ratings on the stock after the company posted disappointing sales for its fiscal second quarter and ratcheted down expectations for the current one. But while increasing competition and ever-dwindling… Read More »

More Must Reads

Who says a solar company has to choose between conventional silicon and thin-film solar cells? RoseStreet Labs Energy, a Phoenix-based private company, is combining the two in a double-layered cell that it claims can achieve “practical efficiencies” – meaning efficiencies of cells actually available… Read More »

Updated: From his ostentatious display of wealth to his appearance on Fox’s “The Secret Millionaire,” one thing is for sure, if you live in Silicon Valley, you’ve heard of Gurbaksh Chahal, also known as “G.” Thanks to his antics, there are many tall tales about the… Read More »

Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! Last time, we were crossing our fingers in hopes that the Rockville Android MID concept would find a home in the retail world. Pocketables confirms that RAmos Digital officially outed the device with 4.8-inch… Read More »

I use public transport a lot. And where I live, public transport is notoriously unreliable. This was getting to be quite annoying, since waiting for trains and trams meant wasting precious work time. Or so I thought. But then one day, standing on a deserted platform… Read More »

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