Many of us who have been using notebook computers heavily for years have experienced the “Blue Screen of Death” at least once. The sinking feeling you get when you have been working away fine and then the notebook refuses to do one more thing. It simply… Read More »
Archive for October 2009
Vdopia, a profitable iPhone advertising platform, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which only launched in the U.S. in March, claims it’s seeing 4 percent click-through rates for its pre-roll videos before applications… Read More »
The good thing about the Solar Power International show is that every year it’s packed with companies showing off the latest solar tech advances, like prototypes of cutting edge thin film material and lightening quick robots that can stack solar panels. That’s also the difficult… Read More »
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: More spending on smartphones than notebooks in 2012 (CNET) — This linked article is actually focused on a survey of smartphone owners to… Read More »
After using a MacBook Air as my primary laptop for nearly two years, a month ago I bought a new, 15.4-inch MacBook Pro, mostly because I wanted to watch more videos when on the go. I also wanted the larger screen and the comforts of… Read More »
One of the most useful utilities on a smartphone with a camera is the ability to snap a photo of a business card and have it imported properly into a contact list on the phone. Windows Mobile 6.x phone owners can now do exactly that with… Read More »
Hector Ruiz, the soft-spoken executive who rose to prominence as the chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, has been named by government prosecutors as a senior executive who allegedly gave inside information in the Galleon hedge fund scandal, according to The Wall Street Journal.… Read More »
The U.S. Government Accountability Office yesterday released a report outlining the effect that a swine flu epidemic might have on our broadband infrastructure. It appears to be an effort to goad the Department of Homeland Security to come up with some way to ensure… Read More »
LTE promises to be a major step up in the mobile broadband game, providing a pipe that is fat both up and downstream. Verizon is hard at work getting their rollout ready next year in the U.S. but Samsung and Ericsson have been working… Read More »
Game On for Climate Policy: The Obama administration today presented “an energetic unified front on behalf of climate change,” in Congressional testimony and two stimulus funding announcements. Obama will need to bring more of that A-game in order “to make good on his promise to act… Read More »
Embedda-Scare-A-Thon continues! Four days left until Halloween! It’s the oldest trick in the book, but starting your story with a flash of how it will end still makes for a helluva opening scene. And that’s how Circle of Eight, a MySpace exclusive series produced… Read More »
Here’s a nice Windows 7 tip from the How To Geek — with a little registry tweak you can adjust the how quickly or slowly Aero Peek thumbnails appear. By default, Aero Peek is programmed to show an application thumbnail when the… Read More »
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