Our friends at BillShrink, who developed an interactive tool that lets you compare handsets and pick the best phone-plan combination, crunched the data on some of the newer smartphones and compared them with the current champion, the iPhone 3Gs. “While sticker prices are roughly… Read More »
Archive for October 2009
Recently, I changed my home office setup, and found myself with pretty severe neck pain as a result. I switched to a chair that provided better back support and raised my laptop, adding an external mouse and keyboard to try to alleviate the problem. It… Read More »
Did you know that a startup called Vidyo powers Gmail’s video chat feature? Not many people do, and that seems to be by design. There’s a tiny little reference to Vidyo’s participation in the product when you install it, though when I talked to Vidyo… Read More »
Want to slap some solar panels on your house, or retrofit an office building to make it more energy-efficient? Those can be expensive projects, out of reach for many families and businesses. So the president of a company called Renewable Funding developed a scheme… Read More »
For a while, I was using a webcam and Orb software to spy on my cats while I was out. The solution worked well, but was fairly limited. And I got frustrated seeing all of the cat shenanigans in my home office —… Read More »
Microsoft once again is touting its speech-recognition technology, predicting on its site this week that “talking to a computer may soon be as natural as using a mouse.” But while voice is a natural fit for mobile phones and some other platforms, when it… Read More »
Gmail. LinkedIn. Facebook. Your phone’s address book. Your contacts may live in many places online, yet there’s always the possibility one of these places will disappear or crash, taking your information with it for good. Or perhaps you simply decide to close your account with… Read More »
Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, as we noted when it rolled out last week, contains a highly interesting software layer — invented and developed at the company’s in-house research division — that enables “virtual Wi-Fi.” Essentially, it allows a user to group multiple Wi-Fi connections… Read More »
The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs will be hosting the Main Event on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. entitled “Leveraging Corporate, Strategic Partnerships and Investments.” Learn about the key fundamentals of successful corporate investing programs, alliances and commercialization process… Read More »
While all eyes are on the current baseball World Series (go Phils!), professional basketball kicked off a new season earlier this week. What’s a die-hard fan without Picture in Picture to do as our eyeballs compete to watch both sports? Even worse —… Read More »
Twitter has finally implemented Lists, a much-needed feature. Assuming you have Lists enabled (and Twitter is still rolling it out, so some folks won’t have access to it yet) there is now a Lists button on every person’s page; its really easy to use. You… Read More »
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