December, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for December 2009

What do you do when your short form video site lags the competition on the web? Put the same content on the iPhone! Or at least that’s what global video site Dailymotion has decided to do, releasing a new iPhone app with all the same functionality… Read More »

Threadsy has recently updated and added some new features that expands its already ambitious goal of becoming your universal social inbox. In addition to aggregating all of your regular webmail accounts (Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail), it has now added support for Apple MobileMe (me.com/mac.com… Read More »

 
 

My post last week about merging Google Contacts generated a related question from Dave Zatz, because although he’s very content with Yahoo!for mail and contacts, he’s interested in using Google Calendar for events on his iPhone. Surely you can’t mix and match among… Read More »

Winners and Losers in Greentech in 2009

A lot happened in the world of greentech in the last 12 months – the U.S. government started doling out stimulus funds, the smart grid became a mainstream moniker, the Copenhagen climate summit passed with a whimper, and the first half of the year was… Read More »

Maybe it’s because you’ve been watching too many of these ads , but for whatever reason, the iPhone isn’t for you. You opted for an Android-based phone instead. It may blend, but will it sync with your Mac? Read on. There are comprehensive third… Read More »

Etsy co-founder Rob Kalin will become CEO of the online craft-selling site, replacing Maria Thomas, who’d joined the company from NPR last year. In a corporate blog post, Kalin credited Thomas with helping the company reach profitability, but did not offer a reason for her departure. Read More »

Previous to the advent of online video, the only real distribution model for short films was the film festival circuit, perhaps being aired once or twice on TV or included in a VHS or DVD collection. However, the end game for non-feature-length projects is still an… Read More »

Over the weekend, I did my last bit of holiday shopping. Yes, it’s a last-minute effort, but everything I needed was in-stock at Amazon and will be delivered on time. On the Palm Pre one of my most used apps is Pack ‘N’ TrackRead More »

When you work with anyone, it’s important to keep good records. But documenting your work can be even more important when you’re telecommuting. With many employers, you’re required to document certain pieces of information, like how many hours you’ve worked. But keeping a few more… Read More »

If you’re in the market for a netbook, it’s a good time to pay close attention to Intel’s new N450 processor — and some remarkable deals on the mini-notebooks based on the chip. New technologies may cause many more people to take netbooks seriously. Read More »

Did you know that Twitter is now getting twice as much TV air time as Apple’s iPhone? It’s true, according to Hulu’s new Captions Search, a feature the site launched today as part of its Hulu Labs playground. Captions Search makes it… Read More »

Android Ecosystem — This Week in Android

Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! Today you can get a glimpse of things to come in 2010 courtesy of Engadget’s highlight on the ICD Android Tablet which could hit the market at $249. The 7″ resistive display offers more than… Read More »

More Must Reads

Our subscription research service GigaOM Pro has just published its list of NewNet winners and losers for 2009. I contributed two selections to the list of winners: Twitter and Foursquare. Twitter has had an outstanding year, so including it in the list was a… Read More »

As this year and decade pull to a close, we’ve collected the top five winning and losing technologies and companies for each of the five major areas that GigaOM Pro covers: infrastructure, mobile, consumer tech, real-time web, and green technology. Read More »

Mozilla Firefox has passed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the world’s most popular browser, according to StatCounter. Firefox 3.5 had 21.93 percent market share at the end of last week, compared with 21.2 percent for IE 7 and 20.33 percent for IE 8. Read More »

Not only world leaders, United Nations delegates and environmentalists were disappointed in the weak accord reached in the 11th hour of the Copenhagen climate talks — the markets for carbon allowances didn’t like the deal either. Bloomberg is reporting that on the first day… Read More »

gwabbit is a handy application that automatically identifies and parses contact information from your emails to help ease the process of creating new entries in your contact list. I’ve written about the Outlook versionRead More »

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