It seems as if we’ve been waiting forever for netbooks equipped with Nvidia’s ION chips to hit the shelves. The ION kit should make for a better platform for netbooks, especially in the graphics department. Netbook diva Joanna Stern of Engadget has put four ION-based netbooks… Read More »
Archive for December 2009
Silver Lining of COP15: The merely “politically binding” accord that resulted from the UN talks in Copenhagen this month “is not the disaster that it at first appears.” It marks “some progress towards closing” the split between developed and developing countries in the UN’s climate negotiation… Read More »
Following RockYou allowing 32 million users’ e-mails and passwords that had been stored in plain text to be accessed by at least one hacker through a SQL security hole, one such user has filed a proposed class action lawsuit. Read More »
Air travel in the United States continues to get more complicated with every new change implemented by the TSA. While I’m not a road warrior traveling every week, I do take quite a few business and personal trips. I fondly remember the times when… Read More »
Fox is ready to flip the switch and cut off some Time Warner customers in a little more than 30 hours, according to a report today from Bloomberg. News Corp. COO Chase Carey apparently told employees in an internal memo that the company is… Read More »
One of the most useful new interface features in Windows 7 is the Aero stuff. This includes the feature that lets you drag windows to the edges of the screen to make convenient stuff happen. Drag a window to the top edge of the screen… Read More »
Logos Bible Software shipped the first version of its Bible study software 18 years ago in December 1991 for the, at that time, brand new Windows operating system. Last year, Logos finally released version 1.0 of its software for the Mac and its story provides… Read More »
I’ve been hearing rumblings about C3, the carbon-focused stealthy startup from Thomas Siebel — the guy who sold Siebel Systems to Oracle for billions of dollars — for the past couple of months. But TechCrunch has the kicker on them this week. The company has… Read More »
Gleeks, you can be proud of yourself: Glee has not only been the show that dominated Twitter week after week after week ever since the beginning of the fall season, its most recent episode before the holiday break also caused more Tweets than… Read More »
A Google executive claims the company is “just scratching the surface” with Google Voice and will move aggressively to expand the offering next year. Which means network operators must ramp up their efforts to make their pipes smarter. Read More »
Time for our Wednesday feature that highlights some of the latest iPhone news. We all know that no matter what you want to do with your iPhone, there’s likely an app for that. The problem is finding the good ones amongst all of the chaff out… Read More »
Holiday spending has seen sales of Apple’s Magic Mouse soar. According to a report by NPD and covered today by AppleInsider, last month saw a twofold increase in Apple’s share of domestic mice sales. By the end of November, Apple had captured 10 percent of… Read More »
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