E-book readers are all the rage these days, but to tell the truth I have been reading them for about ten years. One of the methods I have been using to read e-books is by using Kindle for PC on the ThinkPad tablet PC. In… Read More »
Archive for December 2009
LinkedIn has made a new version of its iPhone app available, LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0 (free, iTunes link). The app sports significant UI and performance upgrades. As Ben Parr notes over on Mashable, the UI is reminiscent of Facebook’s updated iPhone app (and… Read More »
The deal appears to be a bargain for Nuance, which gets some large carrier customers and new languages with the acquisition. These should help as Nuance takes on both Google and Microsoft as voice recognition continues to expand into the mainstream. Read More »
In the next few days, content from Vevo will disappear from YouTube’s API, putting an end to third parties using it to serve videos without the company’s permission, according to sources. By doing so, Vevo will put an end to companies co-opting its… Read More »
Segetis, a startup developing chemicals made from biomass (rather than petroleum), raised $17.2 million this week as part of a planned $22 million Series B financing round, according to a filing with the SEC (hat tip PEHub). Backers include Khosla Ventures, which invested $15… Read More »
One of the most amusing things in the mobile tech world is how the more things change, the more the same things come around again and again. Take the e-book craze, which is seeing more companies than you can shake a stick at promise us the… Read More »
How would you move Mount Fuji? Today, Glassdoor.com, which collects anonymous employee comments on companies, is citing that goofy question and more in its collection of 24 oddball queries that were actually asked in interviews. Some of them are doozies. Read More »
Almost a year after Nortel filed for bankruptcy, we take a look at what’s left of the 114-year-old company that began as Northern Electric and Manufacturing to sell telephones to Canadians. All that remains are some patents and an IP phone joint venture with LG. Read More »
One of my new year’s resolutions is to pursue more DIY projects. This includes things like putting Jolicloud on my Hackintosh netbook, swapping out the hard drive on my iMac, and, most importantly, doing something with my old Apple hardware. I currently own a Powerbook G4… Read More »
The last week of the year is a great time to get organized. Chances are good that many of your coworkers and/or clients have the week off, so it should be a fairly quiet week for most of us. We could spend that extra time… Read More »
The Department of Energy quietly announced this month (hat tip Green Inc) that Korean electronics giant LG can’t use the Energy Star logo for over a dozen of its refrigerators starting in the new year. The decision was a result of findings of multiple… Read More »
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