January, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2010

Well, it was almost free of the tablet. On yesterday’s quarterly earnings conference call, when asked about a new product that might have the impact of the Mac, iPod or iPhone, the response from Apple was that it “wouldn’t want to take away your joy of… Read More »

With all of the Apple Tablet hysteria this week, it’s nice to see that Cupertino hasn’t forgotten about its other products. My Apple Wireless Keyboard found a firmware upgrade today. Although most any tablet with Bluetooth can use a wireless keyboard, I’m guessing this… Read More »

 
 

President Obama, who will give his State of the Union address tomorrow, will go online the following week to directly answer questions from the Internet. And when he does, he’ll be appearing on the biggest online video platform there is: YouTube. YouTube will be streaming… Read More »

January is traditionally a time of renewal as the New Year carries with it new perspectives, promise and ambition. Here in the UK, it’s also the time of year when the dastardly Her Majesty’s Customs & Revenue come to take your hard-earned sterling! Read More »

Two of Facebook’s venture capital investors told the DTD conference in Germany that the social network has no plans to go public in the near term — meaning 2010 — that the company is instead still investing in and building its business. Read More »

With Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Beck, Steve Carell and Neil Young, Conan O’Brien had a star-studded lineup for the final episode of his show last Friday, and the Twittersphere thanked him by making the Tonight Show the most-twittered show of last week, according to new data… Read More »

I’ve been using Google Docs for a couple of years now, for both professional and personal tasks. To be honest, I was hesitant to try it at first. After all, what does Google Docs have that other, more feature-rich office suites don’t have? Read More »

Steve Ballmer first showed us the HP Slate during his keynote at the CES earlier this month. The tablet is running Windows 7 and is a thin slate form with a touchscreen. HP wants to prove the Slate is a real product, available “this year”,… Read More »

Apple and AT&T have done their very best to keep Google Voice away from iPhone users. A big raging controversy, an FCC intervention and lot of talk still didn’t help. Today all that changes — thanks to a brand new browser-based Google Voice app. Read More »

Startup IRIS Engines has a new take on an old technology: develop a more efficient internal combustion engine that mimics the iris of an eye. By switching up the internal structure in such a way — allowing its diameter to expand and contract – the company… Read More »

The Fall of Move Networks

Just a few years ago, Move Networks was a high-flying startup with what seemed like unlimited possibility. The company had succeeded where many video technology startups (and some incumbents) had failed to deliver — by providing high-quality video streams to the end user without having… Read More »

Now here’s an idea that could be really cool: applying the Threadless buy-on-demand, customer-voted online store model to something much more high-end and design-oriented: home furniture. That’s what Fashion4Home, a Berlin-based startup launching in the U.S. today, is doing. Read More »

More Must Reads

The home energy management industry has become saturated with new players looking for creative ways to be heard among the crowd. That’s at least part of the reason why People Power, which says it’s developing plug-and-play devices for monitoring home energy use, plans… Read More »

If you’re reading this post in your newsreader, I strongly advise you to head over to the site and read it there instead, because I’m very pleased to use this post to introduce WebWorkerDaily’s redesign. Read More »

This is the sixth in a series of 7 posts in the 7 days prior to Apple’s January 27 media event in which I explore various possibilities for an Apple Tablet and other potential announcements. The unlikeliest of all the… Read More »

The Apple tablet will succeed where the Kindle will fail: It will be the ultimate media reader. Ironically, however, it’s unlikely to offer the one thing that tablets traditionally offer beyond ordinary computing devices — the ability to draw on them. Read More »

Cloudkick, a San Francisco-based startup, launched its cloud server management and monitoring services while in the process taking on better-funded rivals such as Rightscale. By focusing on startups, the company hopes to make a business out of solving the complexity of managing multiple cloud servers. Read More »

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