January, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2010

While the Untemplater web site is full of interesting content, one fact about it will be especially interesting to web workers. Its six founders live all over the world, in places including New Zealand, Thailand and Wisconsin. Read More »

Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! It’s difficult to believe, but another week has passed where I haven’t touched my iPhone. The Nexus One has taken over as a primary device, even with its shortcomings. Although my sporadic 3G issue Read More »

 
 

Social networking tools are critical for keeping up with others and raising our profiles in the working world. They are also increasingly useful ways for businesses to communicate. Here are eight essential guides from our network to make you a power business user of social tools. Read More »

While the debate over Mac versus PC will last for eternity, one of the elements that many “diehard” PC users have thrown at Apple fanboys is the ability to really tweak their experience, through application add-ons and plugins. Mac users who use Firefox have had a little… Read More »

Vid-Biz: Swarmcast, YuMe, Nielsen

Swarmcast Lays Off Half Of Company, Changes Focus To Target CE Devices; at the end of December, more than 50 percent of all employees were let go, leaving about ten people at the company. (Streaming Media Blog) YuMe Names McLernon To CRO Post; Video ad network… Read More »

I’ve already expressed my opinion on what would make the Apple tablet a significant part of my day-to-day web working habits, but Amazon seems keen on positioning itself in or around the same space in the market, so it’s only fair I turn my attention to… Read More »

Ground Truth, a startup, has emerged from stealth mode, armed with a plan to use data from mobile carriers and infrastructure vendors to measure traffic on the wireless web. It’s a move that could go a long way toward boosting ad revenues in the space. Read More »

On the good deals front, while the BlackBerry Curve 8330 isn’t the latest and greatest ‘Berry phone out there, you can scoop one up from Boost for $249.99 with no long-term contract. The same device on a Verizon month-to-month plan is $429.99 as of last check. Read More »

In one of the first marriages of news content and location-based services, the Canadian arm of the free paper Metro International has announced a content deal with Foursquare, the popular mobile location-based service, that will give users the ability to see local news and reviews. Read More »

If you know one fuel cell startup, it might be Bloom Energy — the secretive 8-year-old company with at least $250 million in financing. But another startup, 7-year-old ClearEdge Power, has begun to rack up customers for its $50,000 fuel cell device  – and… Read More »

Since you liked our list of 10 must-have Google Chrome extensions so much, and seeing as Google today released a stable version of Chrome that includes extensions, I’ve decided to share another 10-pack of useful extensions. Read More »

This year Intel will return to the Super Bowl with two new ads for its latest line of processors as well as sponsor the post-game show. Intel helped make advertising for geeky tech components cool, and this latest marketing effort aims to keep Intel on top. Read More »

More Must Reads

Since being released from its Time Warner shackles, AOL has been tearing up the media landscape, hiring journalists and launching a custom content-creation service called Seed.com (run by former New York Times staffer Saul Hansell). Now the former online behemoth is adding… Read More »

Taiwanese PC maker Acer has experienced a big year, and they are celebrating by going after every market segment they believe will be big in the coming years. A report has surfaced that has the device maker preparing to produce a e-book reader, a tablet,… Read More »

Let’s face it, most iPhone apps probably won’t even get used more than once or twice, and even then, you won’t be using them for anything particularly important. But one app came in very handy for one very lucky iPhone owner. The phone and the app… Read More »

Today is the first annual Community Manager Appreciation Day, and it’s about time! Community management is one of those web worker roles that can be done from almost anywhere, and many of you are community managers in some form. Read More »

Updated: Last week we reported that famed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla ended up boosting his firms new funds, which includes a large portion for greentech, to a total of $1.3 billion, up from previous estimates of $1 billion. Well, this morning CNET reports a… Read More »

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