There aren’t too many computing devices still using the 1.8″ hard drives that we saw in the first UMPCs. But if you still have one of them and are looking for a storage upgrade, Active Media Products might be worth a look. The company today… Read More »
Archive for January 2010
With U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly criticizing China’s Internet censorship, the Chinese government has gone on the offensive, denying Google’s insinuation from earlier this month that it had been involved in hacking email accounts and labeling calls for an open Internet as self-interested fallacies. Read More »
The world of television is currently coming together in Las Vegas for the National Association of Television Program Executives’ (NATPE) annual conference. Starting today, the conference will explore not only how to build a reality TV blockbuster, but also many topics more relevant… Read More »
Constant interruptions can kill your concentration and put a crimp in your productivity. And according to recent research, you are probably suffering the tyranny of interruptions much more often than you realize. Read More »
Strolling the mall with my wife, I was looking for an excuse to visit the Apple Store, but instead I found a reason: the disappearing desktop. “Where have all the desktops gone?” I asked her pointedly. She looked inside the glass front and pointed. “They’re right there.” “Well, yeah,… Read More »
AOL continues its expansion in the content-creation business with the acquisition of video-production house StudioNow for $36.5 million, and the hiring of a former Google engineer as the head of technology for its New York media center. Read More »
Not only are there numerous synergies between the content delivery and cloud computing markets, but the two are set to become increasingly intertwined, according to a new GigaOM Pro report. It’s a relationship both CDN and cloud providers are trying to cash in on. Read More »
As more companies hire Corporate Sustainability Officers, more attention will be paid to how sustainability feeds the bottom line. The upcoming conference, “Value-Based Sustainability: The Business Case for Green, Clean & Lean,” will feature a panel of corporate rock stars, among them: Adam Werbach, CEO of… Read More »
In an iTunes world, synchronizing music to a non-Apple device remains a challenge for some. We saw it with the Palm Pre — which had unofficial iTunes support shuffled on and off quite a few times. For the record: that song stopped playing months… Read More »
Break Media is betting big on social gaming, announcing today that it has launched a game production house in China and will soon introduce what it hopes will be the first of many new social games. In addition to the male-oriented Break.com, the company… Read More »
According to a report over the weekend on HotHardware.com, Apple may have more to announce at its special event this Wednesday than its mythical tablet. We have been led to believe by an inside source that AT&T will lose their iPhone exclusivity on the same day,… Read More »
Juniper and Polycom will deliver products and services to answer the looming threat Cisco plays in the videoconferencing space. But by taking a page from Cisco’s playbook, they may have doomed themselves to failure. Instead of marrying the network and device, they should open things up. Read More »
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