Saul Hansell, who left the New York Times to help run AOL’s new Seed project, says his first big project is finding writers who will interview every single one of the 2,000 artists and bands that are appearing at the SXSW festival. Read More »
Archive for January 2010
Mozilla’s Firefox for Maemo isn’t quite ready for its already expected debut. A third Release Candidate just hit for Nokia tablets and while performance is marginally better, plug-ins were pulled out. That means no Adobe Flash just yet for this otherwise solid web browsing client. Read More »
Laptopfriendlycafes.com is an easy-to-use web site that also has a database of cafes; you can search on a location name, zip or postal code to get a listing of places nearby that might make good locations from which to work. Read More »
Everyone seems prepared to declare the Kindle e-reader dead now that Apple has released the iPad, but Amazon can still put up a fight. Here are five simple ways that the Kindle can compete with the Apple tablet. Read More »
Billions Awarded for High-Speed Rail: The White House has “finally announced the full list of where that $8 billion in stimulus money for high-speed rail is going.” The two largest awards will support projects in Florida and California, while a smorgasbord of smaller projects will also receive… Read More »
Nokia, which recently launched a new, free version of its Ovi Maps app, may also open it up to outside developers via a more robust API than the one currently available as it looks to extends the app’s capabilities even further. Read More »
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another Palm Press, our weekly look at the world of Palm. When Palm held its press event at the CES earlier this year it made noise about the new games on the way. Assassin’s Creed is here! Read More »
It’s time, I think, to get rid of my cable TV service. It’s over-priced and under-used in my house. These days, I can find most of the shows I like on Hulu or iTunes, anyway. Most, but not all. And… Read More »
In the wake of Apple’s iPad announcement yesterday, some are speculating that it will find early success as a tool for mobile workers. There are several reasons, though, why that is unlikely to be the case, and why Apple won’t focus on this early on. Read More »
While the world was watching Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil the iPad, voice over IP programs that use AT&T’s 3G network were finally being released for the iPhone. So far iCall and fring have 3G VoIP apps while Skype and Nimbuzz do not. Read More »
No matter what you think of the newly launched Apple iPad, it confirms a shift in the way mobile broadband services are priced, albeit a subtle one, and won’t hurt AT&T as much as I thought it might. Read More »
When I recently came across Ember, a service similar to Scrnshots but with more contemporary features, a smarter interface and cleaner design, I was keen to try it out. Read More »
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