Sprint will reportedly bring a WiMAX handset to market in the first half of this year, several months earlier than had been expected. But given its small WiMAX footprint and the technical issues that must be overcome, what’s the rush? Read More »
Archive for February 2010
I clearly remember the moment I knew I would never buy another physical CD and would buy all my music online. Since then, I’ve been waiting for the moment when I would know that I could buy all my movies online. In November, Apple announced that… Read More »
CBS: We’ll Cut iTunes Prices for Some Shows; CEO Les Moonves says the broadcaster will mark down the price on some of its shows from $1.99 to 99 cents. (MediaMemo) Moonves also boasted about the importance of retransmission fees and growth at the company’s cable channels.… Read More »
We’re big fans of adding connectivity to everything, from GPS systems to thermostats, but for every wireless connection there’s a price, and figuring out who pays that price and how they pay it is a roadblock for enabling smart appliances and gadgets according to Accenture. Read More »
The end of the week means it’s time to share the week at Mobile Tech Manor with you. I discovered I am truly platform agnostic, in both the computing and smartphone areas. My tools are equal on every platform I use, and that is very liberating. Read More »
AOL is reportedly planning to expand its hyper-local journalism project, Patch.com, to hundreds of towns and cities over the next year. But can the Web giant fulfill CEO Tim Armstrong’s new-media vision when so many others have failed so completely in the past? Read More »
A while back I reviewed an iPhone app called reMail that I really liked. It allowed users to search their email archives very comprehensively. Apparently Google was impressed with the application, too, and as Liz reported over on GigaOM, Google has purchased the company. Read More »
The Bannen Way, produced and distributed by the digital arm of Sony Entertainment, has already proven itself as a bit of a lightning rod for controversy. And when Crackle told us that the crime noir web series had racked up 8.4 million… Read More »
California’s big utilities have some tough deadlines to meet to give their customers the useful — if at times potentially unwelcome — energy usage data being collected by the millions of smart meters they’re deploying across the state. In a largely overlooked ruling, the
Emerging from its haunts as a bicycle tech developer, Fallbrook Technologies this week has joined Tesla Motors and Codexis as the latest in a spate of greentech ventures filing initial public offerings. Like Tesla, it’s also the latest company to attempt to go public with… Read More »
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved Google’s application to buy and sell energy, after much speculation over whether it would. Will Google act as a utility, and will it disrupt energy markets? Read More »
Google’s Listen for Android gains an update today with plenty of new features. One them includes synchronization of podcast subscriptions with Google Reader, which makes for an easy way to add new podcast feeds to your handset. Now you can Listen on run! Read More »
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