March, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2010

After a lengthy wait and at least one delay, Verizon today began to push out the Android 2.1 update to its Motorola Droid customers. The update includes many feature I’ve enjoyed since January — multitouch and voice-to-text support just to name a few features. Read More »

 
 

Mozilla has appointed Aza Raskin as the creative lead for Firefox. Raskin is one of the foremost experts in user interfaces and over the years has developed expertise in web user interfaces. In 2008, Raskin joined Mozilla and worked for Mozilla Labs. Read More »

It sometimes feels that all notebook talk concerns those little, cheap devices known as netbooks. It’s time to change that with this announcement of a gaming notebook that is loaded for bear. The 15-inch power notebook adds a multitouch display to an already powerful package. Read More »

If there’s a meme that’s been repeated even twice online, there’s a solid chance that Ben Huh, CEO of the I Can Haz Cheezburger media empire, has tried to build a brand around it. And a few weeks ago, Huh and his team began… Read More »

Texas is one of the few electricity markets that is competitive. That means it’s ripe for a revolution, which Jason Few, the President of Texas energy retailer Reliant Energy, says will be focused on innovation and selling “quality of life, not kilowatt hours.” Read More »

Tired of looking at the bland, stock Music application on Android? Cubed can jazz up the experience with a 3D interface that easy to use and nice to look admire. It’s a beta app, but offers solid base features plus a few advanced ones too. Read More »

Just days before the iPad lands in our hands, Apple has updated iTunes to version 9.1 so that we can sync content onto the new device just as soon as we post our unboxing photos to Twitter. iTunes 9.1 provides the ability to sync books from… Read More »

Everything was picture-perfect when I visited the If I Can Dream house at the beginning of the month, just before five young people moved in to follow their dreams on a 24/7 live feed. Which is why I decided to wait to see what… Read More »

Twitter is now recommending individual tweets by harnessing the power of its userbase to algorithmically show which ones are interesting. The new Top Tweets account, which will be featured on a new home page that’s currently being tested, shares a small sampling of popular tweets. Read More »

Daily Sprout

Chu on Blue-Sky Greentech: Asked what blue-sky technology he is most hopeful about, Energy Secretary Steven Chu cites photovoltaics and, “A new generation of biofuels that are direct substitutes for gasoline…using agricultural waste.” — Washington Post Read More »

Vid-Biz: Hulu, SlingPlayer on iPad, Greystripe

Hulu Sends Some Traffic To Level 3 and Limelight Networks; video content from Hulu historically came exclusively from Akamai, but lately, the site is also using Level 3 and Limelight Networks for some of its video delivery. (Streaming Media blog) Related: Hulu’s a Towering Success… Read More »

More Must Reads

SecondShell is a nifty free app that adds a bunch of useful tweaks to Windows. Particularly useful is its ability to toggle maximizing the active window horizontally or vertically — perfect for those times when you need a bit of extra room in your window. Read More »

Plenty of authors take to Twitter to promote their new books, but few of them have the stature of Margaret Atwood — and even fewer of them take to it the way the Canadian fiction writing legend has. She says it’s like “having 33,000 precocious grandchildren.” Read More »

Many people have been asking for a unified email inbox on their iPhone, rather than having to switch between accounts. While there isn’t an official Apple way to do this, you can fake it yourself using Gmail and its ability to check email from other accounts. Read More »

Google and Verizon today penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal praising certain aspects of the National Broadband Plan, but what is driving these two firms closer together? I think it’s a dislike of greater FCC power and the Apple-AT&T alliance. Read More »

Are you a musical theater nerd who watched the Fox series Glee this fall and thought to himself in a very Chorus Line-ish way, “I can do that?” Well, MySpace says put your money where your mouth is. Read More »

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