Nissan announced the sticker price for its upcoming LEAF electric sedan today, and at $32,780), it could be among the cheapest highway-capable electric vehicles on the road in coming years. Nissan also plans to lease the vehicle for $349 per month. Read More »
Archive for March 2010
As predicted, an update to Apple’s Snow Leopard and Leopard operating systems, which fixes a record number of vulnerabilities, is now available. The sizable patch, which weighs in at over 700MB, tends to a number of known security problems within the latest client and server versions… Read More »
Gamers in North America and Europe are now “largely comfortable” with purchasing digital content such as virtual currency and in-game goods, according to new research. We sat down with the CEO of game aggregator Kongregate to learn how virtual goods are impacting his business. Read More »
Perspectives is a useful free add-on for Firefox that improves the usability of the browser and provides an additional layer of security when connecting to sites using SSL. Read More »
Microsoft has been awarded a patent on a virtual assistant called “Guardian Angel” that would monitor a user’s behavior and take action to help improve their health and protect them from danger, including monitoring their heart rate and doing background checks on people they speak to. Read More »
Adobe and Google announced plans today to integrate the Flash player plugin into Google’s Chrome web browser, in a move that the companies say will advance the speed of innovation on the web. By tightening their partnership for web development, the move could… Read More »
A little known fact about Boeing: it’s got more solar patents than anyone else in the U.S., (14 solar thermal patents since 2002 as of January, according to a law firm.) So sooner or later the defense contractor would want to commercialize ‘em. Read More »
The frenzy this week in anticipation of the arrival of hundreds of thousands of iPads is as expected. One of things that remains to be seen is how Apple will impact the e-book game, with the iBookstore. Get ready for a big impact, for everyone. Read More »
Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Salesforce.com, AOL, Intel, Loopt are asking for updates to federal electronic privacy laws to address new forms of surveillance and data collecting. Coalition members would like to defend themselves and their users from forced sharing of data contributed through email and location-tracking services. Read More »
Dailymotion announced today the launch of a new player for its video content, which Read More »
The folks at CLEAR (formerly Clearwire) kindly sent me their latest 4G WiMAX modem to try out, so I’ve been testing it here in Seattle and on a weekend train trip to Portland. Read More »
I am a big user of mobile 3G broadband, and was poised to upgrade to 4G with the Sprint Overdrive modem which is like my 3G solution, but faster. That’s not going to happen as a lot of folks are reporting problems with the Sprint modem. Read More »
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