The folks at workingProgram have just released a new version of their time tracking tool Qlockwork, and to celebrate have kindly offered us three licenses of the app (which retails for $49.95) to give away. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
Palm has put itself for sale, and Wall Street estimates that the company could fetch $1 billion or more from the likes of HTC. They are wrong, however, for Palm is on a fast track to nowhere, thanks to the smartphone monsters: Apple and Google. Read More »
Nike’s new Tiger Woods commercial is going viral in a massive way, according to new stats from Visible Measures. The clip, which features Tiger looking into the camera while his father’s voice states the wish to “find out what… Read More »
When you’re introduced as one of Warren Buffett’s most trusted advisors, and possible successor, your opinions carry a lot of weight. That’s the classic intro for David Sokol, Chairman of the MidAmerican Energy Holdings, who says he doesn’t support the Waxman Markey Climate bill. Read More »
Although intended for use as a companion or lifestyle device, Apple’s iPad has the makings of a primary computer for those with limited requirements. Steve Rubel has a week of iPad-only usage under his belt and it’s working out better than you might expect. Read More »
The third American edition of The Emerging Communications Conference & Awards will take place April 19-21 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. Day three is being dedicated to mobile augmented reality, and as such will be the world’s first and largest commercial augmented reality event. Read More »
Google Buzz has launched Buzz buttons that web site publishers can add to their pages to make it easier for readers to share content on the Gmail-based social network. GigaOM is one of the launch partners for this new feature, along with several other media outlets. Read More »
The smart grid demands an efficient, scalable communications hub — and SmartSynch’s GridRouter is the first tool uniquely positioned to act as such a hub. In short, the GridRouter enables the smart grid — on any network, software or device. Read More »
Social Business Edge is designed to address issues that the real-time, social web raises, and to bring together a community of visionaries, practitioners and tool makers to collectively explore what form the social business — and our aspirations to design it — will take. Read More »
Nearly a year after the last MacBook Pro update, and months after Intel launched its latest mobile CPU, Apple has added Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs to the MacBook Pro…or at least most of them. Read More »
Chrysler and NASA plan to share data and research related to battery systems, energy storage, materials engineering, radar, robotics and other technologies over the next three years as part of a new alliance announced this morning. Read More »
All focus on Apple may be aimed at the iPad and the new iAd service but for Cupertino it’s still business as usual. A refreshed line of MacBooks has appeared to keep Apple’s core business chugging along. The MacBooks get faster processors and longer battery life. Read More »