May, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2010

Apple makes it fairly easy to do basic text formatting for HTML signatures, but using HTML to create more complex signatures requires a bit more work. We’ll walk you through, step by step, how to create a custom HTML email signature is Apple’s Mail app. Read More »

Tesla Motors, gearing up for an IPO, has heavyweight backers including Uncle Sam and most recently, Toyota. How will the hybrid leader’s vote of confidence in Tesla and the startup’s latest manufacturing plans affect how Tesla fares on Wall Street? Read More »

 
 

The iPhone may have given up its edge in the U.S. market over Android recently, in terms of smartphone OS share, but globally it still leads Google’s mobile OS. That’s according to market research firm Gartner, who recently conducted a survey of the global smartphone terrain. Read More »

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Droopy: A Tiny Web Server That Makes Receiving Files a Snap Droopy’s a mini web server (actually, a Python script) that… Read More »

The day after the FCC released its wireless competition report AT&T said as of June 1 it will raise the early termination fee on the iPhone to $325. Is it a sign of the carrier’s imminent loss of iPhone exclusivity, or a lack of wireless competition? Read More »

Los Angeles-based District Court judge Stephen Wilson issued a permanent injunction against the torrent indexing site Isohunt.com and its owner Garry Fung yesterday, giving Fung pretty much no choice but to shut down Isohunt or make it otherwise inaccessible for U.S.-based file sharers. Read More »

In the near future, the web is going to be the master copy of human knowledge. We need to figure out ways to use that knowledge. — Hakon Wium Lie, chief technology officer of Opera Software, in an interview with GigaOM. Read More »

It’s easy to see how coal plant owners and oil companies would pay extra when there’s a price put on carbon emissions. But industries that use a significant amounts of electricity will also be greatly affected, and in particular data center operators. Read More »

The claws were out at Google I/O today, where Google VP engineering Vic Gundotra gave his best Steve Jobs impression — by which I mean, an on-stage presentation of new launches that featured ample use of passive-aggressive jabs, delivered to a rapt and supportive audience. Read More »

For those of you wanting to learn iPhone development, there are a number of resources available. Besides blogs (like ours) there are a number of books that can help pull things together for new and budding developers. Read More »

Vid-Biz: Google TV, Clearleap, Project Canvas

Today on the Net: An analysis of what Google TV means to advertisers, Clearleap hits a milestone by topping 10 million cable subscribers and the U.K. Office of Fair Trade has decided against investigating the BBC’s Project Canvas. Read More »

Y Combinator is capitalizing on its formidable momentum to raise an $8.25 million fund for its startup program. Meanwhile, it said today that 74 percent of the 27 companies from its latest class are either profitable or have received commitments for outside funding. Read More »

More Must Reads

Having meetings over the phone is something that remote workers do all of the time. However, despite the frequency of these meetings, I see a lot of people who don’t follow basic phone meeting etiquette. Here are a few tips: Read More »

Google is free to complete its purchase of AdMob after the Federal Trade Commission decided unanimously that the deal is unlikely to harm competition in the mobile advertising market. Ultimately, it was Apple’s plans to launch its own competitor that paved the way. Read More »

Miro has introduced the first tool designed to convert files to the just-released VP8 video format. The release of Miro Video Converter 2.0 will leverage Google’s new open video format, which was announced as part of its WebM Project earlier this week. Read More »

We’re once again in the homestretch of preparations for our web infrastructure and cloud computing conference, Structure. This year, the event’s third, we have expanded it to two days in order to accommodate an even more diverse range of topics. Read More »

Finding good apps for the iPad can be a daunting task, and when a jewel is spotted it can be a delightful experience. That’s the case with iCab Mobile, an alternative web browser for the iPad that has earned a place on my iPad’s dock. Read More »

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