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Archive for May 2010

When I looked at stands for the iPad I was taken by the Skadoosh by Jadu. What I liked most about this stand was the ability to tilt the iPad to almost any angle. Jadu sent an early prototype for me to give a look. Read More »

When the Nexus One first launched, I called it the best Android phone yet. What a fool I was to jump to that conclusion. Let’s just say that topping my list of things to do now that I’m feeling better is to get a new BlackBerry. Read More »

 
 

Intel is trying to move into the living room with its WiDi, or Wireless Display, technology that streams computer content to a television using a point-to-point Wi-Fi connection. The technology could come to smartphones and that might add appeal to Intel’s Atom for powering future handsets. Read More »

You might remember Tropos back when building city wide Wi-Fi networks was all the rage. But more recently Tropos has been angling for a piece of the smart grid, and is using its history working with cities to help deliver those deals. Read More »

Online casual game developer PopCap are currently offering a selection of its greatest games for a discount price. The PopCap “Complete Pack” is available now, and offers Mac gamers (Intel based only) a selection of PopCap classics at a discounted price of just $49.99. Read More »

Instachrome is a nifty third-party extension that adds support for Instapaper — a service that allows you to save web pages to read later — to Chrome. It quickly lets you save the current page and check out your Instapaper items. Read More »

Convertible notebooks often cost a lot as the new Fujitsu T730 Tablet PC proves. This Tablet is as small as they get and still have a 12-inch screen. The starting price is $1,869, and that doesn’t get you the touch screen option. Read More »

Carriers’ data revenue hit $12.5 billion in the first quarter of 2010. However, they face two challenges: a saturated market and users who are boosting their consumption of data faster than carriers are boosting their data revenue. The Internet of things will help. Read More »

Radium is a simple, unobtrusive Internet radio player for Mac that sits in your menu bar. I listen to the radio most of the day while working, and I really like Radium; it’s a neat solution that doesn’t require you to use an extra browser tab. Read More »

In an iMac’s life, there are two things that you may find yourself wishing to upgrade, the memory and hard drive. Memory is easy enough to get to but the hard drive can seem a little daunting to some. Read More »

Vid-Biz: Google TV, Flash P2P, TiVo on Virgin

Today on the ‘Net: More evidence of a Google TV platform emerges, Adobe’s Kevin Towes describes the peer-to-peer capabilities of Adobe Flash 10.1 and Virgin Media talks about its TiVo rollout plans, among other things. Read More »

More Must Reads

Electrovaya, the Canadian battery maker supplying lithium-ion batteries for Chrysler’s plug-in hybrid truck demo, brought in nearly $1.1 million in revenue during the first three months of this year, compared to just $675,000 in the same period a year earlier. Read More »

If you’re a designer, especially for the web, a color picker or color sampling tool is almost certainly part of your arsenal. But did you know that OS X actually already includes one? Read More »

Major Hollywood studios succeeded in shutting down The Pirate Bay’s website today, but the victory celebrations may not last that long. Site admins are already working on a return, and file transfers between Pirate Bay users are continuing as usual, with millions swapping digital goods. Read More »

Research In Motion is bringing the BlackBerry to enterprises through China Telecom, but why offer the Storm as part of this deal? If RIM wants to compete with the iPhone in China, it should be targeting consumers with the Storm, not enterprises that need a keyboard. Read More »

Japanese conglomerates that have so far been dabbling in the global smart grid market seem to be looking to ramp up their investments. At least Mitsubishi — which makes everything from clean power equipment to cars to consumer electronics to chemicals — is. Read More »

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