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 »
Archive for May 2010
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 »
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 »