Most of us web workers have a relationship with caffeine. Whether we use tea or coffee as creative fuel, or use coffee shops as our offices, caffeine has become an essential part of our professional lives. But how exactly does caffeine affect us? Read More »
Archive for May 2010
Intel is rumored to be looking to buy German chip maker Infineon’s mobile chip business. The chip giant is trying to diversify beyond its core PC and server markets into new, fast-growing mobile markets. The company is woefully behind ARM-based rivals such as Qualcomm. Read More »
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says despite reports to the contrary, he is not stepping down or reducing his role with the user-generated encyclopedia. However, he has given up some editing privileges after a disagreement over the removal of images that Wikipedia critics say depict child pornography. Read More »
KIT Digital is continuing its two-year buying spree, announcing this morning it has acquired video management provider and systems integrator Benchmark Broadcast Systems for approximately $9.5 million in a cash and stock deal that will give it a leg up in the Asia-Pacific market. Read More »
Dime novels were sold long ago as a serial, with a chapter released every so often for a nickel or a dime. The story was doled out in small pieces to hook the reader. Dime Novel Publishing is hoping to revive the concept in digital form. Read More »
Worldwide handset shipments are up 13.8 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, but the rising tide isn’t helping Motorola — sales were down 42.2 percent from the year ago quarter. Is Motorola counting too much on its Droid? Read More »
Nissan has previously described its upcoming LEAF electric car as being priced for profitability from the get-go. Now the automaker say it expects to initially lose money on the vehicle, at least until it fires up high volume production. Read More »
Privacy is different for everyone. Add the conflicting goals of a site like Facebook which wants to make money off of people’s data, to the disparity between people’s tolerance for sharing, and we’re faced with labyrinthine privacy policies and confused messaging. Could privacy middleware solve this? Read More »
I chose to run Quickbooks Premier for PC under Parallels on my MacBook. This sufficed for a year, despite an underpowered machine and major inconvenience. Recently, I gave up on the desktop version of Quickbooks and transitioned onto Quickbooks Online. Read More »
Just five years after YouTube launched the first beta version of its site, it now streams more than 2 billion videos a day, with a full day’s worth of video uploaded to the site every minute. All that momentum has YouTube on the verge of profitability. Read More »
Thought Google’s upcoming Androind-based Google TV platform was just about advertising? Think again: TV apps are estimated to generate nearly $1.9 billion in revenue by 2015, according to a new report from our friends at GigaOm Pro titled TV Apps: Evolution from Novelty to Mainstream. Read More »
More Must Reads
MobileMe Mail Beta Walkthrough
Apple recently started offering a new beta of the web Mail application portion of its MobileMe software suite. As a longtime MobileMe subscriber, I’d say it was high time it updated that particular app, which has been more or less broken since launch. Read More »