Roku users will soon be able to access Hulu Plus on their devices, if recent changes to the Roku.com web site are any indicator. The site already features a partner page for Hulu, boasting that Hulu PLus is easy to set up on Roku’s boxes. Read More »
Archive for September 2010
The Web Atom’s System Ninja is a useful free Windows tool for cleaning out the junk that accumulates on your hard drive over time, taking up valuable space and slowing your system down. I made a short screencast to show you how it works: Read More »
Social networking has become the killer application for mobile broadband and possibly the adoption of smartphones. A survey out today from Allot Communications has measured a 310 percent increase in Twitter traffic from the first half of 2010 and a 200 percent increase in Facebook traffic. Read More »
For those refresh monkeys banging away at the Apple Store online shortly after the event on September 1st, your obsession may finally be rewarded. Many early buyers are reporting their Apple TVs are now shipping, with expected arrival dates as early as September 29. Read More »
The Nielsen Company is working to extend its ratings measurements to online campaigns, giving advertisers the ability to understand how well their cross platform efforts are faring. Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings will provide Nielsen’s first look at online ratings similar to the way it’s tracked TV… Read More »
The British law office ACS:Law is know for hunting down file sharers. This weekend, it got into murky legal waters of its own after it accidentally published a number of internal emails on its web site, revealing names of alleged porn file sharers and more. Read More »
IBM today said it would buy Blade Networks, a company that makes networking gear that can help vendors combine computing and networking in a box resembling Cisco’s server. Blade reported $79 million in revenue for 2009 and planned for revenue in excess of $100 million for… Read More »
Cohuman, a team collaboration app with a slick interface that I demonstrated in a screencast earlier this year, today announced the availability of a new “Professional” version that’s aimed at businesses. It’s subscription-based and allows for greater control over who can access each project and task. Read More »
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus got lobbed some softballs this morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference by his investors at Kleiner Perkins. But he did give up some specific metrics about how his very metrics-driven company runs, and he talked about the larger themes at stake. Read More »
This has to be the weirdest investment Google has ever made: $1 million to help build an urban transit system based on a pedal-powered monorail called Shweeb. The original prototype was an amusement park ride, where pod pedalers raced each other on a side-by-side track. Read More »
Spiceworks’ third “Voice of IT: State of SMB IT” report, which investigates technology purchasing, usage and staffing plans among small and medium-sized businesses worldwide, is now available as a free download. Read More »
Japanese consumer electronics giant Sharp has entered into both the e-book and Android tablet business with the announcement of the Galapagos cloud media service. Galapagos will launch initially in Japan in December, and will offer e-books, magazines and newspapers with automatic push delivery. Read More »
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