The invite from Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event clearly shows an image of a lion, which strongly suggests that the next iteration of OS X is going to be announced. But what new features will “Lion” bring? Here’s a list of interesting possibilities. Read More »
Archive for October 2010
The really cool thing about Joliprint’s bookmarklet is that it can work with Google Reader. Simply select an item in Google Reader, hit the bookmarklet and a nicely-formatted PDF of that article will be saved to your machine, ready for printing or transferring to an e-reader Read More »
Free and bundled mobile navigation services are bringing once-pricey turn-by-turn services to the masses, and the masses are responding in a big way. That’s the upshot of a new study which found that the number of mobile users utilizing turn-by-turn navigation on their handset increased. Read More »
Tommy Wiseau is a legend to a very small group of people, thanks to his cult film The Room — which has attracted fans like Brock LaBorde, who co-directed (with Jared Richard) a tribute to low-budget anthology horror shows featuring Wiseau and his “unique” acting style. Read More »
Google’s Android operating system has been a breakout success, quickly gaining worldwide market share among smartphones. Our infographic shows how Android has grown, the success of its app market, the sudden increase in customer acceptance and loyalty, and where we think it will be in 2014. Read More »
ambition, n.: an earnest desire for some type of achievement and the willingness to strive for its attainment Thinking about ambition reminds me of Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford. The words “stay hungry” have followed me ever since reading them. Read More »
The chief of the oh-so-buzzy fuel cell company Bloom Energy, K.R. Sridhar, told Reuters at the media company’s climate conference this week, that in a few months Bloom Energy will have ramped up production enough to produce one Bloom box per day. Read More »
Mozilla Corporation, which makes the Firefox browser, has named its next CEO: Gary Kovacs. This was a planned transition — current CEO John Lilly wants to become a VC at Greylock Partners — but perhaps not an expected choice, given Kovacs comes from outside the Mozilla… Read More »
The cable and satellite industry in the U.S. has begun to show some weakness, with the first-ever decline in pay TV subscribers last quarter. But data from the European Union shows that cable subscribers there have already decided to stop paying for cable TV services. Read More »
Both Gartner and IDC report the Mac is now accounting for a tenth of the PC market in the U.S., but these preliminary numbers will likely climb higher still when Apple reports actual Mac sales during its quarterly conference call next week. Read More »
T-Mobile is making changes to help redefine itself amidst tough competition above from three larger carriers in the U.S. and below from national prepaid providers and smaller regional carriers. It’s not the Saks of cellular, but not a Sears either. So who, then, is T-Mobile? Read More »
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