TaskUnifier is a desktop task management app that’s designed to work with the Getting Things Done (GTD) system. While it has a functional and unattractive UI, it’s free, has all of the features most people will need and is fairly easy to use. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
Sony, Orange, SanDisk and SoftBank are proposing a new standard called HQME for getting content to mobile devices using SD Cards and Wi-Fi networks in the home, but is a download model for mobile content going to fly in a streaming world? Read More »
After Nokia’s much-publicized decision to embrace Windows Phone 7 over MeeGo last week, early previews of MeeGo on a tablet are underscoring why Nokia was probably right to move on. The OS looks buggy, unpolished and far behind competitors in the mobile space. Read More »
If it hasn’t already happened, it’s coming: one of your employees is going to ask you if they can telecommute. The possibility of employees working remotely is something that is better to think about before the question comes up, rather than scrambling in the moment. Read More »
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the MWC stage to share improvements consumers and developers can expect to see in Windows Phone 7. Features such as Twitter integration, multitasking and cloud document storage are coming, but most functionality isn’t arriving until the second half of 2011. Read More »
Enomaly’s SpotCloud cloud-computing brokerage is now available for public beta, and Enomaly Founder and CTO Reuven Cohen thinks it can be for cloud computing what Google AdSense is for web sites. In fact, he says AdSense was the inspiration for SpotCloud. Read More »
There are always rumors floating around about Apple’s next move, especially when it involves the iPhone and, more recently, the iPad. But what if we could see Apple’s calendar of what they intend to announce and release for the next six months? Read More »
The sale of The Huffington Post has some concerned we are entering an age of digital sharecropping, in which writers toil for nothing while landowners get rich. But all the web has really done is accelerate a phenomenon that has long existed in the media game. Read More »
The wait is over for Boxee Box owners, as the startup is finally making its Netflix app available today. The app comes as part of a new firmware update, which also features some added security measures. Boxee previously had to delay its Netflix rollout twice. Read More »
EnerNOC’s COO has retired and its stock is suffering after big customer PJM accused unnamed companies of “double counting,” a practice the grid operator calls market manipulation. EnerNOC says it complies with all PJM rules. Read More »
Research in Motion has announced its acquisition of social contacts service Gist, two months after Om said the two were in talks. The value of the acquisition was undisclosed, but the rationale is clear. With Gist, RIM adds a social element to its messaging capabilities. Read More »
Last week, market researcher comScore released its U.S. Digital Year in Review report that’s chock full of useful data for the industry. Implications arising from the numbers include Facebook’s ad value problems, communications platform evolution, and potential social commerce growth barriers. Read More »
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