If you ever wondered how Yahoo found itself in a position to be gobbled up by Microsoft, you only need look at its 2008 Yahoo! Video Awards. Didn’t know that Yahoo was even giving out awards for video? Neither did a lot of folks, we presume, […] Read more »
Reader Melvyn emailed me today that he just ordered a Lenovo x61 notebook PC from the Lenovo outlet store and his deal was so good I want to pass it on. Melvyn’s x61 is loaded to the gills: Core 2 Duo- 2.2 GHzXP Pro3 GB of […] Read more »
According to the Wall Street Journal, workers who have larger monitors complete tasks much faster. We’ve debated this in the past, and now researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly computer users completed tasks and found that for users on 24-inch monitors vs. those […] Read more »
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Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire joined me (subbing for Om) and co-host Joyce Kim on the GigaOM Show this week. Hear him talk about Brightcove’s traffic spikes from TMZ, politics, and National Geographic; Yahoo’s Maven Networks acquisition; his company’s decision to drop its own ad sales team; […] Read more »
Yesterday I had a terrible technology morning when a piece of my mobile tech failed and left me high and dry. I had begun like many mornings by heading in to Big Oil Co. just after 6 am and setting up the Fujitsu P1620 in the […] Read more »
Are uou overworked? Are you feeling tense and stressed out? Then you need to read The Web Worker Daily interview with Getting Things Done author David Allen. A lot of it actually resonates with me and I kind of agree with Allen when he points out […] Read more »
It is still not clear what is going to happen to Xohm, Sprint’s planned WiMAX service. Will it be put on ice, or will it become part of a new company with backing from Silicon Valley giants like Intel? One thing is becoming increasingly clear: Unlike […] Read more »
Regular readers know I’ve been slowly migrating from a hosted Exchange plan for my e-mail over to Google’s Gmail service mainly due to their IMAP offering. The delay in my move is mainly due to moving mail from one service to another; when I have time […] Read more »
What weighs less then 3 pounds, is smaller than the MacBook Air yet has almost all of the same hardware components? That would be the newly announced Fujitsu P1620, of course. The P1620 is the update to the P1610 that I used for a long time […] Read more »
The exodus of senior management at Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues. Today, Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo and the #2 man at Cisco resigned. He is joining buyout shop, Silver Lake Partners. He was amongst the trusted lieutenants of CEO John Chambers, but like many others before […] Read more »
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Earlier today we covered how to keep your computing data safe and secure on a USB thumb-drive, so it’s only fair to cover the opposite end of the spectrum for the fully transparent folks. RescueTime is a free service currently in beta that tracks your application […] Read more »
Although LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook’s success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy, LinkedIn is no Facebook. Today the professional networking service unveils two new features that demonstrate how LinkedIn might reach out. Read more »
ON Networks and SXSW Team Up for Web Series Awards; Greenlight Awards to recognize the best original and episodic web entertainment; winner gets $10,000 and distribution deal from ON. (TVWeek) Digital Distribution Challenges Audience Researchers; it’s harder to tally how many people actually watch when content […] Read more »
Some fun facts from CTIA’s mid-year 2007 survey results (Download PDF): * At the end of first half of 2007, there were 243.4 million subscribers or about 10.4M net new additions. UBS Research estimates that number works out to about 80% penetration of the U.S. population, […] Read more »
Watching your favorite TV shows online isn’t as easy as we’d like to believe. TV content is scattered across various sites and in different, competing formats. Video search doesn’t yield relevant results consistently. And sure, BitTorrent has everything under the sun, but BitTorrent isn’t easy for […] Read more »
Today Panic released Transmit version 3.6. It’s been over 18 months since 3.5 was released (though there have been multiple smaller version releases between then). The biggest new feature in 3.6 is the addition of Amazon S3 support which undoubtedly has been one of the bigger […] Read more »
Google Maps Mobile (GMM) is an extremely popular program. Absolutely everyone uses GMM at one point or another because it’s so easy and looks pretty. But is there another game in town? Dwight Silverman of TechBlog put Google Maps Mobile head-to-head against Windows Live Search (WLS) […] Read more »
Daily Show Vids Licensed to Yahoo; first time Comedy Central is agreeing to show them off-site. (Broadcasting & Cable) AP to Show Olympics Video; broadcaster NBC will give news agency exclusive clips from Beijing. Boo exclusivity. (Associated Press) Obama’s Weak Sauce; candidate whines about Obama Girl […] Read more »
Vlingo Corporation launches today with a beta version of a new voice technology for mobile phones. Vlingo Mobile is a voice-based interface for phones based on new technology developed by the company. Vlingo was founded by speech expert Mike Phillips, formerly of Nuance, and the company […] Read more »
I posted a 5 minute video overview of the HTC Advantage on the jkOnTheRun Readers Group. I posted it there because it only took 5 minutes start to finish so it was either that or not do one at all. There are a few other videos […] Read more »
I have read that Apple is shrinking its 85W Power Adapter for the MacBook Pro to a more manageable size. I remember first getting my MacBook Pro, an upgrade from a TiBook, and noting the size of the power brick. I thought it was laughable that […] Read more »
I know you should never start a blog post with a cliche, but the first time I saw an AppleGeeks comic it was love at first sight. Any comic with clever satires, lovable characters, and amazing artwork is bound to turn some heads. But a comic […] Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/v/_j5H2J-P_FE Since all the buzz is about that "other" music phone this week, I figured I’d check out the music features of the Nokia N80ie that I’m using for a few weeks. Most of my music listening is done online: streamed either from the Zune Marketplace, […] Read more »
I’m a baseball fan, a Mac fan, and an iTunes fan. So it’s no surprise when all three of these glorious things intersected, I was one of the first in line to partake in their combined offering. For the same $1.99 price iTunes charges you for […] Read more »
Being a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has two advantages – it can help you raise big money from big names, and it gets you a lot of press. Reed Hundt is a perfect example. Hundt is getting a lot of attention these days […] Read more »
The looming VoIP patent mess not withstanding, In-Stat, a market research firm says that 9% of US households were using VoIP at the end of 2006, up by one percent at the end of September 2006. By In-Stat’s estimate, there were about 10.6 million households where […] Read more »
According to Digital Spy, market research firm NPD says the PS3 is selling marginally better in its first four months than the 360 did for the same period. “Figures show that the PS3 is selling slightly faster in the US than the Xbox 360 did at […] Read more »
How do you make a game viral? Gamasutra, gaming industry business website, has published a new article today on five ways to market a game more, er, virally. Jon Radoff, creator of Space Empire Elite, gives a few pointers on how to gain a following and […] Read more »
Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’07 for Wii (also on 360, PS3, others) is the tenth iteration of EA’s current yearly golf game. But other than minor changes like analog thumstick swinging, the series’ controls have largely remained the same until now. So does the Wii version […] Read more »
According to VGCharts, there are now 4 million Playstation 3s on the market, while just 1.8 million of them have been sold. More than two million PS3s sit forlorn on store shelves. That coupled with another recent set of sales figues suddenly made me realize the […] Read more »
Since GigaGamez is all about the business of games, it just makes sense that we would want to take a look at what’s happening when it comes to gaming technology in the stock market. We’re going to be following the market closely and keeping an eye […] Read more »
So here’s a fun but totally unscientific next gen console survey you can try doing on Google over the year, just like I did a few minutes ago: Search “defective 360″: 2810 returns Search “defective PS3″: 1570 returns Search “defective Wii”: 931 returns Therefore, unless someone […] Read more »
Google is having quite a bit of trouble on the business side figuring out how to monetize YouTube and make it legit. Now it appears to be following up on the technology side, sending Shashi Seth, formerly product lead on search, to YouTube. His assignment? Monetization […] Read more »
Google is looking to get into games, according to CNN Money, and before this week is out, should be announcing a deal to buy Adscape Media Inc., and through them, work with publishers to feed ads through the Internet into their online games. (Presumably, the elevator […] Read more »
December is one of the busiest months for gaming… for obvious reasons. The holiday season pushes game sales way up, and, of course, it doesn’t hurt that most companies wait to release their newest products right before the busiest shopping time of the year. To that […] Read more »
Ernest Adams, Freelance Writer, Game Designer and contributor, has written another entry for his series, “The Designer’s Notebook,” about the PS3 and Wii. The question he poses in this column is “which will developers want to work on?” I believe that’s something we’d all like to know. Read more »
No, I haven’t tried installing Vista on Miyagi, my Fujitsu P1610, because it’s just too darn functional for me with Windows XP 2005 Tablet Edition running on it. I was pretty sure there would be a number of drivers that haven’t been released for Vista yet and I […] Read more »
So Verizon Wireless confirmed the speculation this morning of its deal to offer the equivalent of YouTube lite — select, approved content — through its VCast service. The deal is big news because the size of the companies involved, but this particular agreement is really just […] Read more »
Blake Ross, one of the more high profile members of the Firefox team, has been quietly working on a new start up for a while. He has been successful in keep the wraps on his new startup, Parakey, but now it seems is close to revealing […] Read more »
Verizon Wireless and partner Microsoft are set to announce the launch of a new online music store, VCAST Music, at CES. The new service will go live January 16th and offer music downloads a la iTunes. Verizon intends for the new service to extend their current […] Read more »
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