Splish-splash, Chase is taking a bath
The point was driven home–literally–when we started receiving short videos via e-mail of our 9-month-old grandson Chase enjoying apricot-peach yogurt, bouncing in his play-seat contraption, and splashing in the bathtub. E-mail has never been used to better effect.
The free account limits your videos to 60 seconds, and your messages are [...]
If you build it, it appears they will come…eventually. That’s what CNET News’ Ina Fried wrote earlier today–and she examines why, only now, this technology is coming into its own.
Sony Ericsson’s newest secret agent–the C902
Bumpy start for China’s homegrown 3G
Corporate giants push into clean-tech venture investing
Legendary video game designer Will Wright’s new game Spore, [...]
To give you an idea of how different the new look and feel is, here are a few comparison shots of the Latitude E6400 and a slightly older Latitude D630, one of the most common laptops found in corporate America.
We’ve seen more than a little interest in Dell’s radically revamped Latitude line of business [...]
Schappert also touted the success of Xbox Live, which he said has earned more than a quarter billion dollars in money spent on downloadable games.
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But now, the company is expanding the XNA offering to allow the best community-created games to be uploaded to and distributed from Xbox Live.
Satchell also offered up another of [...]
The Times notes competitor Showtime’s foray into digital distribution that started with iTunes back in 2006. Showtime currently has just over a dozen shows on iTunes and Amazon’s Unbox service at $2 a pop, although unlike HBO’s standalone downloading media player, both services are on a purchase model that allow users to repeatedly watch episodes [...]
Amen. Kevin Harvey and Peter Fenton are a dream team in open source. I once asked whether the two could effectively work together. Looks like I have my answer.
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One firm with whom I’ve never formally worked but would engage in a heartbeat is Benchmark Capital. Matt Aslett of The 451 Group gets it exactly right [...]
Can your computer do magic?
The Illusion PC, entry No. 911 in the Next-Gen PC Design Competition.
The design makes the PC appear to have no inner components. The designer says the aim was to make the computer not look like a computer, and when turned off to look just like a household decorative object.
The [...]
Last summer I reviewed ViaTalk for PC Magazine, and dinged them pretty heavily for poor customer service. But things have improved considerably since then, and I haven’t needed customer service even once in over 7 months. (Full disclosure: I’m a ViaTalk customer, but otherwise have no affiliation with the company.)
In case you’re unfamiliar with them, [...]
My favorite app concept from the Facebook F8 Developers’ Conference was Connected Weddings. Based on the fact that planning a wedding is a social affair (duh), it lets you connect with two different groups: the people coming to your event, and other people who are getting married. With the former, you can share stories and [...]
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Nothing could have caused more uproar in the blogosphere about Twitter than followers suddenly disappearing. We have all complained about and tolerated Twitter’s downtime issues, but seemingly losing your hard-earned followers is something that users might not stand for.
Even if Twitter is able to fix this problem, it is clear that [...]
