June 2009
126 posts
Lenovo on the Slow, Painful Evolution of Keyboards... →
Shared by felix They should test a unix user for control and capslock usage, too. But I’m good with a bigger escape key. :) The Lenovo T400 series, aside from its occasional tussles with…
Jun 30th
Free Windows Upgrade (SEE FINE PRINT) →
Shared by felix smart move especially giving the regular pricing of the os. Microsoft (MSFT) announced last week companies buying PCs between now and the day new Windows 7 OS will be…
Jun 30th
Wikipedia damages shaky credibility with Rohde... →
Shared by felix In this case it seems like a spurious argument to say “what if it wasn’t life and death”. It isn’t like there was a random drawing for which story to bury and it just happened to…
Jun 30th
The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran →
Shared by felix Go TOR. Death Metal writes “Iranians seeking to share videos and other eyewitness accounts of the demonstrations that have roiled their country since disputed elections two weeks…
Jun 30th
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove... →
Shared by felix Wow, that’s interesting. Curious to see how this works out. Ernesto / TorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents  — Earlier…
Jun 30th
Palm Pre finds fan off the grid →
Shared by felix Um… isn’t telephony sort of the definition of “the grid”? :) Alright, so you’ve no doubt seen plenty of Palm Pre reviews by this point (even if there’s only one you
Jun 30th
Sputnik →
Shared by felix That’s an interesting goal. I suspect either the goal won’t last or the testing won’t. People like a good test. Christian Plesner Hansen announcing Sputnik, Google’s new open…
Jun 30th
Fly-Powered Gadgets Indulge Your Small-Scale... →
Shared by felix “Their “carnivorous robot” prototypes are simple in concep: each gadget, be it a lamp, clock, or heretofore unnamed generic killing device, powers itself with special fuel cells…
Jun 29th
Nokia, Apple, RIM and others agree on micro-USB... →
Shared by felix Huh… will Apple change their iPhone connector for this? Interesting. Also does this mean phones will stop coming with adapters? So if you need one, you’ll have to buy it…
Jun 29th
Why The Healthcare Industry Doesn't Want... →
I’ve been really confused by the whole push for “electronic healthcare records” as some sort of big step for improving our healthcare system. It’s such a minor part of what’s needed that it seems to…
Jun 27th
Video: Sharp's Mebius NJ70A unboxing →
Shared by felix ok… that lcd trackpad is cool. We’ve seen a bit of Sharp’s Mebius netbook around here — and most of our attention has been focused on that LCD trackpad (a…
Jun 27th
Upgrade fee sees few iPod touch users updating to... →
Shared by felix Apple should get on the stick with these touches. It’s to their benefit, after all, to get everyone on the latest and the greatest. Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Jun 26th
Rumor: Existing Android Phones Won't Get... →
Shared by felix This wouldn’ta happened if Android was GPL instead of Apache. :) That HTC’s “Sense” interface would run on older hardware was known for months before its official…
Jun 26th
Comic-Con to air on G4 →
Shared by felix Huh. It shoulda been the Joss Whedon panel! TV News: ‘Star Wars’ is event’s first-ever televised panel — G4 will broadcast a “Star Wars” panel at Comic-Con in July, marking the…
Jun 26th
Microsoft shows once again how it doesn’t listen →
Shared by felix If the problem is the word rendering engine, it seems like fixing outlook is just patching the symptom… why not a fix word campaign? Just as one thinks that Microsoft…
Jun 26th
Iran Tries to Pacify Protesters With *Lord Of The... →
Shared by felix How is this not an Onion article? Iranian state television’s Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching hobbits and not…
Jun 26th
Windows 7 pricing announced: cheaper than Vista... →
Shared by felix $119-$219 to upgrade? (can you upgrade from xp, too with this pricing?) And then $199-$319 for retail?? JEZUZ. Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica: Windows 7…
Jun 26th
Palm App Catalog Hits 1 Million Downloads →
Shared by felix That’s some really impressive numbers given the number of apps and the number of handsets out there. Bodes well for the Pre. 18 days after the launch of the Pre, Palm’s App Catalog…
Jun 26th
Atheist Ads Hit City Buses →
Shared by felix nice. Photo courtesy of Titan Worldwide There’s nothing like the MTA to make you question your faith! So maybe the new advertisements for Atheism on city buses are…
Jun 26th
Apple pulls adult-content app from App Store,... →
Shared by felix Heh. I wonder if it’s true. If so, I guess that bodes well for porn on the iPhone. And just like that, the iPhone App Store is once again safe for children, people at…
Jun 26th
Flash Hits Android - When Will Apple Play... →
Shared by felix Um… when did flash become the indicator of here to stay-ness? So we just got word that HTC will be the first manufacturer to bring Adobe Flash to the Android platform with…
Jun 25th
Photostream: Bees →
Get an inside look at what’s been happening around the White House. There are nearly 100 new photos on the official White House photostream. Check them out. (Charlie Brandts, a White…
Jun 25th
FriendFeed Now Allows File Sharing, Including MP3s →
Shared by felix I’m vaguely surprised about the no video thing - with email submission and the iPhone 3GS ready to email videos, it’d seem like a natural one. Everyone’s Robert Scoble’s…
Jun 25th
AT&T's 3G MicroCell still on track for... →
Shared by felix This would be good. Depending on the pricing. We’ve known the tech behind AT&T’s spin on the home-based femtocell repeater since January, and in February a little …
Jun 25th
Wall Street Salaries Rising →
So I’m still banging away on research towards a piece on Wall Street employment and compensation. But I’m going to steal a little of my own thunder to get info to you in a timely way. I have…
Jun 25th
AIM and BeejiveIM updated for push support →
Shared by felix Weird, I had to actually click the “buy this app” link because iTunes wouldn’t say it was an automatic update. I crossed my fingers, but thankfully got the “this app download is…
Jun 24th
Amazon: A Search Engine With A Warehouse →
Shared by felix Totally. Clay Shirky made an offhand comment on Twitter recently that’s way too good to leave to just the Twitterverse and not expand upon (hopefully Shirky himself will expand…
Jun 24th
Angelina Jolie wants to be President →
Shared by felix i’d totally vote for her. It’s about time we got Tomb Raider up in the white house! Angelina Jolie is considering abandoning her acting career and following in the…
Jun 24th
Verizon Stops Seriously Competing On Price -... →
Shared by felix this is so sad. As we mentioned yesterday, Verizon has reconfigured several of their FiOS tiers, but in doing so they’ve raised prices on a number of customers. Amid the…
Jun 24th
Everything You Know About Dinosaurs Is False →
Shared by felix oh noes! NOOOO!!!! Well not everything, but a major piece to the puzzle: their size. In a crushing blow to the collective conscious and the imagination of children…
Jun 24th
Let's make the web faster →
Shared by felix Huh. (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Code Blog) From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user…
Jun 24th
AWS Management Console Support for CloudFront →
The AWS Management Console has a brand new tab: This new tab contains full support for Amazon CloudFront. You can start distributing your content in minutes. You don’t need to make…
Jun 24th
Scott Pilgrim: genius comic about a slacker who... →
Shared by felix I couldn’t agree more. This comic rocks my socks. If you haven’t read it, you’re missing out. I don’t know what took me so long, but I finally got around to reading Bryan…
Jun 23rd
ASCAP Now Claiming That Your Mobile Phone Ringing... →
Shared by felix Honestly, I hope they somehow win this and it kills the ringtone industry, which in turn seriously impacts the music industry which makes all kinds of money from ringtones. Man,…
Jun 23rd
Adobe on HTML 5 →
Shared by felix One wonders if FF and Safari (and Chrome, I guess) push HTML5 if this will force an acceptance of the standard. And by one, I mean me. And by wonders I mean hopes in spite of…
Jun 23rd
New Governors Island Organic Farm In Full Swing →
Shared by felix This is amazing, I hope it’s true. When the city demolished a Coast Guard housing complex on Governors Island last October, one official promised it wouldn’t “sit…
Jun 23rd
Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User the Books... →
Shared by felix This is bad news. If you can’t deauthorize devices to keep this dl number current - it’s really bad news. Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the…
Jun 22nd
Appmodo: Official AT&T iPhone Tethering to... →
Shared by felix $55 is less than the $80 I pay for my sprint card so… yes. I’ll happily take it. :) Appmodo: A source with AT&T informed Appmodo today that MMS for the iPhone will be coming…
Jun 20th
Node Power Outlet Makes Power Strips Almost... →
Shared by felix Neat, but no place for the ground prong. Rob at Boing Boing Gadgets thinks that Node—a power outlet that can accept several cables safely—may be the power outlet of…
Jun 20th
iPhone 3G S fizzles out for global retail →
Shared by felix Uh… could be attributed to free, same day home delivery? What a difference 18 months makes, eh? The relative short line for today’s iPhone 3G S launch at Apple’s…
Jun 20th
EFF, Public Knowledge Drop ACTA Lawsuit, Realizing... →
With the Obama administration bizarrely claiming that documents pertaining to negotiations over ACTA, the industry-written treaty that will push countries to change their copyright laws, are somehow…
Jun 18th
AvantGo Going Away →
Shared by felix Wow. End of an era… that ended awhile ago. AvantGo, a popular offline browser for PDAs and smartphones, will cease to exist as of the end of June. Sybase, AvantGo’s parent…
Jun 18th
AT&T Loosens iPhone 3GS Upgrade Eligibility... →
Shared by felix Sigh. Still not me, but good on AT&T for this. I fear it will make others squawk all the harder, though. If you’re an AT&T customer that isn’t eligible for a phone upgrade…
Jun 18th
NYC, Finally The Worst Road Rage City In America →
Shared by felix I contribute to this regional rage. I contribute mightily. AutoVantage released its annual survey of the Best/Worst Road Rage Cities in the country and New York is at…
Jun 18th
Japan Makes Private Copying Illegal →
Shared by felix Wait, so if you have a cd you can’t rip it onto your mp3 player? Man. Plenty of countries have reasonably pointed out that the entire point behind copyright laws was to protect…
Jun 18th
Carrot-Bomb Art Project Bombs in Sweden →
Shared by felix Dumb response… but so predictable. Asking for trouble it was. Trouble it found. Not the best idea: The carrot bombs had been placed around the city at the request of a local…
Jun 18th
Sprint Disses Palm By Selling New BlackBerry →
Shared by felix This feels like a reporter trying to make some drama. Should Sprint have stopped selling all other good phones just to have the Pre for a few months? Research In Motion…
Jun 17th
Google updates Maps through the Android Market →
Shared by felix That is pretty cool! I always assumed that smartphones were still putting all this stuff on ROM somewhere. Is this not true for Android? for iPhone? Pre? Google has…
Jun 17th
iPhone 3G S Shipments In The Air For June 17... →
Shared by felix Apple’s giving free shipping from china?? Damn. Orders for the new iPhone 3G S are now in the air from Shenzen, China. And people who ordered them right away last week may be…
Jun 17th
Let’s Hope This Is the Start of a Trend →
An iPhone developer gets a call from Apple regarding his app: They had a minor issue that was blocking its approval. Thankfully they weren’t blocking it for any silly reason, there was a valid…
Jun 17th