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Some End Of Summer Recommendations
Book: I just finished reading Small Favor, the latest installment of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. This is actually the tenth novel, and the series is still going strong. Harry Dresden is a...
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Dell Can’t Trademark Generic Term After All
Dell’s “Cloud Computing” trademark application: denied
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Google Chrome – A Brand New Browser
Google’s new browser, “Chrome”, will be available tomorrow (Tuesday) for download in 100 countries. Kara Swisher has scans of a promotional comic accidentally mailed out a little early. And Blogoscoped...
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I Get It
The new Microsoft ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates has appeared on the web, and a lot of people are criticizing it as being odd and pointless. Well Duh! The quirky ad is obviously meant to...
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G1 Gets Ebook Reader
The T-Mobile G1 smart phone now has a functional (more-or-less) ebook reader. FBReaderJ has now been re-compiled to work on the device, and it can indeed open and display certain ebook formats. I...
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TextOnPhone iPhone App Comes to T-Mobile G1
Popular iPhone ebook app TextOnPhone is now available as an Android application in the Marketplace. So far, it’s the best ebook reader available for the T-Mobile G1. There are about 30,000 books that...
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$200 Color Ebook Reader Coming Soon
The Pandigital Novel ebook reader is set to debut soon for $200. The device will support a number of formats, and will integrate the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (with over a million titles available...
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Waka Waka Waka
According to a study by RescueTime, the playable Pac-Man logo on Google Friday cost the economy a total of 4,819,352 man-hours and a staggering $120,483,800 in lost productivity. Those numbers sound as...
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Weekend Movie Watching
Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, my holiday weekend was a blur of 1980′s nostalgia (with a brief side-trip to 1992). I’d recommend all of these, with the possible exception of Chevy Chase’s ‘Modern...
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AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plans
The $29.95 iPhone (and other AT&T smartphone) unlimited data plan is being replaced by two cheaper plans with data limits. The $15 plan will get you 200 megabytes of data, which AT&T claims is...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Fan Page Hacked
TechCrunch reports that the following message appeared on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page today: Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook...
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MySpace Up For Sale
In an earnings call Wednesday, News Corp. publicly revealed plans to sell struggling social media site MySpace. The site has been re-designed and repositioned over the last year to focus on media...
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Apple Clamps Down On In-App Purchase Rules
Apple never claimed iOS was an open platform, and they’re reminding us of that reality this week. Some application developers, including Sony, say Apple has told them they can no longer sell e-books...
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Canada to reverse metered Internet decision
Canada will quickly reverse the controversial CRTC metered Internet decision, reports the Toronto Star: A controversial CRTC decision that effectively imposed usage-based Internet billing on small...
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Google and Twitter Thwart Egypt’s Net Ban
Egyptians with access to a telephone can tweet via voice message using the new @speak2tweet channel: As the Mubarak government turned Egypt into Gypt (everything “e” was cut off), Twitter quickly...
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Nuked Flickr Account Back From The Dead
The Flicker account accidentally deleted by an employee of the site has been fully restored: Flickr accidentally deleted a member’s account–comments, favorites, and thousands of photos–but now has...
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Internet Officially Runs Out of Addresses
Via Wikipedia, the IPv4 well has run dry, as expected: IANA’s primary address pool was exhausted on February 3, 2011 when the last 5 blocks were allocated to the 5 RIRs. Several RIRs are expected to...
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Google Gets More Than 75,000 Job Applications in One Week
Google received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree. The company is stepping up hiring as it pushes deeper into...
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