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Gmail works offline, with Google Gears' help
@ Feb 03, 2009 10:52 AM 0 comments
The wait for networkless Gmail access ended last week, when Google Labs released Offline Gmail.
The tech downturn: How long and how bad?
@ Oct 10, 2008 12:35 AM 58 comments
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ron Conway sent a sobering e-mail on Tuesday to the 130 start-up companies he's invested in: now is the time to hunker down.
SkyFuel heats up solar thermal power race
@ Oct 10, 2008 12:34 AM 0 comments
SkyFuel, a company spun out of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), on Friday is hosting an event to unveil its solar power plant system: a parabolic trough made from reflective plastic.
The Lenovo S10 Netbook is here, count me in
@ Oct 10, 2008 12:27 AM 0 comments
The IdeaPad S10 is Lenovo's just-released entry in the Netbook market. "Netbook" is a new term that's applied to cheap small laptops that run either Windows XP Home Edition or Linux.
Fring VOIP and chat client goes mainstream
@ Oct 06, 2008 07:34 AM 5 comments
The iPhone app Fring, which acts as a VOIP client for Skype and other internet phone networks, as well as a voice and chat interface into IM networks like AIM and Yahoo, is now available for free to everyone.
Yahoo plans software push for Net-enabled TVs
@ Aug 20, 2008 10:15 PM 0 comments
Yahoo on Wednesday announced an effort to provide the software underpinnings of network-enabled TV, a move that could transform not only what it means to watch TV but also what it means to advertise on it.
American Airlines launches in-flight Wi-Fi
@ Aug 20, 2008 10:14 PM 0 comments
The cost is $12.95 per flight. Passengers will be able to sign up when they boot up their browsers.
The OpenSocial roadmap
@ Aug 20, 2008 10:04 PM 0 comments
Nearly 10 months later, Google is touting the maturation of the OpenSocial specification and growing developer and user adoption.
Report: Google-Digg acquisition talks fall through
@ Jul 26, 2008 10:53 PM 1 comment
Google has ended negotiations to buy social-news site Digg.com, according to TechCrunch.
Mojave experiment gets a Web site
@ Jul 26, 2008 10:53 PM 0 comments
Evidently spurred on by the reception it got at Thursday's financial analysts meeting, Microsoft has decided to move ahead with plans to turn the Mojave project into a full-fledged Windows Vista marketing effort.
When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache
@ Jul 26, 2008 10:51 PM 0 comments
Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software's biggest supporters.
Google reveals scope of Web-crawling task
@ Jul 26, 2008 10:51 PM 0 comments
It's a pity the National Security Agency can't talk about its computational challenges, because it's leaving a lot of the boasting rights to Google.
Daily Debrief: Of 500 new iPhone apps, some shine, some stink
@ Jul 10, 2008 10:35 PM 1 comment
On Thursday morning, in coordination with the iPhone 3G's first worldwide release in New Zealand, Apple launched its latest version of iTunes. Now available on the 7.7 version are more than 500 different third-party applications for your new iPhone 3G.
Intel Centrino 2 due Monday: HP notebook makes appearance
@ Jul 10, 2008 10:35 PM 0 comments
With Intel's rollout of Centrino 2 processors due Monday, Hewlett-Packard is not wasting any time in readying new notebooks, including a 17-inch model offering a bevy of the new processors and 64-bit Windows.
Kodak's answer to Apple TV: The Theatre HD Player
@ Jul 10, 2008 10:23 PM 3 comments
I'm not sure whether I should call the new Theatre HD Player Kodak's answer to Apple TV, but that's the best analogy I can come up with on short notice
Ballmer: We'll look at open source, but we won't touch
@ Jul 10, 2008 10:21 PM 0 comments
Steve Ballmer is at least willing to talk with the open-source crowd now. He's just not willing to actually engage in open source as an appreciable part of his company's business. Fair enough.
Hyper-V is not hype
@ Jun 30, 2008 01:10 PM 3 comments
Microsoft did something that it rarely does last week when it announced availability of its Hyper-V server virtualization technology months ahead of schedule.
Photos: Panasonic rolls out Net-enabled plasma
@ Jun 06, 2008 04:04 AM 0 comments
Panasonic's new high-end PZ850 series of Viera plasma televisions offer instant Web connectivity
Images: The enchantment of Google Eart
@ Jun 06, 2008 04:03 AM 1 comment
On Thursday, Disney and Google announced an initiative that brings Walt Disney World into Google Earth.
Google to let users test new Gmail features
@ Jun 06, 2008 04:02 AM 0 comments
Google will invite users to try new features the company is considering adding to its Gmail service
Gates-Ballmer rifts marked Microsoft power shift
@ Jun 06, 2008 03:57 AM 0 comments
The sparring became so intense that at one point, board members intervened to iron out differences...
WWDC 2008: iPhones, 10.6, and a new .Mac?
@ Jun 06, 2008 03:56 AM 0 comments
Expect to hear new details about the future of Apple's Mac OS X and Web business next week at the Worldwide Developers Conference--and we think there might be a new iPhone, too.
Acer likes Linux for laptops
@ Jun 06, 2008 03:55 AM 0 comments
Now it appears Acer and Microsoft are having a public spat. Or, if they aren't yet, Acer's comments Wednesday will likely start one.
Build your own Eee Box: Intel debuts Atom circuit boards
@ Jun 04, 2008 12:13 AM 0 comments
Appropriately, a tiny Intel system board has debuted to match the tiny Atom processor. This could yield more portable desktop PC designs like the Eee Box
Report: Icahn says Yahoo CEO has got to go
@ Jun 04, 2008 12:12 AM 1 comment
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn plans to seek the ouster of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yan
The elevator pitch of Internet video hopefuls
@ Jun 04, 2008 12:06 AM 0 comments
A handful of upstarts tried their hand at an elevator pitch here Tuesday at the Under the Radar Conference, a one-day confab for Web start-ups
The iPhone name game: 2G, 3G, or 2.0?
@ Jun 04, 2008 12:05 AM 0 comments
"Why is the name of the keystone product from the company with the world's best branding even subject to debate?"
Ubuntu version coming to mobile devices
@ Jun 04, 2008 12:04 AM 0 comments
A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile Internet devices and mini-notebook
Murdoch goes candid on reporting, politics
@ May 29, 2008 12:03 PM 0 comments
"A Wall Street Journal story is touched or edited by 8.5 people, and the story gets longer and longer, and people don't have time for that," he said. "There is not a story you can't get in half the space.
Start-up makes 'renewable gasoline' from algae
@ May 29, 2008 11:57 AM 0 comments
Sapphire Energy says that it has produced the chemical equivalent of gasoline with algae.
