понедельник, 7 апреля 2008 г.
Microsoft ends its siesta, plays hardball
воскресенье, 6 апреля 2008 г.
Escape from social network frenzy?
With all the talk about social network aggregators over the past few weeks, you'd think they were going to reverse global warming.
Technology blogs have been chirping enthusiastically about "lifestreaming" services like FriendFeed and Socialthing, which claim to provide an answer to growing complaints about "social-networking fatigue." They sort ...
Smartphones will soon turn computing on its head
LAS VEGAS - There's almost as many people buying smartphones as there are people buying laptops, and that trend is about to turn the computing industry on its head.
"We do see that gravitational pull of the single-use device being played out in the market," said Nigel Clifford, CEO ...
суббота, 5 апреля 2008 г.
Don't buy a portable TV this year
Sorry little guy, but your days are numbered.
(Credit: Wal-Mart Stores)
Portable TVs can be great for camping or in case of emergency, but you're probably going to be getting ripped off if you buy one in 2008. That's because almost all portable TVs use standard analog TV signals, and those signals are going to get turned off on February 17, 2009. And even though these TVs are just about obsolete, you can still buy them at places like Target, Wal-mart Stores, and Amazon. Some of the pages have warnings about the impending DTV transition, but some of them don't.
While it is possible that someone will come out with a battery-powered DTV converter--which could work with a portable TV that has inputs--we wouldn't hold our breath. The FCC's DTV FAQ page already explicitly says, "it is not anticipated that battery powered digital-to-analog converter boxes will be produced," ...
пятница, 4 апреля 2008 г.
Intel MID shuns Microsoft, taps Linux
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Online video production company For Your Imagination raises more cash
For Your Imagination, an online video production company based in New York, announced Friday that it has pulled in an additional $1 million in seed funding from existing investor ConsensusOne Ventures. ConsensusOne, which initially invested $1 million in January 2007, will then help the small company work on a Series ...