Consumer electronics
An appliance just for tweets
Are you a devoted tweeter? Then there’s an appliance just for you. Its sole function is tweeting. It’s called TwitterPeek and CNET describes it:
A new gadget designed specifically for people who want to tweet on the go was launched Tuesday by gadget maker Peek.
The device, dubbed TwitterPeek, does one thing and one thing only: [...]
Google Android GPS
Among its many activities, Google has developed an operating system for small devices like phones. It is called Android and has growing usage. For example, Motorola has a phone coming out called the “Droid”. Google’s platform is free, which gives Microsoft and others who charge some competition.
Now Google is adding a free navigation service [...]
Kindle software for PCs
Soon you won’t have to own the Kindle itself to get access to Amazon’s store of e-books. ZDNet reports:
Amazon announced on Thursday its “Kindle for PC,” a free application that lets users read e-books on their PCs.
The software makes it easier for a tablet PC to double as an e-reader that’s compatible with Amazon’s Kindle [...]
The most important tech product is- the Kindle?
If you ask somebody what the most important recent consumer tech product is, the iPhone is the likely answer. However, Don Reisinger has a completely different (and surprising) take on this question. Over at Internetnews.com, he says it’s the Kindle. He did an informal poll and no one mentioned the Kindle but he says:
The answers [...]
Forecast for Microsoft
This coming week marks the big day (October 22) for Microsoft when Windows 7 becomes available to the general public. Technology professionals have already had the new Windows for quite a while but this will be the first time that you can walk into a store and see a PC with Windows 7. Naturally the [...]
Text messages growing out of hand
More and more people are sending text messages over their phones and wireless bandwidth is approaching a limit. Some 740 billion text messages were sent in the first half of 2009 in the U.S. alone according to a report from CTIA. Digital Daily notes these comments from the FCC chairman:
Consider these remarks from Federal Communications [...]
More smartphones than PCs
In many parts of the world, cell phones are the way to connect to the Internet. PC World reports that sales of the advanced type known as a smartphone will soon equal and then exceed sales of PCs:
Smartphone sales will surpass worldwide PC sales by the end of 2011, says a report. The report, by [...]
iPhone use strains resources
It always surprises me how many technical professionals seem to believe that there is no limit to the bandwidth that the Internet can provide. But there is a limit and the enormous growth in traffic created by the exploding transmission of video, images, and data is causing an increasing strain.
Where this might be heading is [...]
Americans online
Forrester Research has published a new study that shows that American families are thoroughly into the Internet age. CNET writes about the report:
Tech lovers used to be dubbed geeks and nerds. According to a new report, we’re all geeks and nerds now.
Young, old, single, married–they’re all online, using PCs, watching digital TV, and chatting [...]
Profile of Steve Jobs
Anathema to some, adored by others, Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs is always in the news. He has been one of the biggest influences in the tech world but his recent health problems have caused much speculation about his future role. Whatever his future at Apple, Jobs has had a profound influence on personal [...]
Microsoft Office on your phone
The mobile platform just keeps getting more like a small computer. At CNET, Ina Fried reports:
Microsoft is expected on Wednesday to announce a partnership with European mobile giant Nokia to help get its Office software onto that company’s mobile phones, CNET News has learned.
With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to expand [...]