Other Tags:BizNews, Tech, Mobile Tech/Gadgets, Soft Dev/Outsourcing, and Humor/Offbeat news.
These are the latest 20 or so posts in my selection. Past Archives are found in my Google Reader shared list.
My Selected Articles on Gadgets
2008-09-29
- Ballmer: Tech showing 'buoyancy' despite economy
In a speech to the Churchill Club, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the tech industry is weathering the economic storm, but is not immune to it. ... - The trouble with Zunes
When Microsoft introduced the Zune portable music player almost two years ago, even people at the company made light of it. Microsofties called it "the brick." The Zune was larger thanApple's sleek iPod. It also came in white, black...and brown. ... - Text Messaging Rates Come Under Fire
Text messaging rates have jumped 100 percent over the last three years and Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, wants to know why. In a letter to Verizon Wireless, AT T, Sprint and T-Mobile, Sen. Herb Kohl suggests... ... - E-mail is as addictive as gambling
E-mail is a dangerous distraction--it only brings gambling riches when you win the Nigerian lottery. ... - Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by ani625 to wordpress webdesign hacks ... ... - Learn Ruby on Rails From Scratch: Week 1 - NETTUTS
Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by kimlove to ruby tutorial rubyonrails ... ... - Microsoft Will Cut Xbox Prices in the U.S.
... - A review of the Nokia E71
When Apple’s iPhone 3G came out, I was pretty sure I’d get one. It had all the features I was waiting for. But the lines just weren’t going away. I searched Twitter. For a week, then two, every day brought fresh reports of five-hour waits. And then the reports of bugs started coming in. The... ... - If Amazon Really Wants To Get Serious About The Kindle…
More rumors about the new Kindle are emerging, which we first wrote about on July 15. The first device will have a similar sized screen as the existing model but will have a much enhanced form factor. The second will be a large screen device aimed at students and will come later. Somewhere around... ... - Scribd Finally Starts A New Chapter With A Redesign
Scribd, the popular document sharing hub, has finally rolled out a much-needed redesign. The site has long been hampered by a messy homepage that wasn’t attractive for first-time visitors, displaying a list of its top features in lieu of a YouTube-esque stream of featured documents. The old... ... - Asus' own Eee-beater spied on web
Snaps reveals snazzy, top-end system Asus' Eee-beater mini laptop, the N series, has made its first appearance online after it emerged the Taiwanese manufacturer had decided to compete with itself.… ... - Smartphone market to grow 52% in 2008
The smartphone market is expected to grow 52% in 2008 compared to 2007, to 190 mln units. That’s 15%, or $65 bln-worth, of the total 1.28 bln handsets expected to be sold 2008. In 2012, Gartner expects smartphone unit sales to reach over 700 mln of the total 1.8 bln handset market; that’s 65%, or... ... - Here Comes Kindle 2.0
... - IT managers choose SSDs over hard disks
IT managers around the U.S. are falling in love with SSDs (solid-state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run so fast they can replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives), and they help reduce the electric bill. The benefits of SSDs, which are made from flash... ... - Microsoft's data centers growing by the truckload
Redmond is going beyond the traditional racks, instead having its servers delivered and run from a sealed container, a move that should cut costs and power demands. ... - Kindle sales pegged at $1 billion by 2010
CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney said the device may be the gadget gift of the holiday season, selling double his original estimate of 190,000. ... - Is Google leaving billions of dollars on the table?
Eric Schmidt tells Mad Money host Jim Cramer that he wouldn't allow ads on the home page, even though it could generate billions of dollars. Is the home page that sacred? ... - Lenovo crashes Eee PC party with IdeaPads
Better late than never, Lenovo has launched the IdeaPad S9 and S10 sub-notebooks, the company's answer to the embarrassing success of the Eee PC from rival Asus. The S9 features an 8.9-inch screen, integrated 802.11g Wi-Fi, 512MB of memory, 80GB of hard disk space or a 4GB solid state drive... ... - Hands on with HP's Mini-Note netbook
Hewlett-Packard's 2133 Mini-Note may end up as the premium choice among the entire mini-laptop, or netbook, category of devices announced so far. And people interested in the device will pay for it. HP's Mini-Note is the most expensive netbook I've tested so far at NT$25,900 ($844) in... ... - Microsoft: What Web Strategy?
The software giant left some analysts wanting more detail on plans to turn around its limping online operations after failing to acquire Yahoo ...
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