Where Are Google Places Pages Going? To the Index?
Last week when Google Map's new Place's pages were introduced it was noted that they were not going to be indexed (there is a great discussion going on at Greg's blog now) leaving the impression among...
The coming tablet wars
I'm going to try writing longer form stuff for the weekends, sort of to stretch the old mental legs a bit and share a bit of the stuff that is floating through my transom, man, about tech and especial...
Apple up to its old tricks, pushing unwanted software onto PCs
I don't own a lot of Apple products. My wife has an iPhone (she loves it), but I don't. I have an iPod Nano that I keep around for compatibility testing, but I haven't plugged it into a PC in this o...
Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share
Sprint Nextel has taken to boasting that it offers “the first wireless 4G network.” — What does that mean? Sprint's advertisements do not say. The company assumes that most people, dizzy from the ...
Critics: AT&T griping over Google Voice a “red herring”
They're calling it a “political stunt” and “a bid to undermine Web-based competition.” So what is it? A new deep packet inspection gadget or astroturf group? An inflammatory youtube video? Nope.
Australian Education Department Seeks To Build ‘Unhackable’ Netbook Network
ITNews, an Australian business publication, is reporting that the Department of Education of the state of New South Wales is using a variety of management software and techniques 'to roll out 240,000 ...
Will Amazon Open the Kindle to Developers?
We're heading into the holiday buying season, which means the introduction of new gadgets and the media's annual anointment of the season's hottest tech toy. Plenty of pundits think electronic book r...
RIM Working on a Native Twitter Client... Should They?!
A while back now I heard that RIM was working on their own Twitter client (project banshee) and with some word of it starting to surface today figured it was about to time drop some details. It'll be...
Video Recording On The Pre: Seeing Is Believing
We all knew it was just a matter of time before video recording came to the Pre. The camera and other hardware are easily strong enough to support it. It's just the software that needs to be upgrade...
Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy
On Friday, I bought a Zune HD 32, so that you wouldn't have to. — On Monday, I may return it. — The Zune HD is perhaps the best portable media player released by any vendor — even better than iPod...