by Jonathan Hensley
on July 22, 2008
in Main, Quick Links, Tech
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Steve Job Is Having Health Problems?
Apple beat expectations for 3Q, but investors used a late trading session to punish shares of the Mac and iPhone maker after the company offered conservative forward-looking guidance and refused to comment on the health of chief executive Steve Jobs.
- Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them
Boston-based MobileSphere launched a 'straight-to-voicemail' service yesterday called Slydial. If you listen to a short ad, you can then be connected to the voicemail inbox of any US mobile phone subscriber, without causing their phone to ring.
by Jonathan Hensley
on July 22, 2008
in Gear, Main, News, Software, Tech
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch thinks it can be a reality and he’s setting his sights on making it happen. I agree that it could be a great product if done correctly. However, I think it may be a while before decent components will be cheap enough to stay under the $200 goal.
I’m tired of waiting – I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let’s design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them.
Check out the rest of what Michael has to say about it.
by Jonathan Hensley
on July 21, 2008
in Gear, Main, News, Quick Links, Tech
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Is a Google Talk Contact Invisible?
Sometimes error messages can reveal more than they were supposed to. Rahul Bansal writes about a simple trick that helps you find out if one of your Google Talk contacts is offline or uses the invisible mode. The trick takes advantage of Google's off the
- Tech Vloggers Are Phoning It In
Cell phones created a big buzz in tech lately, and YouTube's tech vloggers have been working overtime to unbox, critique and compare the latest models.
- Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?
I’ve always kept an eye on my competitors in the past so that I could gain an advantage over them but bloggers seem to be doing something that is counter-intuitive to me yet it seems to benefit them at the same time. I wonder if you could write somethin
- Windows Vista tip of the week
Oh, Windows. If there's one aspect of this operating system that's been a constant disappointment, it has to be its complete and utter inability to "remember" window settings. You know the drill: You go into, say, the Documents folder and customize the wi
- A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With Piracy Stats
I'm still hopeful that eventually the BSA will recognize that it's doing more damage to its own position by publishing obviously bogus numbers. So, with the organization releasing another bogus stat today, it's time to explain why it's wrong and misleadin
