His rationale? He was bored by ATT’s ( T ) bad coverage and bored with Apple’s ( AAPL ) heavy-handed limitations on iPhone apps. Add to them GigaOm founder Om Malik, who ditched his iPhone last Feb and The Long Island Times’ David Pogue, a real Apple lover, and we appear to have a blooming [...]

Twitter is everywhere nowadays but how can home businesses use this well-liked micro-blogging service to their advantage? Twitter has a selection of potential applications for different sorts of home businesses. Advertising Age latterly covered Exposed Pizza, a pizza shop in New Orleans which made use of a Twitter-based promotion that brought in 15 p.c of [...]

Researchers gathered at the Space Lift Meeting on Thu. announced that an elevator could make transport to space so much more cheap than it is now, that firms could build huge solar-power farms in space to provide energy for folks on Earth.
That might eliminate the necessity to burn ordinary fuels and so reduce global temperature [...]

The tenet of the telephone based pathogen isn’t new — in a number of ways, they are the same as desktop and PC viruses.  Before you absolutely freak out and fret about your telephone turning into the next victim of a virus attack, take a big breath — the issue is not as heavy as [...]

With all of the Apple-bashing recently, you’d think that iPhone users — usually a satisfied lot — might be a little less excited with their selected smartphone. Not so, according to a new survey by RBC / IQ ChangeWave. The market researcher polled iPhone 3GS owners and discovered that a strange ninety nine % of [...]

Top middle management from Microsoft and Nokia elaborated on their new coalition in a three-way call this A. M. 2nd , Microsoft is unbundling its system in the telephone market, with Microsoft’s Office division free to step away from the corporation’s operating system business. And Microsoft is trying to use its strong Office franchise Word, [...]

Establishment IT often behaves like the group of youths I advise on a regular basis as an element of my church responsibilities : “Damn the future, let’s live for the present. Stephen O’Grady offers a sharp critique of this short sighted tendency in enterprise IT, particularly as it relates to the cloud:. Much like Apple [...]

Intel’s short run as an operating system maker has come to a close. On Thu. , the nonprofit Linux Foundation plans to pronounce that it’ll take over the “stewardship” of the Moblin project from Intel. In this situation, stewardship means access to the code of Moblin, which is an open-source operating system based on Linux.
It [...]

Last week, Left winger Rep Joe Baca introduced “The Playstation game Health Labeling Act of 2009.” If passed, the bill would make a new rule in the Patron Product Safety Commission causing developers to join a caution on any game rated Teenager or higher. The label would read, “WARNING : Unnecessary exposure to violent Nintendo [...]

2 of the tech industries largest champs for using technology to dump misery in the 3rd world took the stage at the electronics Show here on Fri. for the final keynotes of the meeting.
The message the operatives brought to the group at CES was simple : Technology is fundamental to bettering the lives of billions [...]

When Acer and Asus initially began pushing Netbooks, it was all about flash memory. But now, most of the little, Atom-powered notebooks have hard drives. And Bill Watkins, chief executive of drive industry leader Seagate, likes it that way. When the 2 Taiwanese Netbook makers first chewed the fat with Seagate about the class, they [...]