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Boston Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

Boston Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Boston, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. Its current sites include Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Mass High Tech, Boston Business Journal, Boston NBC Boston - WHDH,...

Tags: Boston Inc., Mobile, Martian Technology LLC, Boston Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-17

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Boston Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

Boston Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Boston, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites include Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Mass High Tech, Boston Business Journal, Boston Magazine, NBC Boston...

Tags: Mobile, Boston, Martian Technology LLC, Boston Local News Free, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-22

A no-fuss solar-powered building

The Boston team in the Solar Decathlon competition is shooting for affordability. Apart from the solar panels, they are using almost entirely building materials that can be found at local hardware stores. by CNET News.com

Tags: Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-21

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Craigslist becomes political pinata

If you're a pol who wants to garner some headlines there's one easy route to news coverage: Kick Craigslist. Now it's South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster's turn (Techmeme, statement, letter to Craigslist). McMaster has informed Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster see his reply that he has to remove...

Tags: South Carolina, Craigslist, McMaster, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Local market prepared for digital TV transition

New York is the local television market most ready for digital TV transition, with just 3.5% unready television sets. Portland, OR is the least prepared local market, with 22.4% of all households using only analog sets and over-the-air television Market % of Over the Air Only...

Tags: Network Computer, Digital Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Thin Clients, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-25

OLPC sees charitable and government orders

The Boston Globe is reporting that OLPC is selling hundreds of thousands of computers, driven both by a large government order from Peru (260,000 machines) as well as two successful charity campaigns. The Give One Get One program (in which individuals can purchase two laptops, one for themselves and...

Tags: Boston Globe, Laptop Computer, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-02

More publishers seeing green, especially Olive green

The folks who produce text that traditionally became ink printed onto paper are having tough times. We've all seen the reports of newspaper lay-offs. One financial problem they face: big daily papers have lost their stranglehold on lucrative classified ads to services like craigslist. ...

Tags: Nashville, Advertisement, Software Company, Printing, Olive Software, Spielvogel, Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-11-18

Inside one PC buyer's mind (aka: A message for Michael Dell, Microsoft and other PC makers)

As the neighborhood's local IT department, I get my fair share of requests for consultations from family members, friends, and neighbors. The names are changed to protect the innocent. Behind me lives Jane who recently asked me what smartphone to buy for her new job (I answered with a...

Tags: Web, Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, CD, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Printing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-22

Holistically (including economics and environment), Moore's Law could be failing

I'm at a panel discussion at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA, the purpose of which is to discuss the ever-widening gap between the physical success of Moore's Law, and its failings from an economic, environmental, and sustainability point of view. The session was opened by Uptime Institute...

Tags: Data Center, SUV, Environment, Server, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Net access tax compromise: A short extension?

Net access tax compromise: A short extension?it's unfair for the brick and mortar storesI would support a uniform federal sales tax for online purchases.Leaving it to the states would be a disaster.internet sales tax will be the boston tea party for Delahunt. the governorsdidn't elect the senators and the people...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Sales strategy, Sales force management, Internet access, tax, sales tax, sales

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

Apple's iPhone vulnerable to hackers: report

Apple's iPhone vulnerable to hackers: reportWhere's the beef?Exactly what is the exploit?Design Flaw From The Start - No Java; WiMaxFriday, I concluded that the iPhone would not be enhanced in any way owing to the replacement of WiFi with WiMax and Job's refusal to entertain Java in the browser. In...

Tags: Programming languages, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Apple Inc., job, Apple iPhone, Java, phone, hacker

Discussion threads 2007-07-23

News to know: Microsoft vs. DOJ, Google; Ubuntu media support; Zoho; Motorola CTO

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to address Google search complaint in Vista SP1. Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search.Microsoft bails on Vista virtualization licensing changes. The virtualization flip flop.Gallery right: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The key to getting more Windows users to switch to Linux....

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Free sex on Craigslist

Free sex on Craigslistsomebody was going to do itit just happened to be Craigslist.I agree that Craigslist is sapping newspapers of the cash flow lifeblood that sustains the journalism product that they produce. This is truly a sad situation, because quality journalism isn't free. At some point, we...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Operational accounting, Craigslist

Discussion threads 2007-04-06

Dave Winer vs. CNET, platforms of personal expression (PPEs), and why Grandma matters

A couple of days ago, I did Scoble vs. Ballmer. Now, its Winer vs. CNET. In their search for the creator of the first blog, News.coms Declan McCullaugh and Anne Broache refer to one of their candidates Dave Winer as irascible (a common misconception regarding Mets fans from Brooklyn or...

Tags: Blogging, Podcasts, Dave Winer, blog, blogger, first blogger, Web, radio, first blog, RSS

Blog posts 2007-03-21

Now public: newspapers are dead

Now public: newspapers are deadApples and OrangesThe comparisons should be between blogs and newspapers, and between professonal journalists and citizen journalists.I have a hard time eating breakfast with a PC on the table instead of a newspaper. And I certainly can't take a PC into the bathroom to read...

Tags: Blogging, citizen journalist, blog, Professional Journalist

Discussion threads 2007-03-19

Digital cities? Look south.

Where are the most wired municipal governments in the US? According to a new survey, the answer is, the Sunbelt. News.com reports that the Center for Digital Governments 2006 "Digital Cities Rankings" found that many of the most advanced local governments were in the South and the Southwest. ...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Study: Promising future for power-line broadband

Study: Promising future for power-line broadbandHere's hoping it actually works someday...I expect that by the time BPL becomes widespread if it ever does, I'll be too old to give a crap. Having a third player will help though in breaking the stranglehold that the cable and telco monopolies have...

Tags: Federal government, broadband over power line, Ambient, BPL Equipment Authorization Ambient Corp., FCC, powerline

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

Boston Acoustics Recepter Radio HD

Editors' note: On February 1, 2006, Boston Acoustics dropped the suggested retail price of the Recepter Radio HD from $499 to $299. We have adjusted our ratings and review to account for the better value.We gave Boston Acoustics' original Recepter table radio a positive review last year, so we had...

Tags: radio, HD radio, Recepter Radio HD

Product reviews 2006-09-07

Politics, technology, and doubt by association

One of the most interesting, and I suspect probably historically important, things to come out of the latest deadly spasm in the middle east was the extent to which the "blogosphere" was able to debunk dishonest reporting by the mainstream media. Consider, for example, Johnson's role at littlegreenfootballs.com...

Tags: media

Blog posts 2006-08-31