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- Hollywood to kids: Pay up for preschool movies
- The scene: An Irish preschool for toddlers. The children sit on the floor in a semi-circle, watching a TV screen. They squeal with delight at "The Little Mermaid," "Toy Story" and other Hollywood kids' fare. Enter a black-masked villain, carrying a fearful letter. He is not the true villain, though;...
- Tags: Villain, Hollywood, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Taxes, TVs, Free Trade, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Mice, Financial Planning, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?
- I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...
- Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- A Consumer Electronics Carol
- I recently received a promotional email from a large Internet-based retailer that shall for the moment remain nameless (cough! Amaz-ahem!) As I was considered to be a high-volume "Prime" customer, this online retailer wanted to offer me a 30-day trial of their their premier store-branded consumer...
- Tags: Retail Company, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...
- Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Lenovo ThinkPad SL400
- Take the ThinkPad R series, remove the internal roll cage and the TPM chip, add dedicated GeForce graphics, an HDMI port, and a glossy lid, and you get the ThinkPad SL400. This 14-inch laptop is Lenovo's play for small business buyers, trading in enterprise features such as the aforementioned security...
- Tags: Notebooks, Lenovo ThinkPad, IBM ThinkPad, ThinkPad SL400, lid, Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- My growing hatred for calculators
- My growing hatred for calculatorsNokids need to think mathematically when doing math and programmatically when programming and literarily when reading literature, etc.Spreadsheeting for math? Joy. We all get to castrate mathematical symbology in order to shoehorn it into a spreadsheet cell t=sqrt(a^3)Wonderful.I guess when the only thing you know is...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, PRODUCTIVITY, calculator, Mathcad
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicine
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...
- Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Stop brain-dead software testing!re: Stop brain-dead software testingin reality, its not usually software testing that's the problem. it's the project stakeholders who don't plan enough time to do adequate testing. it's the programmers who go way over their time estimates. it's the program managers or similar role...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software testing, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboard
- Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboardXandros lite is OK ...For the average user the Xandros Lite OS is fine, but it does have some shortcomings:1) Asus for some reason has a ram limit compiled into the kernel of 1GB. The machine has a max limit of 2GB, but...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, laptop computer, ASUS, real keyboard, kernel, Linux laptop, Xandros, Intel Celeron, distro, keyboard, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Find speed traps online
- User-generated Google maps of police speed traps are easy to find with Trapster, a site that offers just that: a way to alert other drivers of speed traps in your area. The concept is simple: download the Trapster app for your mobile phone, and use it to...
- Tags: Phone, Speed Trap, 3G, Smart Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2I've lost count how many updates and how much bandwidth this yearI am getting really sick of having to update iTunes every other week.Am I just the only one? And it's not like I have a convenient alternative either.I have a Zune as well...
- Tags: Linux, Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, Patches, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows, security, Apple TV
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2
- Apple released iTunes 8.0.1 yesterday. The 58.5MB update includes the following: • Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist. • Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano. • Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading. • Improves...
- Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Agree AVI WMV MPEG ASF MOV to Zune Converter (exe)
- Agree AVI WMV MPEG ASF MOV to Zune Converter is video converter software. It can convert almost any video format to play on Microsoft Zune video player, e.g. AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, ASF, VOB, 3GP, iPhone, MOV to Zune movie / Zune video format. You can set encoding parameters including...
- Tags: AVI, Microsoft Zune, Video, Agree Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- TingleSoft Video Converter (exe)
- TingleSoft Video Converter is a multimedia converter for popular video/audio formats. With TingleSoft Video Converter, you don't need to worry about the numerous video/audio formats any more. It supports conversion between almost all well known video formats, including WMV, ASF, AVI, MPEG-1 VCD, MPEG-2 DVD, MPEG-4 (MP4), QuickTime MOV, Flash...
- Tags: Multimedia, Audio, TingleSoft, TingleSoft Video Converter, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!The lack of features is a featureThe Kindle is actually eating Apple's lunch. By offering no features other than the ability to read books, the Kindle is doing what Apple typically does best: offer fewer features at a greater price. The Kindle...
- Tags: E-books, Corporate communications, Games, Monitors & displays, Amazon.com Inc., E-Ink, lunch, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Guess Apple won't have to shut down iTunes after all. Apple had warned that if the royalty rate for music downloads increased, iTunes would become unprofitable and they might pull the plug. But the Copyright Royalty Board handed Steve Jobs, as well as...
- Tags: Board, Apple Inc., Royalty, Apple iTunes, Corporate Governance, Digital Music, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- A great reason to jailbreak: tethering
- A great reason to jailbreak: tetheringNokia: No Jailbreaking Required[url=http://www.opentoanything.com/]Open to Anything.[/url]So much so, in fact Nokia has put Symbian into open source.What kind of smartphone doesn't allow you to tether?If you ask me, that's just dumb.Here's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]link[/url] to one of my articles listing some of the things you can...
- Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, great reason, Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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