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San Francisco Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

San Francisco Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of San Francisco, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites includes San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, NBC San Francisco - KNTV, ABC San...

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

Software downloads 2009-08-24

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Cricket Captr

Though touch-screen multimedia handsets and complicated smartphones are common these days, that doesn't mean there isn't a market for entry-level phones. The Cricket Captr is one such handset, with basic features and only a VGA camera. The photo quality isn't too good, but if all you want is a phone...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Instant messaging, Cricket, camera, phone

Product reviews 2009-11-10

San Francisco Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

San Francisco Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of San Francisco. The current sites include San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, NBC San Francisco - KNTV, ABC San Francisco - KGO, CBS San Francisco - KPIX, FOX San Francisco -...

Tags: Mobile, San Francisco, Martian Technology LLC, San Francisco Local News Free, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-28

5 years of insights and lessons as a professional "journalist - blogger"

It was about five years ago that I left my job as a reporter and columnist for the Financial Times in the San Francisco bureau. And it's been a tremendous journey. I didn't realize at the time that I would become the first reporter to leave a...

Tags: Newspaper, Blogger, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules

Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rulesHow convenientI love how something was done about this only after something ended up in the news. Gotta go after those impressionable, stupid voters!Meanwhile, I can still look up a lot of these very same ads in the Yellow Pages,...

Tags: Craigslist, advertisement, adult section

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Cisco rolls out security upgrades at RSA

Cisco is making a round of announcements today of new products and services that are aimed at boosting network security systems and the delivery of cloud security services. The company noted that, in these offerings, the line between client-based and cloud-based services is beginning to blur - as Cisco thinks...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.

Leave it to YouTube to defend "the idea of news" and a Vanity Fair media columnist and online news aggregator to put a deadline of eight years on its demise. Two newspapers in two different two-newspaper towns Seattle and Denver have died in the last month. Journalists...

Tags: News, Corporate Communications, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Key Economic Indicator: Homeless in San Francisco Feeling the Strain This Holiday Season

The economic displacement from the current downturn has been severe on the professional classes of Silicon Valley. Many of the majors are ramping up redundancy programmes and trimming pay and benefits. This can come at a heavy toll on the financial & emotional well being of real people and their families. Sometimes the results are even...

Tags: Family, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-22

What does Apple's MacWorld departure say about future of trade shows?

I had already scratched CES off of my January calendar but was starting to book meetings for MacWorld, leaving time open for the Steve Jobs keynote speech, of course. But now that Jobs is sending in a second-stringer for the big spotlight event, I'm starting to wonder if I should...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Steve Jobs, Trade Show, Apple Inc., Macworld, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-16

TechCrunch50: Day 3

Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...

Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-10

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Yahoo launches Fire Eagle: Gauging my personal ROI

Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a location management service that is the latest step in the company's effort to add social networking features to its portfolio of sites and open its platform. The company describes Fire Eagle as a way "to store and manage information about their...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., ROI, Service, Yahoo Launch, Roi/Tco, Desktops, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Florida going slowly solar?

Florida going slowly solar?Conspiracy theories?If you're the sort that likes conspiracy theories... here's a couple:1) Big Oil has it's eyes on drilling in the Gulf and so this is a way to butter up the State for that push.2) A respected university with a failed solar power plan (too costly,...

Tags: SolarCity, lease

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

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

John Stewart's iPhone: Product placement or pop culture?

John Stewart's iPhone: Product placement or pop culture?I asked myself the sameHis finger did conspicuously move away from the Apple logo when the camera went into close-up, but since the joke was saying how great it was with a heavy dose of sarcasm, ("oh, those are camels... even better.") it...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, Digital media, advertiser, Apple iPhone, Product Placement, John Stewart, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10

Singularity Summit 2007: Computers--they kill me

It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Computer, Dan Farber, Google Inc., Peter Norvig, Singularity

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Yahoo Local revamped; vastly improved

Yahoo Local has been refreshed with a bolder look, more useful features and what appears to be better coverage of smaller areas.When I last reviewed Yahoo's search for my Life without Google series the local results were a hang up for me. While San Francisco and New York search was...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Local, Local Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-15

News to know: Intel vs. AMD; Community Wi-Fi; Patch Tuesday; Vista DRM

Notable headlines:George Ou: Intel turns up the efficiency and performance heat on AMD.Community Wi-Fi comes to San Francisco.Dennis Howlett: Show me the Web 2.0 money.Ryan Naraine: Critical IE update headlines bumper Patch Tuesday. Mary Jo Foley: Patch Tuesday: No Vista hotfixes via Windows Update. Richard Stiennon: Hacking tools don't hack,...

Tags: Google Inc., Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-15