Archive for: January 13, 2008

January 13, 2008

Coghead 2.0 flips to Adobe Flash and Amazon EC2

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008


Coghead on Monday will launch a moment version of its hosted application development platform, which the start-up has moved to Adobe’s Flex/Flash technology and Amazon’s EC2 computing infrastructure.

Coghead's hosted service for making Web applications.(Credit: Coghead)

The company is one of…

Netflix to loosen restrictions on World Wide Web viewing option

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Granted, there are some out there who’ve been dodging the whole “limitation” aspect of Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature for a good while, but for the honest, upstanding citizens abiding by the rules, things are (seemingly) about to change for the better. According to…

Intempo reveals kinda sexy Daisy portable World Wide Web radio

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

final we heard from Intempo, it was engaged greedy for commerce with a slew of ho hum iPod docks, but it’s getting ‘08 started by offering up a slightly (keyword: slightly) more appealing item. The Daisy Web radio can access “thousands” of online and FM stations, and it can reportedly final for …

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Poll: How do you want us to write the Jobsnote? Top to bottom, or vice versa?

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008


Yep, we know there are a ton of you who want us to liveblog our keynotes in reverse chronological order (i.e. latest updates at the top, earliest updates at the bottom), and not how we normally do it, where you read from top to bottom like everything else. So we’re putting it to the vote — do you …

iPhoneCam streams video from your iPhone by WiFi

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Video
A fancy reflect contraption not fairly what you had in intellect for video conferencing on your iPhone? Fret not, friends; Ecamm Network is back at it, that moment devising a way to stream video from the camera — at 30fps, no less — to the Mac of your choice…

Netflix subscribers get to watch as many online videos as they want

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Internet, Video
It’s official. Netflix has lifted its monthly moment limits for online video viewing. When the DVD-rental service first added a “watch now” online video option to its service, users could only watch as many hours of video as they paid for their monthly subscription. For …

*KDE 4.0.0: Sweet chases Sour*

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

KDE 4.0.0 has been released on January 11th, after a number of delays; the months preceding the release, the KDE developers tried very tough to downplay expectations. KDE 4.0.0 was just the first release in the KDE 4 series, and such, should not be seen as the best possible representation of the KDE…

Firm shows off functional Android build on ancient HTC hardware

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsCalifornia-based a la Mobile has crafted a somewhat total set of phone apps in prototype scheme — you know, the most basic kinds of things you’d need on a smartphone to prepare it usable — on top of Android, claiming it’s the first group to show off a fully functi…

Ultimate liveblogging tool: CoverItLive

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

CoverItLive is a new, hosted service for blogging events in real-time, or “liveblogging.” It’s a useful tool for humans covering major industry events, speeches, sports, and the like. I first saw the product in use when I was watching the CrunchGear team cover the Bill Gates keynote at CES.

I’…

Rock Band Stage Kit with lights, smoke leaked by GameStop

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
As whether playing Rock Band wasn’t one of the greatest group gaming experiences to come around in years, it appears that a new accessory is set to amp up the fun even more by bringing an “interactive light and smoke stage show” to your already thrashing performances…

Flipping the Linux switch: Text editors for new users

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Text, Features, Linux, Office, Productivity, Open SourceFirst, a little experiment. What are the first three applications you think of when someone mentions text editors? If you can only reply Notepad, Notepad and Notepad, there’s help for you yet. True, the ubiquitous Notepad is a text…

OLPC America will bring XO to the US

Filed under: Review - 13 Jan 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Proving once again that he’s still got love for the domestic team, Nick Negroponte has announced the impending launch of OLPC America, a division of the organization with its own director and chairman that will bring low-cost laptops to US students. According to an IDG interview…

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