Archive for: February 8, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
As it turns out, Microsoft may be breaking a few hearts by not being able to fulfill all its Zune 80 Valentine’s Day Originals shipments, but not all is lost for their loving customers. Users who haven’t already gotten their units will apparently get a ful…

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With thousands of blogs popping up every day, it can get pretty difficult to keep up. The blogoshere is exploding and there are tons of great new bloggers joining the revolution. There are several sites that help us keep track of the ever changing web and help us simplify our searches.

BloggerBlogBlogging is the Place to Go For News About the Blog Sphere

The Meta Blog (http://bloggerblogblogging.com) is a new site that’s keeping track of the buzz in the blogsphere. As blogging has become more and more prevelant in todays fast paced digital world, replacing, almost all forms of interaction, how to blog is just as important as the blog itself. At Bloggerblogblogging.com, you can see what people are blogging about and how they are doing it: simple vs. complex, short vs. long, well though out posts vs. stream of consiousness posts. Stop by, see what people are saying and how they are saying it and leave your comments and leave a mark.

I’ve thought about this, as I’m sure all bloggers have at some point in their blogging careers. As with anything, its as much about the lifestyle as it is about the blog itself. We create content, network with other bloggers, join communities, rate blogs, write comments, surf listings, seek out new online thrills, buy advertising, sell advertising, trade links, buy links, fret over traffic, add widgets, join RSS feeds, gain readers, and have a great time doing it. All of which I’ve enjoyed doing this first full week at this blog.

The appeal of making money sure does sound great, but when that becomes the primary goal of anything it tends to outshine the other inherent qualities. Do we blog to make money, to increase our awareness of writing itself, to join communities, or do we do it simply ...

Filed under: Features, Laptops
Ah, the MacBook Air. Scorned by many who felt the price tag too high, but loathed by few who actually have an eye for good design. Apple’s latest ultraportable is certainly one of the most polarizing products to emerge from Cupertino in fairly some day, as it makes no …

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Still relentless after it proved the high levels of popularity of its ground-breaking mobile, the iPhone, Apple has started peddling its phone toward another lucrative market: the teenagers. Just recently, a new iPhone TV spot started airing, focusing on its rather well-made widget for the Facebook …

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Filed under: Wearables
So Point Blank Solutions, Inc. and G² Consulting apparently went right ahead despite the existing patent app and came up with an anti-Taser fabric called Thor Shield, which weighs two ounces per square foot and can be integrated into anything from a flak jacket to glo…

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If IMing friends from mobile to mobile is faster and cheaper than sending SMS messages, next IMing photos, videos, and music clips is even better. Fring announced that week an update to its Symbian 9.1 and Symbian 9.2 offerings (sorry, Windows Mobile) that lets registered members swap files. tha…

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So we just got off the phone with Dell’s reps, and they told us that Dell remains committed to AMD — which has been their message for most of the day, following the graphic above popping up yesterday on Dell.com that said AMD machines were only available at retail. That’s still pretty murky, so we…

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Between Netvibes, Pageflakes, and Google Reader most public are probably pretty squared absent when it comes to picking their news snippets in an orderly fashion. soon after there’s those pesky metagator sites, such as Original Signal, and Popurls that pick out the sites for you. It’s the editori…

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Filed under: Digital Cameras
Well doesn’t OutKast look foolish now. The type synonymous with instant film is killing off the Polaroid film format and attempting to reinvent the grade so it “lives on for the next 30 to 40 years.” In the short term that means closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico…

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Filed under: Laptops
Everybody’s ritual when they get a new computer is different: some society start installing their favorite programs, some public set their desktop picture to Pushing Daisies (not us, other society… who aren’t us), and others check for vulnerable processes that might allow hack…

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A rumored $50 million bid for uCast...a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (and with it, the new Yahoo Live)...Methinks Microsoft is using its skills at monopoly-building to try and corner the lucrative lifecasting market. Fight it, Google! Buy Justin.tv for $51 million! Who cares that no one is watching? He who controls the lifecasters controls the world!

It wasn’t a pretty end for Amp’d Mobile, but even the hasty one-week extension of service, sale of customers to Prexar and asset liquidation wasn’t ample to keep creditors at bay — the bankrupt company is now suing after its former CEO for cash. Claiming that Peter Adderton “refused to perform posi…

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