27 May 2010
There are plenty of old-media companies involved in this deal. ESPN is owned 80 percent by the Disney’s ABC and 20 percent by Hearst. Bebo has been owned by AOL since early this year, after an $850 million acquisition by the Time Warner subsidiary.
It’s a partnership that was first announced nearly a year ago but [...]
24 May 2010
Its Reality View presents a photo-realistic image of complex highway interchanges, with actual road signage and exit-ramp guidance.
CNET dinged the Navigon 5100 for its smallish screen (3.5 inches) and unusual dashboard mount. But the 20 user reviews at Buy.com averaged 4.5 stars out of 5. I think my sole complaint is with the 90-day warranty, [...]
20 May 2010
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Way2Go’s service will cost about $5 per month and will be available by the end of March on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile phones, and to users in the U.S., U.K., and select Western European countries.
It will be interesting to see this service go head-to-head with Google Maps for Mobile, which currently provides driving [...]
18 May 2010
For at least a few minutes in the daily spin cycle, the news about Mark Papermaster and Tony Fadell topped the interest in the fate of those two other guys attracting lots of attention today.
But the Lee analogy doesn’t really work. If he gets to punch in at Apple, Papermaster would be [...]
15 May 2010
An old Dell Latitude D600 is festooned with international labels, stickers, and certifications.
Dell’s investment in Adamo design doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing magnetic coverplates on $400 Netbooks soon. New said Dell worked with Intel and Microsoft to get them to relax their marketing requirements for the Adamo in particular. “We went to extra effort, [...]
03 May 2010
Landon Fuller's Peeps application was rejected from the App Store for supposedly breaking rules that Google was allowed to violate.
APIs are tools that applications use to exploit parts of a computer’s operating system. Operating system developers usually label some proportion of the various APIs in the OS as “public,” meaning they’ll support the use of those APIs well into the future to ensure applications will not break with future OS updates.