04 Sep 2010
Read: Best network music players
Read: Wi-Fi radio roundup
Read: Logitech Squeezebox Boom review
Recently, we asked the question, “Is the Logitech Squeezebox Boom the ultimate Wi-Fi radio?” Now that we’ve had two full weeks to play with it, we have an answer: Yes, it pretty much is. The Boom is the first product in this category we [...]
29 Aug 2010
Everybody repeat after me: three point one four one five nine.
You could start by learning more about the near-mystical number–3.14 in its most severely abbreviated form, hence the March 14 (3/14) honors–at the official Pi Day site. There you can find out about the history of pi, how to use the number in a classroom [...]
24 Aug 2010
And some ISPs say the DMCA is unclear about when they must terminate service of repeat offenders. AT&T executives say they won’t cut off someone’s Web access based solely on evidence supplied by the recording industry and will only do so after receiving a court order.
“We have been working slowly but surely, directly and [...]
21 Aug 2010
One of Apple’s biggest blunders in creating its own directory of iPhone Web apps was to make the site suited for desktop users instead of people on the portable handset.
While the company has since made it easy for people to bookmark Web apps onto their home screens by adding a quick link from inside of
Safari [...]
21 Aug 2010
With a stroke of the Governor’s pen on Monday, Indiana became one of the few states in the country to provide strong incentives for businesses to encrypt sensitive customer data. Unlike many of the laws that pass through state legislatures - this one was not ghost written by lobbyists or special interests. It was co-written [...]
21 Aug 2010
Not that Austin needs any help in the tech cred department, but Google’s decision to open an office in the city can’t hurt.
The search giant has leased 25,000 square feet in the heart of hip downtown Austin, Sixth Street and Congress Avenue, according to an article Thursday in the Austin American-Statesman.
So if and when the [...]
21 Aug 2010
When it comes to Internet retailers, getting found in search results is often just as important as the right location is to brick-and-mortar retailers. When a big part of online success comes down to words, why settle for selling what everyone else is?
All retailers, no matter what their channel of choice, often sell the same [...]
21 Aug 2010
SXSWi mashes it up with Microsoft's Silverlight.
In all likelihood, there will be many hundreds, if not thousands of people at the Digg party, which takes place Tuesday night as the last SXSWi gathering. A large number will be longtime SXSWi attendees.
“Hangers-on and sycophants”
But if the newcomers are corporate suits looking to cash in, SXSWi [...]
20 Aug 2010
This means that people in China would have to display exceptional ingenuity to participate in the great compilation of information going on at Wikipedia. Some time ago, I wrote a review of now-Harvard Law School Professor Cass Sunstein’s book Infotopia. Sunstein focuses his book on the great potential, and potentially great downfalls, of online information [...]
20 Aug 2010
What’s a PLU? It is basically a corporate discount code that indicates that the user is on a “foundation” account.
commentary
Apple, you wasted three hours of my time this morning. At the end of it, I have two bureaucrats sitting in your store and in AT&T’s telling me that while there’s absolutely nothing wrong with my [...]