Adobe enters the online office app business:
The company on Monday is expected to announce that it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free Web word processor called Buzzword.
BuzzWord is a nice looking application, based on these screen shots. And since the interface is Flash based, it’s already using [...]
Palm’s web site is featuring details on the newly announced Centro. It looks like a sweet little bargain-priced smart phone. Given that it will cost $99 (the same as Palm’s basic Palm Z22 organizer, which offers far less in the way of features) this phone should do pretty well. Palm could certainly [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NetBank was shut down by federal regulators yesterday, with the following notice appearing on the bank’s web site:
On September 28, 2007, NetBank, Alpharetta, GA was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. All insured depositors are now customers of ING Direct Bank, member FDIC. No [...]
A new Knight Rider tv movie / series pilot is in the works at NBC:
NBC is bringing back the action show about a man and his motor, testing the waters on a full-fledged series revival with a two-hour TV movie/pilot, which the network will air later this season.
According to Variety, if the telepic is a [...]
Windows XP has gotten a reprieve from Microsoft:
Large PC manufacturers were slated to have to stop selling XP after January 31. However, they have successfully lobbied Microsoft to allow them to continue selling PCs with all flavors of Windows XP preloaded until June 30, a further five months. Microsoft also plans to keep XP on [...]
Slate asks, “Where’s My Free Wi-Fi?” The answer boils down to a simple reality: nothing’s truly free. Cities are realizing that building a public Wi-Fi infrastructure costs money, and if taxpayer’s want it they’ll need to pony up.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )CrunchGear has picked up the story about the pink iPod Shuffles Target is carrying. The “special edition” comes with a $15 iTunes card, and retails for just $79 — a pretty good deal — with a portion of the proceeds supporting Breast Cancer Research Foundation. However, CrunchGear — and a lot of other [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Lifehacker asked readers to send in shots of their desktops. There are some very cool desktops out there. Personally, I like a clean look, and rely on my Quick Launch bar for my most used applications. It’s a little crowded right now. Click the image below for a better look at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )An Ars Technica poster is reporting on a very scary eBay hacking incident:
eBay is one of the most successful Internet-only ventures of all time, so it’s not surprising that it has come under near-constant attack by fraudsters and hackers. In the latest attempt, a hacker logged on to the eBay Trust and Security forums and [...]
TUAW has a review of Amazon’s new MP3 download store. Read the whole thing, but it sounds like a great alternative to iTunes:
I would liken buying tracks at Amazon MP3 to buying something at WalMart. The decor isn’t great, but the prices make up for it (no matter what you think of WalMart, you [...]
Ars Technica has an update on the Asus Eee ultra-portable, which should be available very soon:
There will be three different versions of the Eee PC, two versions of the 700 and a 701 version. The entry-level system is priced at one site for $259 with 2GB of SSD storage and available in black only, without [...]
Starting November 12, the OLPC initiative will allow U.S. buyers to purchase two XO laptops—one that will be sent to a child in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to the buyer. The price will be $399.
Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1 [...]
Dawn Douglass of the Dawnkey Notes blog has posted a stinging criticism of Michael Arrington and TechCrunch:
Michael Arrington is excellent at writing startup tech news and getting scoops. He wields great power in Silicon Valley. But I think TechCrunch is vulnerable as a company. Why? Because Arrington is abusing that power. [...]
Mozy, my favorite online backup solution, has been acquired by EMC Corporation.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mike Masnick on Techdirt is hung up on the fact that police are saying Star Simpson was wearing a “hoax device”. Actually, they aren’t just saying it, they are apparently charging her with it. You see, in Massachusetts the term “hoax device” has a legal definition:
(b) For the purposes of this section, the [...]
FOX is offering seven of their premiers for free on iTunes next week:
Starting this week, the premiere episodes of shows like “American Dad,†“K-Ville†and more will be available for free through the iTunes store. Fox is hoping the move will draw in viewers who will then watch later installments on TV or pay to [...]
NBC’s decision to allow free ad-supported downloads of TV shows up to a week after airing is a step in the right direction. Critics are complaining about ads that can’t be skipped, and about the shows self-destructing a week after original airing, but those people won’t be happy with anything short of networks giving [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Alienware is offering laptops with 640 GB of storage, consisting of two 2.5-inch 320GB drives.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )After several hours and several failed attempts to download the Lotus Symphony beta I wrote about earlier, I finally took another approach. I downloaded and installed FlashGet, a free download manager. Less than 30 minutes later, the 133 meg file was downloaded and installed.
I haven’t used a download manager since shortly after [...]
Google Reader has officially graduated from Google Labs. There’s even a dear John Labs letter on the Google Reader blog:
Dear “Labs”,
We don’t know how to tell you this, but it’s time that we break up. It’s just that we’re different now. People can search. They can share what they read. They can even see [...]
There’s nothing revolutionary about the free office suite IBM is now offering on its website. It’s based on the open source suite OpenOffice.org, although the user interface is much more modern looking — think Office 2003 meets Offices 2007 (click the thumbnail for a better look). The real significance here is that it’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Here’s a list of prime time Emmies:
* Supporting actor in a comedy series: Jeremy Piven, Entourage
* Supporting actor in a drama series: Terry O’Quinn, Lost
* Supporting actress in a comedy series: Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl
* Supporting actress [...]
New York Times will tear down it’s pay wall, known as TimesSelect, effective at midnight Tuesday night. Good move. There’s too much quality free content out there, and the Times’ columnists weren’t ever happy about being walled off. Even better, now the Times can leverage the millions of visitors search engines send [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Last 100 takes a look at the streaming video offered by 5 U.S. brodacast networks:
The good news: Major U.S. television networks continue to embrace Internet technology and are putting their shows on the Web for online viewing, just like they did last year.
The bad news: Their online offerings remain sporadic; their Internet strategies feel like [...]
OpenOffice.org 2.3, the latest release of the popular cross-platform office suite, is available for download now. CybernetNews has a comprehensive list of changes and features.
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