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How one IT Pro replaced his MacBook with an iPad

May 23, 2010

I wouldn’t say that the iPad is a real replacement for a laptop, but that won’t stop some people using it as exactly that.

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Google desperately looks for way to get more cash from YouTube

May 3, 2010

Image via CrunchBase New Role – YouTube as Outlet for Live Sports – NYTimes.com: “Until now, YouTube has concentrated mainly on amateur user-created content, professional music videos and short promotional clips from television shows. The only major international event it carried live before the I.P.L. was a U2 concert from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena [...]

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Apple smartphone growth puts competition in the shade

May 3, 2010

Canalys has released its smartphone market share figures for Q1 2010, and the big winners are undoubtedly Apple, HTC and Motorola, all of which posted treble-digit growth in unit shipments compared to the equivalent quarter of 2009. To put that into a little context: Apple’s worldwide market share increased by 4.4%. This increase is almost [...]

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Facebook blocking all bit.ly links? UPDATE: Nope.

April 22, 2010

UPDATE: And it’s fixed. Looks like it was a short-term glitch in the Facebook matrix. – It appears that Facebook has decided that all links using popular link-shortener bit.ly are potentially dangerous – and has blocked them. I’ve tried this with a number of bit.ly URLs, and it appears to be for everything, not just [...]

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Idiot post of the day (TechCrunch edition)

January 6, 2010

And it’s from our good friend, Mike Arrington and his Nexus One review! “I was able to kill the fully charged battery with 1.5 hours of continuous gameplay (Robo Defense) on the full-brightness screen. Be prepared to keep this phone near a charger at all times… Overall the Android is a superior mobile device, particularly [...]

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links for 2009-12-11

December 11, 2009

iTunes gets cloudy: Will a web-ified future save iTunes or kill it? "The intent of iTunes is admirable, and it's been hugely successful largely because it's free and most folks consider it good enough. But it's about as far removed from Apple's simple-at-all-costs ethos as you can possibly get. It's time for Apple to get [...]

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links for 2009-12-10

December 10, 2009

Schneier on Security: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt Dear Eric Schmidt: Stop being an asshat. (tags: google privacy)

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An app that filters Twitter noise? It’s called “a brain”

December 9, 2009

An app that filters Twitter noise? It’s about time: “‘Our human filters have turned into a great way to discover content that interests us, but the amount of tweets coming in through Twitter today is astounding, and it continues to grow. While new features like grouping and lists have been designed to tame the clutter, [...]

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