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Posted on 20 April 2007
If you’ve been following the micro-blogging service Twitter and it’s 140 character limit isn’t quite what you want, you might consider Tumblr. Tumblr equates themselves with a “scrapbook”, provided you consider weblogs to be “journals”.
However you can’t really call Tumblr a precise alternative for a number of reasons. One is that you can give the [...]
Posted on 14 April 2007
Ever wanted to know how to do something software-related and wished there was a tutorial? Better yet, a video tutorial, and free at that? Well Tubetorial, which has been known for some great tutorials when Chris Pearson and Brian Clark created and ran it, is currently under the banner of SplashPress, who also own Performancing, [...]
Posted on 11 April 2007
The Mon Apr 2, 2007, print issue of InfoWorld magazine (which arrived a week late) has “Final Print Issue” splashed across the top right corner of the cover. It’s official. After 29 years and nearly 1400 issues, they’re folding the print edition and putting their efforts into their website.
Now I don’t know InfoWorld’s financial situation. [...]
Posted on 22 July 2006
The online dating scene, if you didn’t already know, is a multi-billion dollar industry and has been popular for quite some time. It hasn’t hurt to have films like 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, with Megan Ryan and Tom Hanks. While the movie itself goes well beyond online dating, it makes up a core aspect of [...]
Posted on 06 July 2006
Text messaging, instant messaging, and VoIP are all pretty hot ways to communicate these days. So a few weeks back, Technopedia’s editor, Abhinav, asked me to review the Gaim and Trillian IM (Instant Messaging) clients. Both are pretty cool, are skinnable, and support a number of other clients including MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, [...]
Posted on 10 June 2006
VoIP phone service has arguably become of huge interest to the general populace, despite the problems Vonage has been having in the stock market lately. They’re the first VoIP-related company to go IPO, but they won’t be the last. Despite the popularity of VoIP service and softphone client software such as Skype, one of the [...]
Posted on 08 June 2006
Despite the current problems of Vonage, the VoIP service provider, and two class-action lawsuits, their chairman and founder, Jeffrey Citron is the half-billion dollar man. At least on paper. He put in $80+Mln before the Vonage IPO, which bought him nearly 50 mln shares at $1.71. Let’s see. I’m rounding, but since Vonage (NYSE: VG) closed [...]
Posted on 06 June 2006
In a previous post, I talked about 5 wireless tech inventions that don’t exist yet. Some were serious, some fun, and some nonsense, as one reader pointed out in the comments. Here are five more ideas that use one or more forms of wireless technology that some designer/ inventor might just be dreaming up. Feel [...]
Posted on 02 June 2006
With the emerging of applications using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) wireless technology, there are expected to be many career opportunities over the next decade. Here are three primary areas where jobs will be created:
Manufacturing of RFID technologies, such as RF tags, antennas, smartcards, readers.
Design of RFID-based applications to a whole host of industries and methodologies, [...]
Posted on 01 June 2006
Mad Money TV show host Jim Cramer (on CNBC broadcasting) is promoting Netgear Inc. (NYSE: NTGR) as the phone that could make VoIP actually work. In addition to wireless routers, Netgear makes the “Skype WiFi Phone” which allows you to make free calls to other Skype users around the world.