Google Chrome Beta for Android Available Now
Let me clarify that it’s only for Ice-cream Sandwich users and no one else. Until today I had no idea that Android was not using Chrome but instead a weird version of Webkit and the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. That seems so weird to me and the fact that this may not work with older versions of Android baffles me also. Read the rest of this article…
Windows 8 Killed The Start Menu Star
If Windows 8 could not come off as a more radical departure from its traditional 9x-derived design, it’s only going to get weirder. While rumored for some time, Microsoft will be releasing the ‘Consumer Preview’ of their newest operating system officially without a Start menu. Yes, a hallmark of the Windows environment will be going away and I couldn’t be more excited.
Smartphones Bigger Than Personal Computers For The First Time Ever
I’m sure if you told anyone a decade ago that smartphone shipments would eventually exceed those of personal computers, they would’ve give you a ‘yeah, in twenty years’. Well, twenty years from ten years ago is now! Further to the point, I doubt anyone would’ve guessed that these new personal computers would be dominated by Apple and Google, rather than the zeitgeist of that era, Microsoft. Whether you’re an iOS guy or Android gal, we’re all leagues away from Microsoft’s early domination of the smartphone realm with Windows Mobile, which fell off in the late 00s, necessitating the under-performing Windows Phone.
PlayLater Review – When You Absolutely, Positively Can’t Play It Now
Do you stream a lot of videos over the internet using services like Hulu and Netflix? Do you sometimes get frustrated when your favorite movie or TV show is only available online for a limited time? Are you unconcerned with video quality? Well, if you answered yes, then PlayLater may be for you.
Developed by MediaMall Technologies, PlayLater is billed as a DVR for online videos. Just like your TiVo saves television broadcasts for you to view later (and VHS tapes did before that), PlayLater saves content streamed from internet services like Hulu and Netflix on your PC for you to view later.
Google Wave Is Dying In My Arms
There was a time before Larry Page took over the reins at Google where everything and anything flew. It just went. If it could be engineered, Google sought it out. One of the most highly visible products was Wave, which was supposed to change the entire world forever. It was like e-mail, but it wasn’t. It was super e-mail. But as I read about it in Google’s extensive ad campaign, including a spread in Time magazine, I realized that I didn’t get the appeal at all. And apparently, neither did anyone else, because Google has been slowly killing it for the past year and a half and soon it will be dead.
Engadget Introduces “StoryStreams” To Tech News, Fails To Capitalize On The Verge’s Shortcomings
Today, Engadget unveiled ‘Follow the Saga’, a metastream of related articles bound for easy reference. If you need to catch up on the current story, you can simply display a Follow the Saga, saving the writer a ton of time and energy establishing back story in every new article. If you want to read up on SOPA from the very first mention to the latest protests and blackouts, you can peruse those works chronologically with a Follow the Saga or StoryStream. But the problem isn’t attribution – who really made the tech first, Engadget or The Verge? – because everyone’s dipping their toe into this pool. At the end of the day, Engadget’s crime is in the implementation. Also, the name is awful.
The FBI is Going To Monitor Facebook, Twitter & MySpace. Who Cares?
The FBI recently put out an request for information for someone to build an app that scraps data from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (I thought that was dead), Google+ (lol) and news websites to have real time information on anything they wanted at any given time. To me it sounds like a private search engine and I say who cares, let them. Read the rest of this article…
E-mail Providers To Block Male Enhancing Spam, 1/4 Population Bummed
Many familiar e-mail clients (AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft to name a few) have decided to join forces and defend your inbox from the horrible wrath of phishing and spam. Cutting-edge standards that will rid the world of technological scum are being enforced by a newly formed coalition called the Domain-based Message Authentication. What everyone seems to be forgetting is how hard this will hit that quarter of the population who actually want their genitalia larger, help a Nigerian king, or to remind PayPal of their social security number.
Get Your Checkbooks Out, Facebook Filing IPO as Early as Next Week!
According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is finalizing it’s IPO paperwork and looking to file as early as next week. Facebook is also using Morgan Stanley as it underwriter and looking for an initial valuation of between $75 – $100 BILLION. Read the rest of this article…
Apple Drop Your Prices & Make More Money
Apple, you are super rich. You just announced that you made $13 billion in profit last quarter. It almost sounds like I’m just throwing out a random number every time I say it, but it’s the truth. I want you to try something that may sound crazy — drop your prices to 50%. Of course, I’m just throwing something out, but thin your margin a little bit and see what happens to sales in a quarter. Read the rest of this article…
