Today Yahoo finally made its deal with Microsoft public.’a0 Under the new agreement, Microsoft will now power all Yahoo searches and Yahoo will become the sales force of the two firms’ advertising customers.’a0 Additionally, Yahoo will continue to focus on building customer-facing portals and Internet destination sites. So, in effect, Yahoo has abandoned any type…
Introduction We have had netbooks for quite some time now. In fact, they are all pretty much the same. The magic netbook formula consists of an extremely portable package including an Intel Atom processor, a gig of RAM, a 9 or 10″ screen and wireless Internet access (hence the nameNETbook). These machines don’t have the…
Normally, I drive myself up to Gnomedex each August in Seattle. But this year, I’m hoping to do something different. So, my question is: how many PDXers are heading up to Seattle for the weekend of 20-22 August? If we have a decent mass, it might be cool to do either a carpool, rent a…
Robert Scoble recently visited the United Kingdom along with other bloggers and social media types as a part of the Traveling Geeks.’a0 After his visit to the UK, Mr. Scoble posted a July 9th article saying that Europe is “stuck on texting” based on his observation that youngsters in the Tube and around London weren’t…
My wonderful wife and I just returned from a week-long trip to England where we tried many different technologies in order to stay connected while being overseas. My findings: it’s incredibly easy and cheap to stay in touch while in Jolly Ol’ England. The tools we utilized were: an unlocked Euro Nokia N97 (my primary…
As you all know, we’re really excited about the utilizing the touch interface to it’s fullest extent.’a0 To this end, we’ve taken a project of ours, The Music Cube, and ported it to the iPhone.’a0 Our new application is now available in the iTunes App store. How does The Music Cube work?’a0 It’s a fun…
ShoZu is an application that I have used before on my various Nokia handsets. The app allows you to upload photos and video from your mobile device to multiple online video/photo services. The UK based software company has spent the last few quarters optimizing their staff to deliver a great service offering to it’s customers….