From the monthly archives: April 2007
Late last week Michael Dell sent out a company-wide internal memo outlining how Dell will make a comeback. It looks like it turned out to be a great PR stunt whether intentional or not, as Reuters quoted from the memo extensively and the Wall Street Journal referred to it as reasoning [...]
A DJ in the Netherlands uses his Wii-mote (what fans call the Nintendo
Wii’s remote control) to mix techno music at dance parties while a
medical student in Italy has reconfigured his to analyze results from
CT scans. More uses? You bet. A software engineer in Los Angeles
controls a [...]
We’ve all heard of Wikipedia, and probably even played around with, or used some kind of wiki. Maybe you’ve planned a group project, or compiled information – wikis are a great tool for online collaboration.
But this guy took it one step further and wrote an entire novel in a wiki, and [...]
In the latest news from the console wars, Nintendo released sales and profits. Sales soared 90%, fueled by the success of the Wii. Nintendo has now sold 5.84 million of the consoles worldwide. Meanwhile, Sony announced a partnership with Hasbro to combine the worlds of trading cards and videogames using a new Sony [...]
At a recent show in Florida (CTIA Wireless 2007), a newcomer cellphone called the "Ocean" by Helio apparently stole the show. So much so that The Economist explains how, "the $500 iPhone is as mouth-watering today as yesterday’s cold pizza… In many ways Helio has out-Appled Apple."
Here’s why:
SwitchPlanet is one of the more compelling online communities I’ve seen in a
while. Members can switch movies, CDs, books, and games with each other for
free. The system is based on Switchbucs, an internal currency. You list
whatever items you have for a Switchbucs price and get credited [...]
Till now, Mozy has been an up and coming backup solution for the home user with its free online backup (up to two gigabytes) or its unlimited online backup for $5 per month. Since its launch in April 2006, over 175,000 [...]
New York based DoubleClick came out with a public statement today, pledging that the information it collects for and about its customers won’t be shared with Google after the .1 billion acquisition: “Google would not be able to match its search data to the data collected by DoubleClick, as DoubleClick does not [...]
The Economist (subscription required) has an interesting piece on sex and the Internet, which revolves around the graph pictured to the right. While the online porn industry was valued at $1 billion back in 2002 by America’s National Research Council, the latest data shows that social networking traffic is set to take over [...]
Microsoft software will sell for just $3 in some parts of the world in
an attempt to reach the five out of six people worldwide still not using computers. The software giant has a goal of bringing computing to a further one billion people by 2015 (doubling the current number of computer [...]
