From the monthly archives: October 2007
div>TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is to provide a concise, compiled overview of the most intriguing stories from the last few days. Feel free to give us [...]
div>Sophos, an internet-security company, released numbers on the amount of spam sent per country between this past July and September. And the United States is responsible for about 30% of it (see chart below). Despite legislation such as the CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S. hasn’t been able to do much to [...]
div>The latest info from our good friends those “people familiar with the matter” is that Google is in advanced talks with two U.S. cellphone operators: Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel. The talks, of course, are revolving around the two companies offering new Google-powered mobile phones. Google has to get [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is quoting “people familiar with the matter” in stating that within two weeks Google will announce plans to bring Google-powered phones to market by the middle of next year. Apparently, Google’s goal is “[T]o make applications and services as accessible on cellphones as [...]
div>TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is to provide a concise, compiled overview of the most intriguing stories from the last few days. Feel free to give us [...]
div>There are a lot of sites that are beginning to tie content to information. Google Earth now lets you link pictures to location as well as Wikipedia articles and more. Google Maps does a great job of tying information already on the Internet to [...]
div>My brother Tom noticed a difference when using Gmail yesterday. When he moused-over a certain email in his inbox, a popup-like box appeared with a preview of that email. It seemed pretty cool even if apparently not ready for prime time. Google pulled the plug on the new feature just [...]
div>The video service Joost has finally reached 1.0 beta. As one of the people who were in on the Joost for Friends alpha testing, I decided to download the latest client to see what was new in the latest version. So far my experience has been that the new 1.0 beta isn’t as [...]
SpeedBit Video Accelerator can help out accelerating web videos to eliminate buffering and congestion problems, and it actually works. It accelerates streaming videos from many well known video sites including Metacafe, YouTube, Dailymotion, AOL Video, MySpace Video and many many more.
It’s free and available to download here. And it takes [...]
div>YouTube made popular the idea of video on the Internet even if it has always seemed to be pretty low on the list of options in terms of picture quality. But now certain companies have realized that just because computers can be another way to watch video doesn’t mean the general population is content with [...]
