Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Amazon made an interesting announcement of a new service called SimpleDB. (Click here to see the website.) The service allows an organization to rent a database online for transaction fees that are measured in pennies per gigabyte. This extends Amazons concept of providing Web based software tools ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
GMail on the BlackBerry Grows Up
I have been using Gmail on my berry for a long time now, but it was always lacking a few things to make it a replacement for the enterprise email most of us are accustomed to: notification, contacts, and calendar sync to name a few. ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Plastic Sheet Offers Wireless Connectivity
The University of Tokyo has something promising in development; a plastic sheet that allows electronic devices to communicate wireless when placed upon it. This plastic sheet is actually fabricated on an ink jet printer in total, but the breakthrough here is in energy needed to ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
NebuAd, Inc is pioneering a new way to study what you do on the Internet so that ads can be targeted to your interests. The question of whether the way they do it is invading your privacy is valid. In the past, most services use the practice of ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
This is a picture of the new PayPal Storefront Widget. I have been tracking and marveling at the growth of the widget/gadget industry over the last six months. This is an elegant example of what I like about widgets. In this case, PayPal is using this small ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Google's new mobile service allows your cell phone to be triangulated by cell towers so that they can know where you are, and it provides a host of services based on the fact that they know where you are at the moment – or at least where your phone is… ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Business Software Alliance increasingly targets small companies in software piracy suits – that means you!
You probably have not heard of Business Software Alliance, so it might be good to understand that their clients are companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec. The service they provide is to be a ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Holiday shopping online gets a year older…
Just a handful of years ago, there was not an option for purchasing Christmas goodies online. If you wanted to avoid the holiday rush at the local mall, you had to either outsource the shopping to a relative, or use a catalog. ...
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