There are loads of solar-powered iPhone and iPod Touch chargers–the Solio Solar Charger, Solar Arcadia iPhone Solar Charger, and the SOLiCharger, to name a few–but until today, Apple stayed mum on the topic. Now the computing behemoth has given the thumbs up to Novothink’s Solar Surge charger, scheduled to be released for the 2G iPod [...]
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YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top movie studios about obtaining licenses to stream feature films on a rental basis. YouTube is discussing the service with Sony Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., and Warner Bros. Studios, according to a story published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. This is a natural [...] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IPhone maker Apple Inc told U.S. regulators it has not approved Google Inc’s Voice application, which could challenge the wireless industry’s giants, because it interferes with the iPhone “user experience.” Apple told the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Friday that the Google app appears to replace the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality and [...] Let’s take our minds off all this nasty Google Voice business for a minute, and focus on the apps that we do have. Google may not make an appearance this week, but how about Wikipedia? NPR? The Discovery Channel ? Simplify? NPR News : The unaffiliated Public Radio Player was great great great , but this [...] Offering a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux turned out not to be such a simple matter after all. The CentOS project aims to reproduce Red Hat’s tested, supported, and certified version of the operating system, without its per-server subscription fees. Because RHEL is open-source software, it’s theoretically possible for an outsider to select the [...] One of the things that has been most-surprising about the advent of Netbooks is that it has become less about the hardware as much as how mainstream operating systems and applications have had to adapt to fit within their confines. In the earlier generations of these machines, operating systems like Windows Vista just didn’t cut [...] Speculation about a rumored Apple tablet may be an exercise in futility, but it is an interesting exercise nonetheless. In this case, my speculation will extend to what may be inside an Apple tablet. Will the design philosophy spring from the notion of an upsized iPhone or a downsized MacBook? I believe it will be the [...] Bryan Wagner, the would-be private detective who helped Hewlett-Packard spy on technology journalists in 2006, will soon be sentenced, according to a story by The Associated Press. Former HP chairwoman Patty Dunn leaving court in October 2006. Charges of identity theft and conspiracy would later be dropped. (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET News) Wagner admitted in 2007 to taking part [...] Conceived by the Twitter community, retweets have become an important part of the site’s ecosystem. On Thursday, Biz Stone announced on the Twitter blog that they will be integrating retweets into the service and application programming interface. As it stands, Project Retweet is just in phase 1, in which Twitter will take feedback from the [...] Image via CrunchBase Google’s Hal Varian would likely have raised an eyebrow at a term paper submitted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the search market. Varian, currently on leave from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as Google’s chief economist, thinks a lot of the arguments advanced by Microsoft in justifying its 10-year deal [...] |
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