Microsoft announced at a joint event in Beijing that it has entered into an agreement with the Chinese company China Standard Software Co., Ltd. to “develop, market and sell solutions for the booming cloud-computing market in China”, according to the joint press release. China Standard Software was founded in 2003 and “specializes in the RD,...
Daily Archives: August 22, 2011
HP TouchPad becomes a low-cost Ubuntu tablet
The $99 HP TouchPad has become quite elusive, essentially selling out in the U.S. over the weekend. Much of the reason is due to what you get for this price: a color Kindle reader that doubles as a great web browser, email manager and cloud device with 50 GB of storage from Box.net. But...
Technology Frustration in a Multi-Device World
In a review of Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together, John Battelle notes a familiar experience in regards to technology: “this cake ain’t baked. I mean, think about it. Facebook: Not quite right. Smart phones? Not quite right. Desktop computing? Even though we’ve had nearly three decades of interaction, it’s still not quite right.” This...
Delay On Hulu Availability More Than Doubles Piracy Of Fox Shows
A week ago, Fox changed its licensing rules so that non-paying users of Hulu would be unable to watch new episodes of their shows until eight days after their air date. Put on your analyst hat and think about what effect this might have on, say, piracy of those shows. Did you determine that...
Refurbished 16GB iPad 1 Drops To $299
While $300 for a tablet might seem insanely high after this weekend’s $100 TouchPad frenzy, it’s still a decent buy. I still find it hard to recommend existing budget Honeycomb tablets over the iPad when I’m talking to people who aren’t into tech, and this makes its case even stronger. iPad or netbook? For...
What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World?
So what tips the technology scales? I think the answer might have something to do with the idea of simple machines – basic building-blocks of technology that help us construct the world around us. Simple Machines I’ve been thinking about simple machines a lot recently, while in Africa working in education. You probably remember...
Martyr’s Square: In Libya, an Important Act of Geolocational Defiance
Now that Libya’s Internet is returning, even as that country’s rebel forces firm up their possession of its capital, Tripoli, someone has made one small, but elegant gesture, they’ve renamed a square. More accurately, they have reversed the name. Renamed “Green Square” by Libyan dictator Moamar Qaddafi, it now shows up on Google Maps...
Horrible First Dates Exposed On Twitter
See Also: 10 Things You Should Know About Tech But Were Too Afraid To Ask Twitter Takes Another Step On Its Road To Killing TwitPic And Yfrog The New Rules Of Getting Press For Your Startup A new Twitter account, @firstdatehell, lets victims of bad dates explain their experiences in 140 characters or less....
New Ad Platform Makes Photos Into Inline Ad Generators
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Source: The iPhone 5 Will Indeed Be A Dual-Mode CDMA / GSM ‘World Phone’
The upcoming iPhone 5 will almost certainly be a single phone that supports multiple networks, namely CDMA (such as the one used by Verizon or Sprint in the United States) as well as GSM (which is used by ATT and T-Mobile in the U.S.). This has been rumored before, and even at one point...