Daily Archives: August 31, 2011

AdKnowledge Lays Off 18 As It Integrates Acquisitions

August 31, 2011
AdKnowledge Lays Off 18 As It Integrates Acquisitions

See Also: Verizon Kills Its Easy Free Option For File Hosting For Your Personal Website Here’s The Hyundai Veloster Ad That It Deemed “Too Shocking” For Its Brand UBS Is Laying Off People In Investment Banking This Week AdKnowledge let go 18 staffers as a result of recent acquisitions, company representatives said on Wednesday...

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On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Location Data to Your Search Results

August 31, 2011
On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Location Data to Your Search Results

Search tool Wajam is rolling out a new feature today to its browser extension that overlays links shared by your friends on Twitter and Facebook at the top of the page when you perform a search on Google. (Or Bing.) Now Wajam puts a sidebar on the search results page when you’re looking for...

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Tons of ‘iPhone 5′ cases leak, point to a phone as ‘thin as an iPod touch’

August 31, 2011
Tons of ‘iPhone 5′ cases leak, point to a phone as ‘thin as an iPod touch’

A trove of new images have made their way onto the net from case distributor Alibaba that claim to be cases for Apple’s new iPhone 5. If they are indeed the cases for the next generation of iPhone then that iPhone would have to be nearly as thin as the current iPod touch, reports...

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Today In Also-Ran Tablets: The HTC Jetstream And Sony S And P

August 31, 2011
Today In Also-Ran Tablets: The HTC Jetstream And Sony S And P

Today won’t be remembered tomorrow. Nothing of consequence happened today. Steve Ballmer didn’t resign, Dell didn’t get out of the PC business and I didn’t stop procrastinating and actually go to the gym. Nope, like any other boring summer day, several products were announced, start-ups announced funding and another wireless carrier jacked up fees....

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Michael Dell: We’re Not Getting Out Of The PC Business (DELL, HPQ)

August 31, 2011
Michael Dell: We’re Not Getting Out Of The PC Business (DELL, HPQ)

Image: Dell.com See Also: VMWare Chief To Microsoft: Who’s The Dinosaur? Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Compares Old Software To Arab Dictators Is HP Using The Old “Going Out Of Business Sale” Trick? Hewlett-Packard has made waves by announcing it might get out of the PC business. It’s the biggest PC maker in the world,...

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Facebook Aims to Partner With, Not Squash, Music Streaming Services

August 31, 2011
Facebook Aims to Partner With, Not Squash, Music Streaming Services

Facebook will launch its much-rumored music platform at next month’s f8 developers’ conference, CNBC reported this afternoon. Rather than go up against the likes of Spotify, Rdio and MOG, Facebook will instead be partnering with those music streaming services. While few details are known for sure, it looks as though the social behemoth is...

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New App Lets You Use Gmail Without The Internet

August 31, 2011

Want to access your Gmail without an Internet connection? There is now an app for that. A Chrome app, to be precise. Airplane passengers and wilderness hikers are rejoicing the world over, as Google has announced the imminent return of Offline Mode to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar. First introduced in January 2009...

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Apple releases iOS 5 Beta 7, Xcode 4.2 b7, iTunes 10.5 b7, Safari 5.1.1 and Apple TV b6 to developers

August 31, 2011
Apple releases iOS 5 Beta 7, Xcode 4.2 b7, iTunes 10.5 b7, Safari 5.1.1 and Apple TV b6 to developers

Apple has today released the seventh version of its iOS 5 beta to developers. The new version offers some stability improvements and bug fixes and is the fourth version of Apple’s beta software to be delivered over-the-air to devices, a new feature that Apple touted at WWDC as part of its new ‘post-pc’ strategy....

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This $100 DIY kit lets you add a 2nd hard drive to your MacBook

August 31, 2011
This $100 DIY kit lets you add a 2nd hard drive to your MacBook

When I got my MacBook Pro, I got it used. I was told that the hard drive would need to be replaced, so I decided to lay down a chunk of cash and grab a solid-state drive (SSD) from Intel. The performance gain of an SSD is amazing, and I’ve never once regretted the...

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Is HP Using The Old "Going Out Of Business Sale" Trick? (HPQ)

August 31, 2011
Is HP Using The Old "Going Out Of Business Sale" Trick? (HPQ)

Image: taberandrew via Flickr See Also: Hackers Successfully Got Android Running On A TouchPad HP Exec: We May Resurrect The TouchPad HP Will Continue Updating The Dead TouchPad Because So Many People Bought Them On Sale When I lived in Seattle, there was a furniture store around the corner from my house that was...

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