Apple Brings Mobile To The Desktop With Mac OS 10.8
I confess to not being as big a fan of Apple’s current iteration of their desktop operating system. Don’t get me wrong, Lion 10.7 is great, but few of the new features are a compelling reason for me to upgrade from 10.6 Snow Leopard. Throw in stuff like FreeNAS not working (as well as UPnP) […]
Kenyan City Official Turns Twitter Into Village’s Own 911 Response System
On Wednesday, the Associated Press’s Tom Odula reported an interesting mobile development in Kenya. It seems that Francis Kariuki, the town administrative chief of Lanet Umoja, Kenya uses his Twitter account to communicate with people in town, most unconventionally to stop crime. Kariuki said that even the thieves in his village follow him on Twitter. […]
Fox News Reporter Notices What Most Of Us Did Ages Ago
It looks like Fox News reporter Shepard Smith has discovered what most cell phone power users have known for some time now. Namely, that just because your cell plan says it’s unlimited doesn’t mean it actually is. The TV personality’s home WiFi is down, so AT&T went and throttled his data connection. Check out the […]
How The Mighty Have Fallen: Kodak To Stop Making Cameras
Last month, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for bankruptcy and in an effort to survive has made a not so surprising announcement that it’s killing off the entire part of its business that sells digital cameras, digital frames, and pocket video cameras in hopes of saving $100 million a year. Kodak brought cameras to the […]
NASA Undocks Last Mainframe
NASA CIO Linda Cureton recently blogged about NASA decommissioning the last of their mainframe computers this month. Although not the massive, room-sized machine depicted in so many sci-fi movies, NASA’s seven-year-old IBM z9 was still about the size of a large refrigerator. While there are organizations out there that require the capabilities of a mainframe […]
Olde Tyme Techcitement: I’m Gonna Getcha With A Kodak Disc
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. It’s hard to believe 30 years have passed since Kodak attempted a revolution […]
On The Cheap: Multiple Phone Carriers Want To Be Your Valentine
While Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be some of the most well-known bargain tech shopping times, next week is working out to be one as well. In honor of Valentine’s Day, many U.S. carriers and some retailers offer some surprisingly good deals. However, like a box of Valentines Day chocolates, you want to be […]
Google Wallet Hacked, Still Safer Than Your Actual Wallet
Poor Google Wallet, hacked twice in 48 hours. Bad enough that Google has had difficulty getting the payment service approved by Verizon for its flagship Galaxy Nexus. Now, just as people are figuring out simple ways to get Wallet on their phones, a new scandal rocks the nascent world of Android mobile payments. Wednesday evening, […]
World’s Fastest Camera Reaches Ludicrous Speed
Researchers at MIT have recently shown off the world’s fastest video camera, clocking in at a whopping trillion frames per second of video recorded. To put this into a bit of perspective, keep in mind that feature films are recorded and played at 24 frames per second. It’s unclear if the nerves between the human […]
Sprint Earnings Reveal iPhone Is Both A Hit And Miss
When Sprint added the venerated iPhone to their mobile lineup, analysts were a bit nervous about what it was actually costing the company. After all, while a consumer pays $199 for their Siri-packing iPhone 4S (or $99 for just the iPhone 4), Sprint is actually subsidizing those costs. The goal is to get people locked […]