Archive for January, 2009

Of course the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that is currently underway in Las Vegas is something very close to the notion of heaven to any real geek with dozens upon dozens of shiny new gadgets and miraculous devices introduced by exhibitors and discussed in mainstream media and the blogosphere throughout the events and for weeks [...]

It proves that Facebook is quickly becoming the place to turn to whenever you want to achieve something important and change the world to a certain extent. One of the interesting examples is about students from Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland using Facebook to find support for their important cause: making the Inaguration Day [...]

Prior to any big industry event the technology blogosphere will invariably be full of various rumors related to what we should expect to see at this or that event. And everything that is related to Apple is always anticipated with such impatience that rumors will invariably be numerous. Macworld, the Apple-focused trade show that has [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been participating in private beta testing of conversation search engine with Artiklz, a company specializing in aggregating conversations around blog posts and bringing them back to the blog owner (we have spoken about Artiklz here, here and here before when the startup announced their news). Today the company has [...]

There’s a pretty interesting move today from Microsoft that looks like the software giant does not want to be criticized by IT professionals again. This time they want to offer IT departments to control how Internet Explorer 8 will be installed in their organizations once it is pushed at the users via Automatic Updater. Microsoft [...]

Now that we are getting ready to dive into tons of news and reports from the floors at Macworld in San Francisco and Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, one is very likely to bump into a number of blog posts and articles complaining about the obvious downsizing of the two favorite tech shows [...]

Earlier today we have finally received the confirmation that Steve Jobs did have health problems and these health problems are the reason (or at least one of the reasons) for him not to make his traditional keynote at Macworld. But instead of listening to what Mr. Jobs wanted us to hear and what the Board [...]

China is well-known for its strict approach to dealing with websites, blocking everything that the country’s government does not consider to be appropriate for the eyes of its citizens and demanding websites to comply if they want to remain in the huge Chinese internet market. But today’s news is even more extravagant than usually as [...]

We often hear complains here and there about the connections between social networks and our real lives and sometimes we even see what looks like real family conflicts with husbands and wives remaining unconnected on Facebook, even when they both have accounts. But now we are facing a new issue of the growing disappointment of [...]