While other social networks like MySpace are working hard to make headway in the Latin American market (and MySpace says its market share there is growing), launching a mobile site is a savvy move on Hi5’s part.
The biggest social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, have operated mobile sites long before anyone ever held an
iPhone. [...]
A new series of tests coming out of Sweden appears to absolve the
iPhone 3G’s antenna from blame over the phone’s reception issues.
The iPhone 3G's antenna does not appear to be the cause of its reception problems, according to new tests.
The GP report does not address whether a software issue is to blame for the [...]
CNET’s Kent German will have his own review up this Friday, when the iPhone 3G is formally released.
Still, some interesting details were revealed. Mossberg didn’t seem very happy about the battery life. “In my tests, the iPhone 3G’s battery was drained much more quickly in a typical day of use than the battery [...]
Creation All of Hunch’s topics come from users. The site allows you to create topics, provide multiple choice answers, and based on those answers, determine results.
Should I use Hunch? Hunch is fun. At first, you’ll probably enjoy browsing through the various topics and maybe even creating some of your own. But after a while, if [...]
Professor Allan Snyder’s optimism for your ability to, say, rumba like a Cuban while being an analyst for Mark Cuban, is boundless: “I believe that each of us has within us nonconscious machinery which can do extraordinary art, extraordinary memory, and extraordinary mathematical calculations.”
At last, some of the world’s finest brains have gotten together [...]
Bandstocks will let the public buy a stake in an artist in 10 pound (roughly $18) increments. Once funding reaches a preordained level, for example 100,000 pounds, the money will be released for the act to record an album.
Have you always wanted to be the antagonist in Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar”? Now’s your chance. [...]
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When I met up with Check Point Software’s CEO Gil Shwed to talk about the SanDisk relationship as well as the wider security arena, he was predictably upbeat in describing another advance in safeguarding portable data. But, he added, the ultimate success depends upon guaranteeing that the information will be “secure and [...]
I found the actual reading experience to be somewhat bland. The news is spread out over several pages instead of being in one place like other news aggregation services. It’s not a deal killer, but I found it to be too much work to browse through each category. I think a lot of people who [...]
“We don’t want to be in the furniture business,” Bach quipped. Microsoft has said it plans to have the consumer version on shelves by 2011.
Surface has wowed audiences everywhere it’s been showcased. Nonetheless, serious challenges still lay ahead, such as reducing the price so consumers can afford it as well as shrinking the clunky 22-inch-high [...]
The new TouchSmart: It lost a lot of weight in the past year. Click on the image to see more pictures of HP’s new lineup.
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But it’s the Voodoo brand where HP is most able to experiment with new looks.
“The challenge for them, is that other guys will do same thing,” observed [...]