Business professionals have a wealth of social media options to keep them connected, from LinkedIn to Naymz toSpoke ... from A to Ziggs. That's Ziggs.com, which calls itself "Your one-stop source for building your online brand, marketing yourself on the web and simplifying communications with people." A key for Ziggs? A membership (it's free) means users can get an "instant" e-mail each time someone searches for them online (via Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL and others) and checks out... Read Full Story
Michael Masnick from TechDirt I've been spending plenty of time talking to people, reading up and listening to various views on the whole financial crisis. Last week, I asked a bunch of folks I knew in the tech, economics and financial worlds for their thoughts on the situation and I'm hopeful that I may end up with a few guest posts out of it. In the meantime, I wanted to start with my own thoughts. First off: this situation is complicated. The deeper you dig into it, the more you can begin... Read Full Story
Maybe Larry Ellison can do what the Business Technology Blog can't. If software doesn't work out, Ellison should consider a career in stand up Earlier this week, we wrote that the term "cloud computing" now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet, making it effectively meaningless. But our rant is nothing compared to what Oracle's chief executive unleashed Thursday at his company's analyst day. Ellison spoke for a few minutes about Oracle and his... Read Full Story
By Leo Pang I used to be a fun of Pocket PC phone: I spent lots of time finding and installing all kinds of third party software to my AT&T 8525. To me, anything I can imagine, I can find a software doing it - that's the beauty of an open platform. Last year when Apple introduced its first 2G iPhone, I got a chance to compare it side by side with my 8525, and I chose my 8525, simply because iPhone cannot do so many things that I already do everyday on my Window Mobile phone. Recently after... Read Full Story
Written by Frederic Lardinois from ReadWriteWeb Apple has had a string of bad luck lately. Today, the company announced that it is recalling the power adapters for all iPhone 3Gs sold in the United States, Canada, Japan, and all Latin American countries that use American style plugs. Apparently, the metal prongs on the adapters can break off and remain stuck in the power outlet, creating a serious risk of electric shock. Users can either exchange their adapters in an Apple... Read Full Story
Plastic Logic will make flexible polymer displays and launch its product in January. By Katherine Bourzac Plastic e-reader: A new electronic reader from Plastic Logic uses a lightweight, flexible polymer backplane. Its screen is the size of a standard piece of paper (14 inches on the diagonal) and won't shatter like other displays. Credit: Plastic LogicThis Wednesday, Cambridge University startup Plastic Logic, which is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, will open a factory in... Read Full Story
Written by Frederic Lardinoisr from ReadWriteWeb Today, Apple released the 'major' firmware update for the iPhone Steve Jobs announced earlier this week and which had already been available for the iPod touch since Tuesday. According to Apple, this update will fix the connectivity and battery life issues a lot of users had with their phones. Apple also released a fix for iTunes 8 after users reported repeated system crashes on their Windows machines after upgrading to the... Read Full Story
The DEMO Fall conference today saw the launch of a number of interesting online photo applications. Out of this group, one service that especially caught our eye was Photrade, which not only gives you an online photo album, but also the option to easily sell copies of your photos and license them to other web sites. During the open beta, Photrade is giving all users a Pro account for the next year, with the ability to upload an unlimited amount of pictures. After this first year, Pro accounts... Read Full Story
At Apple's "Let's Rock" special event today, Steve Jobs introduced a new version of iTunes, the availability of HD TV shows for the American market, a new design for the iPod Nano and iPod touch, as well as a major update for the iPhone/iPod touch firmware. According to Jobs, Apple has sold 160 million iPods worldwide and now holds 73.4% of the market in the US.Some things we didn't see: Read Full Story
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PMAt Google, we have a saying: "launch early and iterate." While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google... Read Full Story
