BlackBerry Tour, aptly named, to be available on Sprint and Verizon
To say the SmartPhone market is white-hot would be an understatement. Profit margins may be a different matter, however, as the number of models increase,…
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Twitter growth slows, Facebook juggernaut steams ahead
In 2008, Twitter grew 780%. This year doesn't look as promising. A report today from compete.com, one of the new Web measurement services ...
Tesla Motors: Inside the Silicon Valley dealership with photos and updates
The green car you see in these photos was used in recent photos with Tesla CEO Elon Musk (founder of PayPal).
SubZERO TechArt Festival San Jose: Robotic chair, motorized mouth, and two-by-fours
In this segment of the SubZERO Festival tour, Loni ventures inside the WORKS San Jose gallery for a peek at some eclectic techno-art mashups in…
Palm Pre reviews mixed, Apple preempts party with $99 iPhone
If the odds were against Palm already, they’re now even worse. You would have a better chance of hitting ’00’ on a roulette table, twice…
With Bing, Microsoft bangs its head on the (Google) wall once again
As Yogi Berra once said, it’s déjà vu all over again. With Bing, Microsoft’s latest salvo against industry giant Google, we have yet again…
The next generation of netbooks: faster, cheaper, and more… uh, notebook-like
I’ve been following the latest announcements on the Netbook front over the past few months. The perfect storm — bad economy, demand for portability, emergence…
Credit Karma: Second impressions warrant a thumbs up
A while back, I had written about CreditKarma.com, a company that gives approximations on your credit scores based on the major credit reporting companies (Equifax,…
SunPower now offers iPhone app to monitor your home’s energy information
Loni forwarded an email to me the other day about this new app available for the iPhone. It connects in to your solar system and…
Is Twitter the real deal or just a huge, narcissistic, real-time spam engine?
A well known entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, of Garage Technology Ventures, and now as I’m continuously reminded on Twitter, a new web site called Alltop.…