e-Books get a boost
February 18, 2005 by Mike Wendland · Leave a Comment
I’ve been reading e-books on my Palm handheld for years now. The book is always with you, it’s great in cramped places like airplanes and it’s very pleasing on the eye. Now, one of the world’s biggest book publishing companies sees the light. Random House to Enter Phone Text Market
Google offers new mapping service
February 16, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 2 Comments
Just don’t try it with Apple’s Safari browser. The Googloid empire hasn’t yet figured out how to make it work with the Apple browser, though they claim they’re working on it. It does, however, work with Firefox for Macs and, naturally, all the Windows browsers. Google Maps
MyFi digital satellite receiver
February 15, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 1 Comment
A satellite digital radio receiver that clips on your belt: Who would’ve thunk it likely a decade ago? Here’s my product review of Delphi’s XM Radio MyFi from today’s Freep…MIKE WENDLAND: MyFi portable radio will only get better, smaller
Apple product cycle spoof
February 14, 2005 by Mike Wendland · Leave a Comment
This reason this is so funny because it’s so true - The Apple Product Cycle. Thanks to reader Howard Davy for passing it along.
iPod/MP3 players owned by 11 percent of adults
February 14, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 1 Comment
A Pew Internet & American Life Project study released today says 11% — or more than 22 million of those who are age 18 and older - have an iPod or MP3 music player. Project director Lee Rainey says it’s safe to say that there are several million more MP3 players owned in the teen world, but Pew did not survey teens in this poll.
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Detroit nostalgia
February 11, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 2 Comments
Here’s a site anyone from Detroit will appreciate. You Know You’re From Detroit If…
Search site wars good for us
February 10, 2005 by Mike Wendland · Leave a Comment
The hottest battle in personal technology is Microsoft vs. Google, and it’s being fought over who you’ll use to search cyberspace and your desktop.
Sniping along the perimeter of the battlefield are a whole bunch of other contenders — familiar names in the Internet searching world such as Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Firefox and even America Online.
For consumers, it’s a win-win war, resulting in more choices, more relevant information and a way to finally manage the information overload that threatens to bury us when we try to find specific information online or on the files of our bloated hard drives.
That’s what I wrote abut in today’s Freep: Consumers the victors in battle of the search sites
IE bests rival browsers in at least one area
February 9, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 8 Comments
How about this? There’s at least one security issue that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser apparently is NOT vulnerable to - unlike all the others. Safari, Firefox, Opera struck by spoofing flaw
Microsoft to sell anti-virus software?
February 9, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 1 Comment
Unless Microsoft plans to give away the new anti-virus programs it seems to be aquiring and developing, it seems a tad duplicitous to me that the company would sell software to protect computers against the shameful vulnerabilities of its other products. Know what I mean? Microsoft to buy anti-virus firm
GoDaddy’s dumb Super Bowl ad
February 8, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 4 Comments
The Super Bowl ad of Internet hosting company GoDaddy may have cost $5 million but it was really cheap. I’m sure it was meant to get people talking. But it was so lame and stupidly tawdry that even middle school boys wouldn’t find it funny. Few impressed by GoDaddy ad.
Do we really need yet another blogging service?
February 8, 2005 by Mike Wendland · 4 Comments
Sure sign that a trend has peaked: When every Internet company under the sun starts its own blogging service or buys up someone else’s. Jeeve dives into blogs.
Web communication tools
February 8, 2005 by Mike Wendland · Leave a Comment
My NBC-TV High Tech Talk piece this week looks at some very cool online communication tools for families, church groups, small businesses. High Tech Talk: Constant Contact and Local Calendar services.
