I had a number of burps and hiccups using Lively in my demo on a somewhat elderly but by no means ancient laptop, problems Wang said weren’t widespread. When it’s working correctly, it took a little while to master the controls for moving the perspective and my avatar around.
Google's Lively is a Web-based project similar [...]
Don’t look for the case to get to court anytime soon. The discovery part of the case isn’t expected to end until sometime next year.
What might prove interesting in the meantime is that among the people Google has asked to depose are Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of the The [...]
For instance, you can enter your billing information to generate the credit check required for a new contract, pick a rate plan, and make an appointment to pick up an iPhone 3G. The phone still needs to be activated in the store, which is Apple and AT&T’s way of trying to deter those who [...]
Kid Rock has sold more than 1.7 million copies of his latest album, Rock and Roll Jesus, with no iTunes presence at all. And last week, Warner Bros. pulled Estelle’s new album from iTunes in the U.S. in hopes of spurring physical sales. (The plan appears to have failed miserably.)
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Today, WordPress put out a video demonstrating its very own iPhone blogging tool, which supports WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted WordPress.org blogs (as long as it’s version 2.5.1 or later). WordPress promises the iPhone app will let you create and edit posts, will support multiple blogs as well as privacy settings, plus it will let you [...]
But a large part of Monday’s news was focused on software, too. As expected, Jobs announced the upcoming iPhone App Store, the foundation for which was laid out in March when he announced the release of the iPhone software development kit. Since the SDK was released, third-party developers have been busy writing applications specifically designed [...]
Yang is facing a proxy fight with Icahn, who is seeking to unseat the board and oust the Yahoo co-founder and chief executive from his top-dog position.
Yahoo board member Gary Wilson, meanwhile, offered up his two cents on corporate governance in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. In the [...]
Catch the most recent news about the iPhone 3G and App Store.
The app does save a fraction of time in bypassing
Safari’s initial loading of the iPhone-optimized page and works without a hitch.
With so much fairy dust in the air over Apple’s day-early release of the App Store and iTunes 7.7 (for Windows and Mac), it’s [...]
Then again, maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised considering the tech industry’s counterculture wellsprings. I’m not going to cover that in detail here, but a good resource is John Markoff’s “What the Dormouse Said: How the ’60’s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer” does a nice job pulling the disparate strands of the story together. He [...]
Image sharing and markup, no download required.
Fuze is priced at $29.95 a month (much less with yearly commitment). That’s a bit high, and I expect competition (and the growing popularity of free products) will steadily push the prices down on remote presentation apps. I’m glad about that. I can’t stand WebEx.
Fuze also runs [...]
