Archive for October, 2008
OWC now turns your MacBook into a tablet
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If you’re a hard-core Apple fanboy but want the functionality of a tablet computer, there’s a solution: get your MacBook transformed into a ModBook.
The solution got more easily accessible on Friday as Other World Computer announced its Modservice in partnership with Axiotron.
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Google, Yahoo Ad Partnership May Falter
A proposed partnership within Google and Yahoo for the sale and distribution of online advertisements has been a hot topic in tech circles that year, drawing scrutiny from privacy groups, European regulators and the Justice branch. Now reports are circulating that the long-delayed deal might fall apart.
In an write-up in the online version of the …
Google Makes PDF Files Searchable
Google has rarely included scanned documents in its search results considering it had no way to determine the nature of the subject matter, but that’s about to change. The search engine giant says it will use optical character recognition (OCR) software to prepare it possible for Web surfers to search any Web-hosted document stored in the PDF…
Review: Cagic’s stylin’ 8.4-inch digital photo frame
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Cagic is new to the digital photo frame arena and its claim to fame–or at least its marketing pitch–is that it’s keeping things simple while making a frame that’s more stylish and better constructed than your typical digital photo frame.
The company’s first offering, an …
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IBM Sues VP Mark Papermaster for Moving to Apple
IBM is not letting go without a fight. The computer maker has filed a lawsuit against one of its former top-level executives who left the company to work at Apple.
Mark Papermaster, a server expert and vice president of IBM’s blade development unit, is slated to start at Apple in just a few weeks but his knowledge of IBM trade secrets may s…
Google Offers SLA for Premier Apps
In a wake of Gmail outages and buggy Apps that drew the ire of its loyal user base, Google on Thursday announced a service level agreement (SLA) for the Premier Edition of Google Apps.
Google’s premium online productivity and collaboration suite now comes with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Sites and Google Talk. …
Tivo-Netflix Move Heats Up On-Demand Movie Market
Wednesday’s announcement that Tivo will start offering streaming video from DVD-rental company Netflix is one more indication that technology companies increasingly see an on-demand future.
Under the terms of the agreement, the owners of recent Tivo machines (TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL) who plus have an unlimited Netflix subscript…









