AMD’s blog: heavy on marketing, short on insight
I stopped by AMD’s recently announced blog again today just to see what’s up. The main link from AMD’s virtual press room has slipped down a few notches since it was originally launched on April 15th...
View ArticleMicrosoft gets XP on the OLPC
Remember the OLPC? That quirky little notebook that was going to cost $100 and change the world? The ill-fated project had incredibly high hopes but has not met with the success that its organizers...
View ArticleRant: I think I now hate my iPhone 3G
When I first reviewed the iPhone 3G I couldn’t say enough good things about it. I even recommended that existing owners of the iPhone upgrade to it. After a little over a month of ownership, though,...
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MPAA pushing hard for selectable output control
The MPAA still has piracy squarely in their sights, meeting with the FCC last week to push for selectable output control of broadcast signals. Essentially, the organization is worried that when cable...
View ArticleThe biggest little advances I want to see in technology in 2009, part 1
I could easily go on and on for far longer than anyone would care to read about how I’d like to see the typical futuristic fantasies geeks lust for in life become real. Teleportation devices would be...
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Opinion: Microsoft still harming netbook markets
Companies like Intel have created the Atom N280 processor which delivers more performance clock-per-clock than previous Desktop Pentium 4s, and with their GN40 chipset and enhanced 3D graphics...
View ArticleOpinion: Solar shows great promise as renewable energy source, but why is...
DigiTimes is reporting that the 2009 outlook for solar cell companies is “not optimistic” from a financial point of view. They cite a 2.0 to 2.5 GWp (Gigawatt peak) interest in Spain in 2008, which...
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Can anyone hide from the next iPhone avalanche?
According to a new report, Palm may be launching their Pre smartphone a day before Apple is rumored to unveil the next-gen iPhone. If Palm were facing any other rival but Apple, I wouldn’t be...
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Microsoft’s new ad aims Apple’s MacBook Pro – and misses
The video ad war between Microsoft and its rival Apple is slowly but surely shifting into a higher gear. However, the fourth installment in the “Laptop hunters” ad series is a step back from previous...
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Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor doesn’t love Apple’s moral policing
Nine Inch Nails’ founder Trent Reznor didn’t spare “F” words when Apple recently removed their fan-focused iPhone app from the App Store, in the middle of the band’s U.S. tour. What set Reznor on fire...
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Analysis: Will we ever see a mobile superbazaar?
The mobile revolution has failed: Carriers still decide which apps you run on your phone. They now pitch mobile apps supermarket with web-based mobile apps that run on multiple handsets. Are we seeing...
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Opinion: Microsoft’s out, Linux is in. Ubuntu 9.04, I hear your call…
A new global survey was published yesterday by IBM entitled Linux Desktop Easier to Deploy Than Expected. This announcement follows another one on the same day entitled Gruppo Amadori to Roll out...
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Criticism aside, there’s no bypassing the App Store
Updated 11:24am 8/24/09: Corrected how HOTTRIX’s apps are downloaded and installed. Apple’s App Store has been hit with so much criticism lately that the company tasked its marketing chief with...
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Opinion: Why Apple’s PR sucks
Working in Apple’s PR team is both a dream job and easy money: All you have to do is not return calls from the press and respond with the same “no comment” one-liner to email inquires. Bryan...
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Geek.com podcast 24 – Awesome giveaway edition
Your favorite podcast is back for week 24, but in this episode time we had something special planned. After catching you up on the week’s biggest tech news we tell you how to enter a giveaway,...
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Opinion: Woofer’s Twitter copycatting is a lame business model
Where do you draw the line between borrowing a few pieces of someone else’s idea for your own business and copying the entire business model of an established brand ony to rename it? Sure, we’ve seen...
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Opinion: Apple’s damage control can’t polish the tarnished App Store brand
Apple has put in motion the damage control plan plotted to create an illusion that the company is addressing App Store criticism. Its mostly cosmetic moves also conceal the fact that the most...
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Unboxing MobileMe: All those trees for a code?
You can subscribe to MobileMe, Apple’s $99 a year online services suite, using a credit card or an activation code provided inside the old-fashioned physical box. But why is the supposedly green Mac...
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Will simplified operating systems kill future innovation?
I have a bone to pick with you. All of you. There is a serious problem with the way we have been collectively thinking about this whole technology thing. I first noticed it with tablets, and then...
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New planet Kepler 22-b signals NASA’s move away from true discovery
There has been a lot of excitement this week about the announcement of the discovery of Kepler 22-b, a supposed “twin Earth” that exists in a habitable zone about 600 light-years away from Earth....
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