Guest comment: Is RSS due a comeback?
Netimperative
It is a common complaint these days that we are all drowning in information. As Micheal Wheatley, CEO of ensembli reminds us, it is exhausting trying to keep up with everything.
Apples to Apples
BusinessWeek
Not much, if you ask my techie husband. I live in a Mac-happy house: We've got a Mac Mini, a Powerbook G4, a sickly Powerbook G3, an iMac as well as two iPods and a nano in my household. My hubby wants you to know "there's a 9600 in storage...
Linux Stopped Tech Support Calls from My Family
PC World
So, I put desktop Linux on her laptop — and ever since then I've had a lot fewer late night calls. What's that? Linux is much too complicated and techie for someone who might have trouble navigating Outlook Express? Sorry, but that's not be...
Petals to the metal
The Holland Sentinel
For twentysomethings who packed Thursday night’s performance by local rock band Pop Evil at Tulipalooza, it was the first Tulip Time encounter many of them had since the festival kicked off last weekend. “This is my first time downtown all ...
TEDx bite off more than they could chew?
Examiner
While the event itself is history in the making for Baltimore’s techie/arts community, there is something to be said about the fact that so many of this “community’s” members were turned away. As Baltimore’s social media community alone ...
The future of sleep
The Globe and Mail
It records your pillow talk. It monitors your snoring. It's a surround-sound theatre and a home office. It even splits into two when you're having a lovers' quarrel. Meet Bed 2.0.
Backstage head-scratching
New York Post
Another problem is the (unseen) dopesmoking techie called Laura, who keeps mixing up cues and messing up an already problematic rehearsal. And the play within the play is supposed to be on Broadway? A Broadway show would have an unbelievabl...
Techie goes berserk in hi-end car
Deccan Herald
A young software engineer created flutters on road after he went berserk on his new high-end model car, injuring several people and damaging more than half a dozen vehicles in the wee hours of Saturday. The drama had all the ingredients of ...
Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps
MSNBC
Best of all for a non-techie like Johnson, he did it in a single day, without writing a single line of code. To create the app, Johnson relied on a company called Swebapps.com, one of a new crop of services that help clients order up their ...
Flu scan on techie duo
The Telegraph
Bangalore, May 7 (PTI): Two software engineers who arrived at a Bangalore airport from the US were today hospitalised and quarantined for suspected swine flu, a health official said.
Cheat Sheet: Netbooks
Silicon.com
Netbooks fishermen's favourite toy? Nope. Not even close. They're the latest piece of kit every self-respecting techie should be packing. The ultimate in portable computing, these dinky devices would be seated between a laptop and a smartph...