New MacBooks and MacBook Pros from Apple
Posted on February 26th, 2008 in tech | No Comments »
Apple just introduced updated models for the MacBook and MacBook Pro.
Archive for February, 2008
Starbucks: bring your own desktop PC
Posted on February 25th, 2008 in entertaining | No Comments »
Very funny video of some folks in NY who brought their own desktop PCs to Starbucks.
Exposure Episode 13 is ready to download
Posted on February 17th, 2008 in photo-video, podcast | No Comments »
Episode 13 of our Exposure photography podcast is ready to download.
You gotta be kidding me (submersible car)
Posted on February 16th, 2008 in entertaining | No Comments »
This takes the cake… Swiss car maker Rinspeed has created a submersible car based on the Lotus Elise. Seems like they’ve been watching a bit too much James Bond (see The Spy Who Loved Me); are they going to do the disappearing car next? Anti-aircraft missiles perhaps?
Microhoo update:
Posted on February 9th, 2008 in business, tech | No Comments »
This should make things interesting (the quote is from WSJ’s email update this morning):
“Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says.
After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the person said. It also doesn’t account for the risks Yahoo would be taking by entering into an agreement that might be overturned by regulators. The board plans to send a letter to Microsoft…”
Bad news for AMD
Posted on February 8th, 2008 in business, tech | 1 Comment »
This just in from the WSJ:
“Dell Inc. has decided to stop selling most consumer systems powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. chips through Dell’s popular Web site.
The big computer company says it still plans to keep selling the AMD-based machines in retail stores and over the phone. But Dell’s decision is nevertheless seen as a negative for AMD, which took years to convince Dell to modify its longtime strategy of using only chips from Intel Corp.”
You can read the article on the Wall Street Journal website.
Ouch!!
Amazing macro photograph on Photo.net
Posted on February 8th, 2008 in photo-video | No Comments »
I ran across a blog post that linked to this image on Photo.net – amazing!
Podcast market continues expanding
Posted on February 7th, 2008 in podcast | No Comments »
A new set of numbers was just released by eMarketer re: the current size of the podcast market. They include projections out through 2012 and expect ~25 million “active listeners” by then. IMHO it’s going to get even bigger, even faster but by 2012 it’s just going to be called content, not “podcast”, “videocast”, “vlog”, “netcast”, etc.
Here’s a link to the article and their chart:
