Archive for June, 2009

Comcast has begun to resell Clear WiMax service to new and existing subscribers in the Portland metro area and surrounding suburbs under the brand names Comcast 4G and Comcast High-Speed 2go.
As a result of its initial investment in Clearwire last year, Comcast along with several other cable providers obtained the right to resell Clear WiMax [...]

The 3.5 Release Candidates have come and gone and today Firefox version 3.5 is officially available for download.    Firefox version 3.5 aims to fix all bugs found in the previous release candidates and have speeds that match Google Chrome and Safari 4, two of the major competitors.
In terms of speed, 3.5 is said to [...]

In a move today that surprised many users, The Pirate Bay, known for its vast torrent database, was bought out by Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X.
The Pirate Bay is one of the top 100 websites visited internationally, and GGF wanted to purchase such a popular site in hopes to monetize it. From here [...]

Pandora is an online music source that plays various music depending on your interests. While it is predominantly used on a computer, the development team has created apps for many different mobile platforms. However, Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, was under a lot of fire for not creating an app for the [...]

For those of us who have used DVRs before, you know how convenient it is to record a TV show and then watch it on your own time. This way, you can do something more productive when a TV show is on, and you can fast forward through commercials. A drawback to DVRs [...]

Following up on the announcement of the latest Sprint Palm Pre update, new information has surfaced on the extent of the fixes. The main issue being fixed was an exploit that was being used to install homebrew applications with unsigned code on non-root enabled phones by sending an email with the installer link.
The problem [...]

Mozilla has a mobile version of Firefox available, but today, they released their second alpha version, codenamed Fennec.
The new version was released so Mozilla could receive continued feedback for Fennec, feedback from developers, and encourage further development such as add-ons. Fennec is only available on the Windows Mobile 6 platform.
Firefox is well known for its [...]

Thursday, Google announced the release of the Android Native Development Kit, giving developers the ability to use
native-code with Android applications. Since Android applications run inside the Dalvik virtual machine, applications up until now have been programmed with Java. The NDK now allows for developers to use C/C++ with their applications, increasing the ability to reuse [...]

Interestingly enough, there is a purported YouTube killer among us that goes by the name The Video Bay. Just by the name, you can tell it is related to The Pirate Bay, and the founders of TPB are preparing for the launch of a new video streaming website.
Some new changes appeared on The Video [...]

Apple is now offering the first refurb MacBook Air units with the Nvidia GeForce 9400m GPU.
The specifications for the laptop are otherwise unchanged from its recent debut with a 1.6 Ghz intel Core 2 Duo, 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display, 2GB of DDR3 memory, 120GB SATA hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR radios [...]