Archive for January, 2009
Verizon Says BlackBerry Storm Selling Well Despite Barbs
The first touchscreen BlackBerry, the Storm, received a mixed reception from reviewers when it launched in late November. But Verizon Wireless, the exclusive U.S. carrier, said earlier that week that the smartphone has taken the market by storm, with one million sold.
Verizon is using that sales fi…
Cox pursues Comcast down the info discrimination road
It’s a sad day for Cox World Wide Web subscribers, ’cause whether the FCC or some other almighty agency doesn’t step in soon, your traffic could be slowed. The carrier has just announced a rather significant update to its data management policies, as it lays out plans to analysis a system next mont…
Netgear’s Coax-Ethernet Adapter up for pre-order
Netgear quietly introduced us to its MCAB1001 MoCA Coax-Ethernet adapter (among other things) at CES that year, but the curiously useful device has just now set itself up for pre-ordering. Put simply, that is the device to get for those who both loathe wireless (and all those inexplicable dropouts)…
Google M-Lab Probes Flaky World Wide Web Connections
Google on Wednesday launched its latest innovation — one that sheds new light on a controversial problem: Net neutrality.
Called Measurement Lab, the tool seeks to reveal whether the root cause of a flaky Net connection is your broadband World Wide Web service provider, the application, your PC, o…
Nokia’s 8800 gets more bling, more expensive, more ugly
How do you improve on a phone that’s already been diamond-studded, layered in carbon fiber, and next dipped in gold? Why, you add more diamonds and some hints of gratuitous platinum, of course. Meet the Nokia Royal Edition, an 8800 that succeeds its predecessors in terms of pretentiousness — but n…
Safeguard Windows 2008 Server
Businesses cannot afford to have downtime, and with so much depending on the operate of the Microsoft Windows platform, they plus have a need for tools that will help to maximize and preserve their investment in the Windows environment, even as they transition to the Windows Server 2008.
Fortunate…
Back It Up with Backblaze Offsite Backup
I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions, but whether you’re the type of person who does like to prepare them, I implore you to assemble 2009 the year that you actually start backing up your computer.
The biggest barrier to most society backing up was it being an active rather than passive …
