Entries from July 2007

July 31, 2007

Looking for Album Artwork for your iTunes & iPhone/iPod?

Of course, iTunes will start to look into the iTunes Store for missing artwork as soon as you drag in new music files/tracks.
The album artwork it does match up with your tracks are top notch. They are perfectly matched and 99.9% the best version resolution-wise out there.
However, it can only find and “fix” your missing [...]

July 31, 2007

Oreo Cakester

Yet another line extension.
Have you ever though - man, I like oreos but they really require masticating - if only I could get the essence of an oreo by just gumming them …
Your prayers have been answered.
Oreos that are mini soft cakes that just slide in your mouth and essentially down your gullet.
They are much [...]

July 30, 2007

The iPhone as Business Phone: Where We Stand

One of the hinderance to business users switching is as simple as you have a business account and that AT&T isn’t offering the iPhone as an option.
If you run a small business or have enough pull, it’s simple to switch. In fact, if anything, you might save your company money. A colleague found out he [...]

July 29, 2007

Google MyMaps: Not Quite Ready for the iPhone

As Tizmanian covered a few month back, Google’s MyMaps are customizable.
In theory, it should be perfect for the iPhone. Of course, you’re all familiar with Google Maps. You type in a business name, a city or an address and you hit return, in literally seconds, it spans the globe and you a pin placement literally.
Google [...]

July 27, 2007

Microsoft Acquires Small Network AdECN

The venerable WSJ is reporting that Microsoft is buying a small 30-person firm in Santa Barbara called AdECN that runs a network linking buyers and sellers of internet ad space.
Can Microsoft build the next ad exchange platform?  Sure.  Will users want to use it.  Huge maybe.
Google itself has learned the hard way that even with [...]

July 27, 2007

Apple Financial Numbers & Conference Call To Rest the Rumors

Of course, it’s a spectacular quarter in the middle of the year.
Regardless of Apple but any company that randomly announces the following numbers clearly had a great 3 months:
Net income up 73% or $818 million versus $472 a year earlier.
Revenue up to $5.4 billion versus $4.4 billion a year earlier.
That’s $58.7 million a day in [...]

July 26, 2007

iPhone Mini Apps Major Update: 4 Weeks, 400 Mini Apps

When we last looked in a few weeks ago, it was about at about 200 mini apps after two weeks but it’s not slowing down - the count is going to click over faster and faster as more sites now are beginning to create iPhone compatible versions of their websites.
I would’ve just updated the post [...]

July 25, 2007

Buying an HDTV: Plasma vs LCD vs DLP vs LCOS (Holiday 2007 Update)

Buying a TV was once a simple endeavor. You decided how much you wanted to pay and then how big of set you wanted. You basically paid for what you got. A brand name with a nicer tube would cost a bit more or if wanted a bigger TV, it would cost more.

Those days are [...]

July 24, 2007

Macbook Ultra Portable - When Will It Be Back?

As you might have heard, Apple doesn’t reveal much about future plans
So, of course, it’s speculation but it will be back at some point when Apple needs a sales boost to the laptop line.
First, they are selling both lines like crazy. The high margin MacBook Pro orders are back-ordered as the new boost [...]

July 24, 2007

AOL Buys Tacoda

AOL is buying Tacoda for between $200 and $300 million according to reports today. To operate as a wholly owned subsidiary probably to get around the onslaught that will come from such a huge ad network (the largest actually via Advertising.com) buying a BT firm one presumes.
This deal is significant and at $200 million [...]