Heads up. IE 9 is currently in Beta. It only runs on Vista and Windows 7 - sorry XP! Read on for Information Week's review of upgrades and features. http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/reviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227500078&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=...
Poor econsultancy is getting slammed in both the comments and their embedded twitter feed for the blog article they posted yesterday on html5. While definitely poorly researched it does raise the fact that HTML5 has been turned into a buzz word (thanks apple) for clients...
Sometimes I truly feel shoved into a corner when I build email blasts for outlook 2007. Their rendering engine took many steps back and forces us to build things the old fashion for-netscape-3.0 way. One of the problems I encounter is assigning a line-height attribute. Today...
There is a service that allows you to test on TONS of physical mobile devices through a virtual interface: http://www.deviceanywhere.com/mobile-application-testing-web.html DeviceAnywhere hardwires actual handheld devices into their datacenter and then creates a virtual view to the end user through a standalone application. The datacenter looks like...
The NYT announced today that it is partnering with Betaworks to develop News.me - a social news service offering for the 2.0 set. It's expected release is later this year, making its debut as an iPad app. Michael Zimbalist, vice president of research and development at...
Apples infamous developer licensing section 3.3.1 that closed the door on Adobes iPhone packager for Flash just as it was hitting shelves has been updated to ease restrictions of such development tools. It's not a complete reversal and we'll have to see exactly what is...
We've all heard of Tumblr, through the likes of Look at this F*cking Hipster et al — but have you been paying attention to Posterous and Automattic? The venture capital firms have: Tumblr, based in New York, raised more than $10 million by April, with three rounds...
Chris Brogan plugged this hosting opportunity for WordPress sites where each account has it's own WordPress site with no restrictions to plug-ins. It's $10 a year. Hard to beat the price but have no information on performance/reliability to back it up. http://www.tubu.net/blogger/ They also have very inexpensive...
Recent events surrounding Google and Verizon will play a critical role in the future of the Internet. Technology professionals and business people alike need to pay close attention to this as it could have devastating effects on the free market nature of the Internet and...
Why the Skype 5 Beta provides functionality for multiparty video conferencing (up to 5 participants), there is a new teleconferencing upstart called "ooVoo" that has already released this functionality for up to 6 participants. The ooVoo service is not a free service. Costs can add up...