It’s been one tough day for Garmin. The stock was hammered, down almost 22 percent to close at $35. 19, a drop of almost $10 in regular trading. Its quarterly earnings missed Wall Street’s expectations, the company announced a delay of its smartphone and the outlook for the rest of the year will be, well, […]
Akamai said broadband speeds may have as big of an impact on its financial results as the slowing economy.
Akamai, which makes software that caches content to speed up Internet traffic, reported net income of $34.3 million, or 19 cents a share. Excluding items the company reported earnings of $76.5 million, or 41 cents a share, […]
New search engine Cuil - pronounced “cool” - could have been a contender against Google but fell short on opening day. Was the launch premature?
On this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I assess Dell’s MP3 player trial balloon, Vista’s Mojave experiment and the broadband wars and whether any of the big players can actually win.
First up, Dell floated a trial balloon in the Wall Street Journal today and the general idea is this: Dell is going to try […]
Dell is back in the music business, despite a failed effort to gain any ground in this space a few years ago with its DJ mp3 player. This time around, they’re calling it a Ditty and gearing up for a September release, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The pricing is said […]
Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved.
On Friday, the Commission takes up the question of whether Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest provider of high-speed access […]
Intel said Wednesday that it has inked a pact with the Portuguese government to supply 500,000 Classmate PCs to elementary school students.
The chip giant is part of the Magellan Initiative, Portugal’s education technology plan. It was launched by Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates and Intel Chairman Craig Barrett.
The parties said that the plan is to […]
Is it possible that no one wins the broadband wars between Verizon, AT&T and cable companies like Comcast? That question is worth asking following Comcast’s second quarter results.
Comcast missed second quarter earnings estimates of 22 cents a share by a penny, but the cable giant’s results weren’t all that bad considering it is getting hit […]
Among the hardcore gaming crowd, John Carmack’s work with id Software is legendary for producing 3D gaming works such as Doom and Quake. Although Carmack is clearly comfortable pushing the limits of PC hardware, his latest interest appears to be in mobile games – and his sights are now set on the Apple iPhonehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone .
Zoom”We wanted to do something for the iPhonehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone , but we just didn’t have the scheduling or the resources available,” Carmack said to Forbes. “I really regret not having something at launch.”
The launch that Carmack referred to was the launch of the App Storehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store on iTunes, which coincided with the release of the iPhone 3G. The App Store allows iPhone and iPodIPod Touch users to download and install applications and games for use on their mobile device.
While Carmack won’t have the usual dual-core CPU and blazing AMD or NVIDIA GPUs on tap, he seems more than confident that the iPhone is capable of delivering the graphical goods.
“The iPhone, as a device, is in the same generation power-wise as the PS2 or Xboxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox ,” he said. “The graphics are a little lower but the RAM is a lot higher. … You could easily spend $10 million on an iPhone game, but the market just can’t support that yet.”
Anna Kang, president of id Mobile, explained that the game for iPhone would be based off an existing id property, meaning that it could be from id’s roster of first-person shooters, the old classic Commander Keen, or even the lesser known Orcs & Elveshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf game from the NintendoNintendo DS.
Carmack isn’t letting on that type of game it’ll be, but he intends to impress. “We have a title we want to develop exclusively for iPhone,” he added. “I’m not announcing anything specifically, but it would be a graphical tour de force.”
via http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-id-doom-quake-carmack,news-2132.html
Amazon on Wednesday rolled out new features to its Mechanical Turk web service designed to expand its appeal to a broader set of businesses. Mechanical Turk is a work marketplace that can be used to outsource software development.
The company said its latest Web interface guides business through designing so called “human intelligence tasks,” which is […]
I’ve FINALLY figured out a decent solution to the Google Calendar sync problem with iPhones. This is the best solution I could come up with until Google gets around to offering us free push calendars. Let me know if you can make an improvements or find something better.
Required hardware: Mac with OSX Leopard, iPhone/iPod touch.
1. Create a calendar in iCal as a temporary holding place for your iPhone events.
2. Setup Google Calendar to sync with iCal by following the instructions HERE.
3. Set the iTunes preferences for your iPhone to sync to both calendars from the previous 2 steps.
4. Download and install the Yellow Camp iCal Actions from HERE.
5. Create and save the following workflow in Automator:
*Get Specified iCal Items (add the [calendar from step 1])
*Move iCal Events (move to: [calendar from step 2])
*Find Events in iCal (find:[events], whose:[calendar] is: [calendar from step 1])
*Delete iCal Events
6. Add an entry to your crontab file to run your new workflow every hour as outlined HERE.
Don’t forget to use absolute paths or it wont work!
You can tweak the recurrence settings to your liking, just check out the man pages for “cron” and “crontab.”
That’s it!
Now every time you sync your iPhone to your computer all the new events you added to your iPhone calendar will be copied to your iCal. Once the cron job runs all those will be moved to the google calendar, which will then be synced with your iPhone.
via http://www.jedutainment.com/jedu/2008/07/30/free-google-calendar-sync-for-iphone-and-itouch/
A while ago, we wrote about a way to shorten the time that your iPhone running the 2.0 software takes to sync. In this method, you cancelled the part of the sync in which your iPhone was backed up. While this most certainly does improve sync times, you won’t be happy with yourself when you’re forced to restore your iPhone and you don’t have that backup.
However, iPhoneFreak has discovered another way to improve your times. By default, diagnostic data from your iPhone is sent to Apple every time you sync. (This data does not contain any personal information, only crash logs and the like.) Apparently, this takes a good bit of time as well. Follow the steps after the break to disable this.
1) When your iPhone is connected to your computer, open iTunes and select your iPhone in the sidebar. Uncheck the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” option.
2) Unplug your iPhone, and then plug it back in.
3) Select your iPhone in the sidebar again, and right click it. Then select “Reset Warnings.”
4) Sync your iPhone.
5) You will receive a pop-up message. Uncheck the box in the message, and then click “Don’t Send.”
Note that you can now have your iPhone launch iTunes and be automatically synced again.
My post on IT whining got some well-thought out feedback. I was going to synthesize the talkbacks as a followup, but frankly this one from “Bitboy” says it all. Actually it’s a post all by itself about the challenges of being an IT pro (the consensus was that there’s plenty to whine about):
IT, much like […]
When you install Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the installation process leaves behind about 800 MBs of original Windows Vista files–in case you later want to remove SP1. Relative to current hard drives, 800 MBs isn’t that much space. But, it’s still enough space to store a couple hundred MP3 files or a few […]
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft’s ‘Midori’
What if Apple had conducted the ‘Mojave Experiment’?
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The ‘Mojave Experiment’ - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it highlight some of the problems with Windows Vista
Microsoft brings Live Search to cars
Techrepublic: Windows Vista ranked most-used […]
