Entries from January 2010 ↓

• Firefox for Mobile hits the Maemo platform first

I’ve been using Firefox for as long as I can remember on the PC, and one of my biggest peeves was that it wasn’t (then) available for mobile devices, particularly those Symbian-powered phones with ‘Nokia’ stamped all over. So now Mozilla’s gone and launched Firefox for Mobile for a Nokia device, but it’s the Maemo-powered N900. Damnit, Mozilla, don’t leave me hanging here with Opera Mini.

• Seven GPUs on ONE motherboard

Seven GPUs, two CPUs and a dozen DDR3 memory slots. I’ve been out of the PC component scene for quite a while now, but damn, things like that still get my inner geek salivating.

• The iPad is actually for Mom

Still digesting through Apple’s recent iPad launch, but this article from TechCrunch EU does hit a couple of pertinent points, the most obvious of which is that the iPad is actually meant for the ungeek.

• Iomega; not making Zip disks anymore, but still alive and kicking

Not quite the same company they were when Zip disks were still the rage, Iomega’s one company that still manages to find a way to stay alive.

Thanks to a certain Korean sponsor, I managed to land a trip to Las Vegas this year to cover CES 2010, mecca of gadgets and geeks alike. While last year’s CES was mostly a Palm Pre love-fest, this year’s show had a little more variety for us gadget geeks to slobber over. 3D HDTVs, newfangled e-book readers, fancy laptops that also doubled up as tablets (but minus the bulk), a dubious gadget charger that claimed to suck power from WiFi signals around you; the list goes on and on. So much that it makes me want to whip out the credit card and start swiping away.

Anyhow, while I restrain myself, here’s a quick list of the top 5 gadgets and tech gear seen at CES that I would really, really love to own. Continue reading →

Oh wow, it’s certainly been quite some time since I posted here, since any one of us did, eh, EM? Anyhow, just to start off with, here’s a quick selection of some of the more interesting links that have popped up in my twitter feed. Here’s to more frequent posting on RG!

• Google releases the Android 2.1 SDK

The Nexus One is finally out, and predictably, the Android 2.1 SDK follows.

• Google to AP News: Suck it

I wonder how long it takes the AP and their affiliated sites to realize that they need Google more than Google needs them?

• Windows Mobile 7 delayed to 2011

After a no-show at CES 2010, seems like we won’t be seeing Windows Mobile 7 till much, much later. Wonder if the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be an Android-only affair.

• The Best and worst of CES according to Robert Scoble

CES was quite fun this year, and having the internet also meant that you didn’t really need to be there to see what went down on the show floors. Scoble pretty much covers all the bases here, from 3D TVs to e-readers and so on.

• The problem with typefaces on computers versus in print

It’s very interesting how something as decidedly low-tech as fonts could have so many issues when translated to supposedly cutting-edge platforms. Makes you want to rethink just how you use fonts on your machine.