Archive for November, 2009
CrunchPad – R.I.P.
Monday, November 30th, 2009Many days, the tech world gives us something to cheer about and eagerly anticipate. Some days, though, the news is just sad. Today Michael Arrington announced the death of a project to produce a device I was eagerly anticipating, the CrunchPad. Envisioned as an inexpensive web-browsing tablet, the CrunchPad could have made a very nice [...]
Blogging From the Sky With Gogo
Friday, November 13th, 2009Coming back from a week in Colorado, I had a nice surprise. A free trial of Gogo Inflight Internet (a service of Aircell), on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Seattle. In fact I’m blogging from 34,000 feet right now. The speed is certainly acceptable, though not something you’d want to do much [...]
TwitterPeek Brings You Social Media Uni-Tasking
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Call it an anti-convergence device. Last year, the original Peek device debuted, giving people who wanted a hand-held device that did email (and nothing else) the answer to their minimalist prayers. Now we have the TwitterPeek, a dedicated carry-anywhere Twitter device. It doesn’t do email, and it sure doesn’t browse the web, but if you [...]
Will 2010 be the Year eReaders Go Mainstream?
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Of all the things that could be described as different genres of new and emerging personal technology, I think ereaders are one of the most interesting to me. This should come as no surprise to regular readers, who’ve seen me talk about the technology whenever possible, but judging by reading trends at this site, a [...]