August 2010

Google announced today that it is adding a new fea­ture to Gmail to help users sep­a­rate the most impor­tant mes­sages in their inboxes from every­thing else. It’s called “Pri­or­ity Inbox.” In a nut­shell, Google will imple­ment a layer to your inbox that will learn to pre­dict the most impor­tant mes­sages to a user by evaluating […]

Just stop it! Pic­ture above is the Dell Aero, which will be sold through AT&T for $100. The spec sheet for the Aero was look­ing decent, for a mid-level Android device. 3.5″ capac­i­tive touch­screen 5 megapixel cam­era 2GB of inter­nal stor­age with a MicroSD slot that can take up to 32GB cards WiFi (b/g) Blue­tooth 2.0 Then you […]

In what appears to be a clear chal­lenge to Skype, today Google announced its lat­est enhance­ment to Gmail — the abil­ity to make phone calls. Unlike GoogleTalk, which lim­its calls from one com­puter to another, the new fea­ture allows Gmail users to make phone calls to land­lines and mobile num­bers. For the time being, calls to […]

Tablet-style com­put­ers have been around for some time, but, as they did with mobile phones, Apple took the tablet cat­e­gory to a com­pletely dif­fer­ent level with this beau­ti­ful piece of hard­ware. Sub­se­quent to the release of the iPad, other com­pa­nies indus­try has been, rather trans­par­ently, scram­bling to pro­duce a com­pet­i­tive, com­pelling prod­uct. HP appeared to be […]

Appar­ently the fore­cast for the com­ing week in the mobile world calls for 100% chance of pre­cip­i­ta­tion, because it’s rain­ing Androids.  By my count three new Android devices will launch the com­ing week. Yes­ter­day I posted a piece about the refresh of Motorola’s Droid—the Droid 2—which is avail­able on Ver­i­zon Wire­less tomor­row. (You can “pre-order” […]

Con­text It’s hard to believe that less than a year ago the Droid was released on Ver­i­zon Wire­less. Lauded as a sig­nif­i­cant leap for­ward for Android devices, the Droid was def­i­nitely a hit. Ver­i­zon sold over one mil­lion Droids in just three months. The Nexus One, released on T-Mobile in Jan­u­ary, took some of the […]

I recently came across a new video pro­duced by RSA Ani­mate. RSA Ani­mate adapts talks pre­sented at its par­ent orga­ni­za­tion, UK-based Royal Soci­ety for the encour­age­ment of Arts, Man­u­fac­tures and Com­merce (RSA), into very clever white­board pre­se­n­a­tions. In this video video, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, RSA Ani­mate cre­ates a visual depic­tion of a […]