Reading techcrunch the other day I noticed a post for a new service called “Rollbase” which is essentially a development platform that allows just about anybody to create sophisticated rich Internet applications. If you’ve developed any web applications in the past you’ll have a ton of appreciation for a service like Rollbase. I [...]

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I’m a huge fan of Google. I forward all email into gmail, I use picasa for all my photo albums, I search with google, I’ve been investigating their Android mobile phone platform, I frequent their code repository, and the list goes on.
I find this latest Google endeavor a bit troubling. Google began piloting their [...]

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[Cue up the soap opera music]… Welcome to another episode of what’s happening this week at Yahoo! First some old news… Microsoft has given up trying to persuade the Yahoo board of directors, and instead is taking things directly to the controlling shareholders.
The other part to this saga is News Corp. and Yahoo [...]

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Space Data Corp runs an interesting business located in Chandler Arizona. Through the use of cheap disposable $50 latex balloons (very similar to weather balloons), Data Corp is able to provide Internet access to even the most rural Americans (36% of rural Americans don’t have Internet connections).
Space Data’s chief executive Jerry Knoblach explains that [...]

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There is a rumor circulating that we could see two Android-based phones sometime during 2008. According to speculation, Samsung may be releasing one phone as early as September and the other just in time for Christmas.
Oddly enough the phone to be released in September will be “higher-end” and more expensive than the phone to [...]

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Just in case your curious, engadget has posted a “casualty report” from the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray. It appears that there are something like 1.3 million customers with the now useless HD DVD hardware, whether it’s a computer drive, an Xbox 360, or a recorder.
Either way I’m sure there’s a lot of [...]

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Bill Gates will be announcing a new program called DreamSpark in which Microsoft is planning to give students free access to most of their developer tools. Visual Studio Pro, SQL Server, and Windows Server are among some of the well known tools that will be free to students.
Although there are only 10 countries [...]

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I just came across two interesting charts in the New York Times. The first chart presents the spending of the American household by the three economic classes. According to the chart the upper class spend most of their money on taxes, and the lower class spend most of their money on housing costs. [...]

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Finally after months on a downward spiral HD DVD is officially dead as Toshiba pulls the plug. I’m not surprised, and I’m sure nobody else is either, especially since there’s no content on HD DVD. Every major film company has made the switch to Blu-ray.
There was still a pretty heated battle between Blu-ray [...]

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There’s a post on Valleywag about the supposed Digg competitor “Yahoo Buzz” to be released to beta on the 26th of this month. While its in beta only 100 selected publishers will be appearing, but sometime this summer it’ll be open to everyone.
Looking at the screens of Buzz on Valleywag I don’t see any [...]

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