The iconic film manufacturer is ceasing production of its digital cameras and other digital products. More bad news from Eastman Kodak. The company announced today that it is phasing out production of digital cameras. Also making the cut are its pocket video cameras and digital picture frames. Going forward, the company plans to license its logo […]
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Julian Sanchez has an excellent piece in Ars Technica which takes a look at the claim that content creators are being discouraged from creative pursuits due to online piracy – a claim that has fueled the recently stalled anti-piracy legislation in congress. Whether SOPA and PIPA would have actually worked is an open question, but […]
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Mike Elk has written a long screed aimed at wonkish bloggers who, he argues, are taking jobs from “real” journalists. It’s a confusing post and I’m not sure why Mike wrote it other than to settle a grudge against his ideological opponents on the left like Matt Yglesias. There are several reasons why I think […]
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In Tony Bradley’s 2012 tech wishlist he writes something that I think we can all agree with and relate to: While we’re on the topic of power, why does every single device have to re-invent the connector used to power or recharge it? If you are traveling with a laptop, tablet, smartphone, and/or e-reader, it […]
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and are trying to make a big splash in the American smartphone market. Will a new offer from Walmart help give them the edge they need? Going up against and Android is no small task. While the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been met with rave reviews, it’s still anybody’s guess whether the […]
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Rebecca McPheters says online magazines and newspapers need better apps: Of the 5,000 magazine and newspaper iPad apps we’ve evaluated for McPheters & Co.’s iMonitor service since April 2010, far too many simply do not work well. In the summer of 2010, about 45% of the apps we evaluated revealed significant malfunctions. That proportion is […]
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Lost in the discussion of internet censorship, anti-piracy measures, and the politics of the internet is a simple question: does piracy actually cause economic harm? Tim O’Reilly read the White House statement on the SOPA / PIPA legislation and came away with mixed feelings. “I found myself profoundly disturbed by something that seems to me […]
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If you’re one of seven-hundred lucky households in Sebastopol, California your internet is about to become much faster. Telecom start-up Sonic.net is rolling out fiber lines to a small group of California residents in its initial foray into 1Gbps internet. That’s fast. In 2010, the median internet speed in the United States was a paltry 3 […]
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Sometimes it’s the small innovations that make all the difference. In the world of food this can mean many different things but one of the biggest innovations in how food vendors do business in recent years is the food truck. Light-weight, mobile, and able to cater to a niche customer base, the food truck is […]
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Workers at Chinese electronics giant Foxconn, angry over the shuttering of an Xbox 360 production line in the Chinese city of Wuhan, climbed to the roof of a six story dormitory and threatened to jump en masse if their conditions weren’t met. The several dozen workers threatened mass suicide after Foxconn announced layoffs and transfers of […]
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