| New Pogoplug Brings Mobile Devices Into the Cloud Posted: 20 Nov 2009 11:40 AM PST  On Friday, Cloud Engines launched a bigger, shinier version of its Pogoplug USB file-sharing device/service. This will let users share files, photos and videos directly from USB drives or memory sticks plugged into the Pogoplug device with friends or clients over the Internet. The device is accessible from smartphones and mobile computers. Pogoplug is made up of two components: an adapter that plugs into a router and accepts any USB 2.0 drive or memory stick, and the Pogoplug service. |
| Google's Strange and Shiny New OS Posted: 20 Nov 2009 10:04 AM PST  Google just keeps invading new territories, and its latest target is your computer's operating system. It's officially released the open source code for its Chrome OS, an operating system that will turn up in third-party vendors' netbooks. Those devices should start selling next year. With Chrome, Google takes a very different approach than major OSes like Windows, Mac OS, or even most Linux distributions. It's sort of like what would happen if an Ubuntu mated with a Firefox. It's basically a browser that does not run on an operating system -- it is an operating system. |
| Playboy's Bunny Couldn't Make the Hop to the Web Posted: 20 Nov 2009 04:00 AM PST  What the hell happened to the sort of man who reads Playboy? How could he let the Internet develop into the world's strip club -- and worse -- without taking Hugh Hefner's company along for the ride? There's no long tail for the Playboy bunny, judging from the rumored impending sale of Hefner's company for around $300 million to Iconix, collector of apparel brands like Candies and Joe Boxer. The 83-year-old Hefner will have to spend his remaining days on Earth watching the bunny head logo he turned into a global brand show up on all manner of clothes. |
| Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within Posted: 20 Nov 2009 04:00 AM PST  Ask anyone in the open source science movement what it's all about, and you're likely to come back to the word that's right there in its name: "open." Open source science is all about open access. To research methods. To data. To scholarly publications. And supporters feel that it's vital to the continued growth and evolution of science itself. "Open source science is a collaborative and transparent approach to science," said Walter Jessen, a bioinformatician and cancer biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. |
| The Gphone That Could Catch My Eye Posted: 20 Nov 2009 04:00 AM PST  So far, I haven't seen a compelling competitor to my iPhone -- at least, for me personally -- and this includes the new Motorola Droid. It's nice enough, but is it so much better that I'd leave the iPhone? Definitely not, and that includes some Droid widescreen envy. But what about the rumored Google phone -- a Gphone, manufactured by Google, leveraging everything Google does well with the Android operating system? Now that idea makes me pause. Of course, it's just an idea. |
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