Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Greener Pastures Edition

In today’s Remainders: new beginnings. Tim Bray, co-founder of XML, starts a new job at Google (and has his sights set on Apple); several Windows Phone 7 team members are leaving… to develop apps for Windows Phone 7; and more.


March 13, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Take A Look Edition

In today’s Remainders: sights! Visit Paris in your browser with a magnificent 24-gigapixel photograph; behold America, circa 1972, in the EPA’s 15,000 photograph Documerica project; learn why octopuses like HDTV just as much as you do, and more.


March 12, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Best And Brightest Edition

In today’s Remainders: excellence. Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world’s richest man (remember: happiness is priceless); Battlestar Galactica and the Beastie Boys get mashed-up real good; Everquest data is a motherlode for behaviour scientists, and more!


March 11, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – Two Birds With One Stone Edition

In today’s Remainders: Efficiency. Get out of your house and watch the Final Four basketball games in 3D; treat yourself to some Chilean wine while supporting their relief effort; test out Razer’s new Mac drivers, and more.


March 10, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tomorrowland Edition

In today’s Remainders: tomorrow’s news! Cisco’s ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss’s futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; dual core Atom processors; HTML 5 drawing apps; Samsung’s point and shoot prices, and more!


March 9, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Hello, Goodbye Edition

In today’s Remainders: comings and goings. Google Latitude refuses to Buzz off; Dell’s super skinny Adamo XPS vanishes; people say Hello to channels they never knew existed with a subscription fee chart; and some just can’t part with their iPhones.


March 6, 2010
Computing

CeBIT Remainders: Eight Reasons We Didn’t Go

Every year, Hanover, Germany hosts hordes of tech journalists, analysts and PR people for CeBIT. It’s like CES, sort of, except further away and more boring. We decided not to go this year; it ends tomorrow. Here’s what we missed!


Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Headaches Edition

In today’s Remainders: headaches. Microsoft’s browser ballot is a headache for the little guys; CereProc talks about the painstaking process of rebuilding Ebert’s voice; WiMax taxis in Taiwan get me a little steamed; a magical migraine-diminishing wand, and more.


March 5, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Multi Edition

In today’s Remainders: the many. A new multitouch test app shows that multiple fingers confuse the Nexus One; Windows 7 has sold multiple copies (roughly 90 million); Chrome and its numerous extensions are catching up to Firefox, and more


March 4, 2010
Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: That’s A Gas Edition

In today’s Remainders: laughs. The Onion riffs on Google’s privacy issues; Virgin America’s triumphant claim of going Flash-free is sort of a joke; a clever Chatroulette user pranks people into looking at themselves, and more.