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I should have done this a while ago, but I’ve moved my blog over to Blogtown NZ, which is the free, blogging site that I run. It didn’t really make sense that I was self-hosting my own blog while encouraging others to host their blogs with us on Blogtown. I’m still using my own domain […]

If this is to believed, that’s one of my predictions come true (though not a difficult one) With production time of its Tablet approaching, Apple has been making its final decisions on which components will go into the device, which is due out in March. Unfortunately for Intel, it didn’t make the cut, says Northeast […]

The push notifications aren’t really a big deal for me, as I get email alerts for the notifications which I want from Facebook. But the contact-syncing feature is extremely useful, and if you sync your iPhone contacts to another source (in my case Google Apps) you’ll have consistent information there too. And Push Notifications aren’t […]

Fascinating insite into corporate PR: Often Apple has a need to let information out, unofficially. The company has been doing that for years, and it helps preserve Apple’s consistent, official reputation for never talking about unreleased products. I know, because when I was a Senior Marketing Manager at Apple, I was instructed to do some […]

Sounds like Microsoft will be revealing a fairly standard HP tablet/convertible notebook at CES. That’s a shame… As much as BoomTown likes a good computer tablet faceoff, sources with knowledge of the situation said that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will not be whipping out the secret “Courier” slate PC, which the company has been noodling […]

Children are posting videos on the internet showing them choking other youngsters to the point of collapse, in a craze that doctors warn has led to brain damage and death. via Shock over deadly internet choking craze – Web 2.0 – NZ Herald News.

This is a unique take on the media center remote which so many others have failed at. The QWERTY keyboard on the revers of the remote makes so much sense. When we started designing the Boxee Box remote we wanted something simple like the 6-button Apple Remote.  As we began adding features to the Beta […]

As much as I like Boxee, and hope they succeed, this is really a dumb hardware design. I can understand wanting a unique design so that the box stands out, but this just looks like it hasn’t been thought through properly. There is a good reason why most AV equipment is flat, rectangular, box-shaped: so […]

Gina Trapani (ex-Lifehacker, and now <a href=”http://smarterware.org”>Smarterware</a>) created an interesting tool for Twitter power users. ThinkTank is an installable web application that captures and organizes replies to your status updates on Twitter. via ThinkTank – Ask Your Friends.

If this is true, I’m betting that it will be the same Courier device that Gizmodo featured last year. And if so, this could seriously be a threat to whatever tablet Apple are going to release. On Wednesday, Mr. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, will unveil a novel take on a slate-type computer during his evening […]