Nokia’s New Sleeper Cell Phones

Nokia is set to release three, new, boring phones that won’t compete with the iPhone but may still have decent sales.

Posted on: January 29, 2009 9:00 am

Will Apple’s App Store change the desktop app market?

Apple’s App Store has had an impact on software distribution. Will the changes roll over to the desktop?

Posted on: January 29, 2009 9:00 am

Acer plans Linux, SSD version of 10-inch netbook

Originally announced as a Windows XP-only machine, Acer now plans to release its 10-in Aspire One netbook with a choice of Windows or a Linux distribution called Linpus.

Posted on: January 29, 2009 9:00 am

New article: Should die-hard Palm users consider a Pre?

On January 6th, Palm announced its new operating system, webOS, and the first phone based on it, the Palm Pre. Will the Pre get Palm back into the game? Read on to find out.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am

iPhone SMS error bug won’t go away

Originally reported more than a month ago, the SMS error that comes with an upgrade to version 2.2, isn’t going away.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am

Amazon gets ready for second-generation Kindle

Release of the Kindle 2, the second generation of Amazon’s electronic reader, is expected soon.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am

The New Release of KiGoo by Kayxo Lets Users Manage Multiple Google Calendars

With KiGoo 1.1, users can create, read, update or delete contacts and appointments in Multiple Google Calendars from their MS Outlook interface.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am

Quickoffice 6.0 now available

Quickoffice Premier 6.0, for Symbian S60 devices, provides full viewing and editing capabilities of native Microsoft Office 2007 documents and the ability to open password protected files.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am

No Wifi? No Problem. Gmail Releases New Offline E-mail Tools

We’ve all run into the problem. You need to work in e-mail but you use a web client and the internet connection is down so you can’t even see old messages on the server. Now Google is trying to do something about it.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am

Back on Twitter

Ah, the ongoing Twitter mystery. Apparently, the ZATZ magazines are back on Twitter again after having been booted off on our first day providing feeds to the service. Like we never were notified when our feeds were blocked, we were also never notified when we were unblocked, so we don’t really know what the story was for either event.

Oh, well. For as long as Twitter seems to like the idea and our beta software seems to work, you can get our news feeds on Twitter. Here are the various URLs:

Our next step is to see if we can finally convince Twitter to accept some custom graphics — and, of course, to see if you guys like it.

Posted on: January 28, 2009 9:00 am