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• Yahoo! Mail opens to new domains

  Looks like you can grab @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com email addresses now from Yahoo! Mail, in addition to the standard @yahoo.com addresses: For many of you this may not be all that exciting (heck, if you are reading the Yahoo! Mail product blog it... Posted Jun 19 2008, 05:44 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Apple MobileMe ... PC vs. Mac

  Apple’s MobileMe isn’t just a warmed over PC- and iPhone-compatible version of .Mac. It’s important for two reasons: Apple is jumping headfirst into the cloud computing market. (And confounding pundits who predicted they’d partner with Google.) Apple... Posted Jun 09 2008, 10:44 PM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, iPod, Internet, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• Apple adds 802.11n to AirPort Express

  Apple releases a faster version of its AirPort Express networking hardware: Now with blazing 802.11n, the affordable AirPort Express is powerful enough to run a home Wi-Fi network, yet small enough to take on the road. Connect up to 10 users Share your... Posted Mar 17 2008, 11:14 AM by pthurrott with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iTunes, Internet, Home networking, Alt. Windows, Mobile

• MIX'08 Part 2: Wednesday's keynote

  Here are a bunch of shots from today's keynote address. Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, Microsoft Developer Edition Guthrie Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, IE Hachamovitch Internet... Posted Mar 05 2008, 03:21 PM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Here comes IE 8 Beta 1 (now available)

  These links aren't live *yet* but will be soon... Install Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista ® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP ® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server ® 2008 and Windows... Posted Mar 05 2008, 11:38 AM by pthurrott with | with 33 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Mobile, Cloud computing

• MIX'08 Part 1

  Hi guys, sorry for the lack of posts yesterday but my wireless connection at Harrah's is achingly bad and wouldn't stay up for more than a few minutes at a time. For the first time ever, perhaps, the EDGE connection on my iPhone was actually better... Posted Mar 05 2008, 10:10 AM by pthurrott with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Firefox Mobile

  Finally, Mozilla is waking up to the opportunities of mobile computing with the sort-of-because-it-happened-in-a-blog-post announcement of the company's plans for this space: People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the... Posted Oct 15 2007, 07:45 AM by pthurrott with | with no comments Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Alt. Windows, Internet Explorer, Mobile

• What gPhone?

  Miguel Heft of The New York Times has some interesting info about Google's so-called gPhone: Google is not building a phone. The company is building a mobile phone operating system, as well as what technologists call a “reference platform,” a set... Posted Oct 08 2007, 08:50 AM by pthurrott with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Smartphone, Mobile

• Windows Live Contacts

  I've been writing (and, on the podcast, talking) about my ongoing move to Web-based services a lot lately, but one thing I've had trouble settling on is an online contacts management system. (As noted in What I Use , I've had to temporarily... Posted Sep 28 2007, 05:43 PM by pthurrott with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Windows Live, Alt. Windows, Mobile