In case you missed it, front man/saint/hottie Bono (and Oprah) is bringing the RED campaign to the richest country in the world, to make some serious mula to fund the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. To celebrate this charitable event, we will feature a lot of red products on today’s Techie Diva edition, to get in the spirit of giving, and helping our fellow women in Africa. (Photo credit: Chicago Tribune)
Techie Diva Wears RED (and it’s not Prada) October 13, 2006
Optimized Web Content For Mobiles September 24, 2006
Mobiles have limited screen sizes and can also limit the viewable sites that you can browse while out and about. Greenlight Wireless Corporation has announced that its Skweezer technology, which allows you to view Web content on your mobile device is now being integrated into Bloglines. Currently, Bloglines is the number one online RSS aggregator.
Bloglines Mobile currently are able to view "skweezed" versions of the websites they access via RSS subscriptions. Speedier downloads and updated content benefits mobile users that utilize this service. With blogs being as big as they are, nobody wants to miss the latest post. Mobile access is in more demand and this allows different mobile devices to view the pages in a readable and usable manner.
"The Skweezer technology provides a significantly improved experience
for Bloglines Mobile users by speeding download time and optimizing
content for small mobile displays," said Robyn DeuPree, Sr. Product
Manager for Bloglines, a division of Ask.com. "Our Bloglines Mobile
users love the current product, and the Skweezer technology makes the
experience even better."
Take advantage of the newest technology coupled with the most popular site and get connected.
The Year of the Tablet PC September 22, 2006
Expect 2007 to be the year of the Tablet PC, with Microsoft Windows Vista on the horizon, and the fact that Tablet PC Functionality is built into the Operating system (Home Premium versions and above) expect to see a proliferation of Tablet PC’s gracing the consumer market.
Industry leader DELL, has already been talking about entertaining the idea of coming to market with their own Tablet PC, and today LG has released a new model, the LG C1.
Specs are unconfirmed but the Tablet is to feature an Intel Core Duo Processor, and Nvidia graphics. The notebook also allows GSM users to use their SIM cards, for wireless connectivity and off course features 802.11 wireless and Bluetooth.
How Apple Does Movies September 12, 2006
In addition to the new product line up from Apple today, Apple also debuted its upgraded iTunes store, which will now offer up both music and movies in one interface.
Video is expected to be available in near DVD quality (640 x 480) and in Dolby Digital enabling the use of surround sound, with offerings from major movie houses such as Miramax, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Studios as well as favorings from the television studios.
TV shows and movie pricing starts @ $9.99 per video, and new releases will come in at $14.99, though users preordering new releases will get some relief with prices at $12.99.
Currently video content on the iTunes store is restricted to North American audiences, Apple says that is to change in 2007, within certain criteria.
Google goes Wireless August 17, 2006
If you’re a resident of the Mountain View, California area, you’re in luck. Today Google launched their free wireless Internet service. Actually slated to commence in September, the company which is synonymous with searching on the Internet, finished their testing ahead of time and decided to launch the product ahead of schedule.
The service is completely free to the 72,000 residents of Mountain View and is not supported via ads. It covers the 12 square mile radius of the town and is comprised of some 380 access points.
Gadgets Banned in the Air August 10, 2006
Another
terrorist scare in the UK caused a complete ban of all our favorite gadgets in
carry on luggage. The ban includes laptops, cameras, cell phones and even our
other girly needs like lotions and gels! There was even a case of liquid
eyeliner being confiscated from a passenger trying to board her flight.
Scotland
Yard has announced the arrest of 21 people possibly involved in a planned
terrorist plot. The plot is supposed to involve liquid explosives, to be used
on flights from the UK to the US. The more
creative people get with the design of explosives, the more we can expect
gadgets to be banned from flights. Who would think women would be hit the
hardest though; we can even start taking our mascara and eyeliner out of our
purses and pack it into our checked in luggage. I am flying to Europe in two weeks, so
I am just hoping they will let me keep my two favorite girly things to get
through the flight: my palm pilot and mascara.
Freeing AOL from its shackles August 3, 2006
A snarky commenter posted on DailyTech that AOL is finally being offered for what its worth…NOTHING. The great one has finally bitten the dust, and in a last attempt to salvage what they can AOL has released their portal, messenger, aimphonline, email and social networking for Free.
Despite the fact that the AIM client boasts a membership of some 53 million, with the advent of broadband, the actual AOL portal itself, has suffered massive losses of their customer base due to AOL’s failure to change with the times, and they’re charging customers prices comparable to that of DSL for dial up.
To Pay or Not To Pay Top Diggers August 1, 2006
Netscape released a Digg-like site a few weeks ago, and Diggers haven’t been quite "digging" the new copy-cat site. This week f-secure reports that hackers took matters into their own hands by injecting javascript code into Netscape pages that prompted users to visit Digg, or had funny messages like "Tom Way is the sexiest man alive" (btw, who is Tom Way?).
Meanwhile, the battle between Netscape’s Jason Calacanis and Digg’s Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose begins to heat up. It all started with the launch of the new Netscape site (obviously), but Jason Calacanis took it one step further last week and offered to pay the top12 users on Digg/Reddit/Flickr/Newsvine $1,000 a month for doing what they like to do best–but for Netscape. Calacanis argues that the top 12 users spend 2-3 hours a day searching for stories to dig for free. Now, he wants to offer them $12,000 a year or $5.36/hr to keep them searching for those cool stories, without censoring them in any way. Read Story [Digg]
MSN & Yahoo are 1!!! July 13, 2006
Microsoft and Yahoo announced today that they’re officially unifying both instant messengers, allowing users of both platforms to communicate w/ the other.
Though there are already a plethora of 3rd party multiplatform messengers, this will allow users to use the original manufacturers software, (which has been a pet peeve of mine) and have friends and users from both platforms on one list.
The companies have said the purpose is to have the largest IM community w/ the combination of both clients totaling around 350 million users.
Geek Squad Divas For Hire June 15, 2006
It’s going to be a long summer–well maybe not as long as we would like it to be. But if you know your motherboards from your CPUs, and are looking for a job where you can put your geek talent to work check out the posting below. Diva Frances from Geek Squad City in Louisville, KY just told me that they are filling roughly 500+ jobs and would love to see some of you ladies (and males) apply.
More Details after the jump…
