Tech News Journal

Apple’s Tiger is ready to pounce on the OS scene while Microsoft’s Longhorn seems to still be chewing its cud with no signs of being released from the development corral. Apple, Microsoft prepare for war with new systems

Now there’s PocketMac For PSP, which is the first tool to automatically sync Mac users digital music, photos and contacts to the Sony PlayStation Portable.

Despite a 50 percent increase in per pupil spending over the past two decades, nearly one third of public high school students fail to graduate, and two thirds of all students leave high school unprepared for a four-year college, according to the Manhattan Institute. Given the diminishing economic prospects for Americans without a quality education, […]

Lawyers for the movie studios and record producers say peer-to-peer online services are “inflicting catastrophic, multi-billion-dollar harm” on the entertainment industry.” Five years after Napster was shut down because of pirated music, Grokster and the second generation of file sharing outfits are being targeted. But technology has changed a lot since Napster and the implications […]

Zoomerang is an online service that lets you do professional surveys. It’s aimed at corporations and big outfits that send out thousands of surveys. But it also has a free service aimed at consumers. Survey your family, friends, sports team or Sunday School class. Very cool. I did this week’s NBC-TV “High Tech Talk” report […]

After more than half a year of wi-fi in Michigan state parks and along highway rest areas, the number of actual users can be measured in the dozens rather than the hundreds. Seems the public isn’t clamoring for wi-fi the way some bosters thought. Wi-Fi hotspots to grow, but when and who cares?

One of my favorite Web resources for a long time has been Topix, a sort of master news clearing house page that links stories by topic and location. When I want to know what’s happening and where, Topix is usually my first choice. I’m pleased to note that Knight Ridder newspapers - which owns the […]

True to its promise, PalmOne has issued a sofware upgrade for Treo 650 smartphones on the Sprint network. Its supposed to imporve memory issues and - most importantly for me - the choppiness that callers complained they heard when I was talking to them. I downloaded the upgrade patch. I’ll let you know if it […]

If looking cool and being cool is important to you, then you won’t think twice about shelling out big bucks for the Thump, from the Oakley sunglasses people. It’s a music player built into a pair of shades. The 128 MB model sells for $395, while the 254 MB version is $495. The who shebang […]

Symantec says they are and that it has documented a whopping 37 cases. Really now? Who? Where? I’m sorry, but I’m always skeptical when a company whose prime tactic seems to be scaring us to buy their security software starts sounding warnings. It’s just a little too self-serving, don’t you think. That’s not to […]

The Degree Confluence Project is one of the neatest Web sites I’ve found in a long time. The idea is to document every place on the planet where the latitude and longitude numbers line up in whole numbers. You probably have one within 49 miles of youtr house. That’s what my NBC-TV High Tech Talk […]

It may be small but when it comes to customer satiffaction WOW! cable is number one over the competition. Regional cable TV outfit pulls big approval ratings

Windows people just refuse to believe this but here’s still another story. Apple’s Mac OSX is virus-free

Have you noticed the growing trend by newspapers to force registration on Web users to access their content? What seems to be the pattern these days is that after collecting all sorts of personal info, they then sign you up for dozens of ad offers and junk newsletters, unless you take the time to […]

Sony sure hopes so. And even though I don’t play games, I have to say that the PlayStation Portable is one very cool gizmo. I think having movies to watch on a portable device is going to be much hotter than a lot of people think. We already know how popular gaming is. This unit […]