Archive for June, 2009

Retrevo: A New First Stop for Tech Shoppers

Have you shopped for a digital camera lately? Even for shopaholics like me, it can be a daunting experience. The choices are, quite simply, mind-boggling. Sifting through them all and trying to pinpoint the best model for your needs and budget is a Herculean task. Sites like PC World (my former employer) and CNET help, with [...]

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Opera Puts a Server In Its Browser

Content sharing made super-simple: That’s the pitch for some pretty impressive technology previewed in the latest beta of the upcoming version of Opera Software‘s browser (Opera 10). Called Opera Unite, it basically puts a web server inside your browser, allowing you to easily share pretty much anything on your PC via a custom URL (and [...]

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Posting Remotely With CellSpin

In the course of checking out applications for BlackBerrys, I ran across this remote-posting tool. Let’s see if it can work from the Web, and then from a BlackBerry.

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AT&T CruiseCast: $1300 for BYOS (Bring Your Own Screen) Back-Seat TV for Your Car

I don’t have kids and I rarely go on long road trips, so I’m probably the last person in the country who would blow $1299 to put an AT&T CruiseCast antenna on top of my aging Honda Accord. But if you’ve got the money (and a preinstalled rear-seat entertainment system to hook the antenna signal into), the system and its [...]

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