March 1, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 3:46 pm
Google is acquiring Seattle’s Picnik, creators of a Web-based photo editor. Picnik lets you edit photos directly from a Web browser, rather than requiring software you install on a computer. It’s a perfect companion for Google’s other series of Web applications, like Gmail and Google Docs. Picnik has free and for-fee flavors, with more advanced [...] read more →
By Glenn Fleishman at 11:32 am
The gears are slowly engaging on Seattle’s several-year-old neglected plan to build high-speed fiber optic connections to every home in Seattle that wants the service and will pay for it. Given what we’re poised to do, we should look at how other cities have fared in recent efforts in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects. I spoke last [...] read more →
February 24, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 6:06 pm
Alaska Airlines will have Internet access on its airplanes, starting as soon as March. The airline said today that it would use Aircell, a firm that has about 730 aircraft aloft that are enabled with in-flight Internet from six airlines. The service is marketed as Gogo Inflight Internet. Alaska had previously tested and made a [...] read more →
February 17, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 11:02 am
My Effacebook column yesterday had a few comments that indicated that I was being a little oversensitive about what I’d revealed to Facebook, given how much other data gets revealed. Which is why I have to revel in the sheer irony of Please Rob Me. The site uses the public Twitter feed, a massive firehose [...] read more →
February 16, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 6:19 pm
In the interest of provoking some intra-publication antagonism—who doesn’t want news organizations fighting one another?—I predict that The Stranger’s book editor Paul Constant will buy an Apple iPad, whether he knows it yet or not, in order to read electronic books. Constant extols the glory of a device he hasn’t yet seen and which I [...] read more →
By Glenn Fleishman at 11:16 am
Facebook, you are dead to me. Or, rather, I am dead to you. I’ve been assembling friends and groups over a few years; I wasn’t an early user, but had a few hundred people in my circle. And then I hit the kill switch: the profile option to delete your profile and all of the [...] read more →
February 11, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 8:09 pm
TechFlash reports that Seattle will submit a proposal to Google to woo that company to build a 1 gigabit-per-second fiber-to-the-home network here. As I wrote yesterday, Google wants to test and showcase what a network that leapfrogs anything offered in this (and most) countries can pull off. Seattle’s CTO, Bill Schrier, thinks Seattle has a [...] read more →
February 10, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 2:37 pm
Google wants to see what it’s like when a community has the fastest available, practical broadband service: 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) over fiber optic lines. (If you don’t remember your computer number prefixes, that’s 1,000 times faster than 1 megabit per second (Mbps)). Most home Internet service is between 1.5 Mbps and 15 Mbps. [...] read more →
February 2, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 1:44 pm
How many ebooks would an ebook seller sell if an ebook reader could list all books? A look at the number of titles in electronic form, and what's yet to be digitized. read more →
January 27, 2010
By Glenn Fleishman at 12:06 pm
Apple will ship the iPad in about 60 days in three models with Wi-Fi and worldwide support starting at $499; 30 days after that, the first models that add 3G for the U.S. market will ship starting at $629. By summer, iPads with support from non-U.S. carriers will be available, with prices not yet set. [...] read more →
By Glenn Fleishman at 11:15 am
[Glenn is on the scene in San Francisco.] Apple will offer electronic books for the iPad, its newly announced tablet, challenging the supremacy of Amazon’s Kindle. Apple’s version, called iBooks, has five major publishers signed up so far—Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon and Schuster—and is opening up to additional publishers today. Apple did not [...] read more →
By Glenn Fleishman at 10:57 am
[PubliCola's TechNerd, Glenn Fleishman, is on the scene at Apple's iPad announcement this morning. Follow his tweets here.] The name may make every woman in America think of feminine hygiene products, but Apple has chosen to dub its new tablet the iPad. It’s 9.7-inch display with 16 to 64 GB of RAM, one-half inch thick, [...] read more →
