If you’ve been using MS Paint to brainstorm it’s time to upgrade. A whiteboard solution called Dabbleboard is one of the better efforts I’ve seen. It lets you put together a map of ideas very quickly, and supports both free-hand drawing, along with a system that will automatically convert basic doodles into sold shapes like [...]

Undergirding the move is the irony of Apple looking for ways to reduce proprietary lock-in…even while it locks its own customers into its platform. But that’s another post.
SproutCore gives Apple a way to enrich its Web experience without locking itself into any other vendor’s technology, as the SproutCore site notes:

The idea is to use to [...]

Xumii: A utility that gives you access to your social network contacts on your mobile phone.

The full lineup of Under the Radar start-ups is here.

Lil’grams: An online baby book. Somewhat more sophisticated than just e-mailing yourself cute reminders. As the father of a two-year-old, I have a vested interest.

Some of the start-ups that will [...]

Android is set to make its debut next week in the form of an HTC handset running on T-Mobile’s network, but Miner ran through Google’s standard pitch for Android in San Francisco for an audience of mobile industry insiders already very familiar with Android’s potential. He painted Android as the answer to the industry’s search [...]

A separate report might indirectly suggest those analysts are onto something. MetroPCS on Monday released their quarterly subscriber numbers, saying they’ve added 935,000 in the third quarter, 39 percent increase over the same period the previous year. Churn, which measures customer turnover rate, dropped 0.4 percent for the quarter. Those figures could indicate that Americans [...]

Yang’s letter comes as Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have exchanged several rounds of proxy fight letters over the past few days. The fevered pitch between the two parties is expected to further accelerate in the coming weeks leading up Yahoo’s August 1 annual shareholders’ meeting.

please remember that there are certain requirements that apply [...]

Pictures of the Eee Monitor, the upcoming all-in-one desktop PC from Asus, have surfaced.

It appears quite iMac-esque–shiny and white with a minimalist design. And although Asus isn’t confirming a price just yet, it’s a fair assumption that the Monitor, part of Asus’ low-cost Eee line, won’t have an iMac-esque price tag.

A PC World reporter at [...]

It’ll be following up with an event held in partnership with MySpace at the Republican National Convention. The company also kicked off a “Digg Dialogg” event series, in which executives ask users’ questions to prominent guests. Adelson, who called it a “perfect alignment of Digg and elections,” interviewed House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi in [...]

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The U110 comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6-gigahertz processor, 120GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and comes loaded with Vista Home Premium.

The U110, Lenovo’s foray into consumer-oriented ultraportable notebooks, is now available on Lenovo.com, with other retailers soon to follow.

The U110 also comes with Dolby-branded sound with four speakers plus a [...]

I understand that it’s premature to even suggest that a game we haven’t ever played will somehow be the best game ever, but with the hype surrounding it and those that are “in the know” saying it’s really that great, it’s easy for all of us to get caught up in that kind of hype.
That [...]