Posted on November 24, 2009 by Eric Jacksch
The fine folks at IRES Technology Corp have been kind enough to supply a uCorder model IRDC250 wearable video recorder with 2 GB of internal flash memory and PC webcam functionality for a lucky reader. This baby will record up to 2 hours of 640×480 AVI format video on a single charge. The contest is open [...] [...more]
Posted on November 9, 2009 by Eric Jacksch
(The Berlin Wall, December 1985. Photo by Eric Jacksch) Twenty years ago today the Berlin Wall fell, uniting East and West Germany. Celebrations today include fireworks, concerts, and the toppling of foam dominoes painted by school children. Spiegel Online International has a great collection of historic images and coverage of the 20th anniversary celebration. They also [...] [...more]
Posted on June 30, 2009 by Carter Drake
…and we’ll put your bonus on hold. According to an article in yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen. Apparently the Royal Canadian Mint is a tad short on gold. 17,500 troy ounces to be exact. And they can’t figure out where it went. The Government’s response? Put executive bonuses on hold. Perhaps I missed something, but last time I looked, $15.3 million was [...] [...more]
Posted on May 5, 2009 by Andy Marken
On any given day you will find a group of engineers or programmers huddling in the back room, sitting in the corner of the coffee shop, or gathering around the most recently divorced individual’s kitchen table to plan the next major new company built on breathtaking technology. The hard fact is that we really don’t need [...] [...more]
Posted on April 28, 2009 by Eric Jacksch
It pains me to write this. A widow and her 16 year old daughter, through circumstance and events beyond their control, will be homeless tomorrow. Tonight Elizabeth Hughes and her sixteen-year-old daughter Katy are packing. They have to be out of their Santa Clara, California apartment tomorrow. They have nowhere to go. They have nowhere to [...] [...more]
Posted on April 10, 2009 by Editor
The TECHLife Post is closed today in observance of the statutory holiday. We’ll resume our regular publishing schedule on Monday. Have a great long weekend! [...more]
Posted on April 2, 2009 by Susan Alexander
Google, in partnership with some of the world’s major music labels, has launched a new free music download service in China. The advertising-supported service is designed to lure Chinese music lovers away from the pirate music download culture that currently rules that market. The deal makes available almost the entire catalogues of both western and Chinese music [...] [...more]
Posted on April 1, 2009 by Maggie James
It is with some regret and — I’ll admit it — some relief, that I announce my immediate departure from TECHLife Post. I was there last October, when TLP started, and have seen the publication through some interesting times. But the publisher and I have diverged, in our views, on some important issues and it’s time for [...] [...more]
Posted on April 1, 2009 by Susan Alexander
The Canadian government is planning to set up a new online auction site, in some ways similar to auction icon eBay, to sell off its constant stream of surplus goods and equipment. Word has it that the current CGSurplus site will be massively revamped, making it easier for buyers to find what they’re looking for and [...] [...more]
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Susan Alexander
The electric toaster turns 100 this year. As the UK’s Daily Express newspaper notes, General Electric technician Frank Schailor built a prototype, on a hunch, back in 1909 — 20 years before someone else invented pre-sliced bread! Schailor’s idea was to provide a way for people to make stale bread palatable again. It worked. It was 1919 [...] [...more]
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Maggie James
Internet security giant McAfee is treating the Conficker worm’s potential April 1 trigger date as a serious threat, even if other observers are taking a wait-and-see stance and still others are saying that the trigger date embedded in variant ‘C’ of the bug is, itself a hoax to distract researchers around the world who are [...] [...more]
Posted on March 31, 2009 by Susan Alexander
Pioneering consumer Internet phone (VoIP) service provider Skype is available on the iPhone today. “The number-one request we get from customers is to make Skype available on iPhone. There’s a pent-up demand,” Skype CEP Scott Durchslag told Reuters news service at the CTIA annual mobile showcase in Las Vegas. Skype already offers versions of its service for [...] [...more]
