xg-group.com

Just another WordPress weblog

Archive for June, 2010

Only U.S. Apple retail stores getting iPhone 3G

30 Jun 2010

(Credit:
Apple)
While I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple isn’t very happy about how things have unfolded in Canada (see this piece by Macworld’s Jim Dalrymple for a look at the Canadian iPhone zeitgeist), Apple isn’t selling the iPhone at any of its retail stores outside the U.S. Canada joins the U.K., Italy, Australia and [...]

MIT says it wants a solar ‘revolution’

28 Jun 2010

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday announced a $10 million grant to develop technology to make solar power mainstream.

As part of the campus-wide MIT Energy Initiative, the university already has other ongoing solar-related research initiatives, including the recently announced MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems.

Updated at 9:30 a.m. Pacific with comments from Ernest [...]

Firefox counters Google’s browser speed test

23 Jun 2010

“(One) graph does show V8 cleaning our clock on a couple of recursion-heavy tests. We have a plan, to trace recursion,” he said on the blog. “We simply haven’t had enough hours in the day to get to it, but it’s ‘next.’”

Update 8:16 a.m. PDT: Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard directed my attention to this post by [...]

Muxtape founder ‘walked away from licensing deals’

22 Jun 2010

“They had become too complex for a site founded on simplicity, too restrictive and hostile to continue to innovate the way I wanted to. They’d already taken so much attention away from development that I started to question my own motivations. I didn’t get into this to build a big company as fast as I [...]

Space tourist, crewmates set for April 8 landing

18 Jun 2010

Snow and soggy conditions at the primary landing site in Kazakhstan prompted Russian flight planners on Friday to order a 24-hour delay, from April 7 to 8, for the return to Earth of a Soyuz capsule carrying outgoing space station commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yury Lonchakov, and space tourist Charles Simonyi.
Lonchakov will have logged [...]

Calif. politicians to DOJ Hands off Google-Yahoo

16 Jun 2010

“We believe that robust competition serves the public interest but if the DOJ blocks this agreement we fear that the threat of additional scrutiny may chill future agreements,” the letter says.
A Google representative said the company had no comment on letter. A Yahoo spokeswoman provided this comment: “We believe strongly that this [...]

Slacker Radio lyrics Up your music intelligence

04 Jun 2010

Article updated 4/1/09 at 1:30 pm PT to correct the name of LyricFind.
Licensed lyrics are beginning to set a trend in mobile applications. In addition to Slacker Radio’s lyrics play, TuneWiki has released its offering for Android and is working on versions of the music video and lyrics application for the other mobile platforms. The [...]