Macworld.com - Situated around the board table of the Bently Reserve is not how I pictured myself previewing the latest addition to City of Heroes. The Bently Reserve, for those who donâ??t know, is the biggest reserve in San Francisco and is included in the National Register of Historic Places. Itâ??s huge, stately, and architecturally stunning. Which is the point.
Macworld.com - Ã?bermind is offering a five-day training course for Web developers interested in learning more about WebObjects, Appleâ??s Java-based Web application server. The training takes place in Seattle, Wash. this March and costs $2,500.
PC World - Alaska Airlines is the latest carrier to launch in-flight Wi-Fi, offering passengers on a specially equipped Boeing 737 a service that uses satellites instead of cellular towers to connect the plane to the Internet.
AP - Cablevision Systems Corp. is mulling plans to pull the plug on free online access for its Long Island daily Newsday, but details are sketchy as to how the cable operator expects to succeed in a strategy that has flummoxed the newspaper industry.
PC World - I’m getting a little worried about the state of open source on the desktop. Modest strides forward have been made in recent times, bringing open source to entirely new audiences. But there might be the faintest whiff of complacency.
Apparently our beloved national institution, the iPhone, isn’t such a big hit in Japan. It’s doing so poorly that Softbank, its Japanese carrier, is offering the 8GB iPhone free with a contract….
The world’s most expensive iPhone brings some bling to your ring.
Macworld.com - SoftRAID has announced the release of SoftRAID 3.6.8, an update to its eponymous RAID software for Mac OS X. A free update for registered users, SoftRAID is priced starting at $130.
Macworld.com - If you havenâ??t gotten onboard with emoji, donâ??t worryâ??neither have I. The little emoticons are a staple of text conversations in Japan, and Apple added support for them in version 2.2 of the iPhone softwareâ??but only for those using Japanese input methods.
NewsFactor - Google integrated its Blogger Following feature with Google Friend Connect this week, but the search giant put a damper on its own launch by signing up for a Twitter account. Google began Tweeting Wednesday evening. Its first post was strings of 0’s and 1’s, binary code for “I feel good.”