The iPad is not a computer
What’s the difference between a computer and an appliance? Which one is the iPad, and what is it good for?
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Motorola Droid
The Motorola Droid officially dropped yesterday. It’s the first of several Android-powered devices coming to the Verizon network. Here’s a quick list of relevant phone features.
3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 480×854 resolution
5 mega-pixel camera with flash, zoom and focus
16 GB storage card, 256 MB of system RAM
Horizontal slider with on-screen and physical keyboards
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, e-compass
The Motorola [...]
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Most of the topics we cover here on AuctioneerTech come from technology news. In the last couple of weeks, however, one of the stories that rose to the level of national consumer news is the FCC’s involvement in a dispute between Apple, AT&T and Google. In letters to each company, James [...]
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We’ve mentioned sporadically that Palm would be releasing the closest thing we’ve seen to an iPhone killer in the last two years. We just didn’t know when it would happen, though we knew it would be exclusively on the Sprint network for at least a while.
Today, Palm finally announced the official [...]
Opera web browser version 10 alpha
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Newer, faster browser rendering engines are all the rage. Google released Chrome based on Webkit and V8; Firefox uses Gecko and is going to be using TraceMonkey for JavaScript. Apple made some noise a few weeks ago by releasing a beta of its Webkit-based Safari 4, now using Apple’s new Nitro engine for [...]
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It’s time for a little year-end housekeeping. With all of the top lists being created regarding the previous year, we couldn’t help but join in with a top list and a review of everything we’ve done so far. Here are our top six posts that we like.
ATS designation – Auction Technology Specialist for auctioneers
Today is [...]
Hard drives fail, protect your data with a Drobo
Hard drives fail. I want a Drobo.
I guess I’m probably not going to get much Google play out of those two statements, so I’d better keep going.
Hard drives fail. As hard drives keep getting bigger at an absurd rate, they become more complex and more fragile. There are so many moving parts in conventional, platter-based [...]
Auction Podcast Episode 3 – Tech Roundup 1
You’re listening to the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast for the week of 15 September 2008.
AuctioneerTech – Technology, auctions and auctioneers – auction tech for the auction industry
Hello and welcome to the third episode of the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast, tech roundup one. We’re going to cover some of the previous two weeks’ stories from auctioneertech.com. We’ll talk [...]
Apple releases new iPods, iTunes 8
Apple today released new versions of their iTunes software as well as updated versions of iPods. This release was hardly surprising and, as predicted, there wasn’t anything unexpected or widely diverging from the rumors that had been floating around the Internet.
The take-aways are really fewer than I had expected.
iTunes 8 is out and it’s cool. [...]
Netbooks
I’m typing away on my Apple slim aluminum keyboard. It’s the one I poured nearly a full cup of coffee into a couple weeks ago. I dried it, wet it, dried it again and when it wouldn’t work I’d left it for dead. A week passed and I tried it one more time and it’s [...]
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