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Hulu, the immensely popular website that streams television shows to millions of viewers eachday, recently sustained a blow when Viacom decided to remove The Daily Show with John Stuart and the Colbert Report from Hulu.
Viacom, parent company of Comedy Central, who has rights to the two shows, could not agree on conditions with Hulu to [...]

Before I begin this post, I’d like to offer you a little background info in case you’re not completely familiar with PDK. Palm’s WebOS  is written in the languages of the web–HTML, Javascript, and CSS.  If you were to download Palm’s Mojo SDK (Software Development Kit), you’d find that it’s filled with these different technologies. Despite these [...]

GDial Pro was one of the best Google Voice applications for Palm’s WebOS.  Last week, Google updated their Google Voice APIs, rendering Palm’s Mojo framework (Palm’s SDK) unable to support further Google Voice applications.  As many of you know, WebOS  is a skin on top of the oh-so-powerful Linux, but WebOS is actually an extremely modified WebKit browser, [...]

Yesterday at Macworld, Microsoft announced its newest edition of its popular Office for Mac suite: Office for Mac 2011.  Users can expect a slough of changes in Office for Mac 2011 including the death of Entourage as an email client, as well as many new user-friendly features that make the software suite more “Mac-like”, and [...]

Taking a similar approach to Gmail (who nixed support of IE6), Firefox announced today that they will no longer support versions of Mac OSX older than 10.5 (so Tiger 10.4 and below).  This isn’t the show-stopping blow that Gmail gave IE6 a few weeks ago, since this announcement’s taking place on a smaller stage– but, [...]

Today, NVIDIA announced a new software application, Optimus. The software boasts the ability to automatically switch between a computer’s integrated and discrete graphics cards (GPUs).
Although GPU switching is nothing new , the process of automating the switch is.  Right now, the unibody Macbook Pros are able to switch between an integrated NVIDIA 9400m GPU and a discrete 9600m GPU [...]

Ah, Google. They’re the tech company that isn’t evil.  Of course, Steve Jobs disagrees with that, but that’s another story.  However today Google has announced its plans to create a voice-to-voice translation service on their phone, the Nexus One (hint: TechTrackr Review?).  To find the full scoop, read on past the breakage point.

Don’t panic, your original Xbox will still work, it just won’t work online.  Microsoft has said they are taking all Xboxes, and all Xbox 1 games off of Xbox live on April 15th.  This doesn’t mean just v1 Xboxes, rather, it includes all Xbox v1 games, including those played on the Xbox 360 using backwards compatibility, [...]

It’s been a few days since Apple and AT&T lifted the ban on VoIP applications that use a 3G data connection to make audio calls (remember, this restriction was lifted in the 3.2 SDK Beta that was released on January 27th).
Today, SlingMedia announced that Apple and AT&T have decided to allow a slough of SlingPlayers to stream [...]

Hello Moto!  After being down and out for a number of years (well, their phone devision at least), Motorola has come back with a vengeance.  In just over a year’s time, they’ve introduced the Cliq, the Droid, the Backflip, and now the Devour;  it’s amazing how much they’ve accomplished.! The Devour is the third Verizon phone [...]

In this first installment of Techtrackr Weekly, I talk about the iPad, Quarterly Reports, and some other interesting news, as well as WebOS 1.4, and the Mobile World Conference in February.