2006 April 24

As the Donner Party would tell us (if it could), pioneers can usually expect a bumpy ride en route to their intended destination. Travis Reed of the Associated Press (via The Boston Herald) reports:

Alice Hill of RealTechNews writes:
As more and more people are discovering, it’s hard to hide your tracks in the high tech world we now live in. Post a crack about your employer on a blog and get fired. Use a half nude photo in your MySpace profile and wonder why you didn’t get that job. [...]

Alice Hill of RealTechNews writes:
I gripe about cell phones. My Motorola convinced me I had actual hearing loss until I switched to the Samsung P777. I tried the Nokia N90, but the signal strength in my home was nil, so snazzy features aside I was back to my trusty slider with no Bluetooth. Turns out [...]

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has announced that flash memory CompactFlash cards, which it originally invented, will be used in the new Grass Valley Infinity Series Digital Media Camcorder. The camcorder, which debuted in the United States on Saturday, has slots for two CompactFlash cards. It is the first camcorder introduced in the broadcast industry that [...]

One nice thing about the Internet is that it has broken down barriers in how we communicate, and what we communicate. Some of the best Web sites are ones that are left to be run by the contributors. The Webmaster puts up the site, gives it some design, and the flow of the traffic is [...]