Macworld: Apple, Fox sign landmark rental deal

So says the NewsFactor Network, keying on a report in the Financial Times. Fox will license Apple’s Fairplay DRM software, a first for Apple.  iTunes distribution deals are kind of a snooze for me as a blogger, but interesting as a shareholder…

Macworld: Krawler robot & SW development kit

Krawler is a robotic ‘home inspection’ platform developed by Pacific Parallel Research, which firm also supplies a ‘robot ready’ Cocoa Toolkit to bring real world robot development to the Macintosh.’
Operating over a 802.11/g wireless link, Krawler can send 30 frames a second of video and other data. The kit includes the software, a Macintosh [...]

Macworld: the Next Big iThing

The S.F. Chronicle weighed in with its speculation on Macworld mysteries this morning, and appears to have arrived at (surprise!) the same conclusions as most rumor sites - iTunes movie rentals and maybe a slim new laptop. The Chron used to have a really good Mac writer - Henry Norr - but nowadays just kind [...]

Macworld: slim Apple laptop rumored

What would Macworld be without buzzing rumors? One rumor involves a slim Apple laptop, possibly with a solid-state hard drive (more pix). Another holds that Apple will start renting movies on iTunes. There’s definitely something in the air. All the rumors that fit, we print…

Phone co. cuts off FBI wiretap: bill overdue

Makes me feel safe: first the FBI et al. have been given unprecedented powers to listen in on  American’s phone and email conversations, which is spooky in that Big Brother kind of way. And now we hear that the FBI can’t be bothered to pay its phone bill for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretap. [...]

Macworld! Macworld! Macworld!

Our highly unofficial coverage of Macworld starts Monday. Now that I’m, um, retired, I have time to take gulker.com back to its tech-reporting roots. Stay tuned for an eclectic mix of news, observations and opinion… (search the site for Macworld: if you want just the MW news)

Last words on the Tata Nano

Linda thinks I’m nuts, devoting so much interest to the Tata Nano, but I think small cars are going to be a big deal as huge developing economies like India and China start to mature. Anyway, here’s Hindu Business Times’ story on the development of the Nano (complete with only photo I’ve seen of the [...]

Macworld: full disclosure

I own Apple shares, which I acquired while an employee in the ’90s. I don’t think this colors my coverage, but you can be the judge, now that you know…

The Tata people’s car arrives

On the one hand, it gets 50 mpg and meets European emissions (if not crash-safety) standards. At $2500, it is expected to add a tidal wave of new vehicles to India’s already-jammed roads. While the car may be ready, the people are another story, according to the New York Times. There’s a pretty good car [...]

The other problem with electric cars

Ed Ring reports on the daunting logistics of putting even a small percentage of U.S. commuters into grid-charged electric cars. While it’s true that a grid of photovoltaic or high-temperature solar concentrators about 90 miles square would produce as much electric energy as is currently used in the U.S., many questions and issues remain (like [...]

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