Roberto Mateu

Cellphones: Helio Becomes First Carrier to Offer Push Gmail

If you are the proud owner of a Helio Ocean, Fin or Mysto, you have the honor of being the first to enjoy push Gmail on your cellphone.

I fully expect this to also be an option on the iPhone 2.0 OS upgrade.

Facebook Chat Now Works For Everyone

All in all, Facebook chat is a great addition to the service. To paraphrase one of our commenters, Facebook chat maybe won’t replace your other chat applications, but it’ll do just fine for chatting with people who you usually don’t chat with.

It is pretty cool. I hope that it has a jabber back-end of some sort so I could connect with Adium. But I don’t see them supporting this, what they want is to pull users to the site.

Amazon’s MP3s not affecting iTunes | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

About 10 percent of the people who shopped at AmazonMP3 in February were previous Apple shoppers, NPD said.

Anecdote is not evidence, but I haven’t bought any music from iTunes since Amazon MP3 came out.

Asus Eee PC 900 - TrustedReviews

Asus has done a brilliant job of updating an already great product. The engineers have clearly listened to all the comments regarding the original Eee PC and attempted to put them right. The 1,024 wide screen makes the Eee PC 900 a joy to use, especially if you spend a lot of your time in a browser window. The extra memory and storage are also very welcome additions, and help make this version of the Eee PC a real alternative to a fully featured notebook.

My Dad loves his original Asus Eee PC. But it does have a less than useful screen and keyboard.

IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

However, when asked if they would rather keep their MacBook Pro or return to using their familiar ThinkPad, only three chose the ThinkPad; the rest decided to keep the Mac laptop and obtain VMWare Fusion licenses to run Windows when necessary.

Don’t ignore the signs: the Mac is coming to the cubicle. And so is Linux. Actually, so is Google.