Author Archive: Efren Toscano

Twiistup 5 is literally less than one month away!  Yes we all know that it is in a Hanger in Santa Monica, CA but what is this Twiistup’s theme?  Is it crazy circus?  Maybe a Luau? Or perhaps even a winter wonderland (Even though here in Southern California it already seems like summer these past…continue reading.

Tonight we will be streaming live from Mindshare at 9:30 p.m. PST.  For those who not might know what Mindshare is, they are a cross pollination that arises from gathering individuals who might not otherwise interact. It is an energetic mix of open-minded people from architects to programmers to writers to painters to engineers and…continue reading.

Complete laptop power in your pocket!  OQO just released their new Model 2+ at CES 2009 and we were able to speak with one of the Engineers of the product Joshua Pollack. This was his own personal OQO that he himself had soldered on.  Funny thing was that we found him at the Intel CES…continue reading.

Granted that this years CES was not jammed packed, and the ability to grab a cab was but a snap away, all excitement was not lost.  Going green, iPhone Killers, high quality audio, and huge micro SD cards were a few that really stood out.  2009 is definitely going to be one of the biggest…continue reading.

As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised at CES 2009 during his preshow keynote, the Windows 7 beta is now available to the public for download. It is only available to the first 2.5 million people who download it, so make sure to get your hands on it as soon as you can! The beta is…continue reading.

Palm just debuted its longest awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, with a silver center button down below and touch sensitivity all down the face. A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the phone in a portrait orientation, and you can flip the…continue reading.

This week, Apple announced that their iTunes stores was going DRM-free for everything but audiobooks and video. A few years ago, I had dinner w/a developer from a very large software company who agreed that the DRM war is an arms race and that the software companies were willing to keep up the never-ending battle.…continue reading.

After much hype Steve Ballmer made it official last night at the CES keynote. The windows 7 Public Beta will made available on Friday, January 9th. If you’ve been leery of downloading the version that’s been all over the torrent trackers since last week, get your download manager ready and keep your browser tuned to…continue reading.

Mickey Williams of Neudesic talks about cloud computing and what it takes to get off the ground as small start up with Techzulu’s Geoffrey Emery. Azure Microsoft’s cloud computing platform is on the horizon for bringing a huge leap forward for startups in instant scalability at a fraction of the cost that you incur if…continue reading.

   In one of out last interviews at the PDC Underground Techzulu’s Geoffrey Emery get in touch with two of the members of the windows mobile team Loke Uei and Lillian Eng. In this interview we talk how developers can Build Cool Stuff for windows mobile using the Windows Mobile Developer kit. Its amazing that…continue reading.