The deep and savage road: Ars reviews Dante's Inferno

Can you imagine your soul laid bare, every sin and broken promise shown in grim detail to the one you love above all others? "You don't know what it was like!" Dante screams, anguished, as his beloved witnesses a particularly heinous act from his past.

"Yes, she does," Satan replies. "I have shown her."

Dante's Inferno is not for the faint of ..read more

ViralHeat: Social Media Analysis for the Budget-Minded Soul

These days, the words "social media campaign" are on the lips of everyone around, from media professionals to small business owners to college students in coffee shops. While the idea of a social media campaign is becoming widespread, the tools to manage one are often left for the former, while the latter look in awe at the price.

ViralHeat, a social media analytics firm, hopes to fill the space left empty by other, far ..read more

The Apple Store is back online

Filed under: Apple

Yes, as expected, the Apple Store is down for the morning, presumably to update us with brand new MacBook Pros and whatever else Apple has cooked up for a release.

We'll keep an eye on the website along with you readers, and when we see what's been updated, we'll let you know. Do be patient -- as many of us are traveling to Macworld today, we might actually be on the roads and/or in ..read more

The Apple Store is offline

Filed under: Apple, Macbook Pro

Yes, as expected, the Apple Store is down for the morning, presumably to update us with brand new MacBook Pros and whatever else Apple has cooked up for a release.

We'll keep an eye on the website along with you readers, and when we see what's been updated, we'll let you know. Do be patient -- as many of us are traveling to Macworld today, we might actually be on the roads ..read more

How The Godfather Would Pick Enterprise 2.0 Champions

From time to time, we look at how Enterprise 2.0 practices are reaching into companies.

A recent post by Michael Idinopulos demonstrates how the premises for finding Enterprise 2.0 champions is often flawed. Too often the search is for the right personality. Instead, the focus of the search should really be for the people who are "exchanging knowledge, information, and ideas across large parts of the organization."

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Idinopulos compares it to ..read more

TUAW Giveaway: Win a BearExtender n3

Filed under: Accessories, Hardware

Last month, we highly recommended the BearExtender n3 [US $44.97] as a great way to extend a Wi-Fi network to reach those pesky dead spots. In my testing, I found that it's possible to get around three times as much range as from an Airport device.

Now the nice people at Rokland Technologies have given us five units to give to you. If you're having weak signal problems, you want one of these. ..read more

German firm claims huge boost in Android app performance, battery life with new virtual machine At the core of Anrdoid lies a little bundle of code known as the Dalvik virtual machine, a runtime environment for Java apps that's specifically optimized for hardware with limited memory and processor power -- you know, the kind of situation you find in your average smartphone. The relative success of the Android Market suggests that Dalvik's getting the job done on some level (as long ..read more

Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch

Navigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date. Now, new features are putting it even further ahead of a lot of the competition.

The update adds three innovative features: in-app connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered from NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes, an intelligent direction ..read more

Cube's 6-inch capacitive touchscreen e-reader is a Windows Mobile 6.5 fantasyland

If you're a sucker for immaculate specs at a discount price then the Cube e-book reader might be the device for you. The Chinese outfit is said to be working on a 6-inch, E Ink reader built around the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system with baked-in WiFi (sorry, no mention of 3G data) for "remote server synchronization." And as declared in the image above, the Cube e-reader features a capacitive ..read more

Flush With $10 Million In Fresh Cash, Yammer Strengthens Executive Team

Yammer, the San Francisco startup that offers a solid enterprise-grade microsharing and realtime communications service, is expanding its executive team after successfully closing a Series B funding round to the tune of $10 million earlier this month.

The company made one internal promotion, appointing co-founder and VP of Technology Adam Pisoni to CTO. In addition, Yammer recruited David Satterwhite to lead its sales efforts, while Steve Apfelberg was brought in as ..read more

Found Footage: Charlie Rose hosts iPad chat club

Filed under: Found Footage, iPad

In case you missed it last week, PBS top gab guy Charlie Rose (no relation) hosted a roundtable discussion about the latest product from Steve & co. on his show, featuring the NYT's David Carr, 'Uncle' Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch founder/would-be tablet impresario Michael Arrington. The segment is about 23 minutes long, but it's a good conversation.

Mossberg described the iPad as "wicked fast" and ..read more