July, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2007

We just got a heads up on an announcement that the X Prize Foundation plans to put out a release tomorrow about its Automotive X Prize, which will award cash to a team that has developed a super-efficient vehicle. The non-profit prize institute is… Read More »

 
 

SolFocus, a Mountain View, Calif. based startup that develops solar concentrator technology will announce tomorrow that it has acquired Madrid-based solar tracking company InSpira. The companies wouldn’t release the financial details of the deal, but said that Inspira will continue to market its trackers… Read More »

The Daily Sprout

Crude close to $78: “Prices have risen more than 20% in the past two months” — Wall Street Journal. Solar cell record: Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed hardware that can convert 42.8 percent of light that hits it into electricity — CNET. Chat… Read More »

Update: Just posted this on NewTeeVee: Online ads, work in progress. In an attempt to bring more relevance (and extract higher performance) to its AdWords advertising platform, Google is experimenting with a new kind of behavioral targeting technology, Susan Wojcicki, Google’s VP of Product ManagementRead More »

Updated.Looks like the vote on the 700 MHz auction rulemaking is finally in, and as expected the commission adopted some of the open-networking proposals championed by Google, but not all. While Google carefully lauds the FCC for its action in a post on the… Read More »

We are today launching The Future of Software, a micro site that over a period of one month will take a look at some of the major trends that are changing and influencing the software business. In this report we look at a variety of… Read More »

Certainly one way for independent filmmakers to cash in on their work as been to sell self-published DVDs. Nothing like a double-feature of Strongbad and Ask a Ninja on a lazy Saturday afternoon, smug in your knowledge that the profits went to the… Read More »

Green development projects in China will get a boost from a new partnership with U.S. organizations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and non-profit U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” to work together on eco-friendly development projects in China. The… Read More »

Web workers have a love/hate relationship with Backpack. On the one hand, it’s an incredibly simple tool for collecting information. On the other hand, it’s an incredibly simple tool for collecting information. That simplicity is the application’s greatest strength…and its greatest liability. As part of… Read More »

They say simplicity is the key to a product’s design and it just doesn’t get simpler than this. Ambient, the company that creates informational gadgets that provide basic information using simple methods… Read More »

More Must Reads

Editor’s note:A side deal in the sale of Dow Jones that we raised as an issue here on Tues is now generating some real controversy. Were the Bancrofts’ advisors ‘bought off?,’ asks “The New York Times”:http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/the-side-deal-in-the-deal-for-dow-jones/. If so, were the interests of the family well-served in… Read More »

While Google is busily applying YouTube’s pop culture aegis to safe-for-work fare like politics and hip hop, the company seems content to allow also-ran Google Video to wallow in softcore smut. Not a believer? Check the first few Google Video top 100 new videos, as… Read More »

Amazon To Sell Historic Footage; will digitize National Archives. (Washington Post) More Video Producers Using Own Websites; Mefeedia notes 61 percent of its video feeds now coming from independent websites, compared to 57 percent in March. (company blog) Swarmcast Does Live HD Streaming; will try to… Read More »

Over the weekend, there was a brief flurry of blog activity because some of the popular kids decided they’d had enough of Facebook because they were too popular and couldn’t handle all the activity (no, I’m not going to link – if they can’t manage the… Read More »

Don’t look now, but there’s one of those brutal price wars happening, this time in video rentals. Unlike the cola wars of legend or the perennial PC-chip wars of the last decade or two, this is a price battle I find fascinating. In the… Read More »

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