October, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2007

The good folks over at BuzzFeed have pointed out a backdoor way to watch the new Hulu video service — even if you don’t have a beta invite. Just change the number at the end of this URL to any value between 1 and … Read More »

Custom Stacks Icons

Anyone else tired of a Dock’d Applications folder that seems to be a link to Address Book? I’m hearing a lot of complaints in various forums and reviews about the icons of stacks in the dock, and not much in the way of solutions, so I thought … Read More »

 
 

A Global, Long-Term Perspective on Crop Production

The effects of climate change are turning the outlook for long-term food production into an increasingly dire one, according to an MIT study released this week and a report delivered last week by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Food. UN expert Jean Ziegler is calling … Read More »

Fear the Recession? Get an Angel & go global.

Economists are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the state of the U. S. Economy. This, coupled with a limited range of opportunities for big investment exits — it’s an era of M&A or else — can mean tough market conditions ahead for startups. But there … Read More »

Vye S37: inker… or stinker?

So I’ve had the Vye S37 review unit from Dynamism about a week now. Steve has his full review of the 1 GB unit up (he too, tested with 1 GB … Read More »

Our first conference, NewTeeVee Live, is just a few weeks away, so we’d love for you to register as soon as you can. For those of you who can’t make it, the conference will be broadcast live by Mogulus, who prepared the promo … Read More »

ImageTree Raises $4.5M for Forest Data Services

ImageTree, a Morgantown, W. Va.-based startup that provides imaging and sensing data services about forests, has closed a $4.5 million Series B round of funding. The investment was led by Battelle Ventures, which last week said it had … Read More »

When Starbucks runs dry

There are three things certain in life, death, taxes and there will always be coffee in Starbucks. At least until today. I stopped earlier in my local SBUX and ordered my usual caffeinated beverage and the barista started frothing the milk. She stopped … Read More »

A Half-Hearted Jab?

So Leopard finally launched last Friday at 6pm. It’s great, it’s lame – no matter your stance, it’s here. And in case you were unaware, it’s at least a little better (and dare I say, technically advanced?) than Microsoft’s Vista which hasn’t received the … Read More »

One to Watch: PlayCafe.tv

We just got tipped off to a video startup called PlayCafe.tv, an online game show that combines live hosts and viewer participation. The startup appears to have also gone by the name Livefire.tv, according to parts of its web site. PlayCafe/Livefire was founded by Read More »

I really hope I don’t see the Drivemocion on my next trip to New York City. I just know some hacker cab-driver is going to create a way to customize it … Read More »

The PDA market just can’t catch a break. First, they all seem to be getting replaced by those new-fangled smartphones and now, the latest and greatest … Read More »

More Must Reads

As a web worker, you’re likely loaded up with gadgets of all sorts. There seems to be a pretty good correlation between those of us who work on the web and those of us who accumulate things that beep, buzz, light up, transmit, and receive. But … Read More »

This past Friday, after my little FedEx experience, I promptly backed up my hard drive and then did an Erase & Install of Leopard. Once Leopard was installed I began moving over necessary files, including my Mail files. To get your new version of Mail to recognize … Read More »

The hybrid P2P-CDN business model is becoming increasingly popular with content distributors, largely due to rapid growth in the demand for online video. Even pure-play P2P companies like Pando have started dabbling with P2P CDNs. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have become a highly competitive … Read More »

In the new Mail.app that is packaged with Leopard, there are a few dozen email templates to spice up what you send out. Now you can have over 100 of them to choose from. Equinux has released their first stationery pack with over 100 new … Read More »

Babelgum Partners with Cachelogic; Internet TV network to use Cachelogic’s Velocix network to power content streaming. (release) PeerApp to Support HTTP Video Streaming; new software supports the HTTP video-streaming protocol and caches traffic without requiring ISPs to install proxy servers or change definitions or configurations. (emailed … Read More »

Touch screen devices are nothing new but since the debut of the iPhone, actually even before it launched, OEMs have been adding advanced touch capabilities to their devices.  One of the first touch phones to appear was the HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile smartphone that added … Read More »

InfoWorld reports today that Windows XP will double the price of the Asus EEE PC. While it’s true that PCs with Linux installed in lieu of a Microsoft … Read More »

One of the biggest complaints made by new Leopard users is the semi-transparent menu bar. Depending on what wallpaper you have set on your monitor, it can get pretty funky up there. It was bound to happen sooner or later, but barely 3 days after Leopard’s release … Read More »

One reason that big corporations give for being slow to adopt mobile devices for employees is the ease of losing the device.  I always thought they were just using that as … Read More »

In the beginning, there was instant messaging. And it was good at a lot of things. But not everything. The subtle nuances of modern communication sometimes require face time. With new web-based video chat services, you can replace that : ) with a real, live smiley … Read More »

Long before the options backdating scandals brought the arcana of stock option accounting to light, companies have struggled with how to appropriately value and price the handy derivatives they give to their employees as inducements for peak performance and loyalty. Pricing stock options is difficult because … Read More »

We are always covering how people use their wireless technology on jkOnTheRun and we have an opportunity for you to help a student working on his Masters degree in Communications Technology.  John Spinks of … Read More »

Following an article from last week’s Jerusalem Post regarding Israel’s “much-hyped” venture capital market, which noted the favored status of the growing cleantech sector, Globes has reported two cleantech venture fund announcements out of Israel. Terra Venture Partners LP has Read More »

The surprise contest that evolved out of the funny video of Kevin unboxing a Leopard was a fun one and we got a lot of good entries.  The correct answer to the question that asked "what is the prize?" is of course a full boxed … Read More »

Don’t forget this is the first year we’ve had in quite a while (ever?) where the Daylight Savings Time start and end dates were changed. DST started earlier … Read More »

Hi, you don’t know me personally, but I’m in your index a bunch. I’ve been a good mobile tech boy this year and recommend your services to everyone I know. I like all of the little … Read More »

Applying for a job without knowing somebody at the company first often feels like a quixotic mission. You throw your resume into the faceless online job site grinder and hope a human being somewhere along the way recognizes your obvious talents and relevant life and work … Read More »

UPDATED The rising tide lifting up most solar stocks has so far had little effect on Evergreen Solar’s boat, but now it looks like that may be changing. After rallying as high as $17.48 a year and a half ago, shares of Evergreen (ESLR) have … Read More »

Since I switched from Firebird to iCal a little while ago as part of an effort to try this ‘integration’ thing Apple’s been proposing for the last ten years, I’ve been frustrated by one thing. …Where are my holidays? I always look at iCal – or any calendar … Read More »

Say what you will the HTC Advantage is an interesting device that is trying to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up.  Or maybe it won’t grow up and will just stay a small notebook-like PDA.  I think the Advantage is … Read More »

This morning the unthinkable has happened: All other sites work but Google can’t be accessed. The Internet may collapse! UPDATE: it’s back! This was very strange as I was unable to access google for 30 minutes! It made me realize how dependent I have become on google … Read More »

We just watched the winners of this year’s California Cleantech Open accept their awards. Perhaps the best indicator of the importance of this competition is the success of last year’s recipients — solar startup GreenVolts, for example, said this evening that … Read More »

You may have read our take on the Hulu launch, and you can see parts of the service for yourself at partner sites like AOL Video (TWX) and Comcast’s Fancast (CMCSA). However, since Hulu isn’t fulfilling all requests for beta invites, and … Read More »

Online video startup VMIX has raised $16.5 million as part of its second-round funding, according to a regulatory filing uncovered by Private Equity Hub. That news come less than 24 hours after we wrote about fresh funding for video startups Vitrue, Skinkers, and … Read More »

What better way to find up-and-coming cleantech startups than to follow a business plan competition for just-out-of-the-lab companies with little funding. Tonight, the California Cleantech Open announced six winners in the categories of “Air,Water and Waste,” “Energy Efficiency,” “Green Building,” “Renewables,” “Smart Power,” and “Transportation.” … Read More »

One of the most highly touted features new to Leopard is Time Machine, the “always on” backup system that takes the effort and guesswork out of backing up important data. But, to the chagrin of many (or at least myself), Time Machine does not backup … Read More »

Random House has shown surprising savvy in using online video to promote their recent book releases. First, they sponsored a seven-minute short video collaboration between filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein to promote the latter’s latest Random House release, The Shock Doctrine. The clip was played … Read More »

Meebo, the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that popularized web-based instant messaging, is celebrating its second anniversary today. The three-person company we first wrote about in September 2005 is growing up literally and figuratively. The company is expanding beyond its instant messaging roots … Read More »

Just a short programming alert. I am on an East Coast trip and as a result posting times will be a tad erratic. The email backlog is bound to increase, but please bear with the slow turnaround times. I am in New York for Rafat Ali’s … Read More »

As good as we might like to think we are at due diligence, it is impossible to know everything about your market or space. It is inevitable that you will miss something prior to your startup’s launch. The best thing you can do is to prepare … Read More »

Do you regularly collaborate online with other web workers? If so, you and your fellow collaborators should look into the free online networking service offered by Leaf Networks. It lets you and a group of co-workers or friends instantly create your own private, secure … Read More »

If you like the overall design of the Asus R2H UMPC but want an 800 MHz A110 CPU on the inside, it looks like your dreams come true … Read More »

Billing itself as “MTV meets QVC,” Honeyshed made its debut in a soft launch last week. The idea behind the site is to create branded entertainment so transparent about the fact that it’s selling something that as a viewer, you don’t even care. As of … Read More »

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