October, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2007

Our first conference, NewTeeVee Live, is just a few weeks away, so we’d love for you to register soon. On the evening of November 14, after all the panels and demos and speeches are done, we’ve cooked up something special for all our attendees: a… Read More »

Everyone from Google’s “green energy czar” to Vinod Khosla to several well-funded startups are looking at solar thermal as one way to offer massive amounts of utility-scale clean energy. But what about solar thermal on a smaller scale — even on… Read More »

 
 

Casual Games Worth $2.25B — But Where Are They Going?

For anyone out there who remains unconvinced as to how important the casual gaming market is, the latest report by the Casual Games Association may help change your mind. The casual games industry rakes in $2.25 billion a year, according to the org’s latest… Read More »

Tricks and Treats for Halloween

You knew it was coming. We couldn’t let Halloween pass us by without a few pieces of sweet (yet evil!) online video candy to toss your way. First off, if you don’t know what to dress up as yet, the boys at Indy Mogul can… Read More »

Google’s (GOOG) much awaited answer to Facebook ecosystem is finally coming to light. The existence of this Google platform was first reported by TechCrunch and is going to become official tomorrow. Google will announce its new social networking initiative, Open Social on Thursday. Joining Google… Read More »

Update on earlier Absolute / Laplink post

Just a quick note on a post we ran early this morning regarding Absolute’s Computrace LoJack and Laplink’s PCsync & PCmover software. The information for that post was provided to me via e-mail in the form of a press release. It looked interesting from a mobile… Read More »

Yes, I’m a bit of a masochist. Sometimes I do things with my computers just for the experience. When Leopard arrived, I did the quick… Read More »

RapHappy gets rich! Wins $100,000 from Cisco/mtvU

We were thrilled to learn yesterday that RapHappy founders, and Found|READ contributors, Ben Leduc-Mills and Matthew Fargo have won the 2nd Annual Digital Incubator business plan competition sponsored by Cisco Systems and mtvU. With the win, Ben and Matt will get… Read More »

The Daily Sprout

Google Hearts Renewables: The Googlers have the largest corporate installation of solar around, but they want more renewables and intend to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from clean sources by 2012 — CNET. Power Plant Mercury Under Fire: “In 2005, about 500 electricity-generating power plants emitted… Read More »

Microsoft is out with a new beta 2 version of its Sharedview screen sharing and collaboration application. If you’re a Windows user and haven’t tried it, and especially if you collaborate online with other web workers, it’s worth a look. It’s an easy way for… Read More »

ASUS Taiwan recently confirmed plans to deliver its eagerly awaited Eee PCs to the U.S. in November, and even though the company is targeting the devices squarely at the education market, they may end up challenging the pricing model for all portable computers. When… Read More »

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 »

More Must Reads

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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