Archive for February 2008
In response to a post I did recently on collaboration tools, a reader pointed out Elluminate Vroom as a good application. Vroom is an applicaton that lets you mix and match videoconferencing,audio conferencing, whiteboarding, sharing presentations and unexpected features such as polling meeting … Read More »
I can’t believe how much I am getting asked how I compare the Fujitsu P1620 to the HP 2710p for every day usage. To me they are very different beasts but I can appreciate how someone wanting to buy one or the other might be agonizing … Read More »
Taking the Fujitsu P1620 for a test drive on the Information Super Highway using the v740 ExpressCard modem on Verizon with the adapter by Novatel to make it work in the PC Card slot. Just testing to make sure there is no speed loss using the … Read More »
Like a ballet, a patent lawsuit has dozens of carefully orchestrated steps, and today’s judgment against Limelight Networks marks the beginning of the exciting part of the show, which could drag on for years, or get cut short by a settlement. Earlier today a jury in … Read More »
NBC Universal filed comments with the FCC this week that side with Comcast on BitTorrent blocking. The company opposes Net Neutrality regulations because it wants ISPs to filter out copyrighted content, and it seems to be willing to blame P2P for all the bad things in … Read More »
2007 may be remembered as the year when venture capitalists went green.
At least that’s the idea you get looking at data from Dow Jones VentureSource, which surveyed and interviewed VCs to find out that 221 companies worldwide received $3 billion in venture financing last year, … Read More »
Now that I’m using a very small notebook again, the Fujitsu P1620, it’s making me realize some things that I had forgotten from when I used its predecessor. This has to do with … Read More »
Skyhook Wireless said today it will provide its Wi-Fi-based location awareness technology for users of Locr software who want to automatically add geographic information to their photos. Although fun, like many location-based services that have been long promised and poorly delivered, it’s certainly not the … Read More »
A lot of web workers carry a ton of data around in their laptops: everything from financial records to passwords to client code. If you’re one of them, have you given any thought to protecting that data if you lose the laptop? Hardware replacement costs can … Read More »
There isn’t much info to go on, but there’s a good chance we’ll see a new OneNote Powertoy arrive early next week. There’s some last minute testing going on, so of … Read More »
In the great civil tradition of taking pen to paper, 176 organizations — corporate, environmental, consumer, faith-based, energy policy research and others — sent a letter to senators today via the Sustainable Energy Network, urging them to join the Senate Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE/EE) … Read More »
Of all the technology subsectors out there right now, the one with the most promise is the mobile platform. This is true for many reasons, notably that:
Your mobile phone is always on your person, making it a lucrative market for advertisers.
Most cell-phone consumers are still … Read More »
More Must Reads
At the risk of sounding like an infomercial…”Has this ever happened to you?” You set your Comcast DVR to record only new episodes of your favorite TV series, but it winds up recording every…single…showing, including all repeats? The problem is especially bad with a show like … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Feb. 29, 2008, 11:00am PT
Search engine Quintura, who offer cloud-based visual searching for the web, have opened a new affiliate program to all comers. Search clouds are somewhat like tag clouds, except that they’re composed of terms that Quintura automatically mines out of … Read More »
With so many videos of me wearing a Discovery Pro Cycling team hat or jersey, it’s probably no surprise that I enjoy cycling. My road bike is actually right next … Read More »
By Alistair Croll
Feb. 29, 2008, 10:34am PT
By Kevin Kelleher
Feb. 29, 2008, 9:22am PT
For all the chatter about Chinese solar stocks, Japan has long been the world’s leading producer of photovoltaics. Of course, given the number of investments Chinese companies are making in capacity, they are likely to overtake Japan in a few years. But for now, Japan … Read More »
Actors Guild Preps for Negotiations; new media expected to play a big role as formal talks with the studios set to begin sometime after March 31. (The Wall Street Journal)
Veoh to Raise Another $40 Million?; Silicon Alley Insiders hears the video company is trying to … Read More »
I remember a few years back when some universities handed out iPods to freshmen to use at school and Abilene Christian University in Texas has upped the ante. The university plans to hand out iPhones and iPod Touches to new freshmen to be used as part … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 29, 2008, 8:25am PT
The Wall Street Journal today discusses the trials and tribulations of the U.S. dollar in a page one story, pointing out for whom it is causing problems, worldwide, and there was this one tiny bit that caught my eye:
Yet for all of the gloom, the … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Feb. 29, 2008, 8:00am PT
Got a great idea for something you and your team could build in 3 months? Willing to spend those three months living in Philadelphia from mid-May through August this year? Then you might want to head over to DreamIt Ventures and put in an application … Read More »
The iPhone is a great media player, but requires that the vast majority of your content be synchronized over from a PC or Mac. There are exceptions that take … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 29, 2008, 7:34am PT
Following last week’s move by Dailymotion to bring high-definition video to the Web, MySpaceTV is launching an HD video player for the social network with a trailer for Iron Man. The trailer for the Marvel movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as the comic book hero, … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 29, 2008, 6:00am PT
If you read our write-up about four wee wind startups making turbines for the small-scale wind power market and are looking for a weekend project, there are a few things you should check out before climbing onto the roof with a pinwheel.
Do you have enough … Read More »
Now that professional writers are done protesting the web, will they flock to it? In this quick video interview, Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, tells us which parts of the new WGA contract the Guild is happy about, what new … Read More »
By Carleen Hawn
Feb. 29, 2008, 1:13am PT
I love this post, by founder-blogger Scott Converse about his experience trying to find the right CEO to run his company, ClickCaster. Helpful as his investors are to him, Scott writes, it turns out that with respect to this particular challenge, they didn’t … Read More »
By Carleen Hawn
Feb. 29, 2008, 12:01am PT
Brad Feld maintains a great blog, and yesterday he linked to this terrific post called Notes From Buffett Meeting, dated Feb. 15. The notes are from a Q&A session that Buffett gave to students at the Emory’s Goizueta Business School and … Read More »
By Alistair Croll
Feb. 29, 2008, 12:00am PT
There’s a lot of silicon in the world. It’s the second most-abundant element on Earth. But pure silicon — the kind you can use in microchips and solar cells — is hard to come by.
Back in July of last year, we reported that silicon … Read More »
YouTube will support live video before the end of this year, co-founder Steve Chen told Pop17 videoblogger Sarah Meyers. Check out the clip:
The background party music is thumping, so here’s a transcript:
Meyers: “When are you guys gonna do live video on YouTube?”
Chen: … Read More »
In what could prove a great test case of marketing effectiveness, the Obama campaign purchased premium ad space on 26 locally oriented web sites in Texas and Ohio ahead of the states’ primaries on March 4th. And in a first, the Flash-powered “sliding billboard” ads … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 28, 2008, 9:00pm PT
Austin, Texas-based startup NextIO has scored $18.8 million in a third round of funding, bringing the I/O virtualization systems maker to almost $40 million in total venture capital raised since 2003. It’s attacking one of those nitty-gritty technical problems in data centers and tossing around … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 28, 2008, 7:03pm PT
House Passes Bill to Tax Oil and Fund Renewables: The House of Representatives has passed HR 5351, “The Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008,” which repeals subsidies from the oil and gas industry and subsidizes renewable energy. Now it will head to the … Read More »
In the last day we’ve heard of two more web video projects from established Hollywood talent. Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy is making a web show for Google, and actress Justine Bateman (Family Ties), writer and producer Jill Kushner (The Ellen DeGeneres Show), Peter Murrieta (Wizards … Read More »
By Guest Column
Feb. 28, 2008, 4:42pm PT
Written by Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpace Technologies.
We are witnessing a seismic shift in information technology — the kind that comes around every decade or so. It is so massive that it affects not only business models, but the underlying architecture of … Read More »
By Chris Albrecht
Feb. 28, 2008, 4:41pm PT
Twenty years ago this month, the HP Deskjet launched, signaling the demise of the dot matrix printer (and its noise). Kids these days just don’t know how easy that have it. The first Deskjet cost $995, weighed 14 pounds and could only pump out two pages … Read More »
I’ve been asked to post a screen of Zinio on the P1620. Here it is:
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By Samuel Dean
Feb. 28, 2008, 4:00pm PT
Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you work online with colleagues at disparate locations, some of the best collaboration tools you can choose are free.
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I keep getting my head filled with additional thoughts and impressions of the P1620 as I continue to use it heavily and I intend to share them from time to time, like now. I had forgotten how perfect the P1620 form is for reading ebooks with … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 28, 2008, 3:27pm PT
Intel will surpass Sony and the Air Force this year to become the largest purchaser of renewable energy in the U.S. So what’s next for the greener chipmaker? We sat down with Dave Stangis, Intel’s director of corporate responsibility, when he was … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 28, 2008, 3:06pm PT
Platform-as-a-service provider Rollbase launched today, marketing its offerings as web-based software geared toward small- and medium-sized businesses. While the PaaS terminology conjures up images of Rollbase competing with something like Force.com or Bungee Labs, Rollbase is gunning for the same users as Read More »
It took what felt like a very long time for the Fujitsu P1620 to reach Mobile Tech Manor but in reality it was just a few weeks. Now that … Read More »
Conrad Riggs, a producer with Mark Burnett Productions (Survivor), did make a “small investment” in Lonelygirl15 before the series started striking brand integration deals, and LG15 studios rents office space from Riggs in Santa Monica. But that’s the extent of it. You can put away your … Read More »
By Edit Staff
Feb. 28, 2008, 1:38pm PT
Well, that was really really fast. NewTeeVee has been following the quarterlife saga pretty closely, and has just confirmed what had earlier been just a speck of a rumor. Full details here.
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