March, 2008 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2008

Computerworld has an interesting feature on notebooks of the near-future. 2015 specifically, which is just 21 scant years before Zefram Cochrane will be born so no: you won’t see any notebooks capable … Read More »

Raon Digital’s latest edition of the Everun has the SSD or Solid State Disk drive treatment and our friends at Dynamism just shot me a note about it. They’re … Read More »

 
 

Bill McKibben: The End of King Coal

Bill McKibben, one of the most prolific writers and journalists on climate change and author of the recent book on energy, “Deep Economy,” opined on the state of king coal, and his frustration over a lack of a political movement to fight … Read More »

The Windows environment is beholden to those hardware drivers that lets your components talk to the OS.  It’s a constant battle to keep these drivers updated as they come from all the different makers of the hardware hidden within your system.  The first step to determining … Read More »

We use a fair bit of Apple products and with the exception of a few Genius Bar trips have been pretty happy with how well they work.  That’s not always the case as Xavier of notebooks.com will tell you as he’s run into a … Read More »

John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks, which powers streaming for ABC.com, FOX.com and ESPN360.com, told us today people are spending more than an hour per session watching content Move provides. He also said that the company has crossed the 34 million viewer … Read More »

Rickrolling, the trick of getting people to click on links to a kooky music video (and our coworker Katie‘s favorite stunt EVER), has been all over the news lately, but until now nobody spoke publicly with singer Rick Astley about … Read More »

Thought of the Day: Questions vs. Answers

[Scott] Cook has an unusual ability to ask the right questions (which my partner Vinod Khosla insists is more important than getting the right answers; in business, there are often several right answers),” writes VC John Doerr, of Intuit founder Scott Cook, … Read More »

Velocix, the UK-based content delivery service provider formerly known as CacheLogic, introduced a new line of live streaming solutions today, including live P2P streaming. Velocix is already working with a number of broadcasters, such as the BBC, as well as video startups such as … Read More »

Nuclear's Back in the USA and Toshiba Wants In

It was questionable whether the much-blogged-about Toshiba micro nuclear reactor was legit or not, but Toshiba does sell nuclear tech and it’s spending a lot of money trying to break into the U.S. market. The latest comes this afternoon: power company Read More »

WiMAX in the U.S. has been a bit on the ropes, but it isn’t dead yet. And if you believe The Wall Street Journal, a miraculous comeback maybe in the offering, thanks to some deep-pocketed cable companies’ willingness to write megamillion-dollar checks. The WSJ reports that … Read More »

Few Details On Sequoia-Backed CDN Startup Cotendo

Earlier today some blogs reported that Sequoia Capital had invested in Cotendo, a content delivery company based in Israel. The reports didn’t offer much details in terms of technology and the people involved with the project. Thanks to some helpful friends in Israel and … Read More »

More Must Reads

Jeff Nolan, reformed VC sums up the current Valley situation perfectly. As I survey the landscape of consumer and business focused software and service providers I am struck by how much incrementalism there is at the moment. Something like Twitter is ground breaking in terms of break … Read More »

AES, Riverstone Make $1B Solar Entry: Virginia-based power company AES and New York private equity firm Riverstone are each putting $500 million into the new joint venture, called AES Solar, which will be an owner, operator and developer of utility-scale photovoltaic power projects – Cleantech … Read More »

If you’re like me, you spend more time in Microsoft Word than any other software application. Those hours really add up, as I’ve mentioned before, and that’s why it’s good to constantly collect tips on how to be more efficient in Word. In this post, I’ll … Read More »

The British government’s top environmental advisers had some choice words on the recent push for more biofuels. Bob Watson, chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, warned of a “perverse outcome” saying “If one started to use biofuels…and in reality … Read More »

5 Sites That Want Your Janky Gadgets: Amidst the flurry of carbon credits, lead-free electronics and green everything, the truth of the matter is that folks who are truly green don’t buy a lot of stuff. At least the tech industry’s providing online communities and services … Read More »

OK, this one isn’t exactly for the faint of heart. I didn’t know it until I was on camera, but the RAM slot for the Q1 Ultra Premium isn’t in the same spot as earlier models. It’s actually underneath a motherboard, so you have to not … Read More »

Web 2.0 Expo returns to San Francisco April 22-25, at Moscone West. Now in its second year, the Expo will feature nine tracks, over 100 sessions, more than 150 exhibitors, Web2Open — an “unconference” — and more. Recent additions to … Read More »

Who says the city of angels is an old media town? We put out the call and new media folks came in droves to pack the Cat and the Fiddle last night for our first-ever NewTeeVee meetup in Los Angeles. Thanks to everyone who partied with … Read More »

For some web workers, Twitter has become an essential tool. Apart from the “water cooler” socialization aspect, it’s turned into a great way to tap into the lazyweb. Ask a question about coding, or marketing, or most anything else, and someone … Read More »

Typhoon Touch is making a business out of suing Tablet makers for alleged patent infringements and today have sued TabletKiosk, Electrovaya and Xplore Technologies for touch screen patent infringements.  Typhoon Touch had previously sued Dell and Motion Computing for the same violations and so far only … Read More »

Amidst the flurry of carbon credits, lead-free electronics and green everything, the truth of the matter is that folks who are truly green don’t buy a lot of stuff. But that’s no way to push products, so we’re stuck with greenwashing. The technology industry is as … Read More »

On-demand computing promises two things. One, the ability to grow or shrink capacity based on need. And two, the ability to drag and drop virtual machines instead of racking and stacking physical ones. With today’s on-demand services, although the machines are virtual, they still need to be … Read More »

Felicia Day, Sandeep Parikh and Kim Evey of the hit web series The Guild stopped by our NewTeeVee Meetup in L.A. last night. And while they left their trophies at home, they did chat about their recent run of award wins (and who … Read More »

Online video’s collective bank account expands a little bit every day; SpongeFish, Viewdle, Cotendo, and (possibly) Tudou have received new money. SpongeFish received $2 million to join in the already-crowded field of user-generated how-to sites. It’s going up against some pretty heavy hitters with deep … Read More »

There go the social networking neighborhoods! Google, Yahoo and MySpace are taking a page from the Mozilla Foundation by creating a nonprofit foundation to control and maintain the OpenSocial code, which allows developers to build applications that work on a variety of social networks. … Read More »

Today, Israeli water tech company AqWise, which uses a bio-based film to treat waste water, announced it has closed a $3.6 million round of financing. Israel’s venerable and growing water technology sector keeps offering more solutions for purification and treatment. The current … Read More »

There are plenty of note-taking applications out there; we’ve reviewed a fair number of them. So what makes the new beta version of Evernote stand out? For starters, they support a good number of clients, all synchronizing the same data: … Read More »

SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due to softening consumer demand. Already the worst performing tech stock for the year, shares of SiRF nosedived in early trading … Read More »

Microsoft has teamed up with Facebook, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and LinkedIn to allow people to transfer their contacts between the five networks and Microsoft’s Windows Live Service. It’s a start in being able to access some of the data locked into a social profile, but it’s … Read More »

Let’s face is it: Shame can be a much stronger driver of behavioral change than positive reinforcement. A mandatory note on my Facebook page that lets everyone know how much I’ve driven, or how many plane flights I’ve taken since the beginning of 2008, … Read More »

Next iPhone to do Video Chat? Digg founder Kevin Rose claims 3G version of the device will have both front- and back-mounted cameras. (He’s been wrong before about iPhone predictions, though.) (Apple Insider) Imeem Launches Media Platform; in addition to providing tools, company will also provide … Read More »

Yahoo announced yesterday it would collaborate with CRL to make supercomputing resources available to researchers in India. The announcement comes on the heels of Yahoo’s Feb. 19 claim to have the world’s largest Hadoop-based application now that it’s moved the search webmap … Read More »

Think your current system is pretty well organized to get things done? It’s possible that you could still learn a thing from Office 2.0 expert Ismael Ghalimi, who uses his system to manage over 200 projects encompassing over 500 tasks. If that inspires you, and you’d … Read More »

Although the US Postal Service seems to have delivered my 6-cell battery to someone else, it was nice to see FedEx arrive early this morning with … Read More »

Writer Jake Lentz helps craft Jimmy Kimmel’s words for his late-night show monologue every night; Lentz says he prefers the title “scribe-helmer.” His show has been putting out some of the best viral stuff on the web these days — Sarah Silverman’s “I’m … Read More »

The web continues to quake with aftershocks of “Safari-gate”: the Apple Software Update that installs Safari 3.1 for Windows by default. I tend to side with the … Read More »

With the move to Intel Macs, Apple set the stage for increased gaming opportunities and went so far as to promise OS X users more titles to choose from since they are “working closely” with the premier development houses to ensure OS X is considered a … Read More »

West University Place in the Houston area has passed an ordinance banning the usage of cell phones in school zones.  The ordinance is intended to make school … Read More »

GPS chip maker SiRF Technology has reduced first-quarter sales estimates and implemented a cost-savings plan that will cost about 50 people their jobs and result in the closure of SiRF’s offices in Stockholm and South San Francisco. Aside from general economic malaise softening demand for … Read More »

For the past month, I’ve felt like a doctor who has suddenly become the patient. In my case, however, it is a very good thing. What ails me, you ask? Nothing serious. I’ve just hired a Web designer for the first time ever to redesign my … Read More »

Solid state disks (SSDs) have the opportunity to revolutionize computing technology, especially mobile tech.  The lack of moving parts and the speed of data transfer can make any … Read More »

If you’re a member of a distributed team, it’s hard to keep up with all your team mates. Multiply this by all the different online outlets that make up our online ‘identity’. Here’s an example: You’re a team who is swapping photos and gathering feedback on … Read More »

I found this old New Yorker cartoon, by Sidney Harris, courtesy of a columnist over at Inc. magazine, and it made me smile. Just about every founder (whether we admit it or not) has the fantasy, or nightmare, of at least one Black … Read More »

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