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Coldplay Up for Pre-order

Coldplay, that rockin’ British band has a new CD coming out in June, and if you pre-order now, you can get the title track today and also receive an acoustic version of the song “Lovers in Japan.” The single “Violet Hill,” which you can listen to… Read More »

Jangl, a Pleasanton, Calif-based startup that launched with much fanfare and lot of promise, ran out of time, and is headed towards an ignominious end. Venturebeat had first reported that Jangl was looking to sell itself earlier this week. Jangl is not the only VoIP… Read More »

 
 

EnerNOC's Mixed Bag of Earnings Numbers

EnerNOC delivered first-quarter earnings Wednesday that were a mixed bag. The company beat Wall Street estimates, which is always nice; but its operating loss nearly tripled from the previous year to $11.7 million, which is not so nice. The net loss of 57 cents a… Read More »

TorrentSpy 0, Hollywood $111,000,000

Hollywood studios won legal victory against file sharing today, as a judge awarded a $111 million judgment against BitTorrent site TorrentSpy for copyright infringement. But the MPAA, which represented the studios, shouldn’t spend that money yet. Valence Media, which operated TorrentSpy shut the site down… Read More »

The Daily Sprout

Record Windy Year: The American Wind Energy Association says the if the pace of wind installations keeps going like it did in the first quarter of 2008, there will be a record 5,600 megawatts of power installed this year — MarketWatch. Poulsen Hybrid an Auto X-Prize… Read More »

We haven’t had a dual-chat about the Lenovo IdeaPad U110, so today I got a better look at it. James also has an advance look at some software that I’m sure folks will want when it gets released. If you surf the web on a handheld… Read More »

GigaNET PM: Cloud Storage, Brazilian Biofuels

Web Worker Daily: Three cloud storage services, and two of them aren’t Amazon S3. NewTeeVee: Viacom and YouTube won’t be settling their $1 billion copyright infringement battle out of court. OStatic: A bushel of free open-source apps, all in one easy download. Read More »

Teens in Tech Conference Discounts

Teenagers are the quintessential early adopters. They’re also among the most active and interested technology consumers out there. Find out what they’re excited about, what they’re working on, and how to reach them at the second annual Teens in Tech Conference, which will be held… Read More »

Flagship Store for Nike and Apple

Finish Line Ltd., in Chandler, AZ, opened today announcing an exclusive partnership with Apple and Nike where people can “come in and test run a Nike product, find a local running route and get completely hooked up into Nike+.” This is a concept… Read More »

If you’re involved with development, design or application delivery on the web, it makes increasing sense to look into free open source tools that can help you. Over on OStatic, the GigaOm blog on open source that I edit, we’ve recently covered many of… Read More »

Yesterday we wrote that the Microsoft Zune was like the football character Rudy, only it turns out that the Zune is actually more like Rudy’s uptight college R.A.. One of the reasons NBC went with Microsoft, according to The New York Times, is because… Read More »

GRAHL’s PDF Annotator 2 beta available

One of my favorite Tablet PC applications, PDF Annotator, is about to hit a new version. PDF Annotator 2 is currently in beta and you can download it for free right… Read More »

More Must Reads

Since I can’t use the GPS in my USB 727, I might look into Haicom’s itty-bitty GPS module. The HI-408BT looks small, light and runs continiously for… Read More »

There are many online project management offerings on the web including Projjex (previously covered), Basecamp, and Zoho Project. A relatively new entrant to the market is 5pm, a product is built by a very… Read More »

For some answers to that question, you can turn to the relatively new site Where We Do What We Do. Here you’ll find thumbnails and pictures of about five dozen (at the moment) workspaces, heavily skewed towards home offices. You… Read More »

As global food prices rise and food riots rock the developing world, grain-based biofuels are coming under heavy fire. But a new grain-based ethanol startup has just secured $300 million for barley-based fuel and it claims its methods won’t impact food supplies… Read More »

The best sign that someone’s qualified to run an Internet startup may not be an MBA degree, but level 70 guild leader status, according to the latest issue of Harvard Business Review. “Leadership’s Online Labs” by Byron Reeves, Thomas W. Malone, and Tony O’Driscoll is… Read More »

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