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Coldplay Up for Pre-order

By Jethro Jones May. 7, 2008, 9:54pm PT 2 Comments

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 »

Like Jangl, TalkPlus Losing Its Voice As Well

By Om Malik May. 7, 2008, 9:52pm PT 22 Comments

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

By Kevin Kelleher May. 7, 2008, 9:00pm PT Comments Off

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

By May. 7, 2008, 8:50pm PT Comments Off

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

By Katie Fehrenbacher May. 7, 2008, 6:00pm PT Comments Off

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 »

jkOnTheRun Geek Session: More of the U110 and a surprise application

By May. 7, 2008, 4:51pm PT 17 Comments

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

By Edit Staff May. 7, 2008, 4:30pm PT Comments Off

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

By Edit Staff May. 7, 2008, 4:16pm PT Comments Off

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

By Jethro Jones May. 7, 2008, 4:09pm PT Comments Off

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 »

More than 5 Free, Open Source Tools for Web Developers

By Samuel Dean May. 7, 2008, 4:00pm PT Comments Off

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 »

Will the Zune Be a Narc?

By May. 7, 2008, 2:30pm PT 4 Comments

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

By May. 7, 2008, 2:29pm PT Comments Off

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
Haicom’s Bluetooth GPS: perfect for a small notebook or UMPC
By May. 7, 2008, 2:11pm PT 2 Comments

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 »

5pm Might be a Good Time for Project Management
By Jason Harris May. 7, 2008, 2:00pm PT 19 Comments

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 »

Where do Web Workers Work?
By Mike Gunderloy May. 7, 2008, 2:00pm PT Comments Off

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 »

Osage Bio Energy Fuels Up With $300M for Barley Ethanol
By Craig Rubens May. 7, 2008, 1:53pm PT 5 Comments

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 »

World Of CEO-craft
By Wagner James Au May. 7, 2008, 1:36pm PT 16 Comments

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 »

Mobile broadband in the US
By May. 7, 2008, 1:12pm PT Comments Off

I get a lot of questions about the various mobile broadband options in the US as a lot of folks are considering opening up their mobile options.  Mobile broadband provides a solid platform … Read More »

UPDATE: DVD-by-Mail Users Stuck in the Past
By May. 7, 2008, 12:29pm PT 10 Comments

UPDATE: Well, go ahead and affix the dunce cap to my head. As many commenters pointed out, I misinterpreted the Netflix Top 100 list. I had contacted Netflix earlier in the week before writing the story to learn how the list was created and didn’t hear … Read More »

RTEV Hunts for Mid-Class Electric Vehicle
By Craig Rubens May. 7, 2008, 11:45am PT 1 Comment

It’s a bit of an oxymoron, but hunters can actually be outspoken environmental stewards. And now those green Elmer Fudds can zip about the wilderness in search of game in all-electric style. Electric vehicle startup RTEV officially launched yesterday and is marketing its … Read More »

BostonPocketPC continues the Dragon giveaway
By May. 7, 2008, 11:01am PT 3 Comments

It’s a new day and that means there’s a new giveaway of an HP HDX Dragon Notebook system, just like the one we’re giving away here on jkOnTheRun.  There’s a new contest starting every day for the 31 days and today it’s over at Read More »

Three Cloud Storage Alternatives
By Mike Gunderloy May. 7, 2008, 11:00am PT 15 Comments

There’s certainly no shortage of places online to store your files these days. Indeed, sometimes it seems hard to find a web 2.0 site that doesn’t allow you to upload files. Whether it’s attachments in GMail, files in Basecamp, or pure online storage at sites like … Read More »

MC Gravellahellacopter up in This Hizzouse
By May. 7, 2008, 10:47am PT 2 Comments

Mike Gravel, now running as a Libertarian candidate for president of the United States, apparently knows a thing or two about pandering to pop culture and tech geeks. In a video released today by Barely Political, he woos Obama Girl in song, dances the … Read More »

Ruckus Kicks Up a Fuss Over Wi-Fi
By Matthew Hirsch May. 7, 2008, 10:47am PT Comments Off

If Ruckus Wireless wins a recently filed lawsuit against Netgear, the Wi-Fi tech developer might want to send a thank-you note to the Patent and Trademark Office. Ruckus sued Netgear and another wireless network developer, Rayspan, in federal court this week, claiming that … Read More »

That Big Project and Your Relationship
By Pamela Poole May. 7, 2008, 10:00am PT 5 Comments

I’ve heard it said that a lot of relationships don’t survive grad school because it can be so intense. I imagine the same could be said for startups and other major projects. There’s been a lot written about startup challenges, but I haven’t seen much discussion … Read More »

Vid-Biz: Fora.TV, Blinkx, Net Neutrality
By May. 7, 2008, 9:46am PT Comments Off

Fora.TV Raises $4 Million; high-brow video aggregator closes Series A from William Randolph Hearst III, Adobe Ventures and others. (Beet.tv) Blinkx Starts Content Management Service; the Advanced Media Platform automates content discovery, indexing, distribution and presentation on a publisher’s site. (MediaPost) Congressional Panel Split on Net … Read More »

DOE Still Throwing Money at Carbon Capture, $126M
By Craig Rubens May. 7, 2008, 9:21am PT 3 Comments

Those still hoping clean coal will become a reality can take comfort in the knowledge that tax dollars are still funding carbon capture and sequestration endeavors. Making good on its promise to fund a number of smaller, distributed projects to test the capture and storage of … Read More »

Settlement in Viacom vs. YouTube? “Nope”
By May. 7, 2008, 8:15am PT 4 Comments

Viacom and Google amped up their war of words over the past couple of days, as each side braces for a big fight in the looming $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit Viacom brought against Google-owned YouTube. Sumner Redstone fired off a round during a speech yesterday … Read More »

One to Watch: Delish
By Mike Gunderloy May. 7, 2008, 8:00am PT 5 Comments

I have a confession: even though I have a del.icio.us account with hundreds of bookmarks saved in it, I almost never look at it. That’s because the relentlessly textual presentation just doesn’t click with me. A new OS X del.icio.us … Read More »

49 Projects from the Energy Biosciences Institute
By Katie Fehrenbacher May. 7, 2008, 7:45am PT Comments Off

The Energy Biosciences Institute, a first-of-its-kind, half-a-billion-dollar partnership between energy giant BP and the labs of UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lawrence Berkeley National, has published its list of the first 49 projects it will fund to the tune of … Read More »

An Oddpost Reunion Of Sorts
By Om Malik May. 7, 2008, 7:19am PT 3 Comments

This week I caught up with Ethan Diamond, one of the co-founders of email startup Oddpost, which in 2004 was sold to Yahoo and became the Ajax-y interface for Yahoo’s Mail. I first met Ethan that same year, when I was researching my “The … Read More »

It’s official: billions have bailed Sprint, Clearwire from a WiMAX wipeout
By May. 7, 2008, 6:38am PT Comments Off

Nothing gives more hope to a floundering business like billions of dollars injected into it. That’s what just saved the largest WiMAX movement in the U.S. … Read More »

SightSpeed Offers Useful Video Conferencing
By Jason Harris May. 7, 2008, 6:00am PT 4 Comments

With travel costs rising each and every day, business are seeking ways to not only save money but be more conscience of the way their business practices are affecting the environment.  Video conferencing is a hot space currently with many options for web workers to choose … Read More »

Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet
By Allan Leinwand May. 7, 2008, 4:00am PT 79 Comments

Many of the Web 2.0 companies that I meet in my job as a venture capitalist lack even the most basic understanding of Internet operations. They’d better figure it out — and fast — because not doing so will only cost them money down the road. … Read More »

5 of Nerve’s 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies Worth Watching
By May. 7, 2008, 3:00am PT Comments Off

Nerve’s new list of comedy classics, The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time, is in some respects a pale imitation of its 50 Greatest Sketches of All Time list from last month. But I tried to find for you, dear reader, the five … Read More »

Primer: What You Need to Know About Brazilian Biofuels
By Craig Rubens May. 7, 2008, 12:00am PT 12 Comments

While U.S. ethanol producers are like teenagers in the global biofuels market, Brazil is like a mature adult, approaching middle age. The Brazilian government began investing heavily in ethanol infrastructure and R&D more than 30 years ago. Now the country, which produces 45 percent of … Read More »

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