Archive for June 16, 2008
The set-top box wars are heating as HP goes from just talking about its MediaSmart Connect to actually putting it on the market. We already know a bit about the device: It plugs into your HD TV and allows you to wirelessly access your digital … Read More »
Brightcove tonight is launching a new version of its platform that “competes directly with Move Networks,” SVP Marketing and Strategy Adam Berrey told us today. Nothing like putting a target on your enemy’s back! Brightcove, which is especially strong with news media customers and … Read More »
BioSolar Preps for Full-Scale Production: BioSolar makes solar cell components from plants and has partnered with plastic fabricator Rowland Technologies to start manufacturing on a commercial scale – BioSolar.
Fuel Costs Do Change Your Driving: The Economist graphs out how fuel prices relate to vehicle miles … Read More »
The passing of Tim Russert, a man I greatly admired, came as the result of a massive heart attack, an event that cannot be predicted. Having suffered a heart attack myself earlier this year, I know this firsthand — the heart is no match for … Read More »
Earth2Tech: Tech giants are going solar. Intel spins out (and funds) SpectraWatt.
NewTeeVee: BitTorrent client, Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has gone social and more webby.
OStatic: Open source is everywhere: electoral voting & census are two of the more interesting mainstream … Read More »
Michael Crandell is CEO and co-founder of RightScale Inc., a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company that offers a cloud computing management platform, tools and services.
We’re heading quickly into the next big chapter of the Internet revolution, with tremendous buzz and excitement around the development of cloud … Read More »
NewTeeVee Station, your hot new resource and debate center for online video, is almost a week old! If it were a baby human, it’d barely be able to look you in the eye. But because it is a baby website, it’s got a … Read More »
Recently, I did a post on productivity tips for Microsoft Word. In addition to tips and keyboard shortcuts, there are also a lot of useful add-ins you can use with Word. They’re especially helpful for tasks such as managing tables, checking to make sure that … Read More »
Just an opinion here as I read various observations on how slow Origami Experience 2.0 is running for some people. While it appears from commenters that you can run … Read More »
As the market for solar continues to grow, the tech giants are starting to wade in. After IBM said today that it will work on thin-film solar technology, Intel said that it has spun out and funded a solar startup called SpectraWatt. Both … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Alistair Croll
Jun. 16, 2008, 2:56pm PT
The case of Judge Alex Kozinski has a lot to teach us about privacy and community standards on the Internet.
Here’s a quick summary of events so far: Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was presiding over an obscenity case when the … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Jun. 16, 2008, 2:00pm PT
Email addresses have a certain inertia: once you’ve started sending an address around, it can be very tough to change. But what do you do when you have an existing email address on the web, and a new desktop or mobile … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Jun. 16, 2008, 1:53pm PT
Fuel cell vehicles made by Honda are now rolling off a production line in Japan and will be heading to eager customers in California come July, the auto maker said today. The car, the FCX Clarity, represents the latest move from a major car maker … Read More »
By Jethro Jones
Jun. 16, 2008, 12:16pm PT
When you buy the new iPhone, are you going to jailbreak it? Are you really a closet Windows fanboy? If you answered yes to each of these questions, then the VistaPerfection 2.0 iPhone Theme by Spec Works was created just for you.
It is very customizable … Read More »
The popular BitTorrent media platform Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, is releasing a major update later today that offers some social features as well as a web-wide search functionality. Users of the new client version 3.1 will be able to connect to their friends … Read More »
By Muhammad Saleem
Jun. 16, 2008, 12:00pm PT
There was a time not too long ago when the business implications of social media were unclear; resistance to it on the part of corporations, therefore, was somewhat understandable. Web 2.0 seemed like just the next Internet fad in a series of many, and while it … Read More »
Local business video ad platform Jivox said today that it’s raised $10.7 million in first-round funding from Opus Capital and Helion Venture Partners. Jivox claims strong growth, but it also appears that it has lowered its video advertising CPM prices since launching in March. … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Jun. 16, 2008, 11:00am PT
Everyone knows by now that you should use a unique password for every web site that requires one, and that those passwords should be tough to guess. But managing all of those passwords is tough, and it gets tougher if you’re a roaming web worker who … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Jun. 16, 2008, 10:51am PT
How does a company sell more cell phones in a cutthroat, competitive market? Launch new so-called “green” models. This morning Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung said at the World IT Show in Seoul that it will start selling two eco-friendly handsets this month. The first … Read More »
Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate are duking it out in an 18-hole playoff right now, and thanks to NBC, you can watch it live (on the sly, at work). Can the underdog, Mediate, topple the mighty Tiger?
Hat tip to Lost Remote.
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Internet video will account for half of all consumer Internet traffic by 2012, according to new research from Cisco. In its Visual Networking Index (PDF), the company says video already accounts for a quarter of all consumer Internet traffic, a number that will rise to … Read More »
I like watching the Travel Channel and getting to explore new places to see if I might like traveling there in the future. I was very pleased this weekend to hear from the folks at the Travel Channel who shared with me an upcoming service called … Read More »
Backchannel Media Makes TV Ads Interactive (Kinda); company’s technology inserts an icon into a TV ad that, when clicked on by remote control, sends a link to the user’s portal for more information. (The New York Times)
Angel of Death to Go DVD Via the Web; … Read More »
By Om Malik
Jun. 16, 2008, 8:37am PT
Cisco predicts that traffic on the world’s networks will increase 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. Given the rise in usage by new economies around the world, it’s a forecast that makes sense. Continue Reading.
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By Craig Rubens
Jun. 16, 2008, 8:30am PT
IBM, with years of experience designing chips and LCD displays, is jumping into the solar sector — but not just silicon-based solar. Big Blue has announced a new joint effort with chip gear maker Tokyo Ohka Kogyo to develop thin-film solar panels based … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Jun. 16, 2008, 8:00am PT
Surely most WWD readers know that Firefox 3 is coming – we’ve certainly written about it enough. But if you’re not paying obsessive attention, you may not know that the official release date is tomorrow, June 17. Unlike some other packages, … Read More »
Nokia has unleashed two new phones today aimed squarely at the business market and both the E66 and the E71 have features designed for the mobile professional. The E66 is a slider phone that auto-rotates between portrait and landscape orientations when the phone is turned, not … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Jun. 16, 2008, 7:43am PT
By Josh Pigford
Jun. 16, 2008, 7:40am PT
By Imran Ali
Jun. 16, 2008, 7:00am PT
I’m constantly surprised at the cutely obvious names of some web services – finding a brand name that’s sublimely obvious but if successful is very likely to be as linguistically ubiquitous as ‘googling’ or ‘hoovering’. Shoeboxed may just well be one such brand – I … Read More »
YuMe said today it had scored a deal to provide video ads for Microsoft. There hasn’t been a ton of high-profile adoption of video advertising startups’ tools, so even though the arrangement only covers Microsoft’s unsold inventory, it’s a good validation. The ads are … Read More »
Crackle launched “season 2″ of its C-Spot comedy web series this morning. The good news? It’s dropped most of the dead weight from season one and kept The Roadents. The bad news? Most of the replacement shows still aren’t funny.
There is one … Read More »
By Celine Roque
Jun. 16, 2008, 6:00am PT
Ever had those clients who demand so much of your time? How about those who keep asking you questions with incredibly obvious answers? All web workers have had difficult clients, at least once in their career. Wouldn’t it be great if we could … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Jun. 16, 2008, 5:00am PT
Designing sustainable products for the consumer that spends just $2 a day can be a dual challenge: The goods have to be cheap and eco-friendly. That’s the hurdle facing D.Light, a startup that is officially announcing its products this morning. The company, which is … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Jun. 16, 2008, 12:00am PT
We figured the hardcore backyard hobbyists would be the ones most impressed with the DIY ethanol technology coming out of startups like E-Fuel Corp., which plans to sell a washer-and-dryer-sized home ethanol system for around $10,000. But will we one day all be home ethanol … Read More »
