June, 2008 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2008

The first item up for review has already reached the new Mobile Tech Manor and I’ll be giving it a look today for future publication.  The folks at BlueAnt have sent… Read More »

Novomer, a startup that uses recycled carbon dioxide to make polymers and plastics, said this morning it has started selling its first product: the unsexy-sounding “NB-180,” made from a little less than half carbon dioxide. NB-180 is a class of products called sacrificial binders, which… Read More »

 
 

NTV Demos the Zv

The ZvBox is one of the many contenders looking to bring Internet content to your TV set. It basically turns your oldteevee into a remote desktop that lets you watch anything from PC on your TV (see our previous coverage). But instead of just… Read More »

ScreenSteps is a desktop application (available for both OS X and Windows) designed to make it easy to document processes that take place in a step-by-step fashion. After installing ScreenSteps, you can create a library of lessons; each lesson is… Read More »

Get your satire meters cranked up: AT&T has come up with an advertising effort designed to shame you into paying your bills online (thanks, Consumerist). The telecommunications company that got into hot water with warrantless wiretapping is pushing its online bill payments with… Read More »

I have said it before and I’m sure I will say it again, the only distinguishing features the increasingly large crop of mini-notebooks have over their "normal" laptop cousins are size and price.  Let’s face it, mini-notebooks are just laptops with lots of the same features… Read More »

Sure, there’s no official eBook software available for the Nintendo DS, but you do have a few options if you need a break from Mario Kart. The DS does have WiFi… Read More »

Coworking or Noworking?

The New York Times continues its love affair with the notion of coworking with last Friday’s Working Alone in a Group by Lisa Belkin. Quickly realizing her home is not conducive to a productive working environment, Belkin experimented with coworking at Stamford CT’s Read More »

Is it me or is Asus taking the whole Eee PC concept a little too far? I was all for some welcome updates on the original 701, like… Read More »

We spoke with Altairnano’s former CEO Alan Gotcher back in January when the Reno, Nev.-based battery maker had just inked a $2.5 million deal with the Navy. Two months later Gotcher agreed to resign because the board “determined that the level… Read More »

Quite a few more details about Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade, the original AdSense series we’ve been tracking avidly, are divulged in a New York Times profile in Monday’s edition. Not much in the way of juicy deets about the actual content of the show,… Read More »

Update: Tesla has decided to manufacture its electric sedan, newly named “Model S,” in California. We attended the press event and got the details from Governor Schwarzenegger, Treasure Bill Lockyer, and Tesla execs Ze’ev Drori and Elon Musk. Read all about it here. Tesla just sent… Read More »

More Must Reads

What if there were a way to write and run enterprise applications that you could move from cloud to cloud? And what if that application automatically inherited the best things about that cloud without locking you in? DreamFactory may do just that. And as such, it may… Read More »

PopTok wants to expand your IM and email communication beyond “:)”s and “LOLs” with snippets from popular movies, TV shows and music. The service, which goes into private beta today, has licensed content from major studios and chopped it up into little tiny 2 –… Read More »

North America’s first carbon tax is set to roll out this coming Tuesday in the Canadian province British Columbia. This means British Columbians can start expecting to pay even more at the pump and to their utility as the tax will apply to transportation fuels… Read More »

Looks like venture capitalists’ attempts to “go green” mean there are fewer venture-backed IPOs out there. Not a single venture-backed company went public in the second quarter of this year, says the New York Times this weekend, citing data from the National Venture Capital… Read More »

Kevin may think he’s all productive working in the clouds but he’s got nothing on me as I am REALLY working in the clouds: Read More »

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