Researchers at MIT say they have delivered a major breakthrough in storing solar energy, inspired by photosynthesis and using a catalyst made up of cobalt metal. In a paper published today in Science, MIT professor of energy, Daniel Nocera, says he’s developed a process that… Read More »
Archive for July 2008
NEAT Receipts has been selling their pint-sized scanners and associated software for about five years now. Recently they put out an “advanced release” of their Mac software – the “advanced” part because it doesn’t yet have all the features of their established PC software. But it… Read More »
We’re tracking a stealth startup called Onecast and/or 1cast that was apparently founded and funded by Craig McCaw, based on a tip from a commenter whom we have reason to believe may work for the company. The main guy at Onecast seems to be… Read More »
Akamai Says Traffic is Up, But Content Owners Spending Less; Dan Rayburn cries foul on the reasoning, says more content coming online, economy is not hurting the CDN’s business. (Streaming Media Blog) Disney Credits Internet for Revenue Bump; ratings slump on ABC was offset by higher… Read More »
Psystar has officially decided to not go down without a fight. They requested more time to respond to the suit brought forth by Apple and are represented by lawyers from the firm Carr & Ferrell, ComputerWorld reports. They have until August 18th, if this… Read More »
The California Clean Tech Open is broadening its horizons and will be taking its clean tech business plan competition to the mountains to accept submissions for the first Colorado Clean Tech Open in Spring of 2009, CCTO Programs Director Brian Prayer announced last night. Members… Read More »
BlackBerry owners gained transit maps on Google a few weeks back and now it’s time for the S60 and Windows Mobile handsets to jump on board. You’ll… Read More »
GE Energy Financial Services and Spanish holding company Landon Corporate Group say they will invest a combined $350 million into Spanish solar developer Fotowatio. GE will invest $235 million to acquire 32 percent of Fotowatio and the Landon Corporate Group will invest $118 million… Read More »
Since we’ve already highlighted one tech site’s new functionality, why not keep the trend rolling with another? Steve Paine’s UMPC Portal caught my "i", that is, my… Read More »
Your Truman Show, which previously launched a personal video sharing portal and then a video-sharing Facebook app and widget called VideoMap, is now going after a different market. Today the company a announcing its new, yet-to-be-released product called Taglift, a collaborative filtering… Read More »
If you build software or web applications, sooner or later you need to ask what actual users think of your software. Silverback is a new OS X package designed to make this process simple and easy. Set it up on… Read More »
Nokia owners on the Mac platform can now rejoice as word has arrived that the Missing Sync for Symbian is now available. Your contacts, calendars and tasks on the Mac can… Read More »
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