When GoodGuide — a web site that rates products based on how “good” they are, in terms of social and environmental practices — launched in September founder Dara O’Rourke told us that the company had raised an undisclosed amount of funding from New… Read More »
Archive for January 2009
As President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in at 11:30 am in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon, the world is officially welcoming a dramatic shift in U.S. policy and federal support for renewable energy and the fight for climate change. It’s a shift that is coming… Read More »
Looks like Comcast’s new network management plan is drawing the ire of competing Voice over IP providers and the scrutiny of federal regulators. The plan, which is detailed here, basically slows bandwidth hogs broadband speeds during times of congestion at a particular node. Apparently,… Read More »
Ustream just let us know that Apple has approved its live-streaming application for the iPhone. This isn’t a huge breakthrough, since the video is only available over Wi-Fi and not 3G, but it’s a nice bit of timing for the startup given the demand… Read More »
Unlocked iPhone 3G Briefly On Sale in U.K. – It was only live for a second, but U.K. site Pixmania advertised today an iPhone for sale, unlocked and SIM-free for £499, which is pretty pricey. But that price buys you freedom to bring… Read More »
Partial to HSDPA over EV-DO and interested in the Novatel Wireless MiFi device announced last month? Have no fear, the FCC is here! Engadget Mobile noticed our wireless wizards at work in testing a GSM variant of the MiFi. There’s… Read More »
The FedEx guy (Ralph) showed up this afternoon with a big honking box from Apple. I was expecting the Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display so it wasn’t a surprise other than the size of the box. It was darn heavy too and I had to… Read More »
If you’re in the market for a DVD/CD burning solution for your Mac, you may be interested to hear that Freeridecoding has released an update to BurnAgain FS. The app is a CD/DVD multisession burning utility for Mac OS X, making it possible to repeatedly change… Read More »
Get your G1 playing pieces ready for the next round of Risk because Android is marching further into the EU territories. I don’t know if T-Mobile has a “Total World Domination” objective, but I wouldn’t underestimate any mobile army. Case in point: spies in… Read More »
In the lull between Christmas and New Years, Intel released its new Q9000 quad-core mobile processor, and PC maker Acer almost simultaneously its Q9000-powered Aspire 8930G-7665 “extreme gaming” and multimedia notebook computer with an 18″ 1920 x 1080 pixel 16:9 aspect ratio display. Many Mac notebook… Read More »
MoTR 159 is 18:40 minutes long and is a 17.1 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: We kick off a new year with shorter, more focused… Read More »
It’s not a good sign when an oil-rich emirate questions the economic viability of a massive offshore wind farm that’s already lost an investor. Masdar, the Abu Dhabi-backed cleantech group, told Reuters today that it’s reviewing the feasability of the 1,000-megawatt… Read More »
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