Netbooks originally came with a form of Linux installed to keep them easy to use and cheap. Then models started appearing with Windows XP inside and that appealed to many consumers who snapped them up. It is often a case of the familiar (XP) versus the… Read More »
Archive for January 2009
On Tuesday, I visited Dell’s Data Center Solutions group, a separate unit inside the computing giant that design, builds and sells servers for companies that need a huge, highly scalable server infrastructure. I also was given the rare opportunity to visit the testing lab. Alas, I… Read More »
Wikipedia Ramps Up for Video; expecting a crush of video uploads in the coming years, the sum of all human knowledge boosts its storage to 48 terabytes. (Network World) IPTV to Grow 32 Percent Annually Over the Next Six Years; cable and satellite growth rates will… Read More »
Electric vehicle infrastructure startup Better Place has been on a roll, convincing countries, and lately U.S. states, to test out its network of chargers and battery swap stations. So why not our neighbors up north? According to the Toronto Star and the Globe and… Read More »
More than 70 applications have been submitted to the Department of Energy seeking loans under its Advanced Auto Loan program, which aims to help companies build the next-generation of cleaner vehicles, a DOE spokesperson told us on Wednesday. The program was created under Section 136,… Read More »
Call it World of Greencraft: At a recent climate change conference at sponsored by Stanford University, Byron Reeves, a professor there, proposed an unlikely marriage of online gaming and consumer smart meters. Instead of just displaying incremental changes in energy consumption on… Read More »
Google Video‘s sad saga has nearly come to an end. But Google for some reason still hasn’t completely pulled the plug. Amidst a slew of product cuts on Wednesday, the company said the service would stop accepting video uploads “in a few months.” An… Read More »
Marble Interface To Be The New Face of OS X? – According to MacRumors, Snow Leopard could bring a facelift to OS X, one which bring a more consistent look across the operating system. They don’t name their source, but they do cite John… Read More »
When President-elect Barack Obama asked Congress to delay the transition that will force broadcasters to switch from analog TV signals to digital ones last week, we noted that the move could cause trouble for companies planning to use the newly available spectrum for new technologies.… Read More »
Last year might have been a record year for cleantech investing, but the first half of 2009 will be a lot more “subdued,” according to research from New Energy Finance. While New Energy Finance said that global clean energy investing figures hit a new… Read More »
If I could take my iPhone and turn it into a mobile TV, I’d be in heaven. That hasn’t happened yet, but the latest version of i.TV — a free application you can find in Apple’s App Store — tries to help. The recently-released Version… Read More »
I am in San Francisco for the next few days and I just found out that an evaluation HP Mini 2140 netbook is sitting at Mobile Tech Manor waiting to be unboxed. The 2140 is HP’s refresh of the 2133 with the same aluminum casing and… Read More »
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