Cellulosic ethanol maker Verenium might have an important partner in UK oil giant BP, but it still can’t help the company from the pitfalls of the difficult capital markets. This morning Verenium says that it is moving forward with a previously announced joint venture with… Read More »
Archive for February 2009
http://www.youtube.com/v/VmjxmOtNZCk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 I continue to get e-mails from readers that have already dismissed the Palm Pre for one main reason. What is it? Folks believe that you won’t be able to run applications without connectivity. Bzzzt, wrong answer… thank you for playing! Palm never said that WebOS… Read More »
Nokia said today it has received a €500 million loan ($630 million) from the European Investment Bank to help it further develop Symbian and keep it competitive with other mobile operating systems. The loan may change the math we’ve done on the likelihood of… Read More »
Normally, industry analysts are a talkative, confident bunch, but generally speaking, they are like old fisherman, spinning yarns and telling tales that have become exaggerated through constant retelling. Recent comments by leading Apple analyst Toni Sacconaghi, however, actually came out of discussions with a very… Read More »
Comcast said this morning it plans to roll out its super-fast DOCSIS 3.0 network to 65 percent of its footprint by the end of 2009, and upgrade subscribers in those markets to a minimum speed of 12 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up at no charge… Read More »
This keg is tapped. Bud.TV, the high-profile online video site from Anheuser-Busch, has served its last video, and now only has a message that reads: “Bud.tv is no longer available. We’d like to thank millions of viewers from over 200 countries for visiting us over… Read More »
The U.K. press is reporting this morning that online networking may be damaging to your health. A few articles, including a particularly sensationalist piece by the Daily Mail, “How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer,” are reporting the latest findings from every… Read More »
Congratulations are in order this morning to Matt Marshall and his team over at VentureBeat. Matt has agreed to take the reins of the technology launchpad conference DEMO, replacing Chris Shipley after a very successful 13-year run. VentureBeat and DEMO parent company IDG will co-produce… Read More »
I forget things. I lose things. I’ve resigned myself to accept these facts at this stage of my life and am in constant search for tools and processes to help pick up the slack where my aging, overloaded brain leaves off. When I find a tool… Read More »
Despite Google’s talk that energy data should be free and accessible to everyone, at this point it’s mostly owners of commercial and industrial buildings that have been investing in often expensive and complex energy monitoring systems. But startups like Lucid Design Group, a 5-year-old… Read More »
This is a bit off-topic although it is a great concept to put technology for diabetics into the mobile arena. I am an insulin-taking diabetic and for those who are not in that special club it’s hard to understand how this can end up taking… Read More »
Sprint today reported a loss of $1.62 billion, which looks much better than the nearly $30 billion loss it reported a year ago at this time, thanks to its writedown of Nextel. However, the carrier is still struggling with subscriber losses (it plans… Read More »
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