February, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for February 2009

Intel on Monday night filed suit to stop graphics chipmaker Nvidia from tying its graphics chips to certain future Intel CPUs. The suit filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery alleges that Nvidia doesn’t have the right to integrate a Nvida GPU with future Intel processors,… Read More »

James will be happy to hear this news, although I suspect a collective “woo hoo” will resound from other BlackBerry Storm owners as well. The latest and greatest version of Google Maps for the Storm takes advantage of the handset’s internal GPS radio. Google says… Read More »

 
 

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Back in the day, you used to have to count the hours until your favorite sports team took the field or court, and there was precious little to do in between games. Fortunately, now there are a metric ton of apps in the App Store that… Read More »

The iPhone and the Apple App Store may have set a new standard for design and availability of mobile apps, but the iPhone operates within the same decades-old voice quality constraints as other handsets. Indeed, the rapid pace of handset innovation does not change the fact… Read More »

There has been no shortage of projections that this will be a dark year for the solar market. Lux Research forecast nearly a year ago that solar supply would exceed demand in 2009. Last fall, the firm reiterated its prediction and said it expected… Read More »

We told you about the upcoming beta of the eReader application for the BlackBerry platform.  The lack of an eReader version that worked on my BlackBerry Storm threatened to prevent my adoption of the phone for everyday use.  The folks at Fictionwise couldn’t… Read More »

Vid-Biz: iTunes, Watchmen, Adidas.tv

Why Being a Hit on iTunes Isn’t So Great; Robert Seidman looks at the economics of being number one at Apple’s download store and find there just isn’t enough there yet. (TVbytheNumbers) FYI Signs Six-Figure Watchmen Promo Deal; deal includes integration into three episodes of Kyle… Read More »

When Verizon announced the possibility of LTE 4G services by the end of 2009, the skeptics came out. And rightly so since the fast wireless service is in its infancy stage with trials, proof-of-concepts and hardware still in the works. Today the company says… Read More »

At Earth2Tech, we’ve been poring over business plans and PowerPoint presentations for the past few weeks, searching for innovative young companies that are leveraging Internet and computing technologies to fight climate change to present at the upcoming Green:Net Launchpad on March 24. Given the overwhelming… Read More »

We’ve been poring over business plans and PowerPoint presentations for the past few weeks, searching for innovative young companies that are leveraging Internet and computing technologies to fight climate change. Given the overwhelming response, our mission has been to whittle down the many good candidates to… Read More »

Apple may or may not be thinking about it this way, but the iPhone App Store is fast becoming a moral battleground for the gaming and entertainment industry. Forget the ESRB, forget the MPAA, the new moral authority developers and studios have to contend with is Apple’s… Read More »

More Must Reads

OVGuide.com, an aggregator for video sites, raised $5 million from Baroda Ventures, the investment firm of David Bohnett, founder of GeoCities, who is also acting as OVGuide’s CEO. OVGuide says it uses a combination of video search and editorial to index video sites and their… Read More »

When we took our first steps in this world, our feet were unsure and our legs were struggling. The same could be said for freelancers who are venturing onto the web working path for the first time. There are bound to be mistakes and struggles on… Read More »

At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, the next-generation 4G wireless service finally got some respect, with AT&T saying it will likely deploy the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard in 2011 rather than in 2012 and Verizon choosing vendors for its… Read More »

A Chinese newspaper is claiming that Lenovo has signed a deal with NVidia to use their Ion platform on two netbooks over 10 inches.  While that size would stretch the netbook category, Lenovo is reported to be preparing a 11.6-inch and a 12.1-inch notebook that… Read More »

San Francisco will this morning be touting its plans to install electric vehicle charging stations in the city. At 10 a.m., Mayor Gavin Newsom and electric vehicle charging station developer Coulomb Technologies are having a media event at San Francisco City Hall at which they… Read More »

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