On the day I give up on my iPhone and trade it in for the iPod Touch, AdMob, a mobile advertising startup released its report that shows a big uptick in mobile Internet usage via Wi-Fi in the month of January 2009. According to… Read More »
Archive for February 2009
Zunavision is an ad startup that has been on our radar for a while. It looks like we will be keeping tabs on them for a long time, now that they have snagged an early round of funding and launched a commercial product. The funding… Read More »
At CES last month, I got a chance to look at the Mophie Juice Pack that James uses with his iPhone 3G. The extended battery fits around the iPhone in a way that doesn’t add as much bulk as I had expected. Mophie isn’t resting on… Read More »
Wind turbine makers are aiming ever higher to get more power from the giant machines, building turbines that pack more of an electricity generating punch, as well as towers and blades that are just, well, bigger. But how big can the turbines get? Read More »
NBC’s NBC Direct download video service has gone through two maligned iterations, and now, as a tipster has pointed out to us, the peacock has quietly launched round three. NBC confirmed for us that the new version is out, but wouldn’t provide… Read More »
The Uptime Institute‘s 2009 Research Symposium, “Lean, Clean & Green,” is the only Enterprise IT and Data Center event focused on peak productivity, reliability, efficiency and eco-sustainability that provides senior-level strategies and tools you can implement immediately to help reduce your power bills by… Read More »
I have finally gotten time to give the HP Mini 1000 MI netbook a fair shake and so far it’s held up admirably. While I sometimes experience a bit of lag doing things overall the performance is pretty good. This video shows off the Mini 1000… Read More »
This week on the OStatic blog, we reported on Mozilla’s intent to wrap its Ubiquity project into an upcoming version 3.2 of the Firefox browser. If you use Firefox and haven’t used Ubiquity, now is a great time to get to know it.… Read More »
We’re sick of reading stories about how the credit crunch may slow Clearwire’s WiMAX deployment, which we first questioned last fall. And since Clearwire has consistently declined to comment on this particular issue, we may just have to wait until it reports quarterly results… Read More »
Does this sound like a solid description of your startup? “We leverage Internet and computing technologies to fight climate change.” If so, then it could be a great fit to present during the LaunchPad session at our Green:Net conference to be held in San… Read More »
Today might be a BOGO day for BlackBerry handsets at Verizon, but you can’t get RIM’s new BlackBerry Curve 8900 there. That new handset is available now for T-Mobile customers and we got a look-see at CES. It was so slick that James… Read More »