RIM desperately wants its BlackBerry devices to become more than just email. It wants them to become multimedia hubs, thanks to a bit of iPhone envy. And video is getting some serious attention. Yesterday, Liz had the scoop about their new TV show streaming service.… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
Back in January, when we reported on the slew of electric cars rolling out at the Detroit Auto Show, we questioned whether the EV renaissance had really arrived. While electric cars had seized center stage, hybrid vehicles were much closer to having a significant impact… Read More »
While nobody knows how the media economy of the future will eventually work, it’s clear that independent producers will continue to struggle if Cruxy’s story is any indication. The site offered well-engineered tools for marketing, selling and distributing digital media in open, customer-friendly formats.… Read More »
The idea of buying food from a local farm might seem like the very opposite of high tech. But FarmsReach, a California startup that won the audience choice award at our Green:Net conference this week, hopes to make it easier to buy directly from farms… Read More »
Two headlines from this week sum up the state of the online video/TV world nicely: “Free Online TV a Threat to Industry,” proclaimed one. “Death Greatly Exaggerated: TV Key To Media’s Future,” countered the other. The first is from a Variety article recapping the view, espoused… Read More »
It seems that Apple has been messing with us, as they have started to offer an 8 GB memory expansion for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. They’ve been telling us the MBP can only go up to 4 GB of memory but now we know they’re just… Read More »
GigaOM is reporting that Skype will be coming to the iPhone as early as next week. This is big news for road warriors who need VoIP to stay in touch on the road. Since the rumor has this announcement going live next week,… Read More »
Update: Back in September, all seemed well between the smart-charging startup V2Green and its new owner, smart grid company GridPoint. At that time GridPoint raised a $120 million equity financing round, in part, to fuel an acquisition strategy, and snapped up newcomer V2Green… Read More »
http://www.youtube.com/v/BYtYTGu1tag&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 jkkmobile has a nice little five-minute vid that helps netbook owners optimize their browser for small, low-resolution screens. Even though there are a number of plug-ins to do this in Firefox, he does this without any such add-ons. He’s just intelligently using the native… Read More »
In what is being billed as “the largest and most extensive observational study of media usage ever conducted,” TV was still (by a long shot) found to be the dominant technology for video consumption, according to a Video Consumer Mapping study from the Nielsen-funded Council… Read More »
If you’re a regular user of Google Docs, note that you can now take advantage of drawing tools accessible from directly within your documents, presentations and spreadsheets. You can view the announcement of the Insert Drawing tools here. The tools aren’t as rich as the… Read More »
The holy mecca of VOIP calling could be coming to an iPhone near you. Om Malik wrote that he received a tip that Skype is nearing release on the iPhone. What does this mean for us iPhone users? Well, if I had my druthers,… Read More »
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