March, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2009

Whew. Green:Net, the first green conference for the Internet industry is done and done. As twilight descended onto the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s Presidio last night, the 400-plus attendees at the sold-out event were able to grab a glass of wine and reflect… Read More »

One of the biggest challenges of hosting Green:Net, our sold-out conference about IT and sustainable technologies, was bringing enough bandwidth to a crowd of some 400 people. We held the event at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s bucolic Presidio, surrounded… Read More »

 
 

Not only are more people catching up on episodes of missed TV programs online, but they are also “co-viewing” those shows online, according to findings from a new NBC intercept survey of its full-episode player, NBC Rewind. We’ve know for a while that people use… Read More »

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you may be interested in track-tracking and invoicing app Timewerks. Timewerks is probably best-suited for those who don’t have laptops with them all the time. But for web workers wanting a more portable invoicing solution, Timewerks is… Read More »

Cybernet was just lamenting the fact that mouse gesture applications seem to be a fairly niche space. StrokeIt, their ol’ standby, hasn’t seen updates in four years, which is like 28 web years. Then they found High Sign, an alpha bit of… Read More »

Yesterday, boxee released an update to their media center software for Apple TV and Mac OS X at a New York meetup. CEO Avner Ronen took the stage at Webster Hall to show some significant features in this latest alpha release including Pandora Radio, RadioTime,… Read More »

So maybe challenging Akamai ain’t so easy! Move Networks and GridNetworks, both companies that power high-quality video streaming via plug-ins, are getting kicked around a bit. We can confirm Dan Rayburn’s report last night that GridNetworks is close to being sold, but from what we… Read More »

Project Playlist, a Palo, Alto, Calif.-based service that allows you to create and share playlists, has signed up EMI Music, a move that will allow users access to EMI’s catalog. They previously ran afoul of record labels but seem to have made peace… Read More »

What to Read on the GigaOM Network

A professional’s work time often revolves around phone calls and the information that’s gleaned from them. Perhaps talking to a client leads to information that needs to be remembered for some future dealings. Some professionals need to keep track of phone call information for billing… Read More »

I still have a lot of music-savvy friends who deny the validity of the the name Genius for Apple’s recently implemented iTunes music recommendation engine, but regardless of how appropriate the name may be, the service has now been turned on for movies and… Read More »

What can software do for mass transit? It can help cut delays, increase uptime, reduce emissions and slash fuel costs, according to IBM, which has just unveiled a new “smart rail” project in China. The company has already rolled out software for high-speed rail projects in… Read More »

More Must Reads

Boxee Clones Mozilla to Get Hulu; in the ongoing back and forth, the media platform mimics Firefox, so if Hulu wants to block it again, it will have to block all Firefox users. (Silicon Alley Insider) That may be an unwanted expansion for Hulu, but… Read More »

Broadband obviously isn’t a growth engine anymore, but it’s underpinning the growth of new communications services such as IPTV. A report commissioned by The Broadband Forum shows that television delivered via broadband is up 63 percent globally. Meanwhile, broadband growth has slowed to the… Read More »

Remember Xobni, that free and useful Outlook add-in previously in beta? Well, the beta tag hits the outbox today because version 1.7 is the real deal. And still free! I’d call this a must-have (or at least a “must-try”) for Outlook users because it… Read More »

These days, “going green” is all the rage. So it should be no surprise to anyone that “green” apps for the iPhone are, ahem, sprouting up all over. I wonder though, with green-ness being such a trendy topic, are some developers just using the term as marketing?… Read More »

Dell today launched several enterprise products aimed at cutting back on one of the more stubborn costs in an IT department — the IT professionals. Its new lines of servers include features such as ImageDirect, which eliminates the IT professional’s role in installing an image… Read More »

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