The venture capital panel at today’s at the Green:Net conference here in San Francisco was a mess of contradictions. The panelists debated the role of government in cleantech before finally coming to the conclusion that while government will have to play a role in their cleantech… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
My new Kindle 2 is on the way, having trekked from Indiana to my home state of Pennsylvania. I was hoping it would arrive today, but it looks like tomorrow is delivery day. That’s OK. I gives me time to look at Calibre, a… Read More »
The green movement is bigger than your crunchy granola friends from college. And the web is a tool to meet, inform and motivate people who want to make the world a better place. At our afternoon web panel at Green:Net, participants shared captivating observations about… Read More »
Traditional game publishing is no different than newspaper publishing, Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures said at a panel discussion held at the GamesBeat conference today in San Francisco. They are broken from a content standpoint, and they are broken from a distribution standpoint. It is… Read More »
I guess this all depends on your definition of “full-sized”, but according to Samsung their N120 netbook will have a keyboard meeting that definition. The device sticks with the relatively standard 10.1-inch display found on many netbooks, but the company says that they keyboard is… Read More »
China implemented a site-wide block of YouTube today, for reasons still unknown. The country has blocked portions of YouTube before as part of its censorship programs, but blocking the entire site is something new. Read More »
Wagner James Au, aka Hamlet Au in Second Life, is author of “The Making of Second Life”, a GigaOM contributor and founder of New World Notes. For three years, starting in 2000, Au was hired by Second Life creators Linden Labs as… Read More »
Are you a web worker who depends heavily on a home Wi-Fi network? There are more and more of us, and I’ve written before about the importance of doing regular checkups on your wireless network to make sure you’re getting the best performance. Recently, my… Read More »
If you were interested in checking out this Saturday’s high-profile celebration of excellence in online video, well, we can help you out. NewTeeVee has a limited number of tickets to give away for the Streamy Awards in Los Angeles, and what better way to determine… Read More »
If a company wants to improve energy efficiency, it needs to think about how it can affect its products and its suppliers rather than merely what it can do internally, says Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft speaking today at the Green:Net Conference in San… Read More »
Up until today, Apple customers have only been able to ship products bought via Apple’s online stores to addresses located in the country of the store they’re ordering from. I say up until today because as of now, that’s no longer the case. Now if you wanted… Read More »
Data center operators at various large companies talked at the GreenNet conference today in San Francisco about how they’re making their data centers more energy efficient. It boils down to metrics, utilization and awareness. But first they outlined the problem: Kenneth Brill, executive director of the… Read More »
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