March, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2009

I met Nisha Chittal, Associate Editor at CitizenJanePolitics.com, at the SXSW panel “Are Women Taken More Seriously On the Web?” Chittal is also an online producer, editorial board member and political columnist at UniversityChic.com and an intern at ReadWriteWeb. Nisha gives… Read More »

Both MTV Networks and ABC.com have achieved profitability in their online video efforts, said execs on a panel in New York last night, according to an account on Multichannel News. The two networks have clear and aggressive strategies for distributing TV shows online —… Read More »

 
 

Creating newteevee to supplement oldteevee is a tricky thing. How do you tie your online content to your TV show in a way that engages your TV audience without having so much integral content online that non-Internet-savvy viewers feel alienated? There’s no magic formula, but one… Read More »

Daily Sprout

Drill, Maybe, Drill: As the Obama administration outlines its energy plans, it’s caught between oil companies calling for follow-through on Obama’s pledge to support some expansion of offshore oil drilling, and environmental groups, who want a drilling ban to be reinstated. — New York Times Cash… Read More »

All the talk these days seems to be about Apple’s iPhone 3.0 and the Palm Pre but the Android folks are saying, “Hey, what about us?”  This week HTC CEO Peter Chou stated that the handset giant will be releasing “at least three” Android handsets… Read More »

Vid-Biz: TV.com, MacFarlane, Beet.TV

TV.com Adds Content from NCAA, Starz; agreements will push the size of the premium content site’s library to 2,000 hours and will include Final Four highlights for the last 26 years as well as Manga animation, (TVWeek) Hulu Enlists Seth MacFarlane for its Evil Plot; creator… Read More »

When it comes to upgrading the U.S.’s power infrastructure, electric utilities will play an important role, but some key elements of the emerging smart grid will move ahead with or without them. That was the consensus among experts speaking yesterday at a roundtable discussion in… Read More »

The issue of driving while talking on a cell phone has two distinct sides, and no matter which side of that issue you are on, if you spend much time in a car you see this every day.  We’ve all heard the stories of fatal car… Read More »

With all the big announcements from Apple’s iPhone briefing yesterday, the web has been abuzz with talk about the impact this will have on the iPhone. I managed to corner a few iPhone developers that have paid releases out in the app store now to get… Read More »

With IBM rumored to have made a $6.5 billion buyout offer for Sun Microsystems, it appears the company that coined the phrase “The Network is the Computer” is in play. But no one should allow IBM to walk away with Sun — which… Read More »

With all of the iPhone 3.0 and Palm Pre talk, let’s send one out to the BlackBerry fans, shall we? Two new audio streaming services have made their way to the ‘Berry says Zatz Not Funny! Both are free, but only one is familiar… Read More »

NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker upped the exchange rate in his famous quote about trading analog dollars for digital pennies this morning by saying “I think we’re at digital dimes now.” The remarks were made during his keynote presentation at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in… Read More »

More Must Reads

This morning’s Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion in cash. The deal makes sense given Sun’s distressed share price, and because both companies appear to be pursuing cloud computing — the next big computing opportunity… Read More »

Greetings iPhone Developers! It seems you’ve got a lot to digest after yesterday’s iPhone 3.0 announcement. Certainly the wheels are turning on how you can implement all the nifty new features. By now, (if you’ve been able to access the developer page at Apple.com) you’re probably even… Read More »

Social networks aiming at different niches are springing up all over these days, which is why I wasn’t surprised to come across this little gem. It’s a site called traddr!, and it aims to do for the stock-obsessed what Twitter and Facebook are doing… Read More »

Energy baron T. Boone Pickens has been loud and clear with his message about fuels for commercial fleet vehicles and heavy-duty trucks: Natural gas is the way to go. “A battery will not move an 18-wheeler,” he’s wont to say. But the Pickens Plan isn’t… Read More »

Tough times mean the big companies get bigger and the smaller firms, well, drop out. On Wednesday morning renewable energy project financier Recurrent Energy will announce that it has bought up the solar project assets of Chicago-based UPC Solar, which has developed solar farms… Read More »

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