In today’s horrible economic environment, small businesses need to save wherever they can. But there are a handful of phone services out there that can help businesses easily eliminate $50-$100 per month, per employee. The recipe is simple: Cobble together services from several companies to create… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
While there is funding available for U.S. cellulosic ethanol companies in the form of grants or loan guarantees from the departments of both Energy and Agriculture, these days, it doesn’t come close to matching demand. And without help from the federal government, some projects may never… Read More »
Sun Microsystems, as has been widely expected in the technology world, has finally announced its own cloud computing platform. Sun will offer raw compute power as well as storage through its Sun Cloud Storage Service and Sun Cloud Compute Service. The services, while being announced… Read More »
Vivox, best known for providing voice communication support for online games and virtual worlds like Eve Online, Second Life and Sony Online Entertainment titles, is set to announce on Wednesday the Vivox Voice Toolbar, which will expand its services across multiple games and platforms. The… Read More »
A breakthrough that could propel electric cars to the mass market — that’s the buzz about a recent study out of MIT. Here’s the gist of the research, published in the journal Nature: Scientists Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder tweaked the surface structure of… Read More »
Iogear’s Portable Media Player is more of a set-top box than a true portable media player. But it isn’t really a set-top box, either. What is it, then? It’s basically a portable hard drive that stores 120GB of multimedia content that you can play… Read More »
Earlier this week, comScore reported that daily web usage on mobile devices had doubled in the last 12 months, with nearly 22.4 million U.S. mobile users using their devices to go on the web. Today, another research firm, Infonetics Research reported that despite the global… Read More »
Folks we made some minor design changes to GigaOM in response to your feedback. We have a cleaner (and simpler) style for GigaNET posts that aggregate some of the best posts from across our network of blogs. We are also introducing threaded comments that hopefully will… Read More »
The big Apple iPhone 3.0 preview event went off today without a hitch and it seems a lot of the rumored improvements are going to in fact make it into the next version of software for the iPhone. The infamous copy-and-paste will be there… Read More »
“Interview Cory Doctorow.” RIP director Brett Gaylor’s answer to the question of how to attain attention for your projects online got big laughs at a SXSW panel titled Marketing Meets New Media. But for those who can’t get the Boing Boing editor’s attention, don’t worry… Read More »
The blogosphere will be “all OS 3.0, all the time” for a while. I wanted to wait a little bit and see some reaction to the update. Predictably, Paul Thurrott didn’t approve. He cherry-picked a few things and claimed they should have been there from the… Read More »
Solar is a tricky source of energy — anything from shade to tilt to dirt can affect the amount of electricity produced by the panels. That’s why large solar installations are getting hooked up with monitoring systems to oversee and optimize the output. Tomorrow, at the… Read More »
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