Sure, offshore wind is more expensive than that captured on land, but it’s often windier out there on the water, which means more power and more money generated from selling it. Predicting where the wind will grow stronger over time would be… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
We’re only nine weeks from the mid-point of 2009, so there can’t be much time left to wait for Palm’s Pre to launch. Without any review devices in the public nor much in the way of marketing, information still seems to be at a premium.… Read More »
A Russian business newspaper is reporting today that venture capital firm Almaz Capital Partners acquired a 5 percent stake in popular virtualization software vendor Parallels. The stake was purchased from its previous owners, Insight Venture Partners, for $11 million. The fund used to… Read More »
When the New York Yankees spent more than $400 million signing up free agent pitchers C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, along with first baseman Mark Texiara, the team was betting that it would not only make it to the World Series, but win. After this weekend’s… Read More »
If you didn’t cringe at the “wanna” in the headline, then you clearly ain’t grammatically in tune with your self to write for this here bloggin’ publication. Okay, I’m done. I just needed an excuse to publish “ain’t” in an article. At any rate, we’re looking to bring… Read More »
An unofficial Palm Pre FAQ (jkOnTheRun) Why Google should add carbon emissions data to its maps (Earth2Tech) Monitor your Mac remotely with iStat for iPhone (TheAppleBlog) ShortTask connects online job seekers with providers (WebWorkerDaily) Online video ad spending forecast to hit $1B by 2011 (NewTeeVee) Read More »
If, like me, you’re a reasonably heavy user of Skype, Om reported some good news yesterday: for a short time Skype is offering a 25 percent discount on 12-month subscriptions to its unlimited plans. This cuts the cost of an Unlimited World plan, offering… Read More »
Earlier this morning, I met one of our readers in the local Starbucks. I did have my USB 727 adapter for 3G, but I opted to use my new Boingo Wireless account with Wi-Fi instead. I signed up for the $9.99 monthly plan about… Read More »
Energy use in buildings could be cut by as much as 60 percent by mid-century, but doing so would take more than just adopting energy-saving technologies. That’s according to the findings of a four-year study looking at residential and commercial building sectors around the world and… Read More »
If you’ve ever been interested in what goes on behind the scenes of a shiny new MacBook, you may be familiar with iStat Pro and iStat Menus. These two widgets for OS X allow you to monitor system performance and resources — either through… Read More »
We recently connected over Twitter with a startup called Quick.tv, which has a neat-looking web-based editor for adding interactive overlays. Users can make clickable moving hotspots, tickerize RSS feeds and measure viewer response. Where I really think tools like Quick.tv’s and those from competitors… Read More »
One of the most limiting factors on netbooks is the keyboard. The smaller the netbook, the worse the keyboard, as the width of the device is just not enough to provide a good typing experience. This weekend I was giving a lot of thought to… Read More »
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