We’ve said more than once that the high volume of netbook sales had to impact the sales numbers for more traditional notebooks. Industry execs have denied that, but that’s beginning to change. Laptop Magazine recently interviewed HP VP Ted Clark about the netbook and notebook… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
For many bloggers, RSS subscriber numbers are a fun and useful way to get an approximate read on how many “loyal customers” they have. For others, however, RSS numbers take on a greater significance, impacting such things as advertiser and investor relationships, as well as a… Read More »
You knew smart grid technology made off with billions of dollars under the stimulus package. But who’s getting it and how? Drum roll, please: The Obama administration laid out details yesterday on how it plans to distribute nearly $4 billion for smart grid technology under… Read More »
Verizon Wireless today issued a call for developers to attend a May 13 conference to learn how to develop devices for the fourth-generation LTE network due to roll out starting in 2010. And in keeping with the requirements set by the FCC when the… Read More »
Google has their voice search, and to some extent, SnapTell and Amazon Mobile can return results based on images, but only within a very limited scope. What’s to be done if you have a picture of something that isn’t a… Read More »
Since 2005, when Apple re-invented the music business by offering music downloads, much of the industry followed suit. Most attempts, if not all of them, failed. When it comes to mobile apps and digital movie downloads, history is repeating itself. But unlike music, there… Read More »
A Swedish court has found the four men behind file-sharing site The Pirate Bay guilty of infringing copyright law, sentencing them to a year each in jail and ordering them to pay £3 million ($4.5 million) in damages to 17 entertainment companies including Warner… Read More »
In my post on whether coworking spaces could be profitable, I mentioned Graze, an innovative healthy snack delivery service that seems to be taking off here in the UK. Many web workers are fixed to their desks for large portions of the day. Working from… Read More »
Updated with corrections: Motorola denied that it is working on such a set-top box. Please read the following post for complete details. Last fall, I asked the question: Where will Android go next? For while Google’s mobile-oriented, lightweight operating system has been linked with netbooks… Read More »
It’s my favorite time of the week once again, when I get to share the goings on at Mobile Tech Manor with you. Lots of gear going back to where it came from and expectations of new gear on the way. I learned a valuable… Read More »
The wind, sun and ocean represent exciting resources for clean energy backers. But for the bulk power system, the prospect of more than 145 GW of power from these resources in the next decade presents a daunting amount of variability in the power supply. According to… Read More »
U.S. demand for petroleum in the first three months of 2009 was the weakest in a decade as the ailing economy finally did what years of good intentions could not: make Americans spend less on oil. The American Petroleum Institute released a report Thursday showing petroleum… Read More »
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