Balaji Natarajan is a senior IT strategist for Capgemini, focusing on smart grid, mobile computing, and unified communications. History is a great teacher. The Internet took decades to evolve and take shape. Now upon us is a more critical challenge: how to build and sustain a smarter… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
As we’ve been expecting, Disney said today that it will become the fourth equity owner of Hulu and provide its programming to the premium content portal. Disney joins NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners as a partner in the joint venture. From… Read More »
Comcast today reported a 5.4 percent boost in profits — to $778 million on sales that rose 5.3 percent, to $8.84 billion — and was the latest carrier to report a rise in the number of broadband subscribers over the previous three-month period. The… Read More »
Time Warner is in talks with distributors about its “TV Everywhere” initiative and could roll out trials of the service during the second half of this year, CEO Jeff Bewkes said during the company’s earnings call yesterday. TV Everywhere is an authentication concept that would… Read More »
The Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 update was only released yesterday and is a major upgrade for that package. Most users, individual and corporate, tend to apply Office service packs right away as they aren’t released very often and are usually rock solid. We’re already seeing… Read More »
Amazon’s Kindle is a popular e-book reader and that popularity is as much due to the wireless WhisperNet service as it is to how good an electronic reader the Kindle is. WhisperNet is the Sprint-based EV-DO network that pushes books and user content to the Kindle,… Read More »
Just as services designed to help social media enthusiasts manage multiple online profiles are becoming increasingly popular, services designed to manage posting status updates and communication to multiple online profiles are becoming plentiful as well. Recently, I covered Ping.fm, which has now been joined by… Read More »
San Diego, Calif., has one very high-profile player in the algae game — Sapphire Energy, which counts Bill Gates and the Rockefeller family among its backers and has the ambitious goal of producing a million gallons of algae-based diesel and jet fuel per year by… Read More »
So where’s all the smart-grid money that’s supposed to pour into fancy new smart meters? According to Itron, a leader in the smart meter sector, it’s stuck in the pockets of slow-moving utilities. Liberty Lake, Wash.-based Itron said revenue in the first three months of 2009… Read More »
PlayCafe, a startup whose existence and funding we were first to report on over the past couple years, is closing shop. Co-founder and CEO Mark Goldenson sent us a post-mortem email about the online game show company tonight. PlayCafe had raised $930,000 from First… Read More »
Updated: Yahoo layoffs have started and they seem to have hit the Flickr team. Many engineers from the service have been either laid off or are leaving on their own. Rev Dan Catt, Ashot Petrosian and Neil Kandalgaonkar were amongst those who… Read More »
One of the companies featured in the story we did yesterday about monetizing unauthorized uploads has closed new round of funding. San Mateo, Calif.-based FreeWheel raised a $12 million Series C round led by Foundation Capital and including existing investor Battery Ventures, which had… Read More »
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