Road warriors are always worrying about battery life of the gear they use. Laptops are expensive bricks if there’s no electric outlet around and the battery meter spins to empty. Phone battery life is an even greater concern to these frequent travelers as a dead phone… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
NBC announced today it has delivered more than 1 billion full episode streams since launching in Oct. 2006. These are self-reported numbers, so there aren’t really good comparisons to competing networks. But according to Nielsen, ABC.com regularly beats NBC in terms of having the… Read More »
If you go and do something like found Electronic Arts, which then goes on to be one of the dominant forces in video games worldwide, people tend to take notice of things you say. Yesterday in an interview with Venture Beat’s Dean Takahashi, Trip… Read More »
Motorola is not the company it was in the heyday of its glory handsets. The StarTAC and RAZR set the standards for small thin phones and the company was happy to ride the wave created by those two phones for far too long. Their phone lineup… Read More »
Nokia reported financial results for the first quarter today and, despite posting a 90 percent drop in profits, gave investors something to celebrate. The world’s largest cell phone maker said the handset market hit bottom in the first quarter and sales for the rest of… Read More »
I’m skittish when it comes to desktop indexing and search apps. Aside from the workstation computer at my last office-based job, I don’t generally keep any running on my computers, whether Windows or Mac-based machines. I just don’t find the need for anything more heavyweight and… Read More »
About two months following the pricing experiment by App Cubby’s David Barnard, Gas Cubby gets a 2.0 upgrade. Gas Cubby provides a way to track gas mileage for your automobile. But more than that, all maintenance and other costs sunk into your vehicle are dutifully… Read More »
Our country has finally woken up to the need for a green energy future. Now we need to invest in the technology to make America the world leader in renewable energy. Offshore wind power is one promising source of energy that is commercially viable today. Researchers at… Read More »
Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a high-profile public hearing in San Francisco about the future of offshore oil drilling along America’s coastlines. We have a choice. Invest in safe, renewable forms of ocean energy — including wind, wave, tidal and current power… Read More »
“The dog finally caught the car” is how Dan Reicher, Google.org’s director of climate and energy initiatives put it today — with the dog being clean energy advocates, and the car being government funding for renewables. Now, according to Reicher, who spoke on a Ceres conference… Read More »
Earlier this evening, along with a select few journalists, I got a chance to interact with French Minister for Digital Development, Mrs. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, who is in town to learn about latest developments in Silicon Valley and learn about the unique ecosystem that helps nurture… Read More »
You sure as heck wouldn’t take it if your TV stuttered and crapped out, but on the web your expectations are significantly lower. As online video matures, there’s a growing opportunity to bring the web quality of experience up to TV levels. We want to take… Read More »
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