As we’ve pointed out in the past, policy makers and companies building out the smart grid are under the gun to produce a working set of standards by September in order to quickly and effectively allocate the over $4 billion in stimulus funds. Department… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
I was excited to read that Google added Tasks to the Calendar function last week. People like to assign due dates to tasks, so Calendar integration is a definite step forward. Your task list appears to the right of your calendar simply by clicking “Tasks”… Read More »
Unless you’re one of those people who scours the updates on Quicktime’s movie trailer page, you probably didn’t know anything about independent family feature Gooby until someone in your circle (in my case, NewTeeVee’s own Chris Albrecht), sent you a link. If you… Read More »
Well, we’re likely to find this out for sure tomorrow, but today’s New York Times offers a tasty tidbit on just when Palm’s Pre will hit the streets. Here’s the direct quote: ..the season’s most compelling phone drama will start the first week in June,… Read More »
If you happen to be looking for work at the moment, Apple has a pretty nice offer. You can have all the glory of being an Apple employee without leaving the comfort of your own home. Actually, that’s probably not so tempting, since part of the… Read More »
As the number of sites we all use grows, our personal profile information is increasingly scattered across the web. If you make a connection with people on one site, it’s often hard to quickly find out if they use any of the other sites you use,… Read More »
As expected, season finales gave some TV shows a shot in the arm of vitamin B-Twitter. “Motherlover” continued to leave its mark in tweets, carrying over its Oedipal success from the previous week. Saturday Night Live didn’t get quite as nice a bump from this… Read More »
The idea of nuclear-in-a-box sounds like a joke, but investors and potential customers are taking Hyperion Power Generation very seriously — the company is valued at a whopping $100 million by investors, according to the Denver Post.… Read More »
TechFlash has a reliable source that says that Microsoft is may be working on a project that is “reviving the Tablet PC.” As a big fan of the Tablet, this is exciting to me on a number of levels. While this is just a rumor,… Read More »
Google remains well above its peers in domestic search share and total query volume, according to metrics giant comScore, which released its April 2009 U.S. Search Engine rankings today. The search giant snagged 64.2 percent of U.S. searches in April 2009, a rise of 0.5… Read More »
While iPhone users are generally more affluent and tend to adopt technology earlier than the rest of the population, the fastest-growing segment of iPhone consumers is actually in a lower-income demographic ($25,000 to $50,000 per year) — iPhones are going mainstream. With the announcement… Read More »
What’s that ancient saying: Another day, another mobile VoIP client? That’s what it seems like these days, as everyone is creating, branding and selling mobile voice services over Wi-Fi. OK, the carriers are a notable exception to this group, but that’s sure to change over… Read More »
More Must Reads
