My favorite time of the week is here for the 41st time, when I get to share how my week went down in my home office, Mobile Tech Manor (MTM). I had a nuclear stress test this week and my mobile gear helped me get… Read More »
Archive for May 2009
Jack Bolick has only been the CEO of Adura Technologies, a wireless lighting management startup in downtown San Francisco, for a couple weeks. But in an interview with us this week, it was clear he already has the company’s ambitious plans down pat: to… Read More »
Over the past 12 months, we’ve seen a lot of new content offerings announced by companies like Netflix, Amazon and YouTube as they look to directly target the living room via entertainment devices. Indeed, the adoption rate of hardware devices like the Xbox 360,… Read More »
Answering, in its own way, to the likes of Boxee and others who want some alternative way to view Hulu on their computers, Hulu has announced the availability of Hulu Desktop. Sporting a super-clean UI and support for using the Apple Remote, this… Read More »
The team at battery tech startup Atieva didn’t plan on using high-profile electric car startup Tesla Motors as Battery Class 101. But that’s what it ending up being for many of the engineers at the 2-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based startup; almost of third of the… Read More »
When it comes to projectors, small is the new big thing. While BenQ‘s new Joybee GP1 Mini Projector isn’t as small as some of the pocket-sized projectors we’ve seen recently, it’s definitely tiny enough to be considered portable. And perhaps, more importantly, what you… Read More »
As 2009 kicked off, pundits were adamant that the dismal state of the economy would drive suddenly cost-conscious enterprise IT departments to the cloud. Anecdotal evidence from vendors pointed to more customer engagements, and general interest in cloud computing (which continues to increase) had never… Read More »
As I was out running some errands earlier today, Stacey over at the main GigaOm site did a little catching up with Qualcomm. Last time I met with them, they showed me some very basic netbook prototypes with tons of potential, but… Read More »
After a bit of good news last week from electric vehicle startup Tesla — German automaker Daimler invested into it a “double-digit million-dollar sum for about a 10 percent stake” — this week brought more bad news: The company is recalling 345 of its… Read More »
I’ve long been a fan of Plantronics, the company that offers headset devices. Ever since we started the podcast back in 2005, we’ve all used a Plantronics headset to record the show. The company just announced a new wireless stereo headset, and as much… Read More »
SiCortex, a company that makes a green supercomputer using proprietary chips and some “Back to the Future” styling, is seeking to sell its assets by the end of June. (Check out what’s for sale here.) According to a story at HPCwire, SiCortex was… Read More »
The trouble with not working a 9-to-5 office job is that often you work more, sometimes much more, than your cube-dwelling counterparts. The risk you run with an always-connected, always-working lifestyle, of course, is of getting burned out. And once that happens, not only will you… Read More »
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