Kodak isn’t necessarily the first company you’d think would make a set-top box that’s designed to get your multimedia content off your computer and onto your TV. But that’s exactly what the company’s Theater HD Player does. The device, which hit store shelves earlier this… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
This is the first installment of one journalist’s diary designing a game. It is a genuine, behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to develop an app, from conception to release, for Apple’s iPhone. This isn’t your regular developer diary. There’ll be no talk of code and classes,… Read More »
A century ago, Michigan gave us the Model T. Now General Electric hopes scientists, engineers and technologists in the state will also be able to deliver key pieces of the smart grid. The company — already a heavyweight among smart meter developers — has just… Read More »
Comcast’s TV Everywhere test is expected to include TV programming from Scripps Networks, Rainbow Media, A&E Television Networks and Comcast Networks, reports Multichannel News. They will join Time Warner’s TNT and TBS networks, which were announced as inaugural participants in the trial earlier… Read More »
Recently, I posted about singletasking, a new trend that many are turning to after having burned out on multitasking. One key component of singletasking is setting aside blocks of time during which you check and deal with email, instead of having it interrupt your… Read More »
Nokia plans to launch an ARM-based netbook that relies on the Google-pioneered Android mobile operating system in 2010, writes Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir in a research note issued this morning. In the same note, he predicts that the total number of netbooks sold… Read More »
People seem to be fond of the iPhone 3GS’s new video recording capabilities. So much so that YouTube mobile uploads have grown by 400 percent since the device’s launch, according to some sources. I’m proud to say that I contributed to that dramatic rise with my… Read More »
It is the end of the week and that can only mean it’s time for my favorite thing, to share my week with you once again. This is the 45th week, which is almost a year of sharing the goings on at Mobile Tech Manor… Read More »
We knew that cleantech startups were getting less venture-capital funding, but it looks like later-stage companies are really suffering. At the Financing the Cleantech Vision conference hosted by Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday, Virgin Green Fund partner Anup Jacob… Read More »
Cleantech investor Steve Westly, managing partner of The Westly Group and former California state controller, is at it again. In a keynote speech at the Thomson Reuters “Financing the Cleantech Vision” conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday, Westly said that after a major dry period,… Read More »
With the explosion of low-cost chips, from Intel’s Atom processor to low-power Wi-Fi sensors, just about everything is “getting smart” these days. There are known environmental benefits to this kind of cheap-and-easy digital intelligence, many of them heavily promoted by IBM as part of its “
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