Industry watchers continue to fawn over solar panel maker First Solar because of its low-cost technology and ballooning sales contracts. But with mounting competition, analysts attending an important presentation by First Solar executives later this week want to hear the company’s plans for cutting production… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Editor’s note: With this post we wecome Doriano Carta to the WWD team. Doriano, better known as “Paisano” on Twitter and everywhere else online, has written for several blogs including Mashable, SarahLacy.com, PistachioConsulting and Chris Brogan’s Dadomatic.com where he is also the Editor-in-Chief. How much are you… Read More »
Uncle Sam vs. Venture Capital Want to get funding from the federal government? Keep in mind that its objectives are different from those of venture capitalists, and explaining how your project meets political goals is just as important as highlighting technological advances and financial security. —… Read More »
Now that I have two phones for the first time in my life, I’m itching to heavily rely on Google Voice. But as I said when Google Voice first opened its doors to Grand Central members, the missing number porting is holding me back.… Read More »
So you’ve got a brand new iPhone 3G S and you want to know if you can use the AT&T tethering workaround everyone’s been talking about? Yes, yes you can. It’s all remarkably easy. It’s almost like Apple wants us to use this workaround — at… Read More »
Dear Anthony Bourdain, I’m really sorry to inform you of this, but I think we have to break up. Kevin Pang has ruined me for you. A food writer for the Chicago Tribune, Pang has covered an entire range of Chicago cuisine, but his heart belongs to… Read More »
A lot of people are very interested in the new netbooks that are getting touchscreen capability. The Asus T91 is attracting a lot of attention as a “Tablet PC” with netbook pricing. Since the convertible nature of the T91 means the screen can be swiveled… Read More »
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has been striking one deal after another with utilities and governments in recent months, revving up for the launch of its first electric vehicle in 2011. Today, with the announcement of a new agreement with French utility EDF to deploy… Read More »
Updated. Celeb blogger (and now sort of a celeb himself) Perez Hilton apparently got punched by a member of Will.i.am’s entourage last night in Toronto at a party after the MuchMusic Video Awards. Hilton enlisted fans over Twitter to help him get the… Read More »
Did anyone else expect to see the alleged versatility of the HTC Ozone? I sure didn’t. The Ozone is an HTC Snap variant that’s apparently hitting Verizon Wireless within the next 2-4 weeks. Not only is a CDMA version of the 3G-totin’ Snap, but some Read More »
If you’re using the new Release Candidate of Firefox 3.5, and many of us are, it’s worth looking into the posts at the Mozilla Hacks site to get to know how some of the most powerful new features in the browser work. There are… Read More »
I previously wrote an article on how to stream your data from a Time Capsule and local computer over the Internet. After figuring out the basics of networking, I moved onto wanting to control my media center… Read More »